Autopilot moves you through the steps. Self-Healing fixes the most common issues before you look. Another step toward deals that arrive fully underwritten.
Most of us remember the first time we rode in a self-driving car. Not the demo. The first real drive, on a road you knew, with your hands an inch off the wheel. You didn’t look away. You watched it take the on-ramp, hold the lane, slow for the car ahead. And somewhere in those first few minutes you understood that the world had changed. The job had too. Not gone. Changed. You were still responsible for where the car ended up. You just weren’t doing the steering.
That’s the shift we’ve been building toward in Archer, and today is the first step. Autopilot and Self-Healing are live, in beta.
For six years Archer has been a copilot. You upload a rent roll; Archer parses it; you review and correct; you load it into your model. Archer did the heavy lifting and you did the hands-on driving. Every feature we shipped made the lifting lighter, and the driving stayed yours.
An autopilot is different in kind. The document arrives and the work happens. You don’t review the parse unless something needs you. You don’t load the model; it’s loaded. You don’t decide whether to underwrite the deal; it’s underwritten, with your assumptions, and what’s waiting for you is the result. Your job becomes the one that was always the real job: deciding what to do about it.
We’re not there yet. But the first step is the one that makes the rest believable, and it’s in your account today.
Drop a rent roll, a T12 or a PLRR into Archer and watch Autopilot run: classify the document, extract every line, map it to your chart of accounts, save it. The steps you used to click through yourself happen on their own, and each one happens in front of you. You can choose where to get involved or let it self-drive. It stops only when it needs you: a charge code it hasn’t seen in your account, a subtotal that doesn’t tie, a property it can’t match. One click resolves it. It remembers the answer, so the same question doesn’t come up twice.
This is synchronous parsing, and we built it first on purpose. The first drive is the one where you watch. You should be able to see every step, check anything you want, and find nothing to fix. That’s how trust gets built, and trust is the whole product here.
The fair question about any autopilot is the one nobody wants to ask out loud: so now it makes the mistakes faster? Self-Healing is the answer. Autopilot gives you speed; Self-Healing makes sure that speed comes with accuracy. It’s the half of this release we’d ship even if the other half didn’t exist.
Parsing has never been one problem. It’s a long tail of small ones, and six years of reading operating statements has taught us where they live. A T12 whose subtotals don’t add up to the lines beneath them. A file with no Total Expense row at all, or one that only reports Controllable NOI. Debt service sitting inside NOI where it doesn’t belong. A row title that doesn’t say what the row is. Total Revenue labeled as something else. A rent roll with two lease rents on the same unit.
Each of those used to need a person to notice it and sort it out. Now they’re checks Archer runs and resolves before you ever see the file. That’s what Self-Healing means in practice: not magic, but six years of learning, applied up front. T12s first, because that’s where the structure problems live. Rent rolls close behind. When it meets something new, it asks once, and the list gets longer.
Autopilot without Self-Healing would move you faster through the same errors. Self-Healing without Autopilot would still be worth the release. Together, they’re the thing.
Where today’s release points, and the reason we built the first step the way we did. Here’s the Monday morning we’re building toward.
One email in, one deal out. A broker package forwarded to deals@archer.re. Archer reads the email, finds the property, pulls the OM, the rent roll and the T12 out of the attachments, parses each, maps them to your chart of accounts, and starts the underwrite with your assumptions in your model. You open Archer and the deal is in your pipeline with a return on it.
A sourcing strategy that underwrites. You’ve told Archer what you buy. A new listing that fits hits the market Tuesday night. By Wednesday morning it’s underwritten, with your assumptions, waiting in your inbox.
A portfolio in one run. Forty T12s and forty rent rolls in a folder. Parsed, structured, stored and underwritten, with one queue to see everything and fix the few things that need it.
A deal room that arrives screened. A broker or a GP shares the deal with you through Archer, with the CA and documents in place from the start. By the time you’ve agreed to look, the look has been done.
Five doors, one engine. Whatever path a deal takes into Archer, what lands in your pipeline is the same: parsed to your line items, comps in your account, an underwrite in your model, the Rapid Screener live on it.
See what your portfolio is worth. This one came straight from the calls. An institutional owner told us they run a NAV analysis on their portfolio, and that once it’s set up once, doing it quarterly wouldn’t be hard, which they called instant value. An operator said the quarterly reports they get are stale by the time they arrive, and what the team needs is the short version of how the portfolio is doing month to month. A sponsor wanted every asset’s financials boiled down to revenue, expenses, NOI, debt service and cash flow on a portfolio basis so they could report to the partnership. A fund manager said rolling up gross asset value and debt across the portfolio and the JV side is just hard.
Every asset in your Portfolio now carries its latest valuation from your most recent underwrite, timestamped, with a stale flag when it’s old, and added up at the top so you can see your entire portfolio value. Select any set of assets, a fund, a state, a JV, and the total, units and per-unit value update.
The list view carries the same valuations, and multi-select works there too.
And the Rapid Screener is now on the Portfolio page. Open any asset from its tile, see the latest underwrite, and adjust price, exit cap, hold period, rent growth or leverage to run a what-if without leaving the page. The portfolio stops being a list of numbers you read once a quarter and becomes something you can interrogate on a call.
It’s step one: showing what you already have, asset by asset, from your own underwrites. Step two is keeping it current as new financials land, which is what Autopilot is for. Step three is the roll-up the sponsor described: revenue, expenses, NOI, debt and cash flow across any grouping, against budget, ready for the partnership.
Share rooms with Confidentiality Agreements. Senders can require a CA before a recipient sees anything beyond the property header: Archer’s standard agreement or their own PDF. Signers get a signed copy; senders get the record. Brokers are already using share rooms this way for pocket listings: CA first, documents parsed, a number on the deal before the first call.
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Autopilot runs the steps. You decide what to do with the result. We built the watch-it-run version first so you can see every step and trust it before it runs on its own; asynchronous and bulk come after, once it’s earned that. If it stops somewhere it shouldn’t, or doesn’t stop somewhere it should, tell us. That’s the beta.
And the underwriter doesn’t go anywhere. The car still needs someone to decide where it’s going. What changes is how much of the drive you have to do yourself.
Fifteen months ago we started calling this the Summer of Killing Parsing. Custom Chart of Accounts, in-app parsing, Email-to-Archer, and now this. Each one was necessary for the next. Autopilot is what they were for.
What’s live today? Autopilot in synchronous mode: upload a rent roll, T12 or PLRR, watch it run, step in when asked. Self-Healing on rent rolls; T12 self-healing is close behind. The underwrite is one click when the parse is saved.
When does it run on its own? Asynchronous and bulk are next. Email-to-Archer, sourcing-triggered underwrites and shared-room ingestion are where it goes.
Will I have to check every parse? The goal is no. Synchronous exists so you can check the first few and find nothing to fix. If you’re finding things, tell us.
Does it change my chart of accounts? No. It maps to it. New charge codes are offered as a choice: map, create, or ignore.
Can I turn it off? Yes. The manual parse path is unchanged.
How do I turn on CAs for my share rooms? Reply to this email or contact support; it’s enabled per account.