Spring Product Update: Orbital Witness

Since the start of the year, Orbital Witness has rolled out a wave of new features, data upgrades, and workflow improvements. All designed to help professionals across commercial real estate, land referencing, utilities, and infrastructure work smarter, uncover key information faster, and deliver standout results to clients.

From new ways to report on titles, to sharper mapping tools and time-saving automations, this spring product update is your round-up of everything new and improved.

Let’s take a look at what’s landed.

Enhanced reports: Title Analysis & Title Overview

Whether you’re reviewing a single title or managing a portfolio, these two new reports are designed to help you move faster, scope smarter, and present your findings clearly.

• Title Analysis: An Excel-based report that compiles all the title data Orbital Witness can extract. It is ideal for scoping matters, producing fee estimates, allocating tasks across a team, or carrying out high-volume portfolio reviews. By surfacing key risks and patterns upfront, it helps you make informed decisions early.
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• ‍Title Overview: A client-friendly Word report that pulls in title information along with Planning and EPC data, plus visualisations. It provides an attractive, easy-to-digest summary of a site’s status, designed for use early in the transaction lifecycle to help clients understand the big picture.

Together, these reports streamline internal workflows and help deliver faster turnaround times for your clients, whether you’re managing a single matter or reviewing an entire portfolio.

Matter alerts

Real estate is a living asset. Titles, planning, and ownership can change at any moment. Matter alerts keep your advice grounded in what's happening right now, helping you deliver guidance that's current, not outdated the moment it's shared.

Get notified when new risks or material changes arise, so your clients always get guidance that reflects the current state of play, not just the position at the point of order.

Ownership verification (coming soon)

Wayleave payments are moving into the modern era with BACS transfers. But with new convenience comes new risk.

Ownership verification gives you the confidence that funds are reaching the right recipients. By eliminating payment errors and potential fraud, it helps teams running large-scale wayleave programmes operate more securely, more efficiently, and with far less manual overhead.

Bigger maps, better context

We’ve upgraded our map experience to help you get better context, faster—especially when dealing with large rural sites or strategic land projects.‍

• Zoom further: Map settings now adjust automatically depending on whether your site is urban or rural, so you can view bigger titles in full without fiddling with scale.‍
• See more: Instantly access planning application data for up to 1km around your site, giving you broader insight with a single click.

This update is ideal for lawyers and property professionals working on large transactions or portfolios, where understanding the wider landscape is just as important as knowing the boundaries. It means quicker visuals, more informed sketches, and stronger advice for clients.

‍Improved sketches & snapshots

Sketching and visual outputs are often what clients remember most. They're how you bring a site to life and communicate legal complexity in a way that's easy to grasp.

• Snapshots now display data layers in the key, so when you share a snapshot, your clients can see exactly what each coloured overlay represents.‍
• Sketch labels now support multi-line formatting, which means no more stretched or messy labels when adding longer notes. You can now include more detail directly on your plans, while keeping everything neat and readable.

These updates help you deliver clearer, more professional visuals in less time. Making it easier to communicate value and context in every client interaction.

New datasets: agricultural land + UPRNs

Clients expect fast, confident answers about a site, no matter how the data comes in. These new datasets help you connect the dots instantly and avoid delays.

• Agricultural land data shows whether land is used for agricultural purposes, helping you assess planning constraints and understand the site's potential.
• UPRN support makes it easier to match address formats from external systems, so you can pinpoint the right property without time-consuming cross-referencing.

These updates remove the friction from early site assessments, giving you faster clarity and fewer hoops to jump through.

Revamped document library

When you’re deep in the diligence process, ordering and managing title documents shouldn’t slow you down. Yet for many lawyers and property professionals, it's still one of the most frustrating and manual parts of the job.

Our revamped document library changes that. You can now:

- Track and audit document orders across all your matters
- Keep a central record for full transparency and team collaboration
- Bulk order Registers, Plans, and Official Copies with a single click (coming in April)

This update helps you stay organised, save hours of admin time, and avoid the risk of missed or duplicate orders. It’s a smarter, faster way to handle the basics, so you can spend more time advising and less time chasing documents.‍

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Built for the way you work‍

These product enhancements are all about helping you move faster, deliver sharper insight, and spend more time on work that matters. Whether you're producing client-ready visuals, streamlining document tasks, or advising on a complex portfolio, Orbital Witness is here to support every step of your due diligence.‍

Ready to get started? Everything outlined above is available in the platform today, or will be by the end of the month where indicated. Log in to explore what's new or book a demo to see how they can help your team work smarter.