AI-native conveyancing firm Farringdon launches with Orbital backing

Legal AI company Orbital has invested the proceeds of its recent £44 million fundraise to support the launch of Farringdon, an AI-powered conveyancing firm in London, aimed at addressing inefficiencies in the UK residential property market.

The regulated firm is led by a founding team including Orbital co-founder Ed Boulle, who serves as Farringdon’s managing director.

The firm is operating an agency model where partners refer clients selling residential properties in the UK. Real estate company JLL and Streets Ahead, a family-run company in South East London, have already signed on as partners.

The problem

Managing director Ed Boulle said: “Moving home should be one of life’s best moments, but the process of making it happen can be extraordinarily stressful and unpleasant.

Poor visibility, communication blackspots and bottlenecked information flows - all often created by the conveyancer’s lack of bandwidth - are problems buyers and sellers have come to expect as part and parcel of the process.”

Robert Aveling, deputy head of residential agency & development at JLL, said: “A barrier for all agents to build business and win more sales is the amount of time and effort it takes to stay on top of current transactions and navigate communications between clients and conveyancers”.

The model

Farringdon has been designed around agentic AI workflows that aim to support conveyancers throughout the transaction lifecycle, highlighting risks, predicting potential issues and reducing back-and-forth.

Each transaction is overseen by a solicitor, though many routine tasks are handled through AI workflows, in what the firm says combines automation with human expertise.

The firm is also reworking how conveyancers interact with clients and agents, including the use of real-time updates through channels such as WhatsApp with “clear, jargon-free explanations”.

Another AI-native conveyancing firm Keith was founded last month and proposes a similar model, recently raising a £2 million seed round.

Founding team

Farringdon is led by Boulle, co-founder of Orbital, whose technology supported 200,000 residential and commercial real estate transactions across the US and UK last year.

He is joined by COO Sue Bence, a former COO of Simply Conveyancing, and head of legal practice Sarah Debney, a licensed conveyancer with nearly four decades of experience and a former senior leader at the same firm.

Build and share

A central part of Farringdon’s strategy is its “build and share” model. The firm will develop AI workflows through live transactions and then make that technology available to other firms using Orbital’s platform.

Boulle said the approach reflects the interdependent nature of conveyancing transactions, where progress is often constrained by the slowest party in the chain.

Farringdon is currently onboarding referral partners and expects to begin taking instructions from May 2026. The business is backed by Orbital, though both entities operate separately with defined governance and data controls.

‍Read the origin story of Orbital in our interview with co-founder Will Pearce.