Normalized claim
Time: 70% decrease
Saved up to 70% of lawyer time on property due diligence.
Orbital Witness streamlines legal property diligence for UK real estate
Use case typeLegal document automationUpdated Jun 13, 2026
Orbital Witness, a UK-based legal tech company, developed an AI-powered assistant called Orbital Copilot to transform real estate legal diligence. The AI agent leverages Azure OpenAI Service, Azure App Service, and scalable Azure infrastructure to automate and mimic real estate lawyer workflows, saving legal teams significant time on due diligence. Early solutions relied on classic supervised machine learning, but the company pivoted to generative AI with GPT-4 as soon as Microsoft made it available through Azure. The solution performs document analysis, contextual understanding, information gathering, supplementary research, and provides transparency with audit trails essential for legal compliance. Orbital Copilot’s machine vision and OCR on Azure enable processing of a wide variety of legal documents, including handwritten and scanned copies, increasing efficiency and reducing manual error. Law firms collaborating with Orbital Witness reported up to 70% time savings on property due diligence, driving rapid adoption in the legal sector. The flexible, cloud-native architecture allows easy scaling, enabling law firms to process thousands of documents on demand. Security, compliance, and resilience are further enhanced by leveraging features like Defender for Cloud, bolstering user confidence. Partnering with Microsoft for Startups and technical support accelerated both product development and customer trust. Orbital Witness is now expanding to the US market and exploring further AI use cases with vision models for real estate.
- Organization
- Orbital Witness
- Industry
- Legal
- Location
- United Kingdom
Reported outcomes
−70%
timeTime & speed
Strategic outcomes
New product / capabilityAutomated lawyer-like property diligenceSpeed & agilityEnabled faster legal research workflowsRisk & complianceImproved transparency and auditabilityMarket & geographic expansionExpanded adoption into the US market
Why do we believe this?Outcome claims, sources, and evidence checks
Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks
- Customer
- Orbital Witness
- Provider
- Microsoft
- Maturity
- Exploring
- Linked source
- microsoft.com
Orbital Witness is now expanding to the US market and exploring further AI use cases with vision models for real estate
Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity supported
Primary read
Use case focus
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- 1Automated Property Due Diligence for Real Estate Law
- 2AI-Powered Legal Document Analysis and Research
- 3Generative AI Assistant Mimicking Lawyer Review Workflows
- Property diligence for real estate legal work was highly time-consuming and labor-intensive.
- Law firms faced mounting administrative burden in document processing and legal research.
- Prior ML solutions required laborious, expensive data labeling by expert lawyers.
- Manual processes made compliance, transparency, and scalability difficult, especially for large property portfolios.
- Clients expected more transparent, audit-ready, and efficient legal service during high-stakes transactions.
- Orbital Copilot, an AI agent using Azure OpenAI Service (GPT-4), was implemented to automate and mimic lawyer-like diligence.
- Adopted Azure App Service and containerized Azure architectures for scalable, resilient deployment.
- Integrated Azure-based OCR and machine vision for processing diverse legal documentation, including handwritten/scanned docs.
- Co-developed solutions with real estate legal experts to ensure domain-relevant prompt engineering and workflows.
- Leveraged Microsoft for Startups for best practice, technical support, and customer trust acceleration.
- Utilized Defender for Cloud for enhanced security and compliance in handling sensitive legal data.
- Saved up to 70% of lawyer time on property due diligence.
- Enabled faster, more scalable, and compliant legal research for law firms.
- Enhanced transparency and auditability, meeting high regulatory standards.
- Accelerated go-to-market, with expanded adoption among UK law firms and plans for US market.
- Improved customer confidence in AI solutions by building on trusted Microsoft infrastructure.
Architecture
Orbital Copilot leverages Azure OpenAI Service (GPT-4) for generative AI, deployed with Azure App Service and containerized Azure infrastructure for resilience and scalability. Document ingestion and preprocessing use Azure’s OCR capabilities to convert handwritten and scanned legal documents into machine-readable text. The AI agent performs analysis and decision-making, providing transparent, auditable results. Security and compliance features are enhanced via Defender for Cloud.
Sources & evidence1
Evidence: Medium65/100Evidence strength
- Customer explicitly identified
- Deployment status explicitly supported
- Primary source available
- Quantified outcome available
- Technical implementation details available
Type: Customer StoryPublisher: microsoft.comEvidence: PrimaryConfidence: High
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