The problem
The review takes an expert, and experts are exactly who can’t spare the time.
Before Dudley Land Company leases a parcel for oil and gas work, its landmen build a runsheet: a chronological record of every title document tied to that land, tracking each deed, lease, and assignment, and who owns what share. That ownership math, the fractional interest, decides who gets paid and how much, and a single wrong figure throws off the whole picture.
The runsheet goes to the client, who makes real leasing decisions on it. Reputation and money ride on it being right. Checking one takes the same title knowledge it took to build it, so review lands on the people whose time is already the scarcest. Reading a long run of entries by eye is slow, and a miscalculated interest is easy to miss.
The solution
One workshop, then a landman built the review himself.
Benali’s training walks a team through using Claude AI on their own real files, setting up projects and handing Claude the kind of documents they work with every day. Jeremy Jones, one of Dudley’s landmen, put it to work the same afternoon on title review. He set up a folder and asked Claude to review title work; when it asked for a completed runsheet, he exported one of the team’s stronger examples as a spreadsheet and dropped it in.
Claude read every entry and handed back a ranked list of issues, critical items at the top, minor ones like spelling and numbering at the bottom. At the top sat a fractional-interest calculation that looked wrong, flagged as the first thing to check. Claude ranked the issues; Jeremy supplied the judgment on what the flag meant and what to do about it. He did all of this on his first attempt, working from what he’d picked up in Benali’s training.
Time & impact
The review ran in ninety seconds. The team owns the method.
The whole review ran in about a minute and a half, and it surfaced the kind of error that decides who gets paid, before the client made leasing decisions on it.
The bigger result is who produced it. A Dudley landman built this review himself, the day he learned how. Every runsheet can now get an expert-grade first pass in minutes, the landmen spend their title judgment on the flagged items instead of the full read, and the capability belongs to Dudley’s team, ready for every file that follows.