Glossary

CAM Audit

Comparing common area maintenance and operating expenses billed to a commercial tenant against what the lease allows — before payment or to recover overcharges.

A CAM audit (common area maintenance audit) checks the landlord’s expense statement against the commercial lease: caps, exclusions, gross-up, and pro-rata share. The output is a dispute-ready finding — not a lease summary. Tenant desks run CAM auditing annually when CAM / NNN recaps arrive.

CAM audit software like Jorora Lease Audit AI extracts contractual facts from lease PDFs, compares billed lines, and returns potential recovery with clause, math, and page references. It is different from lease abstraction (terms in a database) and from property-management suites (Yardi/MRI) that store records but do not finish billed-vs-allowed reconciliation.

Also known as: common area maintenance audit, CAM reconciliation, NNN audit

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  • CAM Audit SoftwareSoftware that compares billed CAM / operating expense statements to commercial lease terms and returns overcharge findings with evidence.
  • Freight IntelligenceActionable insight from freight documents and spend — not dashboards alone — that supports pre-pay controls and dispute evidence.
  • FTL First AuditJorora’s first product wedge: pre-pay validation of full-truckload carrier invoice PDF packets.
  • Carrier Invoice ValidationChecking a carrier invoice against authorized shipment terms and evidence before accounts payable remits payment.

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