Our timeline.

A quarter-century building the operating layer for real estate. From a small lease abstraction team in 2003 to a 1,350-person global operation serving 400+ clients.

2003 — 2010

The founding years.

NTrust begins with a single focus: bringing Real Estate lease abstraction out of the dark ages. A small team in India, a handful of institutional clients, and a belief that domain expertise beats generic capability.

2003
NTrust founded
Founded by Srikanth Ramachandran with a singular thesis: Real Estate deserves a specialist service partner, not a generalist BPO.
Founding
2005
First institutional client
Signed first Fortune 500 real estate investor. Proved the model through deep Real Estate specialization.
First Client
2007
Lease abstraction at scale
Crossed 10,000 leases processed annually. Built proprietary abstraction methodology that became REmaap.
Scale Milestone
2009
Expansion into accounting services
Added property accounting and finance services, evolving into a multi-service delivery model.
Services Expansion
First office Chennai 2003
2003

2011 — 2016

The platform era.

Service alone wasn’t enough. Clients needed technology that understood Real Estate nuance. NTrust builds REmaap — a purpose-built platform for lease abstraction, migration, and operations. The company becomes tech-enabled.

2011
REmaap platform launched
First version of REmaap goes live. Initial toolkit for lease abstraction workflows, audit trails, and quality controls.
Tech Launch
2013
100,000 leases processed
Crossed the 100K mark in cumulative lease volume. REmaap scales to support the accelerating client base.
Scale Milestone
2014
Consulting practice launched
Formal consulting practice established. System selection, implementation, and operating model design added to the offering.
New Practice
2015
Global expansion — UK, Philippines
Second and third delivery centers open. Follow-the-sun coverage for institutional clients. Multi-GAAP capability formalized.
Geographic
2016
200+ clients, 50 countries
Client base and country footprint more than double. Platform-enabled services become the default delivery model.
Scale Milestone
First office Chennai 2003
2011
2017 — Today

The AI era.

The industry reaches the limits of manual abstraction. NTrust invests in AI before the market demands it — building NEx4, a proprietary LLM trained on thousands of Real Estate leases. When the rest of the market catches up, NTrust is already five years ahead.

2017
AI research programme begins
Internal R&D kicks off on applying machine learning to lease abstraction. Early prototypes explore OCR-plus-NLP workflows.
R&D Launch
2019
REmaap AI is launched
First production release of REmaap — a proprietary LLM built on Microsoft’s DeBERTa architecture. 400+ data points extractable from commercial leases.
AI Launch
2020
REAP+ is launched
Lease management and accounting SaaS goes live. ASC 842 and IFRS 16 compliance built in. 500+ configurable data points.
Product Launch
2021
1 million leases processed
Crossed the million mark. REmaap handles a growing share of abstraction volume with human validation for accuracy.
Scale Milestone
2022
REmaap DaaS is launched
Fully outsourced Data-as-a-Service platform goes live. Ingest, cleanse, normalize, validate, deliver — across 106 countries.
Product Launch
First office Chennai 2003
2019

2023 — Today

The integrated era.

Three platforms. Three products. NTrust’s ecosystem — NSigma3, NuSource, Consulting, NEx4, REmaap, REAP+ — operates as a unified operating layer for the industry. 2M+ leases. 400+ clients. 70 countries. Still growing.

2023
FinOps AI Agents launched
Next-generation AI agents embedded into F&A co-sourcing services. Month-end close, variance analysis, and reporting accelerated.
AI Expansion
2024
2 million leases processed
Crossed the 2M mark in cumulative lease volume — by far the largest operational base in Real Estate services.
Scale Milestone
2025
1,350+ RE professionals
Global team crosses 1,350+ people across US, UK, India, and the Philippines. Five integrated offices — US, UK, Chennai, Mumbai, and the Philippines — operating as one.
Team Milestone
2026
Unified ecosystem launch
Six platforms rebranded and integrated under one NTrust strategy. Single operational stack powering services and technology.
Platform Launch
Global team, 4 centers, 2025
2025

Still writing the next chapter.

Over two decades in, the mission hasn’t changed. Remove operational friction between Real Estate firms and the decisions they’re trying to make. Today that means AI, humans, and platforms working as one. Tomorrow, it means more.