01 / CONTEXT
Use the information your firm already has.
Leases, rent rolls, operating statements, credit standards, and institutional knowledge provide the context behind real CRE work.
The real question
What happens after the first good answer?
A compelling demo is a starting point. CRE firms need repeatable processes that work across properties, deals, documents, and teams, and still leave professionals in control of the decisions.
02 / EXECUTION
Connect the steps of the workflow.
Move from intake and extraction through reconciliation, analysis, review, and usable outputs without rebuilding the process around every prompt.
03 / CONFIDENCE
Keep the evidence in view.
Trace figures to their sources, surface discrepancies, and make room for the professional judgment every consequential decision requires.
04 / GOVERNANCE
Your data. Your standards. Your control.
Work with your firm's information within defined permissions, review processes, and business rules, while maintaining control over how AI-generated outputs are validated and used.
Side-by-side
Keyway vs. ChatGPT & Claude
General-purpose models are highly capable. The practical difference is how much CRE-specific infrastructure your organization needs to assemble and operate around them.
What your team needs
General-purpose AI
Keyway
Document analysis
Summarize and extract from supplied files
CRE-oriented document extraction and structured outputs
Firm-specific context
Can be provided through prompts, knowledge tools, or custom integrations
Workflows configured around your documents, criteria, and business needs
Connected processes
Possible with additional tools, orchestration, and configuration
CRE workflows that connect intake, analysis, and review
Evidence and review
Depends on the model, setup, and tools used
Source-linked information and review points built into supported workflows
Data governance & security
Depends on the product, enterprise plan, and configuration
CRE-specific workflows with configurable permissions, review controls, and customer data requirements
Business-ready outputs
Requires formatting, integration, and validation for each use case
Structured deliverables aligned with agreed workflow requirements
Ongoing ownership
Your team owns the custom CRE workflow layer it builds
Keyway maintains the platform; your team retains business rules and final decisions
Comparison describes typical implementation approaches, not absolute limits on ChatGPT or Claude. Specific Keyway functionality and integrations depend on agreed product scope and configuration.
Build vs. buy
Building AI Is One Thing. Maintaining It Is Another
Delivering reliable AI requires continuous investment and deep industry expertise
Claude and ChatGPT make it easier than ever to build custom AI applications. But getting a prototype to work is only the beginning.
Turning it into a reliable, secure, production-ready workflow requires ongoing engineering, integrations, testing, monitoring, updates, and maintenance. As models evolve, documents change, and business requirements grow, so does the work required to keep everything running.
The cost of building in-house goes far beyond the initial development. It's the long-term responsibility of maintaining everything you've built.
What building in-house really means
- Ongoing maintenance: Every integration, model update, and workflow change creates additional work to test, maintain, and support.
- Security and governance: Your team is responsible for implementing access controls, data protection, monitoring, and compliance with internal requirements.
- CRE-specific complexity: Leases, rent rolls, financial statements, and underwriting processes require specialized logic, validation, and ongoing refinement.
- Hidden opportunity costs: Engineering resources spent maintaining AI infrastructure are resources unavailable for other business priorities.
Why build what you can deploy with Keyway?
Keyway provides purpose-built AI infrastructure for commercial real estate, designed to adapt to your firm's proprietary data, business rules, and workflows.
- Built for CRE: Specialized workflows for underwriting, lease review, document analysis, and investment processes.
- Adaptable to your business: Work with your own documents, proprietary logic, and internal standards without starting from scratch.
- Designed for enterprise workflows: Source-linked outputs, review controls, and configurable processes that support your organization's governance requirements.
- Maintained and continuously improved: Keyway develops and maintains the underlying AI platform, reducing the engineering burden on your team.
Your competitive advantage comes from your firm's expertise, proprietary knowledge, and decisions. Keyway helps you put them to work without having to build and maintain the AI infrastructure yourself.
The Keyway Harness
The model is powerful. The infrastructure makes it useful for CRE
Think of the model as the engine. The Keyway Harness is the CRE-specific layer around it, connecting the information, workflows, verification, and controls that turn AI capability into repeatable work.
01 / INPUT
Your firm's data
Documents, property information, internal standards
02 / CONTEXT
CRE understanding
Industry-specific document and workflow structures
03 / PROCESS
Connected workflows
Extraction, reconciliation, analysis, outputs
04 / CONTROL
Source-backed review
Traceability, exceptions, human validation
Powerful AI models + Keyway Harness + your team's expertise → business-ready CRE work
See the difference in practice
From a single prompt to a complete workflow
Explore how AI built for CRE supports the work surrounding the answer.
Deal intake to credit review
A lender receives an offering memorandum, rent roll, borrower financials, operating statements, leases, and internal credit requirements.
- Organize incoming deal documents
- Extract and structure relevant information
- Reconcile figures and flag discrepancies
- Prepare source-backed credit materials for review
Where Keyway adds value
More time for underwriting judgment.
Underwriters can review prepared information, validate assumptions, and focus on risk and credit decisions rather than reconstructing the same information across files.
From lease packages to usable data
A lease administrator needs to account for the original lease and amendments, confirm the terms in effect, and prepare information for downstream teams.
- Review the lease and amendment package together
- Extract terms with links to source language
- Flag provisions that require review
- Map structured outputs to agreed reporting formats
Where Keyway adds value
An abstract that supports the next step.
Source-backed lease information can support accounting, reporting, and portfolio questions while keeping review and business-specific conventions in the process.
From property information to investment analysis
An investment team needs comparable properties and consistent analysis based on its own investment criteria.
- Apply firm-specific property criteria
- Build and review relevant comparable sets
- Bring supporting property information into the analysis
- Evaluate pricing and opportunities with team judgment
Where Keyway adds value
More analysis, less manual assembly.
Teams spend less time gathering and organizing information and more time deciding which opportunities merit attention.
Real-world results
Value you can measure in the workflow
Examples from CRE teams using Keyway to reduce time spent preparing and evaluating information.
20+ hours
saved per deal in underwriting and property evaluation
Reported by InterCapital Group
Up to 2 weeks
shorter property evaluation timelines
Reported by InterCapital Group
90%
less manual lease-review time
Large asset manager example described in Keyway's published article
$100K+
annual direct cost savings from lease abstraction
Large asset manager example described in Keyway's published article
Results are customer-reported or case-specific; they are not guarantees of future performance.
FAQs
Questions worth asking before you choose
Why use Keyway instead of ChatGPT or Claude?
ChatGPT and Claude are powerful general-purpose AI products. Keyway adds a platform designed around commercial real estate documents, data structures, connected workflows, source verification, and review. The benefit becomes clearer when a team needs repeatable results across many deals, leases, or properties.
Can we build our own CRE AI workflows using a general-purpose model?
Yes. Firms can develop their own applications and integrations. They should also plan for document handling, validation, permissions, user adoption, ongoing model evaluation, support, and maintenance. The right choice depends on the requirements and total cost of ownership.
Does Keyway replace underwriters or investment professionals?
No. Keyway helps prepare, structure, and verify information so professionals can apply their expertise. The customer remains responsible for reviewing outputs and making credit, investment, and operational decisions.
Does Keyway use our firm's own data?
Keyway works with customer-provided documents and information, configured to the workflow and permissions agreed with the customer. It should not be understood as a replacement for a firm's data strategy or as a blanket promise of access to proprietary third-party market datasets.
What should we evaluate in a pilot?
Use representative documents, including difficult cases. Measure extraction quality, source traceability, correction effort, review time, and whether the final output fits your existing workflow. Review security, implementation requirements, and total ongoing ownership alongside model performance.
Who controls our data when using Keyway?
Keyway works with your firm's documents and information within agreed workflows, permissions, and security requirements. Your team maintains control over business rules, output validation, and final decisions.
See the workflow, not just the demo
Bring your documents.
We'll start with your workflow
See how Keyway can help your team turn CRE information into source-backed work that's ready for review.
