Real Estate Attorney2026

AI Title Review Tool.

A working AI tool that automates property title reviews for real estate attorneys. The system ingests a title report and its supporting instruments (deeds, easements, plats, affidavits, etc.), extracts every encumbrance into a structured schema, runs a second-pass quality review, and renders the result as a Word document and an editable web workspace in the attorney's preferred formatting layout.

The Client

A collaboration with a property real estate attorney in Maryland, with plans to potentially scale this tool to other property attorneys around the country.

What I Did

I designed and built the full title review pipeline, starting with extensive research interviews with the attorney to understand the nuances of his workflow, then building the full pipeline with Claude Code. The system handles PDF merge, OCR, a first-pass structured extraction with Sonnet, and then a second-pass review with Opus across eight different quality dimensions. I built an editable HTML workspace which makes it easy for an attorney to review the pipeline output, and then an "Export to Word" function which creates a final Title Review Report matching the look & feel of the attorney's existing documents.

The tool ingests real estate documents like this.
The tool ingests real estate documents like this.FIG. 01
A Python program guides the tool through OCR scans and multiple AI API passes.
A Python program guides the tool through OCR scans and multiple AI API passes.FIG. 02
Outcome

A working Title Review Tool, built initially around a fairly narrow use case. Now that we know it works, we're working to expand it to a much wider set of property-law use cases. The most interesting design decision we've made is not trying to automate the property attorney's work altogether. The system is built to do the work of a competent paralegal or junior attorney, capably handling the time-consuming extraction and formatting while being honest about what it doesn't know.

The attorney makes edits in a web interface, with easy links to primary source documents.
The attorney makes edits in a web interface, with easy links to primary source documents.FIG. 03
The finished work product matching the preferred document format of the attorney.
The finished work product matching the preferred document format of the attorney.FIG. 04