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What Extraction Actually Does — and When It Doesn't

What the AI extracts from your documents, where it stops, and what to do when a field is wrong.

What extraction pulls from an OM

When you upload an OM, extraction reliably captures:

  • Asset basics — address, unit count, year built, class, product type (garden, mid-rise, etc.)
  • Headline financials — list price, in-place NOI, T-12 revenue and expense line items when present, occupancy, cap rate if cited
  • Market summary — metro, submarket, broker's rent growth and cap rate assumptions, any comp set the broker included
  • Unit mix location — extraction identifies where the rent roll lives (in the OM appendix, a separate doc, or missing entirely), but does not pull full unit-by-unit data from the OM itself

Every cited figure gets a filename + page number + quoted source line. Click any field to see its citation chip.

Rent roll parsing

Rent rolls are parsed separately from OMs. Upload a dedicated rent roll document (Excel, CSV, or PDF) and the AI maps unit types, square footage, in-place rents, lease expirations, and concessions. The system handles any format — even scanned PDFs — using LLM-assisted parsing as a fallback.

What extraction does not do

  • Rent roll data does not come from an OM. Full unit mix requires a dedicated rent roll doc. Upload it separately and the AI processes it.
  • Forward projections. Extraction pulls what the OM says about the asset today. You set pro-forma assumptions in the Revenue, Expenses, and CapEx tabs.
  • Deal structure. Debt terms, equity waterfall, and GP economics are entered directly in the Financing and GP / LP tabs.

When a field is wrong

Three things to try:

  1. Click the field to see the citation. Usually the OM itself was ambiguous — broker listed two different NOIs on different pages. Override by typing the correct value.
  2. Ask the AI assistant. Open the chat and ask "What did the OM say about [field]?" — the AI can re-read the source and clarify.
  3. Re-upload. If something is clearly off across several fields, delete the upload and re-add. Sometimes a bad first pass lingers.

Still stuck?

Reply to [email protected] with the deal ID and a note on what you'd expect the field to say.

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