Quick AI Wins: Monitoring Tenant Health with Yutori Scouts

We’re kicking off a new A.CRE series called Quick AI Wins: bite-sized, high-impact AI tools and use cases that owners, investors, brokers, and managers can use to create leverage in CRE.

While many of these tools are in the early stages (this one is in private beta as of the writing of this post), these ‘quick AI wins’ demonstrate the capability of AI to transform how we work in commercial real estate.

So, with that, first up: Yutori Scouts.

• Quick Note:We’re unaffiliated with any of the tools featured in our Quick AI Wins series. As the A.CRE team has been building out our AI.Edge program, we’ve come across a number of practical AI use cases and tools that we think are worth sharing publicly here on the front end of A.CRE.

What is Yutori Scouts?

Yutori Scouts are always-on AI agents that monitor the web for what you tell them to look for and then email you when there’s a match. Think of it as a customizable, natural-language Google Alert built by ex-Meta AI leaders.

You describe the signal. Scouts do the hunting.

They can monitor specific URLs (like EDGAR, ratings sites, or press release feeds), or search the broader web. And unlike black-box scraping tools, each Scout includes a transparent activity log so you can see where it looked, what it found, and what it filtered out.

Why It Matters for Us in CRE

We’re constantly monitoring various attributes and metrics of the tenants, markets, partners, properties, and clients we’re working with.

And so, imagine you’re the owner of a Walgreens. Changes to Walgreens’ credit not only impact the likelihood they’ll continue to pay you rent, but also the likelihood they’ll renew at lease expiration, the cap rate (i.e. value) a Walgreens commands in the market, and so forth.

Thus, automatically keeping tabs on their credit is a worthwhile endeavor (and a great use case for AI—a quick AI win so to speak!).

Tenant Credit as a Use Case

Tenant health shows up first in places like credit ratings changes, SEC filings, store closure lists, press releases, and local news. Tools like Yatari Scouts let you catch those early signals, without hiring an analyst to manually check 30 sites each week.

Set it once. Let it run. Get notified only when something important happens.

How to Set Up Scouts in 10 Minutes

1. Get access: Join the Yutori Scouts private beta waitlist and log in when approved.
2. Create a Scout: In the New Scout screen, describe your watch task in plain English. Pick specific sources (or let it search broadly).
3. Choose notification rules: Get emailed immediately or in a daily digest.
4. Check the log: Review which pages were visited and what matched, to fine-tune the quality of the signal.

Copy-Paste Examples for Walgreens

Here’s how you might monitor a corporate tenant like Walgreens. Each of these is a standalone Scout:

• Credit ratings and outlook. “Alert me any time S&P, Moody’s, or Fitch downgrades or places Walgreens Boots Alliance on Watch Negative, or changes outlook to negative. Include report title, action, rationale, and link.”
• Liquidity stress in SEC filings. “Watch Walgreens’ SEC filings in EDGAR. Notify me on new 8-K, 10-Q, or 10-K that includes: ‘amendment to credit agreement’, ‘going concern’, ‘material impairment’, ‘store closure program’, or ‘dividend suspension’. Summarize the section with the exact paragraph.”
• Earnings or guidance changes. “Monitor Walgreens press releases and investor relations for earnings releases, guidance withdrawals, or updates mentioning cost reduction, store closures, or debt refinancing. Extract guidance, free cash flow, closure counts, and comments on leverage.”
• Buyout or restructuring chatter. “Track credible outlets for Walgreens sale, breakup, or take-private developments. Alert on terms, likely buyers, breakup structure, and expected debt load.”
• Store closures and local exposure. “Scan local and regional news for ‘Walgreens closing’ plus my target counties. Send me store addresses, closure dates, and whether pharmacy services are relocating.”

Pro Tips

• Name Scouts by risk type: e.g., “Walgreens – Credit Actions”
• Scope to specific domains when needed (e.g., spglobal.com for ratings)
• Ask for structured outputs: “Return action, date, source, quote, link.”
• Use negative filters like: “exclude blogs without primary sourcing”
• Review activity logs weekly and tighten noisy Scouts

Scale to Your Portfolio

• Clone them across tenants; just swap out the name
• Create cross-tenant Scouts for big signals like rating changes
• Add one digest Scout per market to catch local store closures

What You’re Replacing

Hours spent manually checking across EDGAR, Google Alerts, and ratings sites. Scouts are more surgical, continuous, and organized.

A Few Caveats

It’s still private beta, so expect the occasional rough edge. For now, we recommend keeping critical alerts backed up with at least one redundant source.