Every home loan ends with a signature. Sign’d is building the network behind it.
Sign’d Fund I acquires owner-operated loan-signing and closing businesses, brings them onto the existing Sign’d AI-native platform, and builds one scaled delivery network for lenders, servicers and title companies.
Built by a lender who was tired of broken closings.
Notaroo started with a frustration its founder felt over a long career in mortgage lending: loans that were approved, funded and ready, then derailed at the signing table by a missing page, a wrong signature or a notary who went quiet.
Today that idea has become Sign’d, a precision mortgage operations platform that combines mobile notary execution, AI-powered quality control and real-time integrations. It delivers consistent, error-free signing workflows for high-volume lenders, escrow companies and mortgage servicers.
Most competitors are either a notary network with coverage but little technology, or a software platform that never controls execution in the field. Sign’d does both.
Notaroo was one of the best decisions that our firm could have made. Their communications, availability to service all types of signings and ability to service attorney states were all reasons we partnered with Notaroo.
Greg O’Neil, Settlement Services
Accuracy is everything
In a closing, one error can cost a borrower, a lender and a deadline.
Own the outcome
A partner and extension of the client’s operations team, not another vendor.
Systems over shortcuts
Repeatable workflows and AI quality checks, not heroics.
Transparency builds trust
Real-time status at every stage, so no one wonders where a file stands.
More completed orders for Cherry Creek Mortgage after moving its signings to Notaroo (company case study).
A strategic title company is already an investor in the Sign’d platform.
The closing table still runs on thousands of small shops.
Mortgages have gone digital almost everywhere except the last mile. The businesses that put signatures on loan documents are mostly local, owner-operated and sub-scale, and lenders feel it on every file.
Fragmented, sub-scale operators
An estimated $1.5–2B a year is spread across thousands of owner-run shops, with no financial sponsor consolidating them.
Errors treated as normal
Missing pages, redraws and reschedules cost lenders time and money and push borrowers toward the competition.
Coverage or technology, rarely both
Notary networks have reach but little tech. Software platforms have tech but don’t control what happens in the field.
Revenue tied to one side of the cycle
Origination-only shops rise and fall with rates. When refinances slow, their volume goes with them.
What lenders and servicers need instead:
What a failed signing really costs.
For a lender, the signing is the moment months of work either closes or comes undone. These are the frustrations Notaroo was built to remove, and the ones every fragmented shop still struggles with.
- !Signings that need extra time because something’s missing
- !Packages done incorrectly, costing the lender a borrower
- !Closings that take the borrower far too long to complete
- !Remote locations where a qualified signing agent is hard to find
- !Borrower personal information left exposed over open text and email
A fragmented market, an existing platform, a defined buyer.
The fund’s target platform revenue of $50–75M would be a low-single-digit share of the signing and closing market. The constraint isn’t demand; it’s the supply of shops worth buying.
No one is consolidating
Thousands of owner-operated businesses, and no financial sponsor rolling them up.
The platform already exists
Sign’d is built and operating, and a strategic title company has already invested in it.
Natural strategic buyers
Title insurers own the customer relationships but still rely on outsourced signing, closing and field capacity.
*Market sizes are management estimates. Title premium figure is from the American Land Title Association, full-year 2025.
One operating system for a unified signing and closing network.
The existing Sign’d AI-native platform runs the combined business: scheduling, package quality and a single counterparty for lenders and servicers. Sign’d owns the delivery network and runs AI workflows through it.
Scheduling & coordination
Signings matched by type, location, timing and experience across the whole delivery network.
AI package quality
AI-driven quality assurance checks every package, so errors are caught before the borrower sits down.
Shared workflows
Acquired businesses run on common workflows, integrations and secure document transfer.
One counterparty
Lenders and servicers deal with one accountable partner, with real-time status at every stage.
Mortgage signings & digital closings
Title, escrow & closing support
Loss-mitigation execution for servicers
Property inspections & field services
Buy established businesses. Integrate one platform. Build toward a strategic sale.
Mortgage services are relationship-driven, so winning accounts one by one is slow. Sign’d Fund I acquires established books of business instead, then improves how that revenue is served.
Buy
Acquire owner-operated signing and closing businesses at low multiples.
Integrate
Bring acquired operations onto the Sign’d platform and one P&L.
Expand
Add servicer, loss-mitigation and related field work.
Improve
Reduce redraws, reschedules and duplicate overhead.
Position
Build a network a strategic buyer would rather acquire than build.
No acquisition, exit or liquidity outcome is assured. A strategic title company’s existing investment in the platform is not a commitment to acquire the combined business.
Not software access alone. Execution, with AI built in.
Traditional systems
- ✕Owner-operated, sub-scale businesses
- ✕Fragmented capacity
- ✕Manual, error-prone workflows
- ✕Reactive quality control
- ✕Single-market exposure
The Sign’d platform
- ✓Consolidated platform at scale
- ✓Unified delivery network
- ✓AI-native platform with automated error reduction
- ✓AI-driven quality assurance
- ✓Origination, loss-mitigation and field work
The natural hedge: earning on both sides of the rate cycle.
Origination activity
- Mortgage signings
- Digital closings
- Related closing support
Servicing & loss mitigation
- Loss-mitigation signings
- Servicer field execution & inspections
- Selected related services
New originations move with interest rates, while loss-mitigation and servicing work tends to move the other way. The mix is intended to reduce dependence on a refinance boom. Illustrative curves, not actual data. Diversification across workflows does not eliminate mortgage-market or investment risk.
Sign’d Fund I, in brief.
Target returns, minimum investment and full terms are set out in the Fund’s confidential offering materials, which our team can walk you through on a call. Targets are objectives, not forecasts or guarantees.
Operators from mortgage, title and private capital.
Todd Ausherman
18+ years in mortgage banking, 8+ years in financial technology and 20+ years as a California attorney. The founder of Sign’d and a former mortgage brokerage owner, he leads the fund, lender and servicer relationships, and the platform.
Anthony Lopez
13+ years across real estate, structured finance, title and escrow, and legal services. He has participated in over $500 million of real estate transactions and leads operations, integration and execution.
Christian Mack
25+ years in enterprise software, private equity and venture capital. As Chairman of Terra Rossa Family Office, he has led or advised on over $1.2 billion in capital formation and advises on capital strategy and scaling.
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- Why the closing table is still fragmented, and why that matters
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- The buy-and-build model and the natural hedge across the rate cycle
- 10 questions to ask any buy-and-build services fund
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Questions investors ask first.
What is Sign’d Fund I?
A private equity fund with a buy-and-build strategy. It acquires owner-operated loan-signing, closing and mortgage-fulfillment businesses and integrates them onto the existing Sign’d AI-native platform, building one scaled delivery network for lenders, servicers and title companies.
How do Notaroo and Sign’d relate?
Notaroo, Inc. is the company behind Sign’d. Sign’d is its precision mortgage operations platform, combining mobile notary execution, AI-powered quality control and real-time integrations. The fund is anchored on that platform.
What does the fund buy?
Established owner-operated signing and closing-services businesses with existing lender and servicer relationships. Through the network, the platform also adds loss-mitigation execution, property inspections, remote online notarization and selective title, escrow and appraisal work.
How is value intended to be created?
By buying at disciplined entry multiples, putting acquired businesses on one P&L, adding servicing and loss-mitigation work, cutting redraws, reschedules and duplicate overhead, and building a network a strategic buyer would rather acquire than build.
Does the strategy depend on a refinance boom?
It is designed not to. Origination work rises and falls with rates, while loss-mitigation and servicing work tends to move the other way. That mix is intended to reduce dependence on originations, though it does not eliminate mortgage-market or investment risk.
What is the exit strategy?
The fund seeks to build a scaled platform positioned for acquisition by a strategic title or mortgage-services buyer. No exit or liquidity outcome is assured.
Who can invest, and what are the terms?
The fund is intended only for qualified purchasers. Target returns, minimums and full terms are set out in the confidential offering materials, which our team can walk you through on a call.
What are the main risks?
Private investments are long-term, illiquid and speculative, and can result in the loss of capital. Acquisitions, integration and a strategic sale may not happen as planned. Review the offering materials carefully and consult your own advisers.
What happens on the call?
A no-pressure conversation about the platform, the strategy and how the fund could fit your allocation. If it’s a fit, we’ll arrange access to the full offering materials.
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