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Product updates and insights on AI-powered document abstraction for commercial real estate teams.
Guides
What Is Lease Abstraction? The Complete CRE Guide
Lease abstraction turns a full commercial lease into a structured summary of key business terms. Definition, fields, notice windows, manual vs AI, common mistakes, and how CRE teams use abstracts day to day.
August 7, 2026
Guides
Critical Date Management in CRE: Renewals, Escalations, and CAM Deadlines
A practical CRE guide to critical date management — renewal notice windows, rent escalations, CAM deadlines, and how to keep a portfolio calendar tied to the lease, not a stale spreadsheet.
August 7, 2026
Product
CC&Rs, Abstracted and Organized
DealLink now abstracts CC&R documents alongside leases and PSAs — turning use restrictions, exclusives, and architectural controls into structured, organized data.
May 15, 2026
AI in CRE
Why Use DealLink Instead of a Generic LLM or CustomGPT?
Generic LLMs struggle with long, amended, multi-document lease and PSA files. Here are eight reasons a purpose-built abstraction tool holds up where a generic model doesn't.
March 20, 2026
Company News
1,500+ Documents Processed and Counting
DealLink crossed 1,500 processed documents for CRE teams across the country in under a year.
March 12, 2026
Product
Two New Tools: LOI Discrepancy Detection and Automating an Annual Property Management Task
DealLink is launching two new tools — one catches discrepancies between LOIs and executed contracts, the other automates a task property managers dread every year.
March 5, 2026
AI in CRE
There's a Lot of AI Hype in CRE. Here's What Actually Works.
Big promises, complex implementations, tools that "might" work someday — DealLink took a different approach: AI that works today, with no learning curve.
February 15, 2026
Product
Introducing À La Carte Lease Abstract & PSA Service
Don't want to sign up for the full platform? DealLink now offers an à la carte service — we run the abstraction, organize the results, and deliver them to you.
November 20, 2025
Product
Real-Time Visibility With Our New System Status Dashboard
DealLink launched a System Status dashboard so customers can check platform performance and network reliability in real time.
November 10, 2025
AI in CRE
Your Contracts Are Your Most Valuable Data Source
In CRE, the most reliable intel isn't in someone else's report — it's already sitting in your own leases and PSAs.
October 17, 2025
Product
New Feature: PSA Summaries in DealLink AI
DealLink AI now supports Purchase & Sale Agreement summaries, giving CRE teams a faster way to track critical dates and deal terms.
September 17, 2025
Product
New Feature: Team Collaboration & Admin Controls
DealLink AI now supports cross-departmental collaboration with new admin functionality for sharing and standardizing lease data.
August 17, 2025
Guides
How to Read a CC&R: What Buyers and Tenants Miss
A practical guide to reading commercial CC&Rs in diligence — use restrictions, exclusives, architectural controls, assessments, and the traps buyers and tenants often skip.
July 25, 2025
Guides
CAM Reconciliation, Explained with a Worked Example
A plain-language CAM reconciliation walkthrough with a synthetic worked example — estimates vs. actuals, pro-rata share, and what caps change — for CRE property teams.
July 22, 2025
Guides
What Is Contract Abstraction? A Guide for CRE Teams
Contract abstraction turns a full legal document — a lease, PSA, loan agreement, or CC&R — into a structured summary of its key terms. Here's what it covers and how AI has changed the process.
July 20, 2025
Guides
PSA Critical Dates: a Due Diligence Timeline Checklist
A due diligence timeline checklist for purchase and sale agreements — earnest money, inspection periods, financing contingencies, and closing deadlines — so PSA critical dates do not live only in the PDF.
July 18, 2025
Guides
What Is Critical Date Management in Commercial Real Estate?
Renewal notices, termination options, loan maturities — every lease and PSA carries deadlines that are easy to miss and expensive to. Here's what critical date management actually covers.
July 15, 2025
Guides
Lease Abstraction Checklist: the Fields That Matter in CRE
A practical lease abstraction checklist for commercial leases — financial terms, critical dates, legal clauses, and space/use fields — so every abstract covers the same ground.
July 12, 2025
Guides
Manual vs. AI Lease Abstraction: Cost, Speed, and Accuracy
When does AI lease abstraction beat a manual abstract — and when should a human still own the process? A practical comparison of time, cost shape, consistency, and verification.
July 8, 2025
Guides
How to Abstract a Commercial Lease (Step-by-Step)
A practical CRE workflow for lease abstraction: gather the full document set, use a field checklist, extract terms, verify against source clauses, and store the abstract where the team can find it.
July 5, 2025