Relativity Bought Gavel. Drafting Was the Easy Half
Relativity acquired document-automation company Gavel on June 12 to push AI drafting into Microsoft Word. Drafting is the tractable half of real estate legal work. Reading the inbound file is the half that still breaks.
Harvey Is Inside Microsoft 365. Niche Tools Still Win
Harvey now answers when you @mention it in Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Litera put its CRM across the suite. Vertical tools that own a workflow end to end still have a moat the platforms cannot reach.
Specialized OCR Models Now Beat Frontier LLMs
A 0.9-billion-parameter OCR model just topped the OmniDocBench leaderboard, ahead of Gemini 3.1 Pro and GPT-5.4. For anyone processing documents at volume, that flips the architecture question.
Vision LLMs Are Eating Classical OCR
Vision language models now read scanned title packages with accuracy that rivals dedicated OCR. Here's what that shift means for Quebec title review and the hybrid pipeline inside Cleardeal.
Title Insurance Goes AI-Native
U.S. title underwriters spent 2026 shipping AI products, not pilots. The Canadian closing market, with notaries and lawyers in the middle, will absorb that shift on a different timeline.
AI for Real Estate Due Diligence Beyond Title
Title review is the obvious AI target in real estate, but it is only one part of pre-closing diligence. Zoning, environmental, condo declarations, surveys: the rest of the file is next.