
An Origination Agent that absorbs 73% of initial deal analysis and triage for a cross-border real estate manager
Parses PDF broker packages straight into the firm's underwriting template, pulls CoStar and Green Street via API, runs the first NOI and equity projections, layers geospatial risk, and ranks the deal against the firm's buy box — all inside the firm's own server.
Real estate investment manager arm of a Brazilian merchant-banking group. Naming withheld for compliance.
The manager runs US commercial real estate acquisitions for a Brazilian merchant-banking group. Every new asset demanded a one-to-two-week sprint of analyst time across PDF parsing, decentralized data pulls, geospatial risk, first model, and buy-box ranking. The team kept losing deals on timing, either because they were busy with other deals or because they took too long to triage the one in front of them. The brief was clear: cut the analysis cycle without sending data outside the firm.
Outcomes
The desk stops losing deals on timing. The analyst shifts from data entry to critical risk judgment. The data stops leaving the firm.
The problem
Origination is the top of the funnel. Broker packages arrived as PDFs and were parsed by hand. Market data lived on decentralized platforms (CoStar, Green Street) and was extracted manually. The analysis cycle ran one to two weeks per deal, which meant timing-driven deals slipped. The cost was not the bottleneck. Time was. And the data could never leave the firm's environment.
What we built
HomoDeus built the Origination Agent inside the firm's own server. It performs automatic parsing of broker-package PDFs straight into the firm's underwriting template, integrates with external market platforms (CoStar, Green Street) via API for autonomous data extraction, automates the first NOI and equity projections, runs an automated geospatial risk assessment per asset, and ranks the deal against the firm's strategy (buy box). The analyst arrives at a defended first read instead of a blank PDF and shifts focus from data entry to critical risk judgment.
Stack
- Automatic broker-package PDF parser
- CoStar API ingestion
- Green Street research ingestion
- Automated NOI + equity projection engine
- Automated geospatial risk assessment
- Buy-box deal ranking against firm strategy
- In-environment deployment
Time to production
6 weeks to first production agent, fully inside the client environment
Questions a C-suite leader will ask
How does an AI agent originate a commercial real estate deal?
It auto-parses the broker-package PDF into the firm's underwriting template, pulls market data from CoStar and Green Street via API, runs the first NOI and equity projections, layers geospatial risk per asset, and ranks the deal against the firm's buy box. The analyst arrives at a defended first read instead of a blank PDF.
Can the AI run without our deal data leaving our environment?
Yes. The Origination Agent deploys fully inside the firm's server. Broker packages, market data, and the first model never leave. HomoDeus engineers operate inside the environment for the build, and the live system has zero outbound exposure of deal data.
What is the ROI of AI origination for a cross-border real estate manager?
In this engagement, around 73% of initial analysis and triage time for new assets was absorbed by the agent, the subscription cycle dropped from ~7 days to 41 hours, and the desk projects a 3.7× uplift in deal-processing capacity without growing headcount. Diligence on M&A-style deals is handled by HomoDeus's Data Room and Spreading Agent for the firm's M&A boutique.
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