Held to the standard you hold yourself to.
You carry fiduciary responsibility for high-value assets. Every part of how we work, from the vendors we engage to the way data is kept, is built to pass the scrutiny your own compliance, procurement, and security teams apply.
- Built inside Lloyd's Lab, the insurance market's own proving ground
- Due diligence on every vendor before they touch a collection
- Encrypted in transit and at rest. SOC 2 Type II in progress.
- AI on your servers or our own hardware. Never trained on your data.
Built inside the strictest market there is.
Title was developed inside Lloyd's Lab, the insurtech accelerator of Lloyd's of London, alongside the syndicates and underwriters who carry the risk on the world's most valuable collections. That market does not accept a number nobody checked, a record nobody can audit, or a vendor nobody vetted. Its discipline, financial risk management applied to art and collectibles, is the discipline we run on: every value with an author and a date, every change attributed, every exposure measured before it is carried.
Due diligence on every vendor.
Appraisers, conservators, art handlers and shippers, framers, installers: nobody touches a client's collection on our behalf before they have been through the same due diligence, recorded with who reviewed them and when. Credentials are verified against the issuing body, never taken at face value. Vendors are never deleted from the network, only retired, so the history stays attached to the name.
Ten points, the same for every vendor, published.
How valuation works →- 01Website and practice reviewed.
- 02CV on file.
- 03Credentials verified against the issuing body.
- 04Errors-and-omissions insurance verified.
- 05Conflict of interest screened.
- 06First call held.
- 07First written proposal received.
- 08References checked.
- 09First mandate completed.
- 10Quality reviewed after the mandate.
How your data is kept.
The answers your security team asks for, in the order they ask for them. The full picture is in the privacy policy and the business continuity plan.
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Encryption
All data is encrypted in transit (TLS 1.2 and above) and at rest (AES-256). Collection records, valuations, documents, and client information are protected at every layer.
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SOC 2 Type II
Certification is in progress. The audit evaluates our controls for security, availability, and confidentiality against AICPA standards.
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Access and the audit trail
Access is scoped per person: the advisor, the family, the appraiser, the insurer each see what they should and nothing else. Every action is logged with a timestamp and an author. The record is immutable and exportable.
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Your data stays yours
Client data is never shared, sold, or used beyond delivering the services you asked for. A full export is available at any time. The diagnostic runs in your environment.
How we use AI.
Model as trigger, appraiser as arbiter. Your data never trains a model.
Read the white paper →- 01
Where the processing happens
Collection information is processed in one of two places, and nowhere else. For a portfolio diagnostic on an insurance book, on the institution's own network and servers. For everything else, on our own hardware, on premises, on a local GPU. It never leaves for a cloud model.
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What the models do, and do not do
A model reads, sorts, flags, and drafts. It estimates whether a value has probably drifted and puts the object in front of a person. It never sets a value, never signs a report, and never decides. We are deeply wary of AI valuation: a value that holds in court has a human author, and no model can explain itself, testify, or carry liability. We tried to build one, and published why it cannot work. A qualified appraiser sets every value; a member of our team reviews every output before it reaches you.
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Never trained on your data
We do not train models on client data, ours or anyone else's, and no client data is sent to a third party to train theirs. The record stays sovereign to the collector and the institution that holds it.
Discretion, by default.
The professionals and institutions we serve manage sensitive assets in sensitive circumstances: estates in probate, separations under litigation, collections with significant insurance exposure. Every engagement is confidential by default.
Case studies are published with client permission and identifying details removed. We do not disclose client relationships, collection values, or engagement details without explicit authorisation. References are available on request to qualified prospects. Our name appears on your client's file only if you want it there.
How we operate.
Ask us anything about this →- 01
Montreal and New York
Two offices, two jurisdictions, and operational continuity between them.
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A written business continuity plan
Aligned with SEC and CIRO practice, reviewed on a schedule, and published.
Read the plan → - 03
Privacy by law, not by policy
Our practices follow Quebec’s Law 25, PIPEDA, the GDPR where it applies, and the relevant US state privacy laws.
Privacy policy →