CertifID launches unified closing platform

CertifID recently announced the launch of CertifID Client Experience, a new closing platform designed to bring identity verification, document signing, payments and wire instruction delivery into a single secure environment for buyers, sellers, agents and title professionals.

The company said the launch expands its role beyond wire fraud protection into a broader transaction management platform built around secure real estate closings.

“We created wire fraud protection for real estate, and now we are making sure that protection is woven into every step of the closing,” Tyler Adams, CEO of CertifID, said in a statement. “Companies that use CertifID are not just protecting their clients from fraud, they are giving them the best closing experience in the industry.”

The platform is designed to centralize every step of the closing process within one authenticated session, eliminating the need to send sensitive information through email. CertifID said fraud education and security prompts are integrated directly into the transaction workflow, particularly during high-risk actions such as wire transfers.

According to the company, the platform’s Fraud Engine safeguards more than $300 billion in real estate transaction volume annually, continuously improving through transaction activity and fraud monitoring.

CertifID said the Client Experience platform was built with a mobile-first approach, allowing users to verify identity, sign documents and submit payments through their smartphones without creating separate accounts or navigating complex portals.

“The closing process has never had an experience built around the people going through it,” said Josh Linn, chief product officer at CertifID. “When something is genuinely easy to use, security stops being a gate and becomes the foundation.”

The company also highlighted the growing sophistication of wire fraud and cybercrime within real estate transactions, noting that artificial intelligence tools are increasingly being used by criminals to impersonate buyers, sellers, lenders and title agents.

“In 2015, I became a victim of real estate wire fraud, and that experience showed me the industry did not just need better habits, it needed better technology,” said Tom Cronkright, co-founder and executive chairman of CertifID. “This is the next step: fraud protection so woven into the transaction that it becomes invisible. The role of a title agent has expanded from the protection of property rights to consumer protection, the Client Experience empowers the industry to meet that challenge.”

CertifID currently protects more than 1.4 million real estate transactions annually and said it blocked $283 million in attempted fraud last year.

Through its Fraud Recovery Service partnership with the U.S. Secret Service, the company said it has recovered more than $126.9 million in stolen funds.

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