CertifID, the company that created the wire fraud protection category in real estate, today announced the launch of the CertifID Client Experience, a closing platform that brings every step of a real estate transaction into one secure platform for homebuyers, sellers, real estate agents, and title teams.
The announcement represents a new chapter for CertifID. “We created wire fraud protection for real estate, and now we are making sure that protection is woven into every step of the closing,” said Tyler Adams, CEO of CertifID. With 82 percent of consumers already aware that wire fraud is a real threat at closing, the Client Experience was built around an intuitive process that simplifies closing for every party in the transaction, with best-in-class security running seamlessly in the background. “Companies that use CertifID are not just protecting their clients from fraud, they are giving them the best closing experience in the industry.”
Closing Made Easier, Protected by Design
The CertifID Client Experience gives every participant in a real estate transaction one trusted place to complete every required closing task. Identity verification, document signing, payment, and wire instruction delivery all happen inside a single authenticated session. Sensitive information is never sent by email, and fraud education surfaces at the moment a buyer is about to take a high-risk action. Every interaction feeds CertifID’s Fraud Engine, which safeguards over $300 billion in real-estate transactions each year, making the platform smarter and more protective with each transaction.
The platform is built mobile-first; buyers can verify their identity, sign documents, and submit payment from their phone in minutes, without creating an account or navigating a complex portal. For many of them, this will be the most significant financial transaction of their lives, and the experience is designed so they always know what to do next. “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.”
An Easy to Exploit Transaction
When Tom Cronkright and Lawrence Duthler of Sun Title lost $180,000 to a real estate wire fraud scheme in 2015, they encountered firsthand what would become one of the fastest-growing financial crimes in America. The answer to why this industry was so uniquely vulnerable was multi-faceted. A real estate closing involves more parties than almost any other financial transaction, none of whom are trained fraud prevention professionals, they communicate across email accounts that lack common security and encryption standards while moving amounts that routinely exceed $276,000.
The fraud landscape has changed faster than the industry has been able to respond. AI now allows criminals to impersonate lenders, title agents, buyers and sellers in real time and at scale. Americans lost over $20 billion to cybercrime last year, a 26 percent increase from the year prior. The industry’s response has largely been to layer more security tools onto an already fragmented process, creating friction that leads people to cut corners and create gaps that bad actors are well-equipped to exploit.
CertifID looked at that pattern and reached a different conclusion. The problem was not a shortage of security tools. It was that the closing itself had never been treated as a unified experience. As long as it remained a collection of disconnected systems, the risk did not disappear. It just moved into the email inbox, into the payment workflow, into the closing room, into every handoff between parties working in different places at the same time. “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.”
A Proven Track Record Behind Every Closing
CertifID protects more than 1.4 million real estate transactions annually and blocked $283 million in attempted fraud last year. Its Fraud Recovery Service, a partnership with the U.S. Secret Service, has recovered over $126.9 million in stolen funds since it began. Every transaction on the platform carries $5 million in direct insurance coverage.
The Client Experience does not replace that protection. It makes it foundational to every closing, from file open to the last disbursement.
For more information or to request a demonstration, visit www.certifid.com.
About CertifID
CertifID is the closing platform built to protect every transaction from wire fraud. The company safeguards billions of dollars every month with advanced software, direct insurance, and proven recovery services all in one secure, guided closing experience. Trusted by title companies, law firms, lenders, realtors, and home buyers and sellers. CertifID provides up to $5M in direct coverage on every wire it protects. Learn more at: www.certifid.com.
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