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Orbital

Orbital's platform pages describe four modules for commercial real estate legal work. Asset Intelligence reviews title commitments, surveys, leases, CC&Rs and purchase agreements together to surface issues and verify findings. Property Visualization plots legal descriptions and easements against parcels. Drafting and Negotiation drafts from a firm's own forms, compares redlines and produces closing checklists and closing packages.

Deal Coordination keeps parties, tasks, deadlines and documents aligned. The first three turn on the system reading and interpreting legal documents, and the platform page counts more than 40 prebuilt workflows, from title and survey review to lease abstraction and loan agreement analysis. Deal Coordination is the one module that would work without the models, and it organizes the work the models produce. The privacy policy separately names Orbital Copilot as a product that runs on OpenAI.

Orbital's platform page says all findings are linked back to the underlying source material and drafting changes so teams can review and verify them. The law firms page says outputs are linked to source materials so attorneys verify in seconds, with source citations and audit trails for checking findings. A reader can open that grounding, because the source is the title commitment, survey or lease the team uploaded. No measurement is published of how often a finding is wrong or missed.

The one figure on the platform page, a 70 percent average reduction in review time reported by customers, measures speed rather than accuracy. No benchmark, error rate, test set or account of failure modes is published on the platform, law firms, security or customer story pages, and the method behind the links is not described beyond the statement that findings trace to documents. The product does not cite case law, so the risk is a missed or misread encumbrance rather than an invented authority.

Orbital's platform page says attorneys and real estate teams remain responsible for the legal analysis, negotiation strategy and final decisions while Orbital automates the document heavy and administrative tasks, and that outputs come with tracked changes and clear audit trails to keep lawyers in control. The law firms page adds that outputs are linked to source materials so attorneys can verify and sign off while retaining full control over the final work product.

The page for real estate businesses says legal experts retain oversight over all decisions while the leasing, development, transactions and asset management teams work from the same structured output. The review surfaces are linked sources, tracked changes and an activity record. Nothing published says which steps run unattended across the 40 workflows, whether a draft or redline can go to another party without a lawyer's approval, or what happens after a finding turns out to be wrong.

The Seyfarth Shaw story, published in September 2026, quotes five of the firm's lawyers and its chief data and AI officer. It reports that in the first four months the firm's licenses doubled and every trained lawyer was active within the first quarter. It also reports more than 900 documents analyzed and more than 400 reports generated in three months, figures that measure use rather than time or quality. The Clifford Chance story describes title due diligence across thousands of properties on a deal with three weeks to close.

The BCLP and Vinson & Elkins stories quote named innovation leads and partners without figures. The platform page reports a 70 percent average reduction in review time across customers with no customer, period or method behind it. According to the home page, more than 5,000 real estate professionals use Orbital across more than 250,000 transactions a year. No measured result is published against a stated method, and no measured outcome is attributed to a named customer.

Orbital's security page states that customers' documents and data are never used to train AI models and that content stays confidential by design, and according to the home page, SSO, MFA and role based access restrict matters to authorized users. The privacy policy, last updated 22 March 2025, says Orbital Witness Limited acts as data processor for personal information that clients enter into its applications. No customer agreement, terms of service or data processing agreement is published on the site, and the sitemap lists privacy and security pages and no terms.

Nothing published addresses privilege or work product, how documents are separated between customers, how long uploaded documents are kept, or what OpenAI, which the privacy policy names as the provider for Orbital Copilot, may retain. The training statement sits on a marketing page rather than in a published contract.

Orbital's platform page says attorneys and real estate teams remain responsible for the legal analysis, negotiation strategy and final decisions while Orbital automates the document heavy tasks. The law firms page says attorney judgment and oversight remain at the center. Orbital is also sold to real estate businesses and corporate occupiers. Its page for them describes leasing, development, transactions and asset management teams using the findings without waiting for legal, with legal experts retaining oversight over all decisions.

Nothing tells those users that an output is not legal advice or when to take it to counsel, and no customer terms are published where such a statement would usually sit. The customer stories cover deals in the United States and the United Kingdom, and no page states which jurisdictions the title and lease analysis supports.

No AI governance position is published. The about page describes the approach as combining real estate expertise with responsible, explainable AI, and the security page says Orbital supports responsible AI adoption across real estate and legal, but neither phrase is backed by published principles, an accountable owner, a testing regime before release, or any finding about uneven output across property types, jurisdictions or document quality.

The ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type 2 certifications cover information security, which is a different subject. The about page says the workflows are built by legal engineers who are former real estate lawyers, which describes who designs the product rather than how its models are evaluated or who answers for them. The title findings feed closing decisions.

Orbital's security page states that all data is encrypted at rest and in transit, that SSO, MFA and IP allow listing are supported on the commercial products, and that independent security experts carry out regular penetration testing. The privacy policy, last updated 22 March 2025, says Orbital acts as processor for personal information entered into its applications. It keeps personal information as long as needed for the purpose plus a further period to enforce its rights.

It shares data with cloud hosting providers such as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud and, for Orbital Copilot, OpenAI, alongside logging, support, analytics and email vendors described by category. No retention period or deletion route for documents, prompts or outputs, no named subprocessor list and no incident notification practice is published on those pages or on the home and platform pages, so how long title files stay on the platform and who is told when something goes wrong are not stated.

Nothing is published on who bears the loss when an output is wrong. No terms of service, customer agreement, warranty, indemnity, limitation of liability, insurance statement or remedy for a missed title defect or a misread lease clause is published on the home, platform, law firms, real estate businesses, about or security pages, and the sitemap lists privacy and security pages but no terms. The legal material on the website is a privacy policy last updated 22 March 2025, which covers personal information and does not address the service or its output.

Any agreement Orbital Witness Limited signs with its customers is not published. The product's stated position is that attorneys remain responsible for the legal analysis and final decisions, which places the professional judgment with the customer and says nothing about the vendor's own exposure, on a platform whose findings feed acquisitions, financings and leases.

Orbital's law firms page says integrations with iManage and NetDocuments allow teams to bring documents into Orbital directly from the systems they already use, so documents flow from the firm's document management system into the platform. Nothing published says whether anything flows back, such as reports, abstracts or redlines filed to the matter workspace, whether document permissions carry across, or what a firm must configure.

No developer documentation, API reference or help center is published, and the sitemap lists no integrations page. The platform page describes enriching the document stack with real estate data beyond the file. The Clifford Chance story describes checking an asset list against Land Registry records, but no data provider or connection is named. Single sign on is supported. No connection to Word, Outlook, matter management or electronic billing is published.

Neither the tenancy model nor the hosting region is stated. The privacy policy names Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud as cloud hosting providers and OpenAI for Orbital Copilot, and says personal information leaves the United Kingdom only for countries the Information Commissioner's Office has assessed as adequate or under appropriate protective contracts. It does not say where customer documents are stored or processed, and the security pages for the United States and the United Kingdom carry the same text and name no region.

No single tenant, private cloud or on premises option, and no choice of region for United States or United Kingdom customers, is published on the home, platform, law firms, security or about pages. The company serves real estate deals on both sides of the Atlantic from offices in New York, London and Los Angeles, and publishes whose cloud holds the files but not which country they sit in.

Orbital's security page states ISO 27001:2022 certification and SOC 2 Type 2 certification, the law firms page repeats both, and the security page adds regular penetration testing by independent security experts. The privacy policy describes encryption at rest, firewalls, and OAuth authentication supporting corporate single sign on, which are controls rather than attestations. The security page links a trust center at trust.orbital.tech.

No auditor, certification body, certificate number, audit period or scope statement is published on the home, platform, law firms or security pages, and they do not say whether the reports are open, available on request or held behind a sales conversation.

The privacy policy, last updated 22 March 2025, lists cloud hosting services such as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud and, for Orbital Copilot, OpenAI. That names whose models sit under Copilot. It does not say which OpenAI models, whether they are reached directly or through Azure, where they run, or what the provider may retain. The platform pages describe AI optimized for real estate legal work, and the about page describes responsible, explainable AI, without saying whether the title, lease and drafting workflows run on the same provider, on other providers or on models of Orbital's own.

No commitment to notify customers when a provider changes is published, and no subprocessor list naming model providers is published.

No pricing information is published at any level. No price, unit of charge, plan or tier name, minimum term or implementation fee appears on the home, platform, law firms, real estate businesses, about or security pages, and the sitemap carries no pricing page. Every route to buying runs through the request a demo page. The Seyfarth Shaw story says the firm's licenses doubled in its first four months, which suggests seats are part of the model, but nothing on the vendor's own pages states the unit.

The platform serves a single lawyer's title review and portfolio work across thousands of properties alike, so the cost basis could be seats, documents, transactions or properties, and nothing says which. The one economic claim on the site, a 70 percent average reduction in review time reported by customers, is about time rather than cost.

Orbital is built for commercial real estate legal work and sold to three segments. The first is the real estate practices of law firms, with Am Law 100 firms such as Goodwin, Seyfarth Shaw and Vinson & Elkins among those named. The second is real estate businesses such as investors, developers and REITs, including their in house legal, leasing, development, transactions and asset management teams. The third is corporate occupiers managing property portfolios.

Use cases are named as acquisitions and dispositions, leasing and development, with title and survey review, lease abstraction and comparison, loan agreement analysis and closing documentation among more than 40 prebuilt workflows. Customer stories cover firms in the United States and the United Kingdom, and the named customers include title companies such as Stewart Title. Nothing states where coverage stops: which United States states or other jurisdictions the title analysis supports, whether residential property is in scope, and which asset classes the lease work handles beyond the claim of any asset class.