ClearPath AI has emerged from the shadows with £1 million of pre-seed funding to develop an artificial intelligence platform designed to automate significant parts of the conveyancing process.
The Birmingham-based business has launched ClearPathOS, an AI-native operating system spanning legal, property, mortgage finance and compliance, with specialist AI agents designed to perform defined tasks rather than simply assist professionals.
Its launch comes as the Government pushes ahead with potentially the biggest overhaul of home buying and selling in years. The current transaction takes an average 120 days and around one in three sales fails, while fall-throughs alone cost consumers approximately £400 million annually.
Government reforms are intended to cut transaction times by around four weeks and halve the number of failed sales through measures including upfront sales packs, digitalisation and greater sharing of property information.
AI MOVES INTO CONVEYANCING
ClearPath’s Legal AI can investigate registered title and searches, analyse restrictive covenants, review leases and contracts, draft enquiries and produce Reports on Title and Certificates of Title.
Founder and Chief Executive Rudi Kesic (main picture) says: “This isn’t about giving a conveyancer another AI assistant or a faster way to draft a letter.
“The AI understands the matter, reads the documents, investigates the title, reasons over the information, identifies issues, produces work and helps progress the matter.
“The conveyancer remains responsible for the legal judgement and the client. But a huge amount of the work surrounding that judgement can now be done differently.”
The Government’s June reform roadmap specifically identifies AI-enabled conveyancing as a means of automating routine work while retaining human judgement and plans to establish standards for its appropriate use next year.
REGULATOR SOUNDS WARNING
The launch also comes just days after the Solicitors Regulation Authority issued a warning over the growing use of AI in legal services.
The regulator says AI can improve efficiency but warns firms remain responsible for its use, highlighting risks including inaccurate outputs, confidentiality breaches and consumer harm where adequate human oversight and governance are absent.
ClearPath says its outputs are grounded in underlying matter documents, with sources, AI activity and professional approvals recorded through its audit architecture.
CONNECTING THE TRANSACTION
The wider ambition is to tackle fragmentation between estate agents, mortgage brokers, lenders and conveyancers.
Kesic says: “The home-moving transaction isn’t short of technology. It’s fragmented.
“The estate agent has one system, the broker another, the lender another and the lawyer another. The consumer repeatedly provides information and nobody has a complete view of the transaction.
“We’ve designed each ClearPath product to be valuable independently because the whole market isn’t going to change systems at once. But where those environments connect, ClearPath can begin to understand and help progress the home move as one transaction rather than a collection of disconnected cases.”
ClearPath has more than 20 people across AI, engineering, product and commercial development and plans to create more than 20 additional UK roles as it expands.
