North Carolina · attorney-led title state
Built for the way North Carolina firms actually examine title.
In North Carolina, the attorney signs the opinion. That makes our job different from the high-volume closing-management workflow the national platforms are built around. We accelerate the search, the exception review, and the examination package — without taking the human out of the loop on the judgment calls.
North Carolina · 100 counties live
Why North Carolina is different
NC isn't an escrow state. Your tools shouldn't pretend it is.
The four facts about North Carolina title work that shape how we build for it.
The attorney is the certifier — the AI is not.
In attorney-led states, your firm runs the search and signs the opinion. AI is built to compress the rote work — classifying documents, surfacing exceptions, parsing legal descriptions — never to certify title.
Volume software was not built around your workflow.
The platforms sold to large title-plant operations assume the title-rep model. Different intake, different sign-off, different economics. Examiners in attorney firms inherit the wrong tools and adapt around them.
Recording and court records vary by county, not by state.
Different indexing systems, different formats, different completeness — even between neighboring counties. Statewide court portals are catching up, but legacy data is rough. We aggregate across that variability so the examiner does not have to.
Small and mid-size firms are underserved.
The high-volume tooling is priced for national title operations. Solo and three-to-four-attorney firms — thousands of them — are doing this work largely by hand. We build for the firms in the middle.
For the NC Bar RPS audience
AI is the engine. You are the driver.
Andrea Davis put it cleanly in her 2026 RPS Annual Meeting CLE: verify, then trust. AI is built to compress the rote work — pattern recognition, summarization, data extraction — not to replace your judgment.
TitleTools is built on that principle. Every classification, every extracted field, every drafted opinion sentence carries a source-page citation and a confidence score back to the examiner. The attorney signs the opinion. TitleTools doesn't certify title — that is the practice of law.
From Andrea's slide to your file
What AI actually does on an NC title file — concretely.
The use cases Andrea calls out in her "No Sci-Fi, Just AI" CLE, mapped to specific things TitleTools does on a real file. Every output carries a citation. Every edit is logged. The attorney drives.
Summarize title exceptions across the file
Restrictive covenants, easements, HOA documents, prior policy exceptions — TitleTools surfaces them as a structured schedule pinned to source pages. The examiner edits; the attorney approves.
Analyze RCs, easements, HOA, zoning
Each instrument is classified into the right section, then field-extracted. Burden language, expiration, party references, recording info — pulled and cited, never hidden.
Map metes-and-bounds against the parcel polygon
Property Explorer overlays the county-assessor polygon against the deed's metes-and-bounds, with a drift indicator if they don't match. A survey-or-recording error is visible before the reviewer sees it.
Examination package prep
Pages reordered, exhibits stapled, opinion letter drafted from the extracted parties / legal / exceptions. One indexed PDF as the deliverable to the firm, opposing counsel, or the underwriter.
Verify consistency across documents
Grantor / grantee names across deeds, dates across recording instruments, legal descriptions across plats — cross-document checks flagged before the examiner has to look for them.
Issue spotting on the file
Marital-status inconsistencies, name variations, missing satisfactions, unreleased liens, restrictive covenant burdens — surfaced as findings tied to the source document.
Honest about the limits
Be wary of anyone claiming AI can do an NC title search. We're not making that claim.
AI can do real work on a title file — classify documents, extract fields, parse legal descriptions, draft opinion language. There are also things AI can't do. We'd rather say what we don't do than oversell.
We don't certify title.
The attorney is the approved attorney. TitleTools is a tool. Title certification is the practice of law and stays with you, signed by you.
We don't know every county-specific rule.
NC's 100 registers of deeds operate independently. Recording quirks, county-specific filing patterns, city-tax exceptions — we tune for them county by county. We're not pretending the AI knows them all by default.
We don't make phone calls or access non-public data.
We operate on documents and on data we've integrated. If a closing depends on a call to the lienholder or a faxed satisfaction, that's still your team.
We don't aggregate recording offices — yet.
County recording-office integration is on our roadmap, not in our shipping product. Today we work on documents and county parcel data; you still bounce to county portals for live recording searches.
North Carolina coverage
All 100 North Carolina counties, live today.
County boundaries from US Census TIGER data. Parcel attributes from NC OneMap — owner, structured addresses, three value components, last sale date, full legal description, subdivision, year built, and parcel geometry. Hover or tap to see what is loaded for each county.
Parcel detail every NC examiner needs
Owner, situs address (normalized), assessed values (land + improvements + total), last sale date and price, year built, lot size, subdivision name, property class. Plus the parcel polygon for the cross-check against your metes-and-bounds legal description.
Recording-office aggregation — on the roadmap, county by county
NC recording is run by 100 separate registers of deeds with different indexing systems, different document formats, different completeness. We don't aggregate that yet — recording-office integration is on our roadmap, county by county, because the indexing variability between them is real and we want to tune for it instead of paper over it.
What's next for NC
Tuned to NC, next.
What we're building specifically for the North Carolina workflow. Tell us which of these would unstick your firm tomorrow and that's the conversation that moves it up the list.
Frequently asked
Questions we hear from NC firms.
- Does this do a title search for me?
- No. AI is not licensed to practice law. TitleTools accelerates the work the examiner and attorney already do — classifying documents, surfacing exceptions, parsing legal descriptions, organizing the closing package — but you remain the approved attorney certifying the title.
- How is this different from a generic AI product?
- County and state-specific tuning. We integrate with state and county data sources directly — NC parcels are loaded today via NC OneMap (owner, structured addresses, three value components, last sale date, legal description, subdivision, year built, parcel geometry). Recording-office aggregation is on the roadmap, county-by-county, because the indexing variability between counties is real and we tune for it.
- Will my client documents be used to train your AI?
- No. Your documents are scoped to your firm, encrypted, stored in the US on AWS, and never used to train shared models. We can share our security documentation on request and sign a data-use agreement before any engagement.
- How does the AI know when it is wrong?
- It does not — that is what the human-in-the-loop is for. Every classification, exception, and extracted field surfaces with its source page, bounding box, and a confidence level. Your examiner approves, edits, or rejects before anything moves forward.
- Will it work alongside my existing closing software?
- TitleTools sits next to your examination workflow, not in the middle of your closing. We do not replace your closing platform — we feed it cleaner inputs and pull together the closing package on the way out.
- What states do you support today?
- We work with state and county governments across the country to source authoritative parcel and recording data. The /states pages on this site are landing pages we have stood up for specific state bars and attorney associations — they are not the limit of our footprint. If your state is not listed, email hello@limelyte.com and we will prioritize.
- Where does my data live and who can see it?
- Data is stored on enterprise cloud infrastructure in the United States. Documents are scoped to your firm. They are not shared with other tenants and are not used to train any AI model. We can provide our security posture documentation on request.
- What AI models do you use? Are they explainable?
- We use a mix of industry-tuned OCR for layout and field extraction, and large language models for higher-level reasoning — selected and tuned for the document type. Every output is paired with the source page and bounding box that drove it, so the examiner can verify rather than trust blindly.
- What document types are supported?
- Recording documents (deeds, deeds of trust, releases, satisfactions, easements, plats), tax and assessor documents, and an extensible pipeline that can be tuned to whatever document patterns your county or workflow uses.
- What about OFAC, FIRPTA, and bankruptcy checks?
- OFAC screening, FIRPTA determination, and bankruptcy search are part of the examination workflow. PACER access for bankruptcy is included rather than priced as an add-on. If FinCEN’s residential real estate reporting rule returns, we will add it.
See it on your file
See it on a North Carolina file.
Walk us through what your examination workflow looks like today and we'll walk you through what it would look like in TitleTools — on a real NC property, with your counties loaded.
Or email hello@limelyte.com directly.