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Memo · Why LeasePilot

# Built for contracts documents prompts commercial leases.

You've evaluated CLMs, AI legal tools, and document-automation engines. They're all built for a different problem. LeasePilot is built for one — drafting commercial leases on your forms, your clauses, your deal logic.

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## We're not trying to be everything.

The market is full of platforms that touch commercial leases somewhere in their lifecycle. Almost none of them draft the lease. Here's the line we draw.

What you might consider

Where it stops

Document automation

Generic engine. You'd build the CRE logic.

AI legal copilots

Probabilistic. CRE math has to be exact.

CLM platforms

Procurement workflow. Not 80-page lease drafting.

Lease administration

Begins after signing. We end at signing.

Leasing CRM

Tracks the pipeline. Hands off the doc.

Property management

Runs the building. Receives the lease.

We do exactly one thing: draft commercial leases. When that's the work, the tool that does only that beats the tool that does ten things adjacent to it.

## Pick the tool you're weighing — read the verdict.

Index of comparisons

1.  [vs. Word & TemplatesFamiliar, but priced in hours · Microsoft Word, Excel, internal templatesRead](/compare/word-templates)
2.  [vs. Document AutomationPowerful engines with zero CRE inside · HotDocs, Contract Express, Docassemble, LegitoRead](/compare/document-automation)
3.  [vs. AI Legal PlatformsProbabilistic where leases must be deterministic · Spellbook, Harvey, Luminance, Orbital, GavelRead](/compare/ai-legal)
4.  [vs. CLM PlatformsBuilt for procurement, not 80-page leases · Ironclad, DocuSign CLM, Agiloft, Conga, IcertisRead](/compare/clm)
5.  [vs. Lease AdministrationManages signed leases. We draft them · Visual Lease, LeaseQuery, CoStar, OccupierRead](/compare/lease-administration)
6.  [vs. Leasing CRMTracks the deal. Doesn't draft it · VTS, Dealpath, Juniper Square, BuildoutRead](/compare/leasing-crm)
7.  [vs. Property ManagementRuns operations. Doesn't author paper · Yardi, MRI, AppFolio, RealPage, EntrataRead](/compare/property-management)

## Five things only CRE-native software actually does.

-   ### Built only for CRE leasing
    
    Every line of the engine assumes a commercial lease. Not adapted from contract software, not bolted onto something else.
    
    Built-in concepts
    
    -   Percentage rent
    -   CAM reconciliation
    -   TI allowances
    -   Rent escalations
    -   Pro-rata share
    -   Estoppel & SNDA
    

-   ### Deterministic calculation engine
    
    Rent schedules, percentage breakpoints, pro-rata shares — calculated once, the same way, every time.
    
    Year 3, retail anchor
    
    base\_rent = $24.50 /sf
    
    escalator = 3% annual
    
    premises = 8,200 sf
    
    → year\_3\_rent = $219,640.42
    

-   ### Custom-built per customer
    
    Your forms. Your clause library. Your per-building defaults. Encoded once, applied across every lease the team drafts.
    
    Customer clause · §6.2 percentage rent
    
    Tenant shall pay percentage rent equal to \[BREAKPOINT\_PCT\] of Gross Sales in excess of the Natural Breakpoint, calculated \[QUARTERLY|ANNUALLY\] per the methodology in Schedule C.
    
    Encoded once. Reused across every retail lease the team drafts.
    

-   ### One deal, every document
    
    Lease, amendments, SNDAs, estoppels, commencement letters, guaranties — generated from the same deal record. No re-keying.
    
    From one deal record
    
    -   Lease
    -   Amendment
    -   SNDA
    -   Estoppel
    -   Commencement letter
    -   Guaranty
    

-   ### Fits the stack you already run
    
    Tenant data flows in from your PM and CRM systems. Signed lease data flows back. We don't ask you to rip anything out.
    
    Connects with
    
    -   Yardi
    -   MRI
    -   Salesforce
    -   Dynamics 365
    -   Any system via open SDK
    

## Objections, addressed.

### 01Why not just keep using Word?

### 02We already have a CLM. Why do we need LeasePilot?

### 03How does LeasePilot compare to HotDocs or Contract Express?

### 04We use Yardi or MRI. Does LeasePilot replace that?

### 05What about our existing templates?

### 06How long does implementation take?

At your service

## One tool, one job — done well.

30 minutes on your templates. Walk away knowing whether this fits how your team actually drafts.

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