Finance

Cleaning and standardizing finance data for models and underwriting

Use AI to clean and standardize messy imported data—from ERP/bank exports, FP&A imports, or real estate financial spreadsheets and rent rolls—into model-ready formats, reducing manual prep time and downstream errors.

Why the human is still essential here

A human still defines the underwriting requirements, validates the transformed numbers/line items, checks for omissions or misclassifications, and makes the final investment judgment; AI primarily accelerates the formatting and consolidation work.

How people use this

T12 consolidation into a standardized income statement

AI maps inconsistent chart-of-accounts line items across multiple historical spreadsheets into one monthly income statement with variance notes for analyst review.

Claude / Microsoft Excel (Copilot)

Rent roll cleanup and charge breakout

AI reshapes a Yardi rent roll export into one row per unit/tenant and splits base rent and additional charges into dedicated columns for underwriting.

Microsoft Excel (Power Query) / Microsoft Copilot

Populate underwriting model from OM/T12/rent roll PDFs

Document extraction pulls key values from offering memo, T12, and rent roll PDFs and fills a standard Excel underwriting template with traceable sources.

PropRise Primer / Microsoft Excel

Bank/ERP CSV normalization

AI helps standardize inconsistent delimiters, dates, and numeric formats from bank or ERP exports so they load cleanly into FP&A models.

Power Query / Microsoft Copilot

GL description-to-account mapping

AI suggests account/category mappings from messy transaction descriptions to accelerate reclassification and reduce manual tagging.

ChatGPT

Duplicate and outlier cleanup workflow

AI-assisted data prep flags duplicates, missing fields, and outliers in imported actuals and outputs a cleaned table with an audit trail of changes.

Alteryx AiDIN

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Two ways Iam using AI to streamline real estate underwriting and operations

Two ways I'm using AI to streamline real estate investment underwriting and operations:

1) Analyst-level underwriting work
As an emerging GP, Im handling analyst work like spreading financials and formatting rent rolls. I tested Claude on a new deal: it consolidated three separate historical financial spreadsheets with inconsistent line items into a single 36-month income statement with metrics, variance highlights, and self-checks. It also reformatted a ~600-row Yardi rent roll into a clean single-row format with additional charges separated into columnswork that would have taken all morning done in ~20 minutes.

2) Auditing monthly property management reports
AI is serving as a second set of eyes on month-end financials. I had Claude convert Januarys invoice binder into a detailed spreadsheet, cross-check each invoice against its GL entry, and flag discrepancies. Im not fully automating review, but this preliminary audit is a strong starting point before deeper review.

Brian SobieckiManaging Partner

Feb 23, 2026