American Land Title Association Taps Orbital as Platform for Its Licensed Content

Orbital, an AI platform built for real estate legal work, announced Wednesday a multiyear 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/National Society of Professional Surveyors Land Title Survey Standards are now licensed to Orbital. Orbital users can access the content related to title coverage and survey issues involving more than 250,000 real estate transactions per year.

“We are the first to have this content and we think it’s important to be the first, because ALTA’s content is really the legal wording — the rails, if you will — on which title risk moves in the United States, said Justin Lischak Earley, principal for legal content and evangelism at Orbital, who leads real estate and legal content partnerships for the company. “ALTA’s forms underlie nearly every commercial real estate transaction that goes on in the country.”

Based in London and operating in the U.S., Orbital is an ALTA associate member. ALTA Policy Forms provide the standard framework supporting financing across the nearly $27 trillion U.S. commercial real estate market. 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.

“We are the legal AI company that is solely devoted to real estate,” Lischak Earley, himself a real estate attorney, said of ALTA choosing Orbital. “I sat on the Alta forms committee for a number of years, so I helped write these forms that people use, and I think it is us recognizing how important that content is.”

The ALTA agreement is the first in a series of content partnerships Orbital is building with professional bodies and unique resources that define real estate law and practice, the company said in making the announcement.

In a statement, Chris Morton, CEO at ALTA, said: “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.”

Philip Russo can be reached at prusso@commercialobserver.com.