LightBox Fundamentals

Appraisal Insights Reimagined

Built exclusively for CRE lending workflow and data needs, LightBox Fundamentals
is the first and only turn-key solution that extracts and structures data from long-form
narrative commercial real estate appraisal documents — accurately, consistently,
and without templates or model training. LightBox delivers the structured insights you
need, right where you work.

Download the Fact Sheet

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Underwriting

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Compliance

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Appraisal

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C-Suite

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Credit

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Risk

Features:

✔️ CRE-Specific AI Data Extraction Engine: Trained exclusively using narrative appraisal reports, outperforming generic large language models (LLM)

✔️ Intelligent Document Processing Pipeline: Merges layout-aware OCR, context-sensitive rules, and natural language processing to extract more than 80 core fields, including cap rates, income approaches, and site characteristics.

✔️ Real-Time Data Access with Excel Integration: Delivered via the LightBox Live Excel Add-In for instant portfolio-level insights.

Benefits:

✔️ Speed: Structured data output within minutes--not weeks

✔️ Precision: Reduce rekeying errors or manual interpretation

✔️ Transparency: Instantly surface trends, comps, and valuation drivers across your pipeline

✔️ Scalability: Immediately apply a single source of truth across lending, credit, risk, compliance, and portfolio management teams

Assessment: Are You Losing Critical Insights Hidden in Your Appraisals?

Most lenders today are sitting on a goldmine of appraisal data—but if that data is locked in PDFs, it’s invisible, unusable, and costing you money. Take this short assessment to see if your team is at risk of missing key insights.

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Does Your Team Struggle with Operational Inefficiencies & Bottlenecks?

Do your analysts spend hours manually extracting key data from PDF appraisals? Do you experience challenges when comparing data across multiple appraisals? Have you seen delays in loan approvals because appraisal insights weren’t readily available?

Are You Concerned About Missed Revenue & Blind Spots?

Do you seek access to real-time visibility into trends across your entire portfolio? Could your underwiting decisions benefit from key apprasial facts that are currently overlooked? Do you have any concerns around data advantages that competitors might have?

Do You See Compliance & Audit Risk as a Top Priority?

Do you predict any potential non-compliance risk due to missing or misclassified appraisal data? Do your audit preparations take up too much time because appraisal data isn't structured? Could your risk exposure decrease if you had instant access to all historical appraisals?

Are You Looking for Ways to Enhance Strategic Growth & Your Competitive Edge?

Do you feel limited in your ability to analyze market trends and borrower behavior over time? Do you wish you could integrate appraisal data into your other analytics and decision-making tools? Are you relying on gut instinct or fragmented data instead of AI-driven insights?

What the Industry is Saying

"Word on the street" from Lenders in the LightBox ecosystem

“Bank leadership and regulators want faster, more granular insight into asset quality and exposure – much of which lives inside the locked, PDF appraisal…”

“Regulators now expect data-backed narratives, not just narrative-backed documents.”

“I’m saving weeks of work to compile this data for our Credit team to perform their analysis.”

FAQs

Let us answer some preliminary questions. Get in touch with our team to learn more!

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What are the components of LightBox Fundamentals?

LightBox has built a CRE-specific AI + data extraction engine, trained exclusively using narrative appraisal reports. Once a PDF appraisal report is uploaded, we digitally scan the text and then our tool extracts the data, structures it, and delivers it back via Excel Add-In or API.

How do I get access to LightBox Fundamentals?

We are selectively releasing this solution right now. We encourage you to get in touch with our team if you’re interested in getting access.

Do I have to be an existing lender customer to use this solution?

No, LightBox Fundamentals is offered as a standalone solution for any bank, regardless of whether they are an existing LightBox customer.

If I'm a customer and I license LightBox Fundamentals, at what point is the data extracted?

We're flexible as to when the data is pulled. However, the most common timing for existing customers is when the final report is uploaded by the Appraiser, and the job is closed.

Does the style or format of my appraisal report matter for LightBox Fundamentals?

Not at all! The model is trained to recognize the data in the appraisal context, regardless of format.

How do I get a demo?

You can schedule a demo by clicking here.