Parsing. Extraction. Custom mapping. Spreading. Analytics.
For decades, this has been the biggest time sink in CRE analysis. The unavoidable tax that every acquisitions team, every broker, every lender paid before they could do the work that actually matters.
Every CRE professional accepted it.
We didn’t.
The Obsession
Archer has been automating CRE parsing for 5+ years. We’ve trained our engine on 100K+ unique documents and line items. We’ve refined it every single week — improving accuracy, adding intelligence, expanding coverage.
But for most of that time, the experience still lived in Excel. You’d upload a file to Archer, get parsed results back, and then work with them in your spreadsheet. It was fast. It was accurate. But you were still managing files, juggling tabs, and doing cleanup work.
We wanted to kill all of it. The parsing. The extraction. The custom mapping. The spreading. The analytics. Everything that stands between receiving a document and making a decision.
Today, we’re making it official. We killed parsing.
What We Built
Archer’s In-App Parsing brings the same industry-leading technology into a completely new, guided, in-browser experience. No Excel required. No file management. No back-and-forth.
Upload a Rent Roll or T12 — Excel or PDF. Watch Archer’s AI parse it in seconds. See it map automatically to your firm’s Custom Chart of Accounts. Review it with fewer than 5 manual adjustments on average. Done. The same trusted engine, now with a dramatically better user experience.
And for Lenders and Debt Brokers who live across multiple financial frameworks — you can switch between Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Balance Sheet-specific Charts of Accounts on the same property in seconds with perfect fidelity. One parse, any output.
This is what happens when you obsess about automating every step in a process for 5+ years and just keep improving it every week. The parsing, the extraction, the custom mapping, the spreading — it all just happens. And the speed to value is unlike anything in the market. The In-App experience requires virtually no training. It’s intuitive — the number of clicks and steps has been dramatically reduced. A new user can parse their first file the first time they use the tool.
And if you have messy documents? Our white-glove team — US-based CRE professionals, not an offshore team — handles them in under 2 hours.
But Killing Parsing Isn’t the Point
Speed and precision is great. But the real magic is what happens next.
Analytics surface instantly. The moment parsing completes, you get premium analytics that used to require a full underwrite and weeks of work:
- Lease Trade Out analysis — which units are turning over, at what rents, how new leases compare to expiring ones. Unit-level rent growth and retention signals at your fingertips.
- T12 Comparisons — compare operating statements across time periods for the same property or across multiple properties. Spot trends instantly.
- Operating Statement Stitching — stitch historical T12s into a continuous financial history.
- Portfolio-level benchmarking against 40+ external data sources, combining Archer’s 200K+ Rent + Financial Benchmarks with your in-house proprietary data.
- Parsing (In-App) — automates data ingestion, mapping, spreading, and analysis
- Underwriting — Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) automates acquisition and origination work in your proprietary Excel model
- Asset Management (PMS Connect) — ingests Property Management System data on a recurring basis to automate portfolio monitoring
All of this appears before you open a model. Your team gets a go/no-go signal within minutes of receiving documents.
Proprietary comps build automatically. This is the part that changes everything.
Every Rent Roll you parse automatically generates proprietary Rent Comps — by unit type, floor plan, lease type, and concession structure. Every T12 generates Expense Comps mapped to your Custom Chart of Accounts level — not generic industry buckets. Your categories. Your granularity.
And every deal you analyze captures the data that powers more detailed Sales Comps as deals trade — financing structure, hold periods, renovation spend, actual operating metrics at the line-item level.
No extra work. No save button. Your proprietary comps database grows every time anyone on your team touches a file. It compounds with every deal.
Underwriting launches from parsed data. When you’re ready, hit “Run Underwrite” and launch your analysis in your own proprietary Excel model through Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) and Archer’s Excel Add-In. Parsed financials, key assumptions, and pricing flow in automatically. Full underwrite in under 60 seconds.
The Comp Set Mindset Shift
Here’s what excites us most about this launch.
It’s one thing that every document you touch turns into a comp and you build as you go — no need to change your workflow or process. You get better and better without doing anything different. Every file adds value, with an immediate feedback loop.
But there’s a bigger shift. When the barrier to parsing drops to near zero and the automation takes on the work, you can now deliberately widen the funnel. Sign up for every deal. Parse those files with the express intent of building a comp set. Previously, each document had a cost — analyst time, manual effort — so you had to pick and choose where to spend your time. You only parsed deals that matched your strategy and criteria.
Now? You can afford to parse everything. 50 documents in 2 hours. Deals you’d never underwrite — but knowing that each one gives you valuable data. Rent comps, expense comps, benchmarks at your Custom CoA level. That becomes a new benchmark for comp quality that no one can match without similar automation and parsing precision.
That’s a game changer. Set it and forget it. We build the comps for you.
And here’s the full loop every Archer user enters:
Parse → Map → Analyze → Comp → Underwrite → Share
Each cycle makes your Digital Deal Brain smarter. Each deal is faster and more accurate than the last. Your institutional knowledge compounds automatically. And when you share a parsed file with a counterparty, they receive it in their Chart of Accounts — with a full audit trail. No re-parsing. No reformatting. The document is parsed once, and every party in the network gets it in their view of the world.
And only Archer connects all three CRE workflows in one platform:
No other platform connects all three.
AI has made incredible things possible. We love it. We use it ourselves. But the tradeoff we keep seeing across CRE is speed OR precision. A beautiful first pass — until you need 300 line items mapped to your exact expense categories, not generic buckets. The best AI tools AND best-in-class vertical platforms AND truly AI-ready data. That’s not a tradeoff. That’s the future. And it’s here.
Introducing Archer Starter
For teams ready to start with automated parsing and begin building their proprietary comps database: Archer Starter. Unlimited parsing, a Custom Chart of Accounts, automatic proprietary comps generation, and the full analytics layer — lowest cost for small teams. For groups that want BYOM Underwriting, full Archer Comps, and Premium Intelligence — that’s Archer Pro.
Give us one deal. We’ll parse it in seconds, map it to your CoA, surface analytics, and start building your proprietary comps database — right now.
Parsing Is Dead. Here’s What’s Alive.
We didn’t just build a faster parser. We built a system where parsing is the engine that powers everything — analytics, comps, underwriting, and institutional memory.
The busywork is dead. The intelligence is alive. And it compounds with every deal your team touches.
Ready to try it out? Get a demo here.
