Operations
Keep the file moving.
Clear handoffs, balanced workloads, and a next step for every exception.
- Opening-through-close handoffs
- Files-per-officer & assistant ratios
Management consulting for escrow & settlement companies.
A clearer view of what slows the close, strains your team, and erodes margin. Practical changes that connect your people, numbers, and controls.
Start with the bottleneck. Leave the review with a written order of priorities.
For independent escrow & settlement companies
The work behind the close
Owners, presidents, and COOs. One office or several branches. Typically 5–75 people.
Find your starting pointOne practice. Four levers.
Operations
Clear handoffs, balanced workloads, and a next step for every exception.
Growth
Connect the next order, officer, or branch to the people who will carry it.
Financial management
See what each close contributes and make the next decision with the numbers.
Compliance
Turn the written procedure into a routine your team can show and sustain.
Systems & integrations
A recon dashboard, an order-status automation, a connection to Qualia or SoftPro. We build what the work requires and stay responsible for how it fits.
Inside the systems workThe right information. A defined owner. A clear next action.
How the work moves
Trace the file, the money, and the decision. Read the exceptions with the people who clear them.
Write the sequence, owner, baseline, and next decision. Put the work in an order the office can absorb.
Repair the handoff, the control, or the reporting. Build technology only where the plan calls for it.
Review adoption with the team. Track the agreed measures. Change the routine until the office can carry it.

Personal involvement. Practical follow-through.
Marc McNeill Founder & principal
Marc McNeill brings operating experience across brokerage and lending, with a deep background in RESPA and compliance. He connects what happens at the file level with the staffing, financial, and control decisions an owner has to make.
Start with the operating facts
Bring the stalled handoff, the margin question, or the control that keeps you up. We’ll put the next steps in order.
Book an operating review