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\"Introducing<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Every commercial lease contains critical information, from tenant details and rent escalations to clauses buried deep within complex legal language. Until now, lease abstraction, the process of extracting document information and entering it into a system, has been a time-consuming process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Picture a lease administrator working through a 60-page commercial lease. They’re flagging rent commencement dates, mapping out option periods, looking for common area maintenance caps, parsing co-tenancy clauses and tracking down HVAC responsibility language. This process involves days of work, and it\u2019s just for a single lease. For a firm managing dozens or hundreds of leases, it’s a drag on the entire business and it sits at the foundation of everything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Billing, compliance, renewals and portfolio reporting all flow from lease data. When that foundation is built by hand, it’s slow, variable and expensive. Yardi Smart Lease<\/a> is fully embedded within Yardi Voyager and changes the equation: AI handles the heavy lifting, humans review and approve and extracted data flows directly into the platform where your team already works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI-powered lease abstraction built into Voyager<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Every commercial lease contains critical information, from tenant details and rent escalations to clauses buried deep within complex legal language. Instead of a person reading through a document and interpreting what they find, Smart Lease scans the lease using optical character recognition and AI models trained on your lease structures and property configurations. It identifies and extracts key data points including spaces, square footage, rent schedules, escalations, percentage rent and critical clauses, then maps that information directly to the appropriate Voyager lease fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a new lease is ready for processing, simply upload the document into Voyager. From there, Smart Lease uses optical character recognition (OCR) and AI models trained on your lease structures and property configurations to identify and extract key data points, including spaces, square footage, rent schedules, escalations, percentage rent and critical clauses. The system then maps that information directly to the appropriate Voyager lease fields, significantly reducing the time and effort typically required for manual data entry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A review process designed for accuracy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Smart Lease is designed to support your team’s expertise, not replace it. After the initial AI extraction, users review and validate the captured data within an intuitive interface. If additional clauses or details need to be included, users can interact directly with the document by selecting relevant sections, linking them to Voyager fields and adding them to the abstraction. Once the review is complete, Smart Lease automatically populates the lease record in Voyager with the finalized data, ensuring consistency and accuracy throughout the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For high-volume situations, bulk processing lets teams queue multiple leases simultaneously. Structured data flows into Voyager to support faster onboarding and billing setup as soon as each lease clears review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Clear, plain-language clause summaries<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lease documents are often complex and difficult to navigate, particularly when teams need to quickly reference specific provisions. Smart Lease solves this challenge by generating easy-to-read summaries for each captured clause. These summaries are stored within the Voyager tenant record, allowing users to quickly review key terms without having to read through lengthy legal text. Organizations also have the flexibility to configure summarization preferences so the output aligns with their internal standards and desired level of detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source documents are just a click away<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Smart Lease keeps original lease documents fully connected to the data extracted from them. Each uploaded PDF is linked directly to the corresponding tenant record in Voyager, creating a clear and traceable connection between source material and system data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Captured clauses are tied to their exact location within the document, allowing users to open the lease and navigate directly to the relevant section with a single click. That streamlined access eliminates manual searching and enables faster, more efficient reviews and audits, so you\u2019re audit-ready from day one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An AI assistant that actually knows your lease<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Smart Lease includes an integrated AI assistant that lets users ask plain-language questions about lease data and receive precise, context-aware answers right inside Voyager, without hunting through documents or toggling between applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether reviewing a new tenant before activation or confirming specific lease terms before a deal decision, users can quickly access the information they need. By analyzing both the lease document and the associated Voyager record, the AI assistant helps teams make informed decisions faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accuracy also improves over time. Smart Lease learns from your specific lease types, with all training data kept private within your environment, and it gets better at recognizing the patterns that appear in your portfolio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Faster lease abstraction from upload to active tenant<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Everything in commercial real estate flows from the lease. Smart Lease brings intelligent automation into existing Voyager workflows and shortens the path from lease upload to active tenant record. By reducing manual entry and minimizing errors at the source, your team can focus on the work that requires human judgment, including analysis, relationships and decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Want to learn more about Smart Lease? See how AI reads your leases<\/a> or book a consultation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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