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AI That Amplifies Your Conveyancing Practice
Governance built in, not bolted on.

In August 2026 the SRA issued a warning notice on the misuse of AI and confirmed live investigations into supervision. We build small and mid-sized conveyancing practices the oversight their regulator expects, and the written evidence that proves it. We do not sell AI tools.

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SRA CODE ALIGNED
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Your Competitors Are Moving Faster.
But Are You Safe While You Do?

In Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index, 65% of AI users fear falling behind if they don't adapt quickly, yet 45% say it feels safer to focus on current goals than to redesign work with AI. You can't deliver at AI speed without architecture. Governance isn't the brake. It's what makes the accelerator work.

Hallucination Kills Trust

Conveyancers use AI drafting. Sometimes it makes things up. Without trust in the system, they check everything manually anyway. No speed gain, just speed risk.

You Can't Compete on Speed Without Governance

Clients expect faster transactions. Attempts to rush without architecture create liability. Your competitors with proper governance move faster AND safer.

Governance Built In,
Not Bolted On

Most firms add governance afterward. Policies written. Checklists created. But the system doesn't know they exist.

We build governance into the workflow itself. Decisions get logged, ownership is explicit, and the evidence exists before anyone asks for it. Conveyancers trust the system because the guardrails are part of it, not a review bolted on afterwards.

Compliance (The Floor)

Checklist-driven static policies that prove intent but fail to track dynamic system changes or staff updates.

Governance (Active Oversight)

A named owner for every AI decision, a record of what was reviewed and by whom, and controls specified for your tenant so the evidence exists before a regulator asks.

Paul Simon Oxley — Founder of UtterConnection

How We Deliver: Four Phases, One Fixed Fee

  1. Phase 1

    Assess

    What AI is actually running, your risk profile, and who owns each decision. Includes a forensic audit of your own 30-day network logs.

  2. Phase 2

    Co-design

    You choose how governance works here. Policy from three templates, customised live. Ownership assigned. Partner signs.

  3. Phase 3

    Build & Integrate

    We specify the Microsoft 365 controls: data-loss prevention, logging, access boundaries. Your IT provider implements them from our written mandate.

  4. Phase 4

    Evolve

    Training your team watches on their own time. A live verification test you run in front of us. Then a month of support while confidence builds.

AI Speed Without Shortcuts

Governance isn't the brake. It's what makes the accelerator work. Once the 4-phase installation is complete, conveyancers move faster because they trust the system. Here's what that looks like in practice:

Leasehold Pack Review
90m 45m

AI-assisted extraction of service charge structures, review terms, and HMLR restrictions, verified line by line by your conveyancer.

Report on Title
45m 25m

Extracting easements, planning conditions, and covenants from Land Registry PDFs into standard templates for human review.

AML Source of Funds
60m 35m

Structured extraction of transaction histories and flagging transfers over £5,000 for practitioner verification.

SDLT Screening
30m 15m

Flagging surcharge triggers, shared ownership rules, and multiple dwelling reliefs against HMRC guidelines.

HMLR Requisitions
4.6% <1%

HMLR data, April to September 2025: 4.6% of 1.3m applications drew a fully avoidable requisition, yet a fifth of professional customers already run under 1%. Pre-submission AP1/TR1 screening chases that gap on every pack.

Illustrative Complex Matter: ~1.5 Hours Back Per File

Illustrative working targets drawn from operational experience, not measured client results. We publish real before/after numbers only once they are measured on live engagements; the first metric we track is a firm's avoidable-requisition rate, checkable against HM Land Registry's own published per-firm data.

Free diagnostic

AI
Reality Check.

See your firm's AI exposure through a regulator's eyes. In 2 minutes, discover the gaps in your governance that would trigger a PI underwriter's questions.

  • 01
    Operational Visibility Audit Quick questions that analyse what AI tools are actually active in your practice, including silent vendor-pushed feature releases.
  • 02
    The Regulatory Exposure Score Real-time calculation mapping your risk profile directly against SRA and CLC compliance rules.
  • 03
    Priority Action Sequence What to address first, customised to your responses and delivered to your inbox.

Designed exclusively for partners and compliance executives at regulated conveyancing firms.

Is Your Firm AI-Compromised?

Measure your active compliance exposure and SRA/CLC data protection gaps in 120 seconds.

Confidential audit · No client personal identifiers processed

Built for Your Firm.
Not Scaled Down From Someone Else's.

The enterprise legal AI platforms are real, capable and improving fast. They are also built for in-house teams and international firms with innovation departments. If that describes you, buy one. If your COLP also carries a caseload, read on.

An enterprise AI governance platform

  • Sold per solution or per seat, priced on application. Expect a procurement process.
  • Assumes you have someone whose job is running it.
  • Written for legal work generally. Not for leasehold packs, requisitions or completion-day fraud.
  • Gives you software. The SRA supervision rationale is still yours to write.
  • Says nothing about your PII proposal form.

UtterConnection

  • £995 to start. £5,500 all-in. Published, fixed, no negotiation.
  • Assumes nobody in your firm has spare time. Your IT provider does the configuration.
  • Written for residential conveyancing. Leasehold, title, SDLT, AML, requisitions, exchange deadlines.
  • Gives you the documents a regulator asks to see, drafted for your firm and signed by your COLP.
  • Built around what the SRA is actually investigating right now: citations, supervision, confidentiality.

Small and mid-sized conveyancing practices, SRA or CLC regulated, running Microsoft 365, where nobody's full-time job is AI governance. That is who this was designed for. If you run Google Workspace, or you already have an innovation function, we will say so before you engage rather than midway through.

Four phases. Finished before your renewal.

No six-month IT projects. No generic compliance templates. We write the governance documentation and the oversight standard, and specify the technical controls; your own IT provider implements them. We schedule backwards from your PII renewal. We are taking a founding cohort and we say so plainly.

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Governance Installation rate £5,500 + VAT · Your conveyancers do no technical work

The Case Isn't Ours to Make. It's Already on the Record.

A tribunal has ruled on it. Underwriters are asking about it on this cycle's proposal forms. Every claim below is public record, verifiable in an afternoon, before you ever speak to us.

Upper Tribunal, 17 November 2025 · [2026] UKUT 81 (IAC) ✓ Verified Ruling
"Closed source AI tools which do not place information in the public domain, such as Microsoft Copilot, are available for tasks such as summarising without these risks." Those are the tribunal's own words, describing the exact architecture this installation puts in place. UK and R (on the application of Munir) v SSHD [2026] UKUT 81 (IAC), at [21]. Upper Tribunal Judges Lindsley, Keith and Blundell.

Clear Answers for Compliance Officers

No. UtterConnection is an independent operations and technology consultancy, not an SRA or CLC authorised law firm. We do not provide formal legal or qualified compliance advice. Why aren't we a law firm? Because compliance is an operational challenge, not just a legal opinion. A law firm tells you what the rules are; UtterConnection installs the actual software controls and telemetry gates to enforce them. We partner with your existing COLP/HoLP and legal counsel to translate their policies into active, auditable software controls.

We do not replace your outsourced IT MSP. We act as pure corporate advisors, creating the functional blueprints, drafting operational rules, and authorising technical reference specifications. We brief your IT provider directly, giving them clear technical mandates and reference configurations so they are not researching this on your clock. Our team needs no direct database or tenant access at any point.

No. As strategic advisors, we operate under a strict non-access boundary. We do not require administrative login credentials to your CMS, and we never access, download, or store your client files or private documents. We deliver functional specs, policies, and configuration instructions directly to your firm's leadership and IT Managed Service Provider (MSP).

Fixed fees, no variants, no negotiation. Discovery Audit, our recommended starting point: £995 + VAT. Governance Installation: £5,500 + VAT, all-in, invoiced upfront. One payment, no hidden fees. We schedule backwards from your PII renewal date so the evidence exists when your broker asks for it. Ongoing governance afterwards is optional at £1,500/month + VAT. Decline it and everything installed remains yours in your own tenant. All prices exclude VAT.

Our blueprints work with all the major UK conveyancing case management platforms. The controls sit at the tenant level in Microsoft 365, and we brief your IT provider on the specific settings your platform needs. One requirement: your firm must run Microsoft 365. If you are on Google Workspace, we will tell you that before you engage, not at Week 3.