Commercial tenants sign leases worth hundreds of thousands of dollars without truly understanding what's buried in the fine print. We're here to change that.
My name is Max Palmer. I'm 18 years old, and I grew up in Westfield, Indiana, watching my family work in commercial real estate.
From a young age, I saw what happens when tenants sign leases they don't fully understand. A small business owner locked into a personal guarantee they didn't realize was unlimited. A restaurant franchisee blindsided by a CAM reconciliation bill that was 3x what they budgeted. A nonprofit that lost its security deposit because of a restoration clause buried on page 47.
The common thread was always the same: the tenant didn't know what was in their lease. Not because they were careless, but because commercial leases are 40–80 pages of dense legal language designed by landlord attorneys. The only way to truly understand one is to hire your own attorney — at $1,500–$2,000 per review. Most small tenants can't afford that. So they sign blind and hope for the best.
I built LeaseAI to fix that. Our AI reads every page of a commercial lease and extracts the 16+ terms that actually matter — rent, escalations, options, obligations, and hidden clauses — in under 60 seconds, for $29. That's not a replacement for legal counsel on a complex negotiation. But it's the difference between walking into a signing completely blind and walking in knowing exactly what you're agreeing to.
Every tenant deserves that.
My dad has worked in commercial real estate my entire life. Growing up in Westfield, Indiana, I spent more time than most kids would choose in conference rooms, on property tours, and listening to deal talk over dinner. I understood what a CAM reconciliation was before I could drive.
But what I kept seeing — over and over — was the tenant side of the table. People signing leases for their first restaurant, their new clinic, their growing retail business. Most of them had never seen a commercial lease before. They were handed a 60-page document and given a week to sign it. Some hired attorneys. Most didn't — at $1,500 to $2,000 per review, it's just not realistic for a small business owner who's already stretched thin.
They would sign and hope for the best. Then, a year later, the CAM reconciliation would arrive and be three times what they budgeted. Or they'd try to sublease their space during a slow period and discover the landlord's recapture right buried in Article 18. Or they'd miss a renewal notice deadline by two weeks and lose their option permanently.
These weren't careless people. They just didn't have access to the knowledge they needed — knowledge that was available to every landlord and every institutional tenant with a real estate department, but completely inaccessible to the small business owner signing their first lease.
I built LeaseAI to close that gap. Not a replacement for legal counsel — but a tool that makes sure every tenant walks into a signing knowing exactly what they're agreeing to, for $29 instead of $2,000.
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18-year-old entrepreneur from Westfield, Indiana. Grew up in commercial real estate through his family's business, interned in CRE during high school, and built LeaseAI to solve the tenant information gap he watched his family's clients struggle with for years.
Make commercial lease analysis accessible and affordable for every tenant, broker, and property manager — regardless of budget or legal resources.
Drop any commercial lease PDF into LeaseAI. No signup required to preview results.
Our AI reads the full document and extracts 16+ critical data points — rent, escalations, options, obligations, and hidden clauses — in under 60 seconds.
Get a structured abstract with confidence scores. Export to CSV or Excel. Share with your broker, attorney, or team.
Every extraction is confidence-scored. We don't guess — if the AI isn't sure, it tells you. 99.7% field-level accuracy across 16+ data points.
No training, no onboarding, no enterprise sales calls. Upload a PDF, get your results. Commercial lease analysis should be as easy as running spell check.
Every feature we build starts with one question: does this help the tenant understand what they're signing? If not, we don't build it.
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