§ Title Intelligence

Clear title.
Without the
courthouse.

Clarent reads 60 years of county records — scanned images, old deeds, handwritten instruments — and delivers a clean chain of title in hours. Risk-flagged. Source-linked. Ready to review.

No courthouse visit. No data entry. No waiting three weeks.
0 Instruments extracted
0 Counties indexed
0 States covered
Title Intelligence Report ✓ Complete
TX-HARRIS-204-8821
Chain length
14
Earliest record
1941
Process time
4.2h
AI confidence
97%
⚠ Cloud on Title Detected
Open Deed of Trust — 1978 — No release of lien recorded. Dower interest not conveyed by spouse.
Risk Score 31/ 100 · Low
View Full Chain →
·Harris County, TX — Warranty Deed, 1957 ·Maricopa County, AZ — Deed of Trust, 2003 ·Kern County, CA — Easement Agreement, 1969 ·Weld County, CO — Oil & Gas Lease, 1978 ·Duval County, TX — Mineral Deed, 1941 ·Midland County, TX — Release of Lien, 2019 ·Tulsa County, OK — Quitclaim Deed, 1994 ·Cochise County, AZ — Warranty Deed, 1962 ·Reeves County, TX — Easement, 2016 ·Lea County, NM — Probate Record, 1955 ·Harris County, TX — Warranty Deed, 1957 ·Maricopa County, AZ — Deed of Trust, 2003 ·Kern County, CA — Easement Agreement, 1969 ·Weld County, CO — Oil & Gas Lease, 1978 ·Duval County, TX — Mineral Deed, 1941 ·Midland County, TX — Release of Lien, 2019 ·Tulsa County, OK — Quitclaim Deed, 1994 ·Cochise County, AZ — Warranty Deed, 1962 ·Reeves County, TX — Easement, 2016 ·Lea County, NM — Probate Record, 1955
§ 01 — The Problem
"The deed book is in Room 3.
Third shelf.
You'll need gloves."
— Actual words from a Karnes County, Texas courthouse clerk, 2024
The Volume Problem
A 200-parcel wind farm project means 200 separate chain-of-title runs. At 3–6 weeks each, it doesn't scale — no matter how many people you put on it.
The Document Problem
Half the records are scanned JPEGs of microfiche. Handwritten in cursive. No OCR. A grantor's name spelled three different ways across five instruments. You catch what you catch.
The Gap Problem
A person died intestate in 1963. Their interest passed to heirs no one recorded. That invisible gap can blow up a $40M acquisition years later. Title examiners find some gaps. Not all.
Harris County Deed Records · Book 87, Page 204
Warranty Deed
GrantorHarold J. Whitmore
GranteeFirst National Land Co.
RecordedMarch 14, 1957
Consideration$12,500.00
InstrumentWD-1957-00204
Karnes County Probate Records · Estate No. 1963-047
Letters Testamentary
DeceasedJames R. Whitmore
DiedAugust 7, 1963
IntestateYES
Known HeirsUNRESOLVED
InterestNOT CONVEYED
Harris County · Instrument No. 2024-0118742
Warranty Deed
GrantorWestfield Energy LLC
GranteeLone Star Solar Partners
RecordedJan 18, 2024
Consideration$4,200,000.00
✓ AI Extracted · 97% confidence
3–6 wksAverage per-parcel chain-of-title run, manual
$1,800Average cost per parcel search, abstractor rate
1 in 11Title claims trace back to a missed instrument
62%Counties with undigitized records pre-1975
§ 02 — The Product

From parcel ID
to clean chain.

01
Give it a parcel.
Drop in an APN, legal description, or a stack of uploaded documents. Clarent identifies the property, jurisdiction, and recording system automatically. No configuration required.
APN: TX-HARRIS-204-8821
→ Jurisdiction: Harris County, TX
→ Recording system: HCAD indexed
02
It reads everything.
Every recorded instrument — deeds, liens, easements, releases, probate records, oil and gas leases — is located, read, and structured. Handwritten 1941 cursive included.
Reading instrument 7 of 23...
→ Grantor: H. Whitmore · extracted
→ Confidence: 96% · source linked
03
You get a chain.
A clean, chronological chain of title. Every break, cloud, and open lien flagged with the source document attached. A risk score. A summary your attorney can act on in an hour.
14 instruments indexed
→ 1 cloud detected · flagged
→ Risk: 31/100 · export ready
§ 03 — Chain Visualization

Every instrument.
In order. Flagged.

This is what Clarent builds — a complete chain of title from original grant to today. Every node is a real instrument. Every flag is a real risk.

Clean instrument
Cloud / defect detected
Requires attorney review
Cloud on Title — §1978.03.14 · Deed of Trust
Deed of Trust recorded March 1978 — no corresponding Release of Lien found in records through present date. Margaret A. Calloway signed as grantor but dower interest release was not executed by spouse. This instrument is flagged for attorney review before any conveyance can proceed.
§ 04 — Coverage

4,821 counties.
Growing daily.

0Counties fully indexed
31States with active coverage
1941Earliest record in our corpus
0New counties added this month

We don't stop at the state index.

We go to the county deed books, the courthouse digitization projects, the historical archives, and the scanned microfilm rolls. Every source, every jurisdiction. When records exist, we find them.

Our ingestion pipeline normalizes across county-specific schemas — each has its own grantor/grantee index format, its own recording conventions, its own quirks. We've mapped all of them.

Missing your county? We'll index it as part of your first project. No extra charge.
§ 05 — Built For

Every deal that lives
and dies on clear title.

Renewable Energy
200 parcels. 90 days. No team big enough.
Utility-scale wind and solar developers are acquiring land faster than title teams can clear it. Clarent was built for exactly this bottleneck.
  • Bulk parcel submission
  • Parallel chain processing
  • Project-level risk dashboard
  • Title insurance underwriting export
Oil & Gas
Mineral rights are a different beast.
Severed minerals, partial interests, pooling agreements, executive rights — O&G title has layers that general-purpose tools can't touch. Clarent handles stacked estates.
  • Mineral vs. surface separation
  • Royalty interest tracing
  • Lease indexing & pooling records
  • Division order support
Title Insurance & Law
Your liability is only as good as your research.
Title examiners using Clarent don't get replaced — they get leverage. Handle 4× the volume with the same team. Catch more. Miss less. Bill more.
  • Source-document-linked output
  • Examiner annotation layer
  • Standard title commitment export
  • Full audit trail for every extraction
§ 06 — In Their Words

What land professionals
actually say.

We ran a 340-parcel solar project through Clarent. Found 4 title defects our team had missed on an earlier manual pass. Two of them would have been claims.
SM
Sarah M.
Sr. Land Manager · Midwest Solar Developer
I was skeptical AI could read handwritten deeds. First test I ran, it pulled a 1948 mineral rights reservation I'd have spent two days finding. Took it 11 minutes.
RT
Robert T.
Title Attorney · Houston, TX
We price title insurance risk. Speed matters. Clarent cut our underwriting review from 2 weeks to 3 days on complex rural parcels. The math is very simple.
KL
Karen L.
Underwriter · Regional Title Insurance Co.
§ 07 — The Founder
DD
Dhruv Dawda
Founder & CEO · Clarent

Built by someone
who knows what's broken.

Dhruv spent years watching land acquisition teams — brilliant people — lose weeks of calendar time to the same manual problem, over and over. Not because they were slow. Because the infrastructure around them didn't exist yet.

He built Clarent because the alternative — flying people to rural courthouses to photograph deed books by hand — is the kind of bottleneck that doesn't make the news but quietly kills deals, delays projects by months, and adds costs that nobody tracks because everyone just assumes it's the cost of doing business.

"Title examiners aren't the bottleneck. The missing infrastructure around them is. We're building it."

Clarent isn't a pivot or a side project. It's the thing that was obviously missing from an industry that was tired of waiting. Dhruv brings together deep systems thinking, a background in data infrastructure, and a genuine obsession with unsexy, high-stakes problems.

Land Acquisition Data Infrastructure AI / ML Document Intelligence Title Law Renewable Energy
§ 08 — Pricing

The math is
straightforward.

Abstractors charge $600–2,400 per parcel. We come in below that — and cover more instruments, faster. No contract required to start.

Per Parcel
"Run one. See what we see."
For single project diligence, first-time users, or a trial on a live deal. No commitment.
$280
per parcel · pay as you go
  • Full chain extraction
  • Risk score & flagged instruments
  • Source document links
  • PDF export
  • 48-hour turnaround
Run a Parcel →
Enterprise
"You're running hundreds a month."
For title insurance underwriters, large law firms, and national land services companies.
Custom
volume-based · annual contract
  • Everything in Project
  • Full API access
  • Custom jurisdiction onboarding
  • SLA guarantee
  • Dedicated account manager
  • SOC 2 compliance documentation
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On liability: Clarent is a research and extraction tool. Your licensed examiner reviews and signs off on every chain — exactly as they do today. We eliminate the legwork, not the professional judgment. All documents encrypted in transit and at rest. We do not train our models on your project data.

Ready to run a parcel?

Drop in an APN and see a full chain of title — risk-flagged, source-linked, done in hours. Your first run is on us.