Asset management analytics
A Yardi Elevate alternative that closes the month for you
You already pay Yardi for the accounting system. Elevate charges you again for the analytics layer on top of your own data. We build that layer custom, and we put an agent in it.
The honest case for Elevate
Yardi Voyager holds the ledger for an enormous share of the industry, and getting analysis out of a general ledger is real work. Elevate exists because asset managers needed variance analysis, budget comparisons, deal management, and forecasting without building it themselves.
For a firm with no technology function, buying that is a defensible decision. It is faster than hiring, and it is integrated with the accounting system by construction.
What you are actually paying for
You are paying a second time for access to data you already own. The ledger is yours. The analytics layer is a set of views and calculations on top of it, priced as if it were a separate product.
The views are also generic by necessity. Your firm has a specific asset plan format, a specific variance threshold that triggers a conversation, a specific way it thinks about hold versus sell. A module built for every Yardi customer cannot be built for yours, so the real analysis ends up in Excel anyway and Elevate becomes an expensive intermediate step.
And nothing in it does the work. It shows you a variance. Someone on your team still has to investigate it, trace it to line items, write the note, and put it in the investor update. That is the labor, and no dashboard removes it.
What we build instead
The analytics layer, custom. We read from your accounting system and build asset plans, variance analysis, hold/sell models, and debt and capex workbenches in the exact shape your firm uses them. Not a module you configure. Software written for how you actually work.
Then the part that matters. An asset management agent with its own email address receives the property manager's financials on the fifth of the month, reads every statement, loads the numbers, and closes the month. KPIs computed, variances flagged, every flag traced back to the line items behind it. Repairs and maintenance running hot at one property. Delinquency creeping at another.
Your team opens the dashboard and asks questions in plain English. Which properties missed budget. What happened to payroll. Where occupancy is trending. It answers from your actual numbers and shows its work. It drafts the variance notes and the investor updates, and your people review, edit, and send. This is in production today.
What you get
- 01Asset plans in your firm's format, generated rather than assembled
- 02Variance analysis against budget with your thresholds and your escalation logic
- 03Hold/sell models, refinance analysis, and debt maturity workbenches
- 04Capex and draw tracking with vendor approvals
- 05Monthly close run end to end by an agent, with human sign-off before anything ships
- 06Plain English questions answered against your real numbers, with the work shown
- 07Variance notes and investor updates drafted for review
- 08Reads from Yardi, RealPage, AppFolio, or whatever holds your ledger
The economics
Elevate commonly runs $30,000 to $200,000 a year depending on modules and portfolio size, on top of what you already pay for the accounting system.
An Agent Team starts at $1,500 a month for two agents, or $3,000 a month for a team of up to five. A Firm OS build is $10,000 to $15,000 plus $1,000 a month. Most firms doing serious asset management end up with both, which lands around $4,000 a month for a system that does the work rather than displaying it.
Questions we get asked
- Do we have to leave Yardi?
- No. Keep the accounting system. We read from it. What we replace is the analytics and reporting layer sold on top of it.
- Is the monthly close agent real, or a demo?
- In production. It ingests property manager financials, loads them, computes KPIs, flags variances, and traces every flag to its line items. Your people audit the work before anything leaves the building.
- What if the agent gets something wrong?
- It will, occasionally, the same way an analyst does. That is why the verification layer exists. Open the software, see exactly what the agent did, edit it, approve it. Trust through audit rather than through hope. An agent whose work you cannot inspect is not something we would sell you.
Other line items we retire
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