Simplifile arose from a workflow challenge in the late 1990s.

Paul Clifford, Mark Reynolds, and Dan Forward were providing professional consulting services to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The three led a project team tasked with creating an online process that would fully automate the financial and legal document workflow processes—all transactions from order entry to secondary markets—for the mortgage industry.

When the project stalled at the “last mile”—the eRecording of documents submitted by title companies, lien filers, etc. to county recorders—Paul, Mark, and Dan determined to solve the “last mile” challenge. Together, they began designing a recordation architecture simple and affordable enough for small counties to use, yet flexible, secure, and robust enough for large counties and states. Several months later, in June 2002, they incorporated Simplifile to provide public document eRecording services.

In January 2003, Simplifile successfully recorded their first land record document in Utah County, which has a population of more than one-half million. Since then, Simplifile has enabled numerous counties and submitters to successfully submit and record hundreds of thousands of documents via Simplifile’s submitter, receiver, and portal solutions. Thanks to Simplifile, simple, secure, affordable electronic recording is now a reality.

Today, Simplifile is expanding its field and corporate operations to enable eRecording in markets across the United States, and to provide the technology development, product management, customer support, and administrative services required to keep pace with market demand.