Occupier

Occupier is an innovative lease management and accounting software company redefining how businesses manage their commercial real estate portfolios. Headquartered in New York, the company was founded in 2018 by Andrew Flint, Matt Giffune, and Erik Pearson—industry veterans who previously worked at JLL and VTS. They recognized a critical gap in technology available to tenants: while landlords had multiple property management solutions, tenants lacked modern, user-centric software for handling their lease and real estate workflows. Their solution became Occupier—a cloud-based platform designed to connect real estate, finance, and operations teams within a unified workspace for lease administration, accounting, and transaction management.​ Occupier’s mission is simple but forward-looking: to empower tenants to make smarter real estate decisions. The platform replaces outdated spreadsheets and siloed workflows with real-time collaboration tools that provide a single source of truth for all lease-related data. It helps teams manage rent schedules, contract renewals, and critical obligations, ensuring accuracy and compliance under accounting standards such as ASC 842, IFRS 16, and GASB. The software is tailor-made for tenants operating across multiple locations—ranging from retailers and restaurants to healthcare chains and corporate offices—where managing large portfolios can be operationally complex.​ Functionally, Occupier stands out as the only end-to-end SaaS solution crafted explicitly for tenants rather than landlords. Its suite includes three major product modules: Lease Administration, Transaction Management, and Lease Accounting. The Lease Administration module centralizes all contracts, documents, and key lease information while automating date tracking and rent escalations. Transaction Management empowers real estate and legal teams to track deals from letter of intent through buildout completion, simplifying approval workflows. The Lease Accounting module ensures automated ASC 842 and IFRS 16 compliance through journal entry generation, amortization schedules, and disclosure reporting. These features integrate seamlessly with existing ERP and financial systems via secure APIs, enabling accounting teams to connect operational data directly to financial reporting dashboards.

Occupier’s competitive edge in the lease management and accounting software ecosystem lies in its tenant‑centric design, unified workflow automation, and deep compliance functionality built around real-world finance operations rather than landlord reporting. Where legacy competitors such as LeaseQuery, Visual Lease, or LeaseAccelerator cater primarily to landlords or asset managers, Occupier’s entire product architecture is engineered for commercial tenants—a unique strategic niche that directly serves occupier teams managing multi‑site real estate footprints.​ The company’s most distinctive advantage is its end‑to‑end integration of real estate, finance, and accounting workflows. Occupier enables organizations to manage everything from site selection and deal negotiation to lease administration and ASC 842/IFRS 16 compliance within one cloud‑based environment. This removes the silos between finance, legal, and operations teams that historically required complex spreadsheet coordination or multiple point systems. By connecting real‑estate pipeline management with lease accounting automation, Occupier delivers genuine cross‑departmental collaboration and data transparency. It achieves this through automated notifications, shared document repositories, and unified dashboards—a level of workflow alignment that competing platforms often replicate only through third‑party integrations.​

• Small Businesses (1-99)
• Mid Market (100-500)
• Enterprise (500+)