Cap Orbit vs Archer: Full Lifecycle vs Multifamily Screening

Credit where due

Archer’s strength: fast multifamily screening.

Archer parses a rent roll or T-12 inside the product in under a minute, and from an address alone it reaches a populated multifamily underwrite in about fifteen minutes, drawing on more than 150,000 comparable properties. It also generates a Lease Trade-Out report on rent roll upload and reads period-over-period variance in its T12 Comparison. For a team screening dozens of multifamily deals a month against comps, that tempo is real, built on a comp database that is Archer’s.

• Address to populated multifamily underwrite in about fifteen minutes
• Comps drawn from more than 150,000 properties
• Unlimited users on every plan

The rest of the deal

After screening, there is still a deal to build.

Archer’s deep underwriting is multifamily. The Starter+ model is a multifamily template, the specialized modules (affordable housing, rent-regulated properties, renovation tagging, student housing) are multifamily sub-types, and the other property types it added in 2022 are scoped to market research. Cap Orbit works in your own Excel model for whatever is in front of you, or in one from the catalog of house models, searchable by sector and strategy. When no format fits the deal, it says so and stops rather than forcing a template.

Archer’s Starter+ produces a one-page IC output tab; its public materials do not describe narrative memo drafting. Cap Orbit drafts screening, IC, and credit memos for their respective decisions. Attach your template and use figures from the model. Mark up the draft, with terminal edits tracked under your name.

Past the approval, Archer tracks the deal as pipeline stages from screening to close, and as of September 2026 its public materials document no closing deliverables and do not describe asset-management work. Cap Orbit drafts the closing checklist and keeps it current: conditions grouped under closing, funding, and post-closing, each with its owner, date, and status. It abstracts the executed agreement and the lender’s conditions to funding. It reconciles the settlement statement against the contract, the loan, and the underwrite, and writes the basis the deal actually closed at back into the model. Then it carries the hold in the asset-management trackers: budget against actuals against the original underwrite, period by period, with covenant standing read from the loan documents.

The data question

Your documents, or their comps.

Upload the broker’s files or link their folder. Cap Orbit reads scans, PDFs, and workbooks, including buried rent rolls. Trace extracted figures to their file, sheet, and row and check them against source totals. Normalize the T-12 with an NOI bridge. Accept proposed assumptions one at a time, or edit a cell yourself. The next terminal pass uses your change.

There is no third-party comps database behind that, and no crawl of a whole drive. Archer brings market data of its own: comps from more than 150,000 properties, address-level NOI estimates, a private data cloud of the firm’s own parsed deals. If your screening conviction is built on comp coverage, weigh that. Cap Orbit’s position is that the numbers a committee approves come from the deal’s own documents, with every figure shown its source, and that is the side of the team it works.

The choice

Volume to Archer, execution to Cap Orbit.

If the team screens multifamily at volume, sizing fast against comps and passing on most of what it sees, that is the lane Archer was built for, and brokers and lenders sizing loans sit inside it.

Cap Orbit takes deals across asset classes through committee, closing, and reporting periods. Fill and revise your Excel model, draft the Word memo in your format, create the deck, and assemble the PDF. Your team edits those files in Cap Orbit, with live spreadsheet formulas, visible colleague cursors, and tracked memo changes.