A couple of title guys walk into a sports bar with their friend, a software developer, and the title guy says… well actually they had a conversation about the frustration of getting title records. The outdated process was slow, expensive, and lacking in availability of reliable data. The software developer was Don Cantral, and after sketching out a solution on the back of napkin, they all realized that the idea was disruptive and the timing was right. In the next 30 days, Don had a working prototype and within 5 months had raised half a million in seed capital. Early success attracted over $10 million invested to grow the business.

That was in 2003, and since then the patented scanning and pattern recognition technology has been refined to the point where it replaces a completely manual process taking hours and days with an automated process taking minutes, for routine orders. NextAce technology now powers around 25% of the nation’s title transactions, more than a million a year. As the business grows, Don continues to find new opportunities to innovate in the title industry. Consumers are experiencing huge shifts in every sector they use for goods and services, and NextAce sees the need to keep leveraging technology until they can get a title commitment delivered in the same way.