Plot the legal on any file and see the problems before closing does, with closure, gaps, and precision in view.
Every title office knows the 4pm re-read: the same paragraph of calls, a third time, trying to picture a boundary that will not hold still. These are the moments where plotting it is faster than reading it again.
Plot the legal from the commitment against the one on the vesting deed, in the same project. A typo, a dropped call, or a gap shows up as a picture and a closure readout instead of another re-read. What is on Schedule A either draws the land or it does not, and you can see which in the time it takes to paste it in.
Plot each easement or right of way over the property as its own layer, then drop the recorded plat or an aerial underneath and see what it touches. A Schedule B exception stops being a paragraph you have to hold in your head and becomes a shape sitting on the parcel, next to the house.
The prior policy and the current commitment plotted together, on one drawing, so differences are visible rather than inferred. One project per file keeps every plot on that order together with a status, so anyone picking the file up can see where it stands.
The plot goes over with its checks in view, closure, gaps, and precision, so the call is made on evidence instead of on a description read down the phone. The tool shows the math; the underwriter makes the call.
Above the single file, Expert gives the office a team-wide view of every order's plot work, with statuses and shared categories so two people working the same kind of file work it the same way. Credits are pooled across seats, so the balance follows the workload instead of sitting unused on one login.
If this belongs in your title production system rather than a browser tab, the plotting core behind Trace is available as an API: post the legal, store the geometry and the closure checks on the file. For a plant backlog rather than a live order, Bulk Processing Services runs the volume and returns located parcels, which is the abstractor and plant side of the same work.
POST .../documents/from-legal-description
{
"legalDescription": "N 40 15 30 W 176.87 ..."
}{
"geoJsonUrl": "[file URL]",
"dxfUrl": "[file URL]",
"boundaryClosurePercent": 99.98
}Bring a commitment exhibit into Trace and see the boundary with the checks in view.