New Product Automates Run Sheet Construction and Chain-of-Title Analysis Within Energy Domain Data Platform, Supporting Faster Deal Execution and Lower Diligence Risk
FORT WORTH, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Energy Domain today announced the launch of TitleLab™, a patent-pending courthouse intelligence product now available within the Energy Domain Data platform. TitleLab automates the manual work of building run sheets and constructing chains of title, reducing what typically takes weeks of landman and legal time into work that can be completed in hours or days.
Land teams currently spend considerable time pulling courthouse records, buying abstracts, building run sheets in Excel, and cross-referencing legal descriptions across different systems. A title opinion for a single asset can require weeks of document retrieval, manual data entry, and chain-of-title reconstruction. These inefficiencies create delays in deal execution and increase costs, particularly when working under tight transaction deadlines.
TitleLab addresses this by aggregating county-level records, deeds, instruments, leases, liens, probate documents, and supporting materials, into a searchable system that provides chain-of-title analysis tied directly to wells, tracts, and producing assets. The product uses AI to automatically classify document types, extract all parties and their roles (grantor/grantee), parse legal descriptions into structured data, and capture lease provisions including royalty rates, terms, and severance clauses. While other products struggle to identify all legal descriptions on an instrument, searching by legal in TitleLab will render a much more comprehensive runsheet.
“Courthouse data exists. The problem is that it’s unstructured and scattered across 254 counties in Texas alone,” said Ben Heinzelmann, CEO of Energy Domain. “TitleLab makes that data usable. A landman can now build a comprehensive run sheet in hours instead of weeks, and see that data on a map next to production and well information. That changes the economics of how deals get done.”
How TitleLab Works
TitleLab integrates directly with Energy Domain’s updated rig, well, production, and regulatory data. Users move from ownership verification to economic analysis without switching systems. This means faster underwriting, fewer title defects at closing, and lower labor costs on landwork.
The product’s technology automatically builds run sheets by capturing documents with matching legal descriptions and pulling in prior referenced instruments back through five degrees of separation. This solves a common problem: county clerk indexes often only list the first few properties on instruments with multiple tracts, which means traditional searches miss documents in the chain of title. TitleLab captures the complete chain.
TitleLab provides three core functions:
Document Processing: Automatically classifies instruments, extracts all parties with their roles, parses legal descriptions (Texas surveys and abstracts, PLSS coordinates, platted properties), and captures lease provisions, processes deeds, assignments, leases, liens, probate documents, and supporting materials.
Legal Description Parsing: Structures and normalizes property descriptions, making them searchable and mappable. Each tract is georeferenced and linked to producing assets for immediate visualization of ownership coverage.
Chain-of-Title Construction: Captures prior instrument references, including instrument numbers and legacy book/volume/page citations, then builds chains that link current assignments back through decades of conveyances. Identifies gaps and flags potential defects.
TitleLab also generates map visualizations of any run sheet, something not previously available with courthouse data products. Land teams can immediately see property coverage for transactions and development projects, with rigs, wells, production data, and ownership records in the same view.
The result: compressed timelines, lower risk, and reduced operating costs across the landwork function. Instead of managing PDFs, spreadsheets, and manual courthouse requests, users work from a single system that supports screening, due diligence, closing, development planning, and ongoing portfolio management.
Impact on Deal Execution
For operators, mineral buyers, and private equity-backed teams, TitleLab addresses a common bottleneck. Courthouse data has traditionally slowed deals and added cost. With TitleLab, that same data becomes an asset: teams can conduct comprehensive due diligence on large portfolios in the time it used to take to review a single prospect, and they can do it with higher confidence in title quality.
“Our larger clients were managing this with three or four different courthouse data sources, and they still had gaps,” added Heinzelmann. “TitleLab gives them complete coverage, backed by the same 99.97% uptime our platform has delivered since launch. In fast markets, speed and accuracy determine who wins the deal. This product is built for teams that need both.”
Energy Domain has filed patent applications covering TitleLab’s methods for AI-driven legal description parsing, automated chain-of-title construction, multi-degree prior reference linking, and intelligent document classification.
About Energy Domain
Energy Domain is a modern oil & gas data and transaction platform delivering enterprise-grade upstream intelligence with unmatched transparency and flexibility. Built by industry operators and engineers, Energy Domain provides continuously updated well, production, rig, and courthouse data, alongside advanced derived analytics such as production allocations, confirmed intervals, and spacing insights, through an intuitive web application and direct data integrations. With contract-free access, transparent pricing, and scalable APIs, Energy Domain empowers operators, investors, land teams, and energy professionals to make faster, more confident decisions across the full upstream lifecycle.
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