Orbital Becomes First AI Platform to License ALTA Forms and Survey Standards
Real estate AI needs to understand more than the documents. It needs to understand the standards that give them meaning. Today, we’re announcing a first-of-its-kind agreement with the American Land Title Association (ALTA), making Orbital the first AI platform to license ALTA’s official forms and survey standards. You can read further coverage of today’s press release from Commercial Observer here.
[NEW YORK, 10 November 2026] Orbital, the AI platform built for real estate legal work and an ALTA Associate Member, today announced a multi-year content license agreement with the American Land Title Association (ALTA), the national trade association of the land title insurance industry. It is the first time ALTA has licensed its content for use inside an AI platform.
Under the agreement, ALTA Policy Forms, ALTA endorsements, and the 2026 ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey Standards are now licensed into Orbital. This authoritative content set will empower Orbital users to understand, evaluate, and negotiate title coverage and survey issues with AI speed and scale on more than 250,000 real estate transactions per year.
ALTA Policy Forms provide the standard framework supporting financing across the nearly $27 trillion U.S. commercial real estate market. Used nationwide, these forms and the ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey Standards underpin nearly every commercial real estate transaction. By licensing this content for use within Orbital’s platform, lawyers can analyze title commitments, policies, endorsements and surveys against the applicable ALTA Policy Forms and standards in one unified workspace.
The agreement further strengthens Orbital's conviction that real estate deserves its own AI. Unlike generalist legal AI tools, Orbital is organized around the documents that establish the rights and responsibilities of a real estate asset. This includes the title, the survey, the lease and the diligence documents that sit behind the asset, which are then read against the authoritative sources, such as ALTA’s, that the real estate industry relies on.
"Real estate law runs on a unique set of authoritative sources, and ALTA's are at the top of the list. At Orbital, we choose to go deep in real estate - one area of law - rather than wide across all of them, and agreements like this are what that choice looks like in practice. From today, the ALTA forms that real estate lawyers and title companies work from are embedded into Orbital’s product."
— Will Pearce, CEO and Co-Founder, Orbital.
“Our forms and survey standards are the common language of title in the United States, and they do their job best when the people relying on them are working from current, authoritative text. Licensing ALTA content to an AI company is a first for us, and we’ve done it in a way that provides Orbital with updated content, and maintains ALTA’s ownership of the content while allowing real estate practitioners to make the evaluations that they need to ensure the interests of their clients. AI can help title and real estate professionals work more efficiently, but technology cannot replace the experience, expertise and human judgment essential to protecting property rights.
The title industry continues to lead and innovate. By working together, we can develop solutions that make real estate transactions more efficient, help address housing affordability and preserve the protections consumers and lenders depend on.”
— Chris Morton, Chief Executive Officer, ALTA
"I spent fourteen years at First American and was part of the ALTA Forms Committee, so I know how important it is for a lawyer's title and survey review to check the document in front of them against the current ALTA standard. Having ALTA's current, authoritative content licensed into Orbital’s product, kept up to date and used in context of the asset, is the difference between any AI tool that can just read a title policy and an AI product optimized for real estate law that knows what the coverage truly means."
— Justin Lischak Earley, Principal, Legal Content and Evangelism, Orbital, leads real estate and legal content partnerships
The ALTA agreement is the first in a series of content partnerships Orbital is building with the professional bodies and unique resources that define real estate law and practice.
