The title agent is the last line of defense in one of the most complex financial transactions most people will ever complete. A single closing requires coordinating buyers, sellers, lenders, and real estate agents simultaneously, moving across multiple technology systems, and keeping every stakeholder aligned and on schedule. When something goes wrong at the closing table, it lands on the title agent, and the consequences for both the agent and their clients are immediate and severe.

That's why today's announcement matters. We’re excited to share that CloseSimple, the industry’s much-loved closing experience platform, is joining CertifID. 

CertifID and CloseSimple have a lot in common. We share a sense of craft in building products purpose-built for the close, and an overlapping base of passionate customers. CloseSimple has long owned the embedded closing experience, known for its real-time visibility for every participant, automated communications that eliminate the status call, and a branded experience that clients recognize and trust. CertifID is the trusted leader in wire fraud prevention, operating as the identity layer, the decisioning core, the payments, and the insurance behind every wire. CertifID blocked more than $283 million in fraud last year, and has recovered $132 million on behalf of fraud victims. 

Put simply, CertifID built the infrastructure that makes every closing trustworthy. CloseSimple built the experience that reduces the operational burden on title agents and delivers a seamless closing to every client at the table. We came together recognizing that we shared the same goal: to deliver a safe, simple closing experience. While our platforms were complementary, we recognized that our roadmaps were beginning to converge. Rather than build it out independently, we saw that the best value for the industry would be to join forces, compressing our roadmap timelines and allowing us to unlock new levels of advancement that would have taken years for either of our companies to achieve on its own.

By bringing CertifID and CloseSimple together, we're deepening a shared commitment to security and simplicity, and aiming for what comes next. Together, we'll build safe automation personalized to the way your team already works. That's something the title industry has never had.

Paul Stine, CloseSimple’s CEO, put it better than I could: “We built CloseSimple to make closings easier, clearer, and better for every party involved, especially the title teams managing all the complexity behind the scenes. Joining CertifID lets us pair the closing workflows our customers already trust with the strongest fraud prevention in the industry. To me, this is the combination that makes the next chapter so exciting.”

We couldn’t be more excited about what comes next.

Paul Stine and the CloseSimple team will join CertifID today, and CloseSimple will continue to operate as a separate platform for the near future.

If you would like a demo of either CertifID or CloseSimple, or more information on how the two companies will operate together, request more information here.