Why I Built PearlAudit

If you operate in New York City’s commercial real estate, you are dealing with assets worth $1 million, $50 million, or $100 million.

Yet, the tools the industry relies on belong in the 1990s.

My name is Ankit Sai Kumar. I spent my early career designing critical B2B software deployed in highly regulated environments across Zürich and Sydney. Building high-security, zero-fault systems taught me exactly what professionals need when the stakes are absolute: high precision, ironclad data integrity, and instant speed.

When I looked at the NYC PropTech space, I saw a broken system.

To underwrite a single property in Manhattan, an analyst has to decode sprawling municipal zoning maps, parse through disconnected city property registers, and stitch together clunky CoStar exports. They have to navigate ancient federal portals just to check flood zones. Then, they pay an architect $2,000 and wait three days just to get a basic site plan showing their remaining air rights.

That “Frankenstein workflow” costs deals. In commercial real estate, speed is your true moat.

I built PearlAudit to eliminate that friction. Pull any NYC property. Get exact zoning constraints, air rights math, flood risk, and a professional PDF dossier — in under two seconds.

You deserve software that is as rigorous as the assets you are acquiring.

Whether you want to run a test property through the platform before committing, or you want to discuss a custom enterprise arrangement for your acquisitions team, my inbox is open. I respond to all inquiries within 24 hours.