Title curative software that ages every requirement instead of burying it in Schedule B

Title curative is the work of clearing defects found in a title search so a policy can issue and the closing can happen: unreleased mortgages, judgment liens against a similar name, gaps in the chain, scrivener errors and missing heirs. It runs against a hard date, because 12 CFR 1026.19 requires the closing disclosure to reach the consumer at least 3 business days before consummation. Neurobird tracks each requirement with an owner and an aging clock.

Title curative specialist reviewing recorded documents and a title commitment on dual monitors in a title agency office, used to illustrate clearing title defects
The closing date does not move. The release still has not arrived.
1026.19the federal rule your closing date answers to
3 business daysfrom disclosure to consummation
3,143county recording offices to work with

Neurobird Title Curative in short

  • Turn Schedule B requirements into tracked items with an owner and a target date
  • Record every request sent to a lender, court, county or heir, and when it was chased
  • Attach the curative instrument, the release, corrective deed or affidavit, to the requirement it clears
  • 3 business days Minimum time a consumer must hold the closing disclosure before consummation under 12 CFR 1026.19, which is the hard edge every open requirement runs into. 12 CFR 1026.19, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
  • 3,143 Counties and equivalents in the United States, each recording instruments its own way, which is why a corrective deed is routine in one and slow in another. US Census Bureau, ANSI geographic codes
  • Pricing runs 85 to 360 US dollars per month across 3 tiers. Early access is free.

What title agencies and curative teams actually deal with

Curative items live in the commitment as Schedule B requirements and nowhere else, so tracking them means rereading the commitment.
Every requirement is a chase: a payoff, an affidavit, a release from a lender that has been acquired twice, a signature from an heir nobody has found.
The closing date does not move because a release did not arrive, so the aging that matters stays invisible until it is late.

Why it stays broken

Requirements are written into a commitment, which is a document rather than a work list. So a file with 9 open items, 2 of them 40 days old, looks exactly like a file with 1 item raised this morning.

One unreleased 2004 mortgage can hold a closing that 6 other people have already scheduled around.

Marketable title is a title free of adverse claims, liens and defects that are apparent from the record .

okbar.org, source

What title curative actually has to satisfy

Useful if you are building a curative desk or defending a file. Each source links out.

3 business days

Minimum time a consumer must hold the closing disclosure before consummation under 12 CFR 1026.19, which is the hard edge every open requirement runs into.

12 CFR 1026.19, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
3,143

Counties and equivalents in the United States, each recording instruments its own way, which is why a corrective deed is routine in one and slow in another.

US Census Bureau, ANSI geographic codes
541191

NAICS code for title abstract and settlement offices, the establishments that carry curative work, counted each year in County Business Patterns.

US Census County Business Patterns
1892

Year the Uniform Law Commission was established, the body behind the uniform acts states adopt to resolve heirs property and partition problems that reach the record.

Uniform Law Commission, Partition of Heirs Property Act
1026.19

The disclosure section that fixes the closing date, which is why curative aging matters more than curative volume.

12 CFR 1026.19, eCFR

Neurobird Title Curative Coverage Platform

Treat each Schedule B requirement as a tracked item with an owner, a request history and an aging clock. The chase becomes visible while there is still time to run it.

  • 1Turn Schedule B requirements into tracked items with an owner and a target date
  • 2Record every request sent to a lender, court, county or heir, and when it was chased
  • 3Attach the curative instrument, the release, corrective deed or affidavit, to the requirement it clears
  • 4Show the file by aging, so the requirement that will break the closing is visible early

What changes with Neurobird Title Curative?

The same work, read left to right: how it runs today, and how it runs once the record is in one place.

Title curative: current practice compared with Neurobird Title Curative
TodayWith Neurobird Title Curative
Curative items live in the commitment as Schedule B requirements and nowhere else, so tracking them means rereading the commitmentTurn Schedule B requirements into tracked items with an owner and a target date
Every requirement is a chase: a payoff, an affidavit, a release from a lender that has been acquired twice, a signature from an heir nobody has foundRecord every request sent to a lender, court, county or heir, and when it was chased
The closing date does not move because a release did not arrive, so the aging that matters stays invisible until it is lateAttach the curative instrument, the release, corrective deed or affidavit, to the requirement it clears

Who is this for?

Same requirement, three different exposures.

Independent agency

You close locally

Everyone knows the files until 1 person is out. You need the requirement list to be readable by anyone on the desk.

High volume agency

You close at scale

Hundreds of files, each with open items. You need aging by requirement rather than a count of open files.

Multi state operation

You cross recording rules

A corrective instrument that works in 1 state gets rejected in another. You need per state requirement templates.

The curative list, as your specialist would work it

A working preview. Tick a requirement to move it into the cleared column.

neurobird / title curative
File: 214 Hollis Street, closing in 11 daysin progress
  1. Requirement clearedpending
  2. Document obtainedpending
  3. Requirement raisedpending
  4. Owner assignedpending

Advance a step to see what the client sees.

How does Neurobird Title Curative work?

  1. Break the commitment into items

    Each Schedule B requirement becomes its own record with a type, an owner and a target date, instead of a paragraph inside a PDF.

  2. Track the chase, not just the item

    Every request to a lender, court, county or heir is logged with the date it went out and the date it was chased, so silence becomes measurable.

  3. Clear with the instrument attached

    The release, corrective deed, affidavit or court order is attached to the requirement it clears, so the file explains itself to underwriting.

Title curative software questions, answered

Key terms

What is title curative work?
Title curative work is the process of clearing defects found during a title search so a policy can issue and a closing can happen. Typical items are unreleased mortgages, judgment liens against a similarly named person, gaps in the chain, scrivener errors in a legal description and missing heirs in an estate that was never opened.
What is a cloud on title?
A cloud on title is any claim, encumbrance or irregularity in the record that casts doubt on the owner's title. Some clouds clear with a document: a release, a corrective deed or an affidavit. Others need a court, which is what a quiet title action is for.

How does curative work affect the closing timeline?

Directly. Under 12 CFR 1026.19 the consumer has to receive the closing disclosure at least 3 business days before consummation, so a requirement that clears the day before closing has already caused a problem. Aging is the number that matters, not the count of open items.

Who actually does the curative?

Usually a curative specialist inside a title agency, working against requirements set by the examiner and approved by underwriting counsel. On heavy files the work is a long sequence of requests to third parties who have no deadline of their own.

Does this replace our title production system?

No. It reads the requirements out of the commitment and manages the chase: owners, requests, chasers, aging and the instrument that clears each item. The commitment and the policy stay where they are.

Why we are building this

Curative is the part of a title file that decides whether the closing happens, and it is the part with no system. The commitment lists the requirements, then the work happens in email and a spreadsheet.

What matters is aging. A file with 2 requirements raised 40 days ago is in more trouble than a file with 9 raised yesterday, and no commitment will show you that.

We would rather build this with curative specialists than guess at it. Tell us how yours runs, and where we have got it wrong.

Neurobird Team neurobird.com

Where the requirement comes from

The recording statutes and disclosure rules curative work runs against.

How much does Neurobird Title Curative cost?

Priced per user because curative is a per pair of hands job. Files and requirements are unlimited on every tier.

Solo curative
$85
per user, per month
  • Requirement tracking
  • Aging clock per item
  • Request and chaser log
  • Document attachment
  • Email support
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Title agency
$190
per user, per month
  • Everything in Solo curative
  • Commitment import
  • Owner assignment and queues
  • Underwriting review step
  • Named contact
Request access
Multi state
$360
per user, per month
  • Everything in Title agency
  • Per state requirement templates
  • Aging and clearance reporting
  • Production system sync
  • Onboarding included
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If you clear title, tell us how open requirements are tracked today and which ones age out.

Straight answer on where this is: In development. Early access gets the working preview, a say in what ships first, and early access pricing. It does not get you a login today.

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