I got sick of retyping numbers from multifamily OMs into Excel, so I built a tool for it. Curious if anyone else has this problem.
I’m not trying to spam a product pitch here — I’m genuinely trying to figure out whether this is a real pain point outside my own bubble.
When looking at multifamily deals, I kept running into the same frustrating workflow:
- Open the OM
- Find the rent roll, unit mix, T-12, operating statement, asking price, NOI, cap rate, etc.
- Manually retype all of it into Excel
- Then spend more time checking whether the broker’s numbers actually tie
It felt absurd that the most time-consuming part of early deal screening was still PDF → spreadsheet transcription.
So I built a tool that takes a CRE offering memorandum and turns it into a working Excel file with things like:
- Rent roll
- Unit mix
- Operating statement / T-12 data
- Key deal metrics
- Structured tables you can actually edit
- Validation checks when numbers don’t reconcile cleanly
The part I care most about is not just extraction, but catching things that look off — for example, when the stated pro forma NOI does not cleanly tie to the underlying line items.
I’ve tested it on real multifamily OMs, and it works surprisingly well, though it’s definitely not perfect yet. Lease abstracts, footnotes, and weird broker formatting are still areas I’m improving.
My question for people who actually look at OMs regularly:
Is this a workflow you would genuinely use, or is manual transcription just annoying but not painful enough to matter?
I’d also be curious:
- What specific tables do you always need pulled out first?
- Would “send an OM, get back a usable Excel file” be valuable?
- What would make you trust or distrust the output?
I’m trying to avoid building in a vacuum, so honest criticism is very welcome.