Archive examines chains of title from patent to present. Surface, mineral, and production interests — traced, verified, and delivered in minutes.
Built for operators across the Permian Basin
What We Do
Historically, title research and verification has taken months — sometimes years — with no metrics on timing, no cap on cost, and a quality that varies drastically from one report, and one researcher, to the next.
Archive challenges that status quo: a fixed, predictable cost. Months of research delivered in minutes. And precision that is not a goal — it is our standard.
Who It’s For
Operators, mineral buyers, attorneys, and the landmen who work for them — anyone who has to know who owns what under a tract before money moves.
What You Get
A complete examination package: the formatted report, the instrument-by-instrument runsheet, and a copy of every recorded document behind it — delivered to your dashboard as PDF and Excel.
Sample Reports
An automated title system has never existed — so nobody knows what the output looks like. Open a full, interactive sample: the formatted report plus the complete instrument-by-instrument runsheet, with a downloadable package. Every name, date, and instrument shown is fictional.
Every recorded instrument on the tract, in chronological order.
View sample →The surface estate, traced from patent to the present owner.
View sample →The mineral estate through every reservation and severance.
View sample →Who gets paid what when a well produces — royalty, NPRI, ORRI and working interest.
View sample →How You Order
No engagement letters, no callbacks, no invoice surprises. Describe the tract, see the price before you pay, and track the report to your dashboard.
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When research takes minutes instead of months, title stops being the last step of a deal and becomes the first. Check a tract before you bid on it, screen acreage before you lease it — answer the ownership question while it can still shape the decision.
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Every report has a fixed price you see before you pay. No retainers, no hourly meter, no invoice that grew while nobody was watching. Diligence becomes a line item you can put in the deal model — per tract, per report, known in advance.
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At a fixed price and minutes a report, you can examine every section that matters — a whole unit, a whole township, a whole play — and run it again the day something new records. Work that was economically unthinkable becomes routine.
Questions
To the patent — the moment the land left government ownership — and forward to the present owner. In this basin that is frequently the 1800s, which is why handwritten-record capability is a requirement rather than a feature.
A legal description. Section, township and range, or a metes-and-bounds description — the same thing you would hand a landman. Archive resolves it to the tract and reads the record from there.
A formatted report with the findings and the reasoning, a runsheet listing every instrument in chronological order with its recording reference and what it conveyed, and the source documents themselves. The four sample packages above are complete, real examples — open one.
No. It is title research: the record, assembled and traced, with every conclusion tied to the instrument behind it. A title opinion is a lawyer's judgement on that record, and it remains a lawyer's to give.
It is flagged rather than resolved silently. Gaps in a chain, conflicting conveyances, illegible instruments and scrivener's errors appear in the report as advisories — the places a human should look, stated as such.
Archive is live in southeast New Mexico and expanding across the Permian. If the tract you care about is not covered yet, ask — coverage is driven by where the demand is.