Ed Molyneux is co-founder and CTO of Moverly, the property intelligence platform working with LMS and Connells Group to bring structured, verified data to property transactions. He is the architect of the Property Data Trust Framework (PDTF), the open standard for machine-readable property data now being adopted across the industry. Ed writes about AI, property data infrastructure, and the future of conveyancing.
The draft Law Society Conveyancing Protocol modernises how documents move. Ed Molyneux argues that the reforms already in train will make the next revision about information rather than paper, and sets out the three things
The draft Conveyancing Protocol mentions AI once. Ed Molyneux argues the clause that will really govern machine-written enquiries is the one that never uses the word, and that it is a test of data quality
In the sixth and final article of a series on safely adopting AI, Ed Molyneux turns from where data goes to whether the answer is right, and sets out the evidence a firm should demand
In the fifth of a series on safely adopting AI, Ed Molyneux offers a short and occasionally awkward checklist that separates an AI tool a firm can genuinely govern from a confident brochure. The
In the fourth of a series on safely adopting AI, Ed Molyneux sets out a four-rung ladder from copy-paste to fully governed, and argues most firms are standing a rung lower than they think. Last
In the third of a series on safely adopting AI, Ed Molyneux turns a firm’s obligations into an actual design, a single controlled route to client data, and explains why a bolt-on guardrail can never
In the second of a series on safely adopting AI, Ed Molyneux clears up the most misunderstood obligation in the field, and explains what a firm’s record of AI use is really for. Of
In the first of a new series on safely adopting AI, Ed Molyneux began to explore the topic using the SRA’s new warning notice as a design brief and set out how a firm builds
A recent article in these pages proposed a ‘rework ledger’ for measuring the true cost of conveyancing AI. Ed Molyneux agrees, and argues that the firms which treat that rework as a cost to tally
Following on from his regular series on AI in conveyancing, Ed Molyneux adopts a different approach. This week, he begins to explore the safe adoption of AI. In the first of a new series, he
Conveyancers are being offered AI tools that answer legal questions in fluent, confident prose. Ed Molyneux argues that fluency is precisely the wrong thing to trust, and sets out the questions every firm should ask
Agentic AI is arriving in conveyancing, and most of what it does is genuinely useful. But the risk calls that carry a conveyancer’s liability are exactly where an unbounded model is most dangerous. Ed Molyneux
Last week’s data settled whether agentic AI can transform legal work. The harder question it exposed is why some teams reorganise around that capability in months while others leave it on the shelf. Ed Molyneux
The transformation of legal work by agentic AI has until now been a prediction. New data from OpenAI makes it a timetable: software engineering has already gone almost wholly agentic, and the legal teams that
AI questions are landing on professional indemnity proposal forms this renewal cycle. Ed Molyneux explains why the real test of trustworthy AI won’t come from a software demo, but from your underwriter, and why auditable
In his previous article Ed Molyneux discussed how shadow AI is embedded in everyday conveyancing and argued the real issue is not capability but accountability: distinguishing accurate outputs from confident errors, and ensuring data safety
Ed Molyneux argued last week that the next 18 months in conveyancing will be defined less by what AI can do, and more by which firms have the management muscle to adopt it. This week
Ed Molyneux argued last week that the agent-ready firm is a four-layer stack – data, skills, hooks and oversight – and that the biggest leverage point this quarter sits in the integration layer most firms
Ed Molyneux argued last week that two AI shifts have compressed the Open Property Coalition’s roadmap. This week he sets out the four-layer stack a conveyancing firm actually needs to take advantage of those shifts,
Ed Molyneux has been arguing that AI in property has a data problem, not a capability problem. Now that CFIT’s Open Property Coalition Roadmap 2026 is published, he reminds us where to ‘skate’ – and
Ed Molyneux has spent recent weeks explaining what AI can do, where it fails, and why provenance and shared data matter. Now he walks through a day in the life of a buyer’s conveyancer working
Every major AI company in the world has agreed on a single way for AI agents to connect to external data, and Microsoft has already shipped it in Teams. Meanwhile, the UK property industry has
Moverly has added two new open-source AI skills to its conveyancing toolkit – a title defect analyser that reads Land Registry PDFs and a restrictive covenant advisor – and built a free online demo so
In the latest article in his series on AI in conveyancing, Ed Molyneux puts a practical example in front of the profession and invites them to test it themselves. I have spent the past month
Residential property transactions still run on fragmented documents, duplicated updates and too many competing versions of the truth. The next step forward is not just better workflow, but a trusted shared data foundation that can
In the fourth of his weekly series, Ed Molyneux introduces the concept that should shape how every conveyancing firm thinks about AI: the judgment line, and which side of it your work falls on. Over
In the third of his weekly series, Ed Molyneux explains why provenance – knowing where data came from and how conclusions were reached – is the difference between AI that helps your practice and AI
In the second of his weekly series, Ed Molyneux gets specific about where AI excels and where it fails in conveyancing — and why understanding the difference is the key to using it safely. Last
AI agents are arriving in property transactions. Not chatbots, but autonomous systems that complete tasks across every participant in the chain. In the first of a weekly series, Ed Molyneux explains why the technology’s ‘jagged
The Property Data Trust Framework promises to be the enabler that finally enables a fully digital conveyancing process. Many other initiatives and products have promised that, and failed. Ed Molyneux, co-founder of Moverly, Participant of
The Property Data Trust Framework promises to be the enabler that finally enables a fully digital conveyancing process. Many other initiatives and products have promised that, and failed. Ed Molyneux, co-founder of Moverly, Participant of
The Property Data Trust Framework promises to be the enabler that finally enables a fully digital conveyancing process. Many other initiatives and products have promised that, and failed. Ed Molyneux, co-founder of Moverly, Participant of