- Orbital signed a multi-year content license with the American Land Title Association, the first time ALTA has licensed its content to an AI platform.
- ALTA Policy Forms, endorsements and the 2026 ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey Standards are now inside Orbital, which supports more than 250,000 real estate transactions a year.
- ALTA keeps ownership and supplies updates, and both sides stress that AI speeds title and survey review but cannot replace human judgment in protecting property rights.
Orbital, a legal AI company focused solely on real estate, has struck a multi-year deal with the American Land Title Association to put ALTA’s materials inside its software. ALTA has never before licensed its content to an AI company.
Attorneys using Orbital can now test title commitments, policies, endorsements and survey reports against ALTA’s wording without leaving the workspace. The deal was announced Nov. 11.
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What Orbital Now Has
Orbital gets ALTA’s policy forms and endorsements, plus the 2026 ALTA/NSPS survey standards. The company says its users work on more than 250,000 transactions each year.
ALTA’s forms anchor financing in a U.S. commercial market of nearly $27 trillion and, with the survey standards, show up in almost every deal.
ALTA keeps ownership while sending Orbital updates, so reviews track the latest wording.
A Real Estate-Only AI Bet
Where general-purpose legal AI spans many practice areas, Orbital builds around an asset’s paper trail: title work, surveys, leases and diligence materials. It checks each against sources the industry already trusts, ALTA’s among them.
CEO and co-founder Will Pearce said Orbital picked depth in one field over breadth across many, and that this license shows the strategy at work.
ALTA’s Position
ALTA CEO Chris Morton said the forms and standards are the shared vocabulary of U.S. title, and that they are most useful when users work from up-to-date text.
He also set a limit on AI. It can make professionals more efficient, Morton said, but it cannot stand in for the expertise and judgment that safeguard property rights.
Why It Matters
Justin Lischak Earley, Orbital’s head of legal content and evangelism, spent 14 years at First American and sat on ALTA’s Forms Committee. He said lawyers must verify documents against the current ALTA standard, and that a tool with that standard built in understands coverage rather than just reading a policy.
The deal lands as AI and legal work collide. Professional services added 70,000 jobs in October, and our report on AI job fears found legal firms hiring even as document-preparation roles shrank 17% over the year to September.
What’s Next
Orbital plans more content deals with professional bodies and specialized resources in real estate law, with ALTA the first.
