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How the agent runs it
When a title company, real estate attorney, or closing agent submits an order via a web form, the Intake Agent parses the property details and routes the job to the Research Agent, which queries municipal portals, county databases, and tax collector websites to extract outstanding liens, utility balances, and code violations. The Compliance Agent validates completeness against jurisdiction-specific checklists, the Delivery Agent formats and emails a branded PDF certificate to the client within the committed turnaround window, and the Billing Agent triggers the invoice and reconciles payment — all without human intervention.
Who this is for
Ideal for a solo operator with a background in real estate, title, or paralegal work who understands closing workflows and already has relationships with title companies or real estate attorneys. They need enough technical comfort to configure Zapier and Airtable but do not need to write code — the value is in knowing which municipalities to target first and how to price competitively against legacy manual services.
Market opportunity
Over 6 million existing home sales occur annually in the US, and virtually every residential closing requires a municipal lien search — a market generating hundreds of millions in fees largely still fulfilled by slow, manual title search firms. Post-2022 interest rate normalization is compressing margins at title companies, creating immediate demand for faster, cheaper lien certificate fulfillment. No dominant AI-native provider exists in this niche yet, making early entry a significant competitive moat.
Boss agent: LENA (Lien Execution & Network Arbiter)
LENA monitors the full order queue in Airtable, assigns incoming jobs to the correct specialist agent based on jurisdiction, enforces SLA deadlines, escalates anomalies to the human owner, and logs every agent action for audit and liability purposes.
- ■ No certificate is delivered unless the Compliance Agent has confirmed all required data fields are populated and jurisdiction checklist is 100% complete.
- ■ Any order where the Research Agent cannot locate data within 45 minutes is automatically flagged to the human owner via Twilio SMS before the SLA window closes.
- ■ All client communications must be sent only through the approved branded email template — no raw agent output is ever sent directly to a client.
The agent team
Human touchpoints
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- 👤 Re-credentialing paid municipal portal accounts and solving CAPTCHA-gated jurisdictions that block automated access — typically 1–2 hours per month per new jurisdiction onboarded.
- 👤 Reviewing and approving E&O insurance policy renewals and signing the business's LLC operating agreement, client Master Service Agreements, and any state-required title search licensing applications.
- 👤 Responding to client escalations where a delivered certificate is disputed or a closing attorney alleges a missed lien — these rare cases require human legal judgment and potential claims involvement.
- 👤 Approving new jurisdiction expansion decisions when LENA flags a pattern of orders from an un-mapped municipality, requiring the human to evaluate portal access and set the research playbook.
Tech stack
Monetization
Per-order flat fee pricing: $45–$95 per certificate depending on jurisdiction complexity, with rush delivery (4-hour turnaround) priced at a 2x premium. Volume subscription tiers for high-frequency title companies at $800–$2,500/mo for unlimited standard orders.
Key risks
- → Municipal portal access is inconsistent — some jurisdictions require CAPTCHA solving, phone calls, or paid portal accounts that require periodic human re-credentialing.
- → Errors in lien data carry legal liability; a missed lien that passes to a new owner could trigger lawsuits, requiring robust errors-and-omissions insurance from day one.
Getting started
- 1 Map 15 high-volume target municipalities firstResearch which cities or counties have publicly accessible online portals for lien, tax, and code violation data. Start with Florida, Texas, and New Jersey jurisdictions — they have the highest closing volume and accessible digital records.
- 2 Build the intake form and Airtable order pipelineCreate a Typeform or Jotform intake form that captures property address, parcel ID, buyer/seller info, and rush preference, then pipe submissions into Airtable as a structured order queue the agents will read from.
- 3 Configure the Research Agent with jurisdiction playbooksWrite jurisdiction-specific scraping and lookup instructions for each of your 15 target municipalities as Claude system prompts, so the Research Agent knows exactly which URLs to hit, which fields to extract, and how to handle missing data.
- 4 Set up Stripe and automated invoice triggersConnect Stripe to Airtable via Zapier so that when an order status is marked 'Delivered,' the Billing Agent automatically fires an invoice to the client email with the correct fee tier — eliminating all manual billing.
- 5 Sell five pilot orders to local title companies at costContact five local or regional title companies and offer free or cost-only lien searches in exchange for honest feedback on turnaround time and certificate format — use this data to tighten agent prompts before opening to paid volume.
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