Published May 2, 2025Customer since 2022
How EDENS Saves 1+ Hour Per Lease and Eliminated Drafting Errors
EDENS is the owner, developer and steward of a nationally leading portfolio of more than 100 open-air retail and mixed-use places in high-growth markets coast to coast.
The Challenge
Manual drafting was slowing down deals.
EDENS' legal team faced slow, manual lease drafting that delayed tenant openings and impacted rent collection.
- 1.5–2 hours
- To draft each lease, slowing negotiations and deal flow
- Inconsistent language
- Across different regions and properties
- Repetitive manual tasks
- Inserting property details, entity names, and signature blocks
- Risk of costly errors
- In rent figures, CAM calculations, and key terms
The Decision
Why EDENS chose LeasePilot.
“The main reason EDENS adopted LeasePilot was to assist in improving drafting inefficiencies, which in turn would speed up lease negotiations, resulting in tenants opening and paying rent sooner.”
Jon B., Vice President, Legal
The Solution
LeasePilot automated the drafting process.
With LeasePilot, EDENS automated lease drafting, standardized language, and eliminated errors, allowing their team to draft faster and more accurately.
- 1+ hour saved
- Per lease document, reducing bottlenecks significantly
- Consistent templates
- Ensuring accuracy across all regions and properties
- Automated calculations
- Rent amounts match internal accounting methods perfectly
- Smart document controls
- Deal-specific options without digging through language banks
Deep Dive
The transformation in detail.
Before
Prior to LeasePilot, our department experienced numerous redundancies and inefficient use of time in the lease draft process. The insertion of correct entity information, signature blocks, and property specific items had to be done manually for each new deal.
Manual drafting also resulted in potential inconsistencies across our regions and increased the risk of drafting errors, typos, and incorrect information in certain situations.
After
LeasePilot has proven to save our department a great deal of time in drafting leases, amendments, license agreements and other lease related documents. We no longer have to insert shopping center specific information into our leases and amendments, as LeasePilot automates that process (including state specific lease language).
LeasePilot ensures that the rent amounts inserted into our documents are correct based on EDENS' internal accounting methods. A simple list of controls allows for deal-specific items (CAM caps, Tenant Improvement Allowance provisions, options) to flow into the document without having to go into a separate language bank.
Original Story · EDENS
“My only regret is that we didn't start using LeasePilot earlier!”
Jon B.
Vice President, Legal, EDENS
The Results
What changed for EDENS.
Faster negotiations
LeasePilot cut drafting time dramatically, expediting deals and accelerating rent starts.
Operational efficiency
Standardization eliminated redundancies and ensured consistency across all EDENS regions.
Improved lease templates
LeasePilot's experts identified ways to improve EDENS' form documents during onboarding.
Pleasant Surprise
An unexpected benefit.
“The LeasePilot team is knowledgeable and detail oriented. With every single onboarding of one of our forms, LeasePilot has assisted us in identifying ways to improve our form documents, which is not an improvement that we expected when deciding to go with LeasePilot.”
Jon B., Vice President, Legal
“I would strongly recommend LeasePilot. My only regret is that we didn't start using LeasePilot earlier.”
Jon B., Vice President, Legal
What would you do with an extra hour per lease?
EDENS gets that hour back on every lease, every region. Let's talk about what that looks like for your team.