How contract reading works

When you add a PDF to a transaction, Closingbird reads it with AI and fills in the file. From the executed contract it looks for:

• the deadlines in it, with how each is counted (for example 10 days after acceptance, or 3 business days before closing);
• the people: buyers, sellers, agents, lender and escrow or title, with names, emails and phone numbers where the contract has them;
• the property address, purchase price, earnest money, financing and acceptance date.

It also recognises the documents themselves, such as a signed disclosure or an addendum, and ticks them off your required-documents list.

It only fills blanks

Facts from a contract only fill fields that are empty, and never overwrite a value you've entered. A later document (an addendum or counter-offer) that states a new date replaces the earlier one. The Activity log records what each document added.

Files it can read

• PDFs only. Photos and Word files are stored on the file but not read.
• Scanned PDFs work too. When a PDF has no text layer, the first 6 pages are read as images.
• Very long documents are read up to about 12,000 characters, which covers the dates section of a standard purchase agreement.

Reading uses AI credits from your plan's monthly allowance. If you're out of credits the file is still stored, but not read.