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MRI Software launches Agora Intelligence and Agora Orchestrator. MRI Software, a global leader in real estate software and services, recently announced two new solutions within MRI Agora, its AI-powered real estate platform. The first, MRI Agora Intelligence, delivers proactive portfolio signals and recommended actions to the people who need them. The second, MRI Agora Orchestrator, executes real estate-specific agentic workflows automatically, with the governance and audit trail enterprise operators require. MRI Agora is designed to help real estate teams across the commercial, residential, subsidized housing, facilities management and corporate occupier sectors globally operationalize AI safely, securely and at scale. Built on a shared real estate data foundation, it combines intelligence, workflow execution, and governance in a single platform, with every recommendation and action traceable to its source. Rather than requiring organizations to build their own semantic layers, validation rules, governance frameworks, and automation logic, MRI Agora provides those capabilities as part of the platform. AI models will continue to improve in capability, performance, and economics. MRI Agora is architected to take advantage of those advances by using the most appropriate model for each workload while maintaining a consistent layer of governance, security, and orchestration, enabling clients to benefit from continuous innovation without disrupting existing workflows or operating models. "Connecting AI agents to systems is becoming easier. The bigger challenge is ensuring those agents operate in ways organizations can trust," said Patrick Ghilani, CEO of MRI Software. "MRI Agora was built to give clients the benefits of AI without asking them to assume all of the risk. Organizations can apply their own rules, language, workflows, and comfort levels, while intelligence continuously surfaces opportunities for improvement and automation executes within defined guardrails. That combination of personalization, accountability, flexibility and continuous learning is why MRI Agora is more than just a platform; it's an operational advantage." MRI Agora Intelligence. Building on the power of its predecessor, a cross-product data and analytics dashboarding solution called Agora Insights, today, MRI Agora Intelligence can monitor every workflow across leasing, finance, and operations daily, delivering role-specific briefings to each person based on their function, properties, and priorities. Each briefing includes what changed, why it changed, and exactly what to do about it, reducing the time teams previously spent interpreting and acting on data. Findings are classified as risks, trends, watches, or opportunities and ranked by business impact. Every signal is traceable back to the underlying MRI data that generated it, and confidence levels and data completeness scores accompany each finding. For teams that want to go deeper, Ask Agora allows any user to investigate findings in plain language - drilling into records, asking follow-up questions, and tracing every output back to its source data - without leaving the finding view or navigating to a separate system. All outputs respect role-level permissions, with users seeing only the data they are authorized to access. The only thing left for users to do is take action. MRI Agora Orchestrator. MRI Agora Orchestrator picks up where MRI Agora Intelligence leaves off, moving workflows from recommendation to automated execution. MRI Agora Orchestrator enables users to deploy agents from a pre-built catalog refined across the MRI client base, configure them for their specific operation, and let them run. The platform reads the context behind every situation - recognizing, for example, that a hesitant renewal signals a different response than a committed one - and executes accordingly at scale. For work that requires judgment, MRI Agora Orchestrator works through complex cases step by step with the team, surfacing relevant context, answering questions, and making reasoning visible, while keeping every decision with the person responsible for it. Every agent action, whether automated or human-approved, is fully logged and traceable, with a searchable, exportable audit trail. "AI has the greatest impact when it understands the context, constraints, and goals of the business it serves," said Nihar Malik, Chief Innovation Officer at MRI Software. "The real estate data, domain expertise, deep contextual awareness and workflow intelligence powering MRI Agora stem from 55 years of specialization in all real estate asset classes around the globe. As a result, the Agora platform delivers reliable recommendations and automation that are relevant to our clients' unique industry situations and needs. Because every recommendation is explainable, every action is governed and traceable, and every workflow can be adapted to the way an organization operates, clients can realize exceptional value today and improve performance over time as AI continues to advance in the future." MRI Agora Intelligence and MRI Agora Orchestrator are now available to MRI clients across the commercial, multifamily, residential, social housing, local authority and occupier sectors globally. To learn more, visit MRI Software official website.

5 MRI Software features property managers are overlooking. Managing a property portfolio comes with significant financial complexity, from annual budgeting cycles and tenant recoveries to capital project oversight and month-end closes. For property management clients, MRI Software property management capabilities deliver not just powerful standalone modules but an open, connected platform that works with the tools your business already relies on. 1. Budgeting & Forecasting: How Can MRI Improve Financial Planning? Gone are the days of juggling spreadsheets and manually reconciling data from multiple sources. MRI's Budgeting & Forecasting module leverages data directly from MRI Financials, enabling budget teams to produce dynamic budgets and forecasts with greater accuracy and speed. GL actuals, current and past budgets, and Commercial Management leases can all be pulled into budget workbooks with just a few clicks. Multiple scenarios can also be modelled to plan finances under changing market conditions. For clients, the outcome is tangible: stronger consistency, improved consolidated reporting, meaningful time savings, and reduced exposure to manual errors. 2. Recoveries: How Does MRI Simplify Outgoings Reconciliation? Managing tenant recoveries, whether recoverable charges, outgoings, or shared expenses, remains one of the most time-intensive and error-prone tasks in commercial property management. MRI Recoveries helps calculate and process complex reconciliations, automate billing, shorten reconciliation timelines, smooth cash flow through estimated monthly billing, and generate detailed tenant invoices with supporting evidence. The broader benefit goes beyond efficiency. Accurate calculations help maintain stronger landlord and tenant relationships, allowing property managers to focus on the relationship rather than the numbers behind it. 3. Job Cost: How Can MRI Improve Capital Project Visibility? Whether it's a tenant improvement or a large-scale development, keeping projects on budget and on time requires more than a spreadsheet. MRI Job Cost centralises job budgets, commitments, change orders, invoices, retainage, and reporting into a single source of truth. With budget-to-actual reporting, contract and invoice management, and direct integration with MRI accounting, clients can reduce reporting blind spots, avoid unexpected cost overruns, and improve decision-making. 4. Automated Bank Reconciliation: Where Can Finance Teams Save the Most Time? For many property management teams, bank reconciliation is one of the most repetitive tasks in the monthly close cycle. MRI's AI-driven automated bank reconciliation streamlines transaction matching, journal entry creation, and close procedures. The approach is exception-based, meaning finance users only review items that do not match automatically. REdirect Consulting has partnered with MRI Software to roll out this solution directly to MRI's client base, bringing specialist property management expertise to a core part of MRI's automation offering. The result is a faster, cleaner close cycle with a stronger audit trail. The automated bank rec solution handles significant scale, including clients with 30K+ transactions per month across six banking institutions, with clients achieving up to 96% automated matching. 5. Integrations: Why Does MRI's Open Ecosystem Matter? One of MRI's most compelling strengths is its openness. Rather than locking clients into a single system, MRI is designed to work alongside the tools property management businesses already use. At the heart of this is MRI Information Exchange, or MIX, an ecosystem of secure APIs built by MRI and its partners. MIX gives clients control over the flow of data between MRI and third-party or custom applications. MRI connects with more than 150 partnered third-party software solutions, spanning financial tools, CRM platforms, accounts payable automation, insurance and compliance management, IoT building systems, and more. Common integration use cases include syncing AP and resident ledgers with ERP and accounting systems such as QuickBooks, Xero, and NetSuite; creating and dispatching work orders from IoT alerts; and powering CRM and customer success workflows with real-time lease and ledger data. Two examples are eConnect and myBuildings(TM). eConnect integrates with MRI to optimise digital correspondence, routing emails through your own gateway rather than a shared server to improve deliverability, while also providing tracking, encryption, and digital signature capabilities. myBuildings(TM) connects facilities management, tenant services, work requests, preventative maintenance, contractor management, and document storage with MRI's financial management capabilities. The Bottom Line Together, these MRI Software features address some of the most time-consuming and high-risk areas of property management. Budgeting & Forecasting, Recoveries, Job Cost, Automated Bank Reconciliation, and MRI's integration ecosystem help replace manual processes with automation, improve data accuracy, and connect the systems property management teams rely on every day. FAQs What MRI Software features are most useful for property management teams? Budgeting & Forecasting, Recoveries, Job Cost, Automated Bank Reconciliation, and Integrations are especially valuable because they address financial planning, tenant billing, project tracking, close efficiency, and system connectivity. How does MRI Budgeting & Forecasting reduce manual work? It pulls data directly from MRI Financials, including GL actuals, budgets, and lease information, reducing spreadsheet dependency, manual imports, and version-control issues. Why are MRI Recoveries important for commercial property management? Recoveries help automate complex outgoings reconciliations, improve billing accuracy, provide supporting calculation evidence, and support stronger landlord and tenant relationships. What does MRI Job Cost help property managers track? MRI Job Cost centralises job budgets, commitments, change orders, invoices, retainage, and reporting, giving teams better visibility into capital projects and tenant improvements. How does automated bank reconciliation improve month-end close? Automated bank reconciliation matches bank transactions to posted entries and routes only exceptions for review, reducing manual work and improving auditability. What is MRI Information Exchange? MRI Information Exchange, or MIX, is MRI's secure API ecosystem for connecting MRI with third-party, partner, or custom applications. Why does MRI's integration ecosystem matter? It allows MRI to serve as the central hub of a broader property management technology stack, connecting financial, operational, CRM, AP, compliance, and building systems. Paula tutt. Paula has over 25 years' experience in real estate finance and property systems. She began her career in finance, leading a trust accounting team at Savills, and has since built an extensive career as a business analyst with CBRE, Brisbane Airport Corporation and Knight Frank.