AI-Powered Lease Date Extraction Tool
On a flight from Chicago to Miami last week, I built something I’m really excited to share for free: my AI-powered Lease Date Extraction Tool. Starting with a simple ChatGPT prompt, followed by a back-and-forth with Replit’s Agent 3 multi-agent coding assistant, what in the past would have taken a team of engineers months to build came together in just a few hours.
This app is part of our broader mission at A.CRE: to build and share custom-built AI tools for CRE. Just as we’ve built the largest library of readily available (i.e. free!) institutional-quality Excel models to help CRE professionals master financial modeling, we’re now working to create the largest library of AI tools to help CRE professionals become AI-Native.
The goal is twofold: a) to share useful AI apps for real estate and b) to inspire others in real estate to build their own AI tools.
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What is the Lease Date Extraction Tool?
The Lease Date Extraction Tool is a web application designed to do one thing really well: extract and organize all dates from lease documents.
- Users upload one or more lease PDFs (main lease + addenda).
- The system processes them intelligently based on the order set by the user.
- Documents are split into “chunks” and passed through an AI workflow, greatly improving accuracy.
- The AI extracts all key dates — commencement, expiration, renewal, reporting deadlines, and more.
- Dates are updated during extraction as new information is discovered across addenda.
- A master list of dates is produced, which can be exported to Excel (for people) or JSON (for AI systems).
The tool is demonstrative of the types of applications that can be built by regular real estate people leveraging AI. As we get time, we’ll expand on this tool (just as we have with our models) based on your feedback. So, if there’s a feature you’d like included and/or you find a bug, please let us know.
Why Extract Dates?
Lease documents are dense and packed with dozens, sometimes hundreds, of dates. Property managers, asset managers, and tenants live and die by these dates.
- Miss the date by which a landlord must report insurance costs, and the tenant may not be obligated to reimburse.
- Miss a sales reporting date as a tenant, and you could face penalties.
- Fail to capture a renewal deadline, and you risk unintended vacancy.
In short, lease dates are critical. This tool seeks to make tracking them faster, more reliable, and less tedious.
How This Was Built
I personally built this Lease Date Extraction Tool literally on a flight from Chicago to Miami. I’m not a software engineers, but rather a regular real estate guy (albeit with intense personal interest in AI!) using AI-native tools. But it proves an important point: with the right starting point, any AI-native CRE professional can build automation tools to greatly multiply their output.
I used Replit and its new Agent 3 multi-agent coding system to build the app:
- User Upload – One or more lease PDFs uploaded in order.
- Smart Chunking – Leases are split into manageable pieces.
- Iterative AI Processing – Each chunk is analyzed by AI, with dates carried forward and updated if new evidence is found.
- Master Date List – A reconciled list of all dates is produced.
- Export Options – Results can be exported to Excel or JSON.
Under the hood, the app runs a React frontend with animations, a Node.js backend, and Replit’s built-in database. It processes files securely in memory and uses WebSocket live updates for a responsive experience.
It’s also extendable. Future versions could extract tenant names, rents, clauses, square footage, or even power portfolio dashboards.
How to Use the Lease Date Extraction Tool
Getting started is simple — the tool is designed to be intuitive, but here’s a quick step-by-step guide:
- Go to the app.
- Click “Start Extracting Dates.”
- Upload your lease and any addenda. Make sure to order the files from oldest to most recent (i.e. 1 as oldest).
- Click “Start AI Analysis.”
- Leave the page open while the engine runs. It processes approximately one page every 30 seconds, so grab a coffee while it works.
- Review your extracted dates, then export the results to Excel or JSON.
Note on Data Privacy
The system only retains document contents while processing and contents of documents are not used to train any models.
What’s Your Role? The Human-in-the-Loop
Just because something can be fully automated doesn’t mean it should be (or that it’s worth the risk). In CRE, where a missed clause or date can cost millions, human oversight and validation is essential. Tools like this are meant to be paired with a professional who validates the outputs and leverages it to speed a process they still manage.
Thus, while we are training the next generation of AI-native professionals in industry, our view is that an AI-native person uses AI to multiply their output, not replace their judgment. AI is the engine, but the human stays in the cockpit guiding, validating, and ensuring the system doesn’t make a multimillion-dollar mistake.
Access the Lease Date Extraction Tool
The Lease Date Extraction Tool is available free to the A.CRE community. Use it, remix it, or build on top of it for your own projects.
Frequently Asked Questions about the AI-Powered Lease Date Extraction Tool
Version Notes
Beta Version 1.1
- Various speed improvements
- Various cost efficiency improvements
- Moved from Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT-5-mini to Mistral NeMo Instruct
Beta Version 1.0
- Initial release
