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Title Search Automation
Title Search & Examination

Examiners should examine. Not gather.

AI agents pull the records, build the chain, flag the liens, and hand your examiner a complete package with every document linked to its source.

Sources: County recorders · Clerks · Tax authorities · Title plants
27%
Of title professionals still have to obtain records in person, often or very often.
ALTA / ndp | analytics, March 2026
94%
Pull from taxing authorities and 92% from the recorder, on top of name searches, courthouse and assessment records.
ALTA / ndp | analytics, March 2026
21%
Of purchase searches mean reviewing more than 50 documents. Another 61% review between 11 and 50.
ALTA / ndp | analytics, March 2026
3.3hrs
To collect, research, examine and deliver the commitment on a standard file. 7.3 on a difficult one.
ALTA / ndp | analytics, 2024, most recent timing data
THE EXPERTISE ISN'T THE EXPENSIVE PART. THE GATHERING IS.

How many hours a week do your examiners spend gathering?

Thirty minutes with the engineer who builds these agents. No deck.

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Title Search Automation
Before the exam

The hours before the judgment.

None of it needs an examiner. All of it lands on one.

  • 01 Six portals, six logins, six different search syntaxes
  • 02 A county site that's down, or only opens 9 to 4
  • 03 Deeds arriving as scans that need reading page by page
  • 04 Building the chain by hand in a spreadsheet
  • 05 Cross-checking names and legal descriptions for variants
  • 06 Rebuilding history that a prior starter already covered
Title Search Automation
What it does

Six jobs your examiners stop doing by hand

01 / RETRIEVAL

Records pulled, not chased

Deeds, mortgages and related documents gathered from recorders, clerks, tax authorities and title plants at once.

02 / CHAIN

A chain you can read

Conveyances traced and ordered into a clean chronology, so the history arrives structured instead of scattered.

03 / ENCUMBRANCES

Nothing slips past quietly

Open mortgages, tax liens and judgments surfaced and flagged for review, never silently resolved.

04 / PROPERTY DATA

The whole picture, one place

Legal descriptions, parcel details, assessed values and tax status collected alongside the search.

05 / STARTERS

Start from the last good point

Prior policies and starters located and matched, so nobody rebuilds fifty years of history that's already covered.

06 / HANDOFF

A package, not a pile

Everything compiled with a source link on every document, handed to your examiner to verify and determine.

Title Search Automation
A worked example

What the agent hands your examiner

The chain arrives assembled and in order, with every instrument located and each open item marked. Nothing is resolved on the agent's own authority.

Here the 2016 deed of trust has no release of record, so it stays open. The 2009 tax lien does have a satisfaction, recorded in 2012, and the agent matched the two rather than leaving your examiner to find it.

The 1987 gap is the one that matters. A grantor and grantee mismatch across four years is exactly the sort of thing that needs judgment, so it is flagged for review rather than quietly bridged.

Chain of titleIllustration
2019
Warranty deed, prior owner to current
Instrument located · verified
Clear
2016
Deed of trust
No release of record
Open
2011
Warranty deed, earlier conveyance
Instrument located · verified
Clear
2009
State tax lien
Satisfaction recorded 2012 · matched
Cured
1987
Gap in conveyance, 1987 to 1991
Grantor and grantee mismatch · needs examiner
Review
ILLUSTRATIVE VIEW OF AN ASSEMBLED CHAINNOT AN ACTUAL PROPERTY
Title Search Automation
Examiner in the loop

The agent gathers. Your examiner determines.

01

Retrieve

Records pulled from every available source.

Agent
02

Assemble

Chain of title ordered and cross-checked.

Agent
03

Flag

Possible defects surfaced, never resolved silently.

Agent
04

Examine

Your examiner reads the package and the sources.

Your examiner
05

Determine

What's an exception, what's cured, what's insurable.

Your examiner
06

Commit

Commitment drafted from the determination. Signed by you.

Agent preps
Agent handlesExaminer decidesEvery document links back to its source
Title Search Automation
The handoff

What lands on your examiner's desk

Retrieval through commitment

A package she can check, not a black box she has to trust

ALTA's March 2026 research found that a search routinely touches taxing authorities, the recorder, name indexes, courthouse records and assessment records, and that four in five purchase searches mean reading eleven documents or more. That is collection, not judgment. The agent takes it. It queries those sources in parallel, reads what comes back, and orders the conveyances into a chain instead of a folder of scans.

What arrives is structured. Every document carries a link back to the record it came from, so the examiner spot-checks rather than re-searches. Encumbrances are flagged and left flagged, because clearing them is a determination and determinations are hers. Where coverage is thin or a scan is illegible, the package says so in plain terms rather than presenting a gap as a clean result.

SourcedA link back to the record on every document
FlaggedPossible defects surfaced, never cleared by the agent
DeclaredCoverage gaps reported rather than skipped
An agent that quietly resolves a lien is worse than no agent at all. This one is built to raise its hand, not to look confident.
Liability sits where it sits todayWith your examiner and your underwriter. Nothing about this changes that.
Title Search Automation
Where it searches

Your sources, your system

Results land where your team already works.

County recordersClerk of courtTax authoritiesTitle plantsTitlePointDataTraceResWareQualiaSoftPro

Coverage and integration depth vary by jurisdiction, system and version. We confirm exactly what is supported for your markets and your setup during the workflow audit.

Title Search Automation
Accuracy & security

Every flag is traceable

  • Source link on every retrieved document
  • The agent flags, it never clears a defect on its own
  • Coverage gaps reported, not quietly skipped
  • US-hosted, encrypted, never used to train any model
  • Built to support your obligations under ALTA Best Practices Pillar 3
Title Search Automation
How it works

A short build, not a long programme

STEP 01

Discovery call

Your search volume, your counties, where the gathering costs you.

STEP 02

Workflow audit

We review real search files and define exactly what the agent retrieves and flags.

STEP 03

Build & train

Tuned on your records and property types, against your own exam standards.

STEP 04

Go live

Connected to your sources and system with examiner review built in.

We give you a timeline for your own build after the workflow audit, once we have seen your county mix and your exam standards.

Title Search Automation
FAQ

Questions we actually get

What if the agent misses a lien?

The agent doesn't make the determination, your examiner does, on a package where every document links to its source. It is built to over-flag rather than under-flag, and it reports gaps in coverage instead of quietly skipping them. Liability sits exactly where it sits today: with your examiner and your underwriter.

Does this replace our examiners?

No. It removes the gathering that happens before the examining. The point is to give the hours back, and how you spend them is your call.

What does it cost?

A monthly platform fee plus a per-search rate that scales with volume. You get a firm number after the workflow audit, before committing to anything.

Which sources can it search?

County recorder and clerk records, tax authorities, and title plant data where you have access. Coverage varies by jurisdiction, so we confirm your specific markets during the audit and say plainly what cannot be automated.

What about handwritten or poor-quality scans?

Older records are read where legible and flagged for manual review where they aren't. The agent never guesses at a name or legal description it cannot read cleanly.

How long until it's working?

We start with one property type and a subset of counties, then widen from there. You get a dated timeline for your own build after the workflow audit, not before.

Ready to get started?

Book a free discovery call and we will map how agentic AI can fit your workflows.