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Ontario real estate · title intelligence
Every Ontario deal rests on registered instruments written decades ago — and someone still reads each one by hand. Cartulary reads them, checks itself against the parcel register, and drafts the work product.
Assist, never certify. Every claim links to its source. Abstention instead of guessing.
The problem
Title to every property rests on registered instruments — transfers, charges, easements, covenants — most of them scanned typescript and microfilm from 1860 to 2000.
A clerk reads each one by hand, on every file, at every firm. The same standard instruments are re-read across the province, every week, forever.
What hides in them is not academic. Missed obligations become E&O claims.
“Remove your building extension within thirty days of the neighbour's notice — at your own cost.”
Surfaced by our engine on a live commercial refinance — a demolition-triggered removal covenant, buried since 1969, on page two of a scan a human would have skimmed.
How it works
Upload the parcel register and the instruments you've pulled — the files already sitting in your matter folder.
Deterministic code indexes every register entry, matches your copies to it, and flags the instruments nobody pulled.
Known instruments are recognised from the library in seconds. Only genuinely novel documents are read fresh.
Title summary, permitted-encumbrance schedule, requisition candidates — drafted in your firm's own format.
Every claim links to its source pixels, so a lawyer confirms in seconds instead of reading for an hour.
Day-one validation · run on a real Ontario practice
decades of registry paper read, 1968–2025
clean rate against independent register checks
factual error — caught automatically
substantive misreads after adjudication
One working firm's complete title archive — every pulled instrument across 31 matters and 75 properties — cross-checked against its own parcel registers. Most analyses corroborated with no human involved; the system declared “illegible” 185 times instead of guessing once. The single error — a registration date, off by one day, on a degraded 2005 scan — was machine-flagged and settled by a lawyer in thirty seconds.
The question every firm asks
Because a reading is not a review.
Between the channel that sells the documents and the lawyer who answers for them, nobody reads, checks, remembers, or stands behind the analysis. That is the seat Cartulary takes.
Pricing
Register parsing and library recalls are unlimited on every tier. Only novel analysis is metered — and a cap never stops a closing.
$99/month
$249/month
$599/month
Overage billed at a published per-matter rate — recoverable from your client as a disbursement, like any search fee. Launch pricing; tuned with pilot firms.
Built inside a working Ontario practice. Validated on its own files. Priced by the hour it saves.
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