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Streamlining Real Estate Closures with Velvet Elves: An Automated Transaction Management Platform
In the intricate world of real estate, managing multi-party transactions is often tedious and error-prone. Velvet Elves, a custom-built real estate transaction management platform, transforms this complexity into a streamlined and automated experience. Designed for agents, transaction coordinators, mortgage vendors, and title vendors, the platform automates task generation, document handling, and lifecycle workflows through a secure and role-based interface.
By digitizing the entire 7-step property transaction process, Velvet Elves minimizes manual oversight and ensures timely closures. Ariel Software Solutions played a pivotal role in engineering a scalable and secure solution tailored to the real estate industry’s unique needs.
Project Features
Seven-Step Transaction Form
A guided wizard captures key transaction data, including property, mortgage, and participant details, enabling structured deal creation.
Role-Based Workflow Dashboards
Customized interfaces for Agents, Transaction Coordinators (Elves), Mortgage Vendors, and Title Vendors, ensuring secure, relevant access.
Automated Task Generation
Tasks are auto-created based on form inputs and assigned deadlines, ensuring seamless coordination among stakeholders.
Daily Email Notifications
A scheduled job sends consolidated, role-specific reminders for upcoming and overdue tasks to ensure accountability.
Secure Document Management
Enables upload and storage of sensitive transaction files with role-based access, metadata tagging, and encryption.
Automated Transaction Lifecycle
Automatically progresses the transaction status to “Closed” once all critical tasks are completed, eliminating human error.
Technical Stack
Challenges
1. Capturing Complex, Role-Specific Data in a Simple Form Flow
The platform needed to handle a multi-party transaction involving agents, mortgage vendors, and title companies. Each role had different responsibilities, data points, and documentation needs. Designing a single workflow that could accommodate all scenarios without overwhelming the user required an intelligent, dynamic form structure.
2. Coordinating Interdependent Tasks Across Multiple Roles
The real estate transaction lifecycle is highly interdependent, Task B can’t begin unless Task A is completed by another role. Managing these dependencies without a project manager or manual oversight meant the system had to be smart enough to automate sequencing, assignment, and accountability.
3. Preventing Task Overload and Missed Deadlines
Real estate professionals juggle multiple transactions at once. Without a proper reminder system, it was easy for stakeholders to miss tasks or deadlines, leading to delays in closure. Yet overly frequent alerts would become noise.
4. Securely Handling High-Stakes Legal Documents
Documents like mortgage papers and purchase agreements contain sensitive financial and legal information. Ensuring end-to-end encryption, access control, and role-specific visibility was non-negotiable to meet both legal standards and client trust.
5. Automating the Transaction Closure Without Human Intervention
The client wanted transactions to automatically move to the “Closed” status once all mandatory tasks were completed. However, implementing this logic required precise validation, ensuring edge cases like optional tasks or late document uploads didn’t break the closure workflow.
Solution Provided
1. Dynamic Wizard-Based Form with Role-Adaptive Inputs
We designed a seven-step form that dynamically adjusted based on user role and transaction type. Conditional fields and validations ensured that agents, vendors, and coordinators only saw and completed what was relevant to them. This reduced friction and eliminated form fatigue while maintaining data completeness and integrity.
2. Intelligent Task Dependency Engine
A rule-based task engine was implemented to model real-world dependencies. For instance, once a transaction was created, tasks like “Mortgage Document Upload” or “Title Company Confirmation” were auto-assigned to the relevant vendor, but only after prerequisite steps were fulfilled. This eliminated manual handovers and miscommunication.
3. Precision-Timed Email Notification System
We engineered a role-specific email digest that compiled all tasks due or overdue within a 24-hour window. These were sent once daily to avoid alert fatigue but still maintain urgency. The logic ensured only relevant and actionable tasks were included for each role, improving responsiveness.
4. Military-Grade Secure Document Handling
Documents were uploaded via secure HTTPS protocols, encrypted at rest using AES-256, and permissioned through our RBAC framework. Metadata tagging allowed documents to be sorted and retrieved easily while ensuring vendors could only access files related to their assigned tasks.
5. Validated Closure Mechanism Tied to Task Completion Logic
We built a back-end service that continuously monitored task status across all roles. Only when every critical task was marked “Complete” by the assigned role did the transaction status update to “Closed.” The logic was tested for various edge cases, such as late uploads or optional documents, to ensure stability and accuracy.
Conclusion: Empowering Smarter Energy Management
Velvet Elves has redefined the transaction experience for real estate professionals. By automating tasks, managing role-specific workflows, and securing critical documents, the platform empowers coordinators and vendors to close deals more efficiently and accurately.
Ariel Software Solutions’ expertise in workflow automation, secure architecture, and enterprise-grade design made Velvet Elves a standout solution in the real estate tech landscape. Our commitment to building user-centric, scalable applications ensures we continue to support our clients in transforming operational challenges into digital advantages.
