Jimmy Lewis – TrueFocus Automation

Looking to Automate in 2023? Start by Learning the Language

There are four key reasons to consider automation in the title industry: to reduce errors, to manage escalating business, to maximize workforce hours, and to reduce costs. The last one may be the most critical when navigating a decelerating real estate market.

Lasso SaaS Sprawl with RPA

Every time you add an application, you add the staff hours needed to input the information the application feeds on. This tech stack can become unwieldy and ineffective unless you can get these applications, systems and software to talk to each other and share data to cut down on all that manual input.

RPA Can Do That? Yes. Yes it Can!

I recently spoke on a panel at ALTA ONE. It was a great conference and the session was attended by a number of curious title agents. The one thing that surprised us throughout the entire conference, however, was the number of title owners and executives who asked us, repeatedly, “Bots can do that?”

Data and Imaged Documents: How Bots Can Improve Processes

Let’s face it, trying to get accurate data from deeds, contracts or legal descriptions continues to hobble the real estate industry, with inaccuracies still abounding. It’s also time consuming and, at times, even mind-numbing for staffers who’d be better utilized facilitating closings or generating marketing leads.

Asking Ourselves a Few Questions on the Eve of ALTA ONE

While our industries thrive because of the data available to us, the challenge our industry faces is ensuring the data is accurate. The need for accurate data in the transaction itself is a paramount. But we also heavily rely on the data, as do all companies, to run and grow our businesses.

September 28, 2022
By Jimmy Lewis
Technology, Title Insurance, Title Production, Video Blog
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Automating Online Two Owner Searches – Washington County, Arkansas

Automation of the title searching process on residential property in Washington County Arkansas.

Data Entry Accuracy: The Lifeblood of Real Estate Transactions

September 15, 2022
By Jimmy Lewis
Technology, Title Insurance, Title Production, Video Blog
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Automating Property Tax Search in Miami-Dade County

RPA software automated the process of validating residential property tax status in Miami-Dade County.

September 2, 2022
By Jimmy Lewis
Technology, Text Blog, Title Insurance, Title Production
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Declining Revenue Shouldn’t Take Automation Off the Table for Title Firms

Expect to see title businesses continue to invest in new technology during the current slowdown. But not a spending spree. Instead, the best title business owners are already realizing that their traditionally narrow margins could soon become unacceptable margins as their profits continue to be eroded by compliance, client and market demands. And so, title businesses are moving selectively to attack specific pain points in their workflows, realizing real benefits without breaking the bank.

August 9, 2022
By Jimmy Lewis
Mortgage, Technology, Text Blog, Title Insurance
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Choosing technology that grows with your business

As you are considering the wisdom of adopting the latest innovation to address a specific business need, it might also be an opportune time to do a little analysis around your legacy systems to see what is still effective in managing and growing your business and what might actually be holding you back or slowing you down.

May 11, 2022
By Jimmy Lewis
Text Blog, Title Insurance, Title Production
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Digital Transformation as a No-Brainer – by the Numbers

The growing wave of digital transformation in the title industry is not eliminating jobs. Far from it. Instead, it will go a long way towards improving employee retention rates.

April 22, 2022
By Jimmy Lewis
Text Blog, Title Insurance, Title Production
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It’s Not Just The Purchase Market That’s Demanding Automation

The trend toward digitization should be much larger than the title and origination sectors of the greater real estate industry - a word about REO / foreclosure / default businesses and servicers.

March 28, 2022
By Jimmy Lewis
Text Blog, Title Insurance, Title Production
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Easing the Compliance Burden with RPA

Automation is an effective way to redirect an agent’s skilled staff to do what they do best, whether that is focusing on the complexities of the escrow side of the business or having the necessary time to listen attentively to the needs of their real estate agent, homebuyer and seller customers.

March 8, 2022
By Jimmy Lewis
Text Blog, Title Insurance, Title Production
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TrueFocus in Housing Wire on “The Great Redeployment”

Our preference is to use RPA technology to implement automtion allowing greater budget flexibility for title agents.

February 25, 2022
By Jimmy Lewis
Text Blog, Title Insurance, Title Production
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Let’s think about customer service from the customer’s viewpoint

As we enter our first truly competitive purchase market in years, there’s good news and bad news.

February 22, 2022
By Jimmy Lewis
Text Blog, Title Insurance, Title Production
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Historic labor shortage puts staffing on title companies’ front burner

As we enter our first truly competitive purchase market in years, there’s good news and bad news.

February 21, 2022
By Jimmy Lewis
Title Insurance, Title Production, Video Blog
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Automating Order Opening in SoftPro

Automating Current Owner Search

In 2022, keeping your staff engaged will be a top priority for title agents.

The Great Resignation and shrinking labor pool could mean engagement becomes major consideration for title agents. Here’s why.

Hey title industry! Here come the bots!

For years, it’s felt like the title industry has resisted new technology. Given the thin margins and production-dependent nature of the business, it’s understandable. Most of the technology available to help agents with manual or simple processes has come as part of off-the-shelf packages reserved for global production systems. Attacking some of the simple but […]