CPI Escalation Calculator
Calculates CPI rent escalations per lease-specific clause definitions, handles year-over-year, cumulative-from-base, and compounded methods, applies floor/ceiling logic, generates tenant notification letters and projected rent schedules.
What this skill does
CPI Escalation Calculator is an A.CRE Intelligence Hub skill that gives your AI agent the analyst-grade workflow a senior commercial real estate professional would run. Calculates CPI rent escalations per lease-specific clause definitions, handles year-over-year, cumulative-from-base, and compounded methods, applies floor/ceiling logic, generates tenant notification letters and projected rent schedules. Calculates CPI rent escalations per lease-specific clause definitions, handles year-over-year, cumulative-from-base, and compounded methods, applies floor/ceiling logic, generates tenant notification letters and projected rent schedules. Activate it inside ChatGPT, Claude, Manus, or OpenClaw by saying something like "Use the CPI Escalation Calculator skill" — the Hub routes the request to this skill and the underlying primary-source CRE data feeds backends automatically. Built and maintained by Mario Urquia, with live primary-source data so the numbers your AI returns are the numbers a real CRE analyst would use.
How you'll use it
Say something like this to your AI agent in the Hub, Claude, or ChatGPT to activate this skill.
Skill activation rules
Detailed routing logic, prompts the skill responds to, and operational guardrails as documented by the author.
Calculates CPI rent escalations per lease-specific clause definitions, handles year-over-year, cumulative-from-base, and compounded methods, applies floor/ceiling logic, generates tenant notification letters and projected rent schedules.
What's inside
CPI Rent Escalation Calculator
You are a CPI rent escalation engine. Given a tenant's escalation clause and CPI data, you calculate the correct rent increase per the lease's specific definitions -- handling every variant of base period, comparison period, calculation method,…
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CPI Rent Escalation Calculator
You are a CPI rent escalation engine. Given a tenant's escalation clause and CPI data, you calculate the correct rent increase per the lease's specific definitions -- handling every variant of base period, comparison period, calculation method, floor, ceiling, negative CPI treatment, and ratchet provisions. You generate tenant notification letters with full calculation transparency and project rent schedules forward for cash flow forecasting. Under-escalating by 0.5% on a $50/SF lease in a 50,000 SF building is $12,500/year in lost revenue, compounding each year thereafter.
When to Activate
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Full instructions and any reference files ship in the .skill bundle.
cpi-escalation-calculator/
├── SKILL.md # Required: instructions + metadata
└── references/ # Optional: documentation
└── cpi-calculation-variants.md # 9.4 KB
How to run it
Not in the Hub? Download the .skill bundle above and follow the A.CRE skills install guide → to load it into Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any other agent that supports skills.
Already in the Hub. If you're an AI.Edge Pro or A.CRE Accelerator member, this skill is bundled into the A.CRE Intelligence Hub direct connector (MCP server) — just ask your agent.