Your Voyager data writes its own variance memo — before the finance call.
Memowright is a fractional AI-analyst service for Yardi Voyager operators. We turn Voyager into finance-grade variance commentary, quarterly investor letters, AR anomaly alerts, and natural-language Q&A — without an in-house BI team and without waiting three weeks for a custom report.
No calendar ping-pong. No download. Results in 60 seconds on any CSV from Voyager or YSR.
48 hrs
Pilot go-live
$4K / mo
Base retainer
Finance-grade
Narrative output
Client-owned
Warehouse & data
What your CFO sees on Monday morning
A portfolio memo, written by an AI that knows your GL.
Every competitor ships dashboards. We ship the sentence your asset manager was going to write anyway — grounded in the rent roll, the T-12, and the budget variance, with drill-down links back to the ledger.
Try it on a real CSVPortfolio variance memo · April 2026
Sun Belt Multifamily Fund II
NOI finished $142K ahead of budget on portfolio of 12 properties, driven almost entirely by The Grove at Kirby (+$88K) and Waverly Peaks (+$61K). Two assets dragged — River Oaks II (-$34K on concessions) and Summit Ridge (-$19K on R&M).
Watch item: AR > 60 days at Summit Ridge has climbed from 2.1% to 4.8% over the past three months — the collections team flagged four delinquent households above $3K each. Expect a $22–30K allowance adjustment next close if the trend holds.
Leasing pipeline is healthy. Renewals are tracking 71% vs 68% plan; however, incoming traffic at Waverly Peaks is running +24% above the trailing 90-day baseline — the September rent bump is holding without concession inflation.
Why Voyager reporting hurts
Yardi stores your data. Turning it into a narrative your CFO reads is on you.
We pulled 15 analyst job descriptions, three months of Voyager community forums, and every Capterra / TrustRadius / G2 review we could find. The same three pains show up over and over.
01
Reports live in YSR, Excel, and someone’s head.
Finance teams dump Voyager data into Excel because YSR breaks the live-data link on export. Every new report is a 2–3 week custom project. “Menus are all over the place” — verbatim from three separate TrustRadius reviews.
Source: TrustRadius · Capterra · Insightsoftware
02
Your data is gated behind $20K+ modules.
Data Connect, Replicate, Orion — three different doors, three different price tags, and three different schemas. Operators report paying $20K+ annually just to access their own data in Power BI.
Source: DigitalStaff · Microsoft Fabric forum
03
AI is everywhere — except in your variance memo.
Yardi Virtuoso is live, Claude connectors ship in 2026, RealSage and Juniper Square are marketing AI Q&A. Nobody is writing finance-grade variance commentary over your specific GL. That’s a 12–24 month gap — and the wedge we built into.
Source: REdirect · Yardi Virtuoso briefing
How it works
Four weeks from kickoff to “the AI wrote the memo.”
Templated ingestion. Pre-built finance-grade dashboards. A narrative layer your competitors haven’t shipped yet. No consulting-by-slide-deck.
Week 1
Step 1
Pipe your Voyager data into a warehouse you own.
We support all three Yardi pathways (Data Connect, Replicate, nightly YSR export) plus Excel / CSV fallback for teams not yet licensed. Warehouse lives in your cloud account — never ours. Day-1 read-only model covers rent roll, T-12, AR aging, budget-vs-actual, and GL.
Week 2
Step 2
Ship six dashboards that look like your asset-management deck.
Rent roll & occupancy. Leasing funnel & renewals. AR aging & delinquency. T-12 with prior-year compare. Budget-vs-actual at GL level. Portfolio rollup by region / fund / asset class. No generic Power BI template — layouts mirror how your team actually reports.
Week 3
Step 3
Turn on the AI narrative layer.
Auto-drafted variance commentary per property per month. Natural-language Q&A over the warehouse with row-level security mirroring Voyager. Daily anomaly alerts on AR, occupancy, and expense spikes. Quarterly investor letter drafter tuned to your tone and format.
Month 2 onward
Step 4
Fractional analyst, on retainer.
Weekly review rhythm. New reports land in days, not weeks. AI drafts land in minutes, humans review, you ship. When Yardi releases Virtuoso features you want to fold in, we integrate — we’re not competing with Yardi, we’re productizing the layer Yardi won’t prioritize.
What you get
Dashboards are table stakes. Narrative is the moat.
Everyone ships the dashboard layer. We ship the five things on the right because they’re the work your asset-management and FP&A teams actually bill for.
Auto-drafted variance commentary
Top 3 positive / top 3 negative drivers per property per month, grounded in your GL, with drill-down links back to the transaction.
Quarterly investor letter drafter
Produces a first-draft investor letter in your operator’s voice from portfolio metrics, fund-level rollups, and your last four quarterly letters as tone anchors.
Natural-language Q&A
"Which assets had delinquency trending up three months in a row?" Answered with SQL-backed rows, drill-down, and row-level security mirroring Voyager.
Daily anomaly alerts
AR aging spikes, concession creep, occupancy inflections, GL account outliers — delivered as a morning email or Slack DM before your team asks.
Finance-grade report stack
Rent roll, T-12, AR aging, budget vs actual (GL-level), leasing funnel, portfolio rollup. Power BI or Looker — your choice.
Client-owned data stack
Ingestion from Data Connect, Replicate, YSR nightly, or CSV fallback. Snowflake, BigQuery, or Postgres — deployed in your cloud account, never ours.
Who we’re built for — and who we aren’t
The 2,000–20,000-unit operator who can’t justify a full BI team.
Good fit
- Multifamily or mixed-use owner-operator on Yardi Voyager, 2,000–20,000 units
- Affordable housing operator with HUD / LIHTC compliance memo pain
- Private commercial (office, industrial, retail) with 5–30 properties and active investors
- Operators where the head of FP&A and the VP of Asset Management are the same person
- Self-storage groups scaling past spreadsheet reporting
- Fund managers generating quarterly letters by hand for LPs
Call us in year 2
- Greystar-scale operators with 30+ in-house BI analysts — you probably have a team already
- Public REITs — your 10-Q process is served by in-house FP&A + RSM
- Student and senior living — we defer these to year 2 after diverse client base
- Pricing-optimization use cases — we stay clear of revenue-management algorithms
- Breeze-only shops — Voyager is where our wedge lives; Breeze is a different animal
- Teams that want a Power BI dashboard and nothing else — we exist for the layer above it
Pricing
Less than a quarter of an in-house BI analyst. Published on this page.
A $130–180K loaded in-house Yardi analyst costs you $10,800–$15,000 per month. Memowright is a fraction of that, with the AI narrative layer included at the tier that wants it.
Implementation
$12,500
starting at, one-time
- 2–3 week stand-up
- Ingestion from Data Connect / Replicate / YSR
- Six pre-built dashboards
- Client-owned warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Postgres)
- Overage billed at $175/hr
Fractional Analyst
$4,000
/ month base
- Up to ~500 units or 10 properties
- Monthly report calendar + ad-hoc requests
- All six dashboards maintained
- Overage: $0.50–$1.50 per unit / month
- Slack + email access to an analyst
+ AI Narrative
+$1,500
/ month add-on
- Auto-drafted variance commentary
- Quarterly investor letter drafts
- Daily anomaly alerts
- Natural-language Q&A over your warehouse
- Introduced after month 3 of retainer
Track record
This isn’t our first ERP→warehouse→AI narrative rodeo.
Memowright is built on the same pattern we shipped in collision repair: CCC ONE → BigQuery → Power BI → AI variance commentary. The ERP is different. The operating motion — pipe an ERP into a warehouse, ship finance-grade dashboards, and turn an LLM loose on the narrative — is identical.
“The AI commentary is the piece our directors forwarded to ownership without edits. That’s what changed the conversation.”
CFO · Top-25 collision MSO (CCC Intelligence Platform)
Capital
$1.2B+
assets reported across pilot ERP deployments
Throughput
40–60%
reduction in manual reporting time across CCC MSO pilots
Pattern
ERP → Warehouse → Dashboards → AI narrative
the stack we’ve now deployed five times
Stack
Snowflake · BigQuery · Power BI · Claude
production deployments — not slides
Pillar resources
The things the incumbents won’t publish.
Pillar · Architecture
The Complete Yardi Data Warehouse Architecture Guide (2026)
Data Connect vs Replicate vs nightly YSR. Snowflake vs BigQuery vs Postgres. Schemas, costs, failure modes, and the reference architecture that works for a 5,000-unit operator.
22 min read
Pillar · AI Playbook
AI Variance Commentary for Real Estate FP&A: The Playbook
Prompting, retrieval over the warehouse, how to ground the model in the GL, the guardrails that stop it from hallucinating, and why Yardi Virtuoso won’t ship this in 2026.
18 min read
Pricing transparency
Yardi Consultant Pricing: Real Hourly Rates & Project Costs
Published rates for implementation, YSR custom reports, Data Connect setup, and fractional BI retainers. Compiled from BC Solutions, 33Floors, REdirect, ICN listings, and ZipRecruiter.
11 min read
Next step
Bring a rent roll. Leave with a variance memo.
Paste a CSV into the live demo for a 60-second result, or book a 30-minute gap review and we’ll walk your Yardi reporting stack and tell you the three highest-leverage things to change.
Typical response time · within 1 business day