The problem
A full report took a day to write by hand.
Dudley’s renewable energy clients are developers, not title professionals. The mineral ownership report Dudley delivers is built in the conventions of oil-and-gas title work: a spreadsheet listing who owns the mineral rights on each parcel, wrapped in legal disclaimers. It carries everything a title expert needs and nothing a developer can act on directly. Patrick Durman put it plainly: “You just see spreadsheet. It’s got disclaimers all over it. How do I interpret it?”
Dudley’s answer was a title summary, a plain-English writeup of the ownership information that a client with no title background can follow.
Building one meant pulling together ownership reports, runsheets, deeds, and production records, then rewriting all of it by hand into plain language. Patrick said a full report took him a day; Natalie Johns put a four-parcel project at a couple of hours.
The work got heavy enough that Dudley eventually stopped making the summaries. That only moved the burden. Without a written summary, a Dudley team member would spend 30 minutes to an hour on the phone walking each client through the raw report.
The solution
A reusable skill that drafts the summary from the raw documents.
Benali built Dudley a reusable skill in Claude AI, a saved capability the team can invoke on demand. It starts from one finished title summary and the exact source documents behind it. Claude studies both, works out where each piece of the summary came from, and builds that logic into the skill. From then on, Dudley uploads the raw documents for a new project and the skill drafts the summary.
Claude flags anything it’s unsure about, so a person at Dudley checks it before the document goes out. Claude handles roughly 90%; the last 10% stays with human judgment.
Time & impact
From a full day to a 10-to-15-minute review.
Before, a multi-parcel summary ran to a full day, which is why Dudley had shelved it. Now, it’s a 10-to-15-minute generate-and-review cycle.
The real prize is one the team named themselves: with a plain-English summary in hand, Dudley can hand a client the results plus a bid for the next step, so approved work comes back in the door faster and repeat projects follow. As Blake Thomas put it, the title summary skill “is going to make us money” and “get more repeat work.”