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Measured benchmark: 233.3 conventional landman hours versus eight SLS processing hours for 800 instruments and 1,200 pages. That is approximately 29 times fewer processing hours under the model's stated assumptions.
SLS's proprietary title technology is currently deployed across seven active projects, including:
Scope and throughput vary with record availability, jurisdiction, chain complexity and required deliverables.
Compare a conventional landman workflow with SLS Title Intelligence and model the value of time. What is getting in front of the owner earlier worth?
2.0 conventional working days versus 0.4 hours of automated research processing before professional review
When complete records are available electronically, both workflows begin with the same record set. When they are not, retrieval time and cost are shown separately. Automated processing is not presented as final delivery: experienced land and title professionals review the work before SLS delivers an Ownership Report or acts on it.
Operating benchmark used: 800 instruments and 1,200 pages processed by SLS in eight hours.
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How pricing is recommended. The customer does not select a price tier. The calculator recommends a preliminary category from the ownership scope, number of tracts and known title conditions. Instrument and page totals refine workload, but volume alone does not define title complexity.
How the conventional model works. Research time includes page briefing plus instrument-level indexing, cross-referencing, title chaining, briefing and data entry. Staffing changes the schedule, while total labor hours remain tied to the entered record volume. The default assumes five minutes per page and ten additional minutes per instrument. A one-tract surface examination has a 16-hour conventional research floor before retrieval, reflecting tract setup, grantor-grantee searching, chain reconciliation and report preparation. Mineral and leasehold scopes carry higher floors because they require additional ownership, lease and HBP analysis.
How the SLS research estimate works. The processing estimate is calibrated to an actual SLS operating benchmark: 800 instruments and 1,200 pages processed in eight hours. That equals 100 instruments or 150 pages per processing hour. The calculator uses whichever entered volume requires more processing time. Automated processing is shown separately from professional review and final delivery.
Pricing. Ownership Reports start at $1,000 per tract for straightforward work, $2,000 per tract for standard work and $3,000 per tract for complex work. Final pricing is confirmed after initial scope review. Large AOI, multi-tract and leasing programs are custom scoped and are not priced by multiplying the published per-tract starting fee.
This is an illustrative planning model, not a quote, title opinion or delivery-time guarantee. SLS delivery timing is confirmed after scope review because it includes professional review and any required record retrieval. Final pricing and timing depend on jurisdiction, record access, title history, ownership complexity and required deliverables. Experienced land and title professionals validate the AI-assisted work.
SLS deploys multiple specialized title workflows that operate continuously across surface, mineral and leasehold title. They search by legal description and name at the same time and, when the required records are available, build the chain forward from sovereignty to develop an integrated ownership picture across the relevant estates.
This is not simply document retrieval or a faster courthouse search. The technology performs substantive title processing at scale, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
When required records are not available online, SLS personnel retrieve them from the courthouse or abstract plant. Experienced SLS title and land professionals then review exceptions, validate the resulting ownership picture and determine where additional research or curative work may be required.
Faster title creates an advantage only when it leads directly to credible outreach, negotiation and acquisition. SLS keeps that work under one roof.
Turn courthouse records, instruments and existing files into organized surface, mineral, royalty, leasehold and working-interest ownership intelligence, including encumbrances of record and geospatial mapping of the interests identified.
Move from target-market screening and parcel identification through ownership research, landowner outreach, negotiation and closing.
Evaluate mineral, royalty and leasehold ownership, investigate fragmented interests and support targeted acquisition campaigns.
Coordinate multi-tract programs, easements, surface agreements, transmission, pipeline and other infrastructure corridors.
Keep diligence, counterparties, agreements and closing requirements aligned under one accountable SLS workflow.
Reach the right owners with local credibility, discretion and the context required to move a serious opportunity forward.
Final pricing is confirmed after initial scope review and may vary based on ownership scope, document volume, tract count, record availability and title complexity.
A tract is not the same as a section. A single section may contain multiple ownership tracts requiring separate chains of title.
Large operator, multi-tract and leasing programs are priced separately based on acreage, tract count, title complexity, HBP/production requirements and land services.
Give us the AOI. We'll scope the program.Upload Your AOISykes Land Services is not a law firm and does not provide legal title opinions.
Title becomes acquisition intelligence when it reaches the team in time to shape a decision.
Submit title materials, runsheets, deeds, leases, assignments or ownership files. We review scope before confirming schedule and pricing.