AI Tools Intern

Overview

At Empire State Realty Trust — the owner and operator of the Empire State Building and a broader NYC commercial and residential portfolio — I built AI tools spanning lease administration and natural-language lease search. I built an Excel/VBA Letter of Credit expiry notification system with deduplication logic and automated, building-routed Outlook alerts, and used Harvey AI to generate two types of lease abstracts — RAG-optimized abstracts for semantic retrieval and verbatim abstracts structured for Yardi Voyager data entry. I also designed and built a working prototype of Lease Intelligence, a conversational AI tool giving non-specialist teams across Asset Management, Legal, Finance, and AR direct plain-English access to commercial lease data, layering a Claude (Anthropic API) synthesis engine over Harvey-managed retrieval on a FastAPI + React stack, deployed on Azure App Service and Static Web Apps and secured via Entra ID and Managed Identity within ESRT's Microsoft tenant.

Responsibilities

• Built an Excel/VBA Letter of Credit expiry notification system with deduplication logic and automated Outlook alerts, deployed team-wide with building-to-email routing and user documentation.
• Built Harvey AI Agents and Playbooks generating two abstract types from lease documents: RAG abstracts optimized for semantic retrieval and verbatim abstracts structured for Yardi Voyager data entry.
• Designed and built a working prototype of Lease Intelligence, a conversational AI tool for querying ESRT's commercial lease terms in plain English.
• Layered a Claude (Anthropic API) synthesis engine over Harvey-managed retrieval, on a FastAPI + React stack deployed to Azure App Service and Static Web Apps, secured via Entra ID and Managed Identity.

Achievements

• Deployed an automated LOC expiry notification system team-wide, cutting up to 2 hours of manual review weekly.
• Built Harvey AI workflows producing dual-format lease abstracts purpose-built for both semantic retrieval and Yardi Voyager entry.
• Delivered a working Lease Intelligence prototype, addressing a lease-data access gap affecting ~300 employees across Asset Management, Legal, Finance, and AR.
• Secured the Lease Intelligence platform end-to-end within ESRT's Microsoft tenant using Entra ID and Managed Identity.

Skills