• Why the UK Remortgage Market Is Ready for Disruption

    The UK remortgage market processes over a million transactions every year, generating more than a billion pounds in legal fees. It is a market of enormous scale, yet it operates with processes and systems

  • What Lean Manufacturing Taught Me About Legal Services

    More than thirty years ago, I read "The Machine That Changed The World," the book that introduced lean manufacturing to a Western audience. It changed the way I thought about everything. Not just manufacturing,

  • The Three Pillars Behind Law at the Speed of Business

    Every company needs a foundation that goes beyond its product. At LEXcelerate, our foundation rests on three pillars that guide every decision we make: Technology DNA, Operational Excellence, and Stakeholder-Centric Design. These are not

  • From 5 Hours to 15 Minutes: Rethinking the Remortgage Workflow

    The average remortgage transaction in the UK requires approximately five hours of fee earner time. That figure might surprise people outside the legal profession, but anyone who has worked in residential conveyancing will recognise

  • What “AI-First” Actually Means for Conveyancing

    The phrase "AI-first" gets used a lot in technology marketing, often without much substance behind it. It has become shorthand for "we have added some automation" or "we use a chatbot somewhere." At LEXcelerate,

  • Why Does a Remortgage Still Take 6 Weeks?

    If you have ever remortgaged your home, you will know the feeling. The lender approves your new deal in days, sometimes hours. Then begins the long, unexplained wait. Weeks pass. Emails go unanswered. You chase