Building the coordination layer for real estate transactions.
Empora is rebuilding the rails of a real-estate closing — starting with notary, identity, and fraud, working toward an AI-native transaction coordinator that orchestrates every party in the deal.
The Empora platform vision
Notary, reimagined
SoonIdentity verification, fraud detection, and secure remote signings as the foundation of trustworthy transactions.
Real-estate data, unified
NextOne view of every transaction. The substrate for verification and fraud prevention, end to end.
Coordinator
FutureAI-native orchestration of every party in a real-estate transaction.
Backed by partners who see how to redefine an industry.
A focused group of institutional investors who see the opportunity to rebuild real estate’s transaction infrastructure from the ground up.
Vision & strategy.
Where Empora is going, why now, and the shape of the platform we’re building toward.
Real estate is the largest asset class in the country, and its transactions still run on email, fax, and a chain of disconnected spreadsheets. That gap is the opportunity.
Empora started as a digital-first title and escrow company. Operating that business taught us where the friction actually lives — in identity, in fraud, in the handoffs between parties — and convinced us that the right shape of the company is a software platform, not a service business.
We’re focusing first on the notary: the moment in every closing where identity, fraud risk, and execution converge. Notary is small enough to win, central enough to matter, and the natural wedge into the broader transaction.
From there, we build outward into Coordinator — an AI-native platform that orchestrates every party in a deal: buyer, seller, lender, agent, attorney, title, notary. One source of truth for the transaction. The platform we wish existed when we were closing files ourselves.
What we’re building.
Three layers, built in order. Each one stands on its own; together they become the platform.
- 01Notary, reimagined
Identity, fraud, and signing — engineered.
Every closing pivots on a single moment of identity verification. Empora is rebuilding that surface from first principles: biometric identity, layered fraud detection, and remote and in-person signing flows that meet the bar of every state and underwriter.
- 02Real-estate data, unified
A universal view of every transaction.
Empora unifies the documents, parties, and events that move through a closing into one single layer. Verification and fraud prevention become defaults of the platform — not workflows bolted on after the fact.
- 03Coordinator
One source of truth for the whole deal.
The long-term platform: AI-native orchestration of every party in a real-estate transaction — buyer, seller, lender, agent, attorney, title, notary. The notary work is the wedge. Coordinator is the destination.
The team behind the platform.
Operators and builders who have closed real-estate transactions and shipped software at scale.
Megan Harris
Founder & CEO
Founded Empora to rebuild the infrastructure of a real-estate closing — from a digital-first title and escrow company into the AI-native coordination layer for the industry.
David Landreman
CTO
Leads engineering and product at Empora. Background in technical leadership building software & data platforms at scale.
Rashawn Gordon-Stafford
Notary Manager
Runs Empora’s notary operations. Deep operating history in the notary space, from signings on the ground to managing networks at scale.
Let’s talk.
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