Why LAC
What sets LAC apart is unmatched expertise across the full modernization journey: a proven methodology for taking your registry from where it is today to where it needs to be.
how we work
Why custom builds keep failing, and what to do instead
Most registry modernization projects fail the same way. A system integrator documents your requirements and promises a solution in two to three years. The problems surface later: when the requirements were wrong, when legislation changed, when course-correction costs millions.
LAC works differently. Our solutions are already built, and you can test-drive them before signing a contract. Errors surface early. Evolution is a configuration change, not a new procurement.
our approach
We deliver operating models, not just software
A modern land registry is built by transforming the legislation, workflows, and processes the platform has to support. Software is the tool. The operating model is the outcome.
Every LAC engagement delivers four things: institutional sustainability, operational efficiency, legislative alignment, and the capacity for your team to operate and evolve the system independently.
The outcome is a registry your jurisdiction owns and can keep building on, with or without us.
our record
Impact, by the numbers
Eight years. One domain. A platform built on the kind of experience that only comes from doing this at scale, across every legal framework, in every corner of the world.
13,000+
Land registry jurisdictions worldwide, and a platform built to serve them all.
6
Legal frameworks supported across our platforms
20+ Years
Combined land registry expertise
Our Team
The people behind the work
LAC’s team has sat on both sides of land registry modernization: as the people who ran national registries, and as the engineers who built the systems behind them. That combination is rare, and it shapes everything about how we work.
We bring more than software. It is a methodology for getting from A to B without the assumptions that derail bespoke builds. We show results early, course-correct before small problems become large ones, and build modernization roadmaps your government can actually deliver.
John Chisholm
Executive Chairman, Director
John has 25 years of executive experience with Merrill Lynch, CIBC-Wood Gundy, and Midland-Walwyn and is the founder of Carta Solutions Worldwide.
Darin Nielsen
Executive Chairman, Director
Darin has led large enterprise initiatives for over 35 years, including 15 years as a director at Microsoft and 20 years leading land administration organizations.
Our Team
Our Board of Directors
LAC is governed by a board of seasoned leaders with decades of experience building, financing, and guiding technology companies that serve governments: the oversight and stability that long-term public sector engagements demand.
Darin Nielsen
Executive Chairman, Director
Darin has led large enterprise initiatives for over 35 years, including 15 years as a director at Microsoft and 20 years leading land administration organizations.
our expertise
We work across the full ecosystem
Land administration is an ecosystem of layers. At its base is the geospatial object: a plan or plot of land. Overlaid on that is the land registry, governed by legislation such as deeds and titles. Valuation is overlaid on the registry, and taxation on valuation.
Each layer has its own unique operations, but all are connected. LAC understands, and works across, the whole.
Evolution of Land Registry
The evolution of land registry, built into everything we do.
Land registry has been evolving for centuries: from paper ledgers to relational databases, digital cadastres, and now AI-assisted automation. Each era built on what came before, and most jurisdictions are still somewhere in the middle of that journey, navigating between legacy systems and what the modern world demands.
Solutions from LAC are built with the full arc of that evolution in mind. Every capability reflects decades of accumulated understanding of how registries work at every stage, where they break down, and what it genuinely takes to move them forward without disrupting the living legal systems an entire economy depends on.
Legislation
Land registry begins with law. From foundational land acts to digital-first legislation enabling automated registration, smart contracts, and AI-assisted decisioning, the legal framework defines what a registry can do. Our solutions adapt to yours.
Surveys / Maps / Plans
From metes-and-bounds descriptions and hand-drawn plans to survey-aware digital cadastres, spatial records have transformed. Our solutions include purpose-built integrated mapping and work natively with leading GIS platforms, including ESRI ArcGIS.
Official Permanent Record
The permanent record is the heart of a registry: the single authoritative account of who holds what. It has moved from paper ledgers and microfiche to mainframes to relational databases. The next step, blockchain-secured records, is built in and ready when you are.
Collection of Fees, Duties + Taxes
Registries are revenue systems, and every transaction carries fees, duties, or taxes that must be calculated, collected, and accounted for. From cash and stamps to cheques to EFT, collection has modernized step by step. Our solutions support it all, through to smart-contract settlement.
Input / Output
A registry runs on what comes in and what goes out: documents lodged, and titles, certificates, and search results issued. Paper-delivered submissions gave way to electronic submissions and web forms. Our solutions support every channel you use today.
Identity Verification
Trust in a registry rests on knowing who is transacting. For centuries, that meant physically witnessed identification. Digital certificates extended it. Today, full digital ID makes verification stronger, faster, and auditable, built into the transaction itself.
Decisioning Process
Every registration is a legal decision. For centuries, each one passed through a human registrar. Today, our configurable rules engine, augmented by AI, adjudicates routine transactions in seconds and escalates the ones that need human judgment.
Deployments
The proof is in the field
Understanding the journey is one thing. Delivering it is another. Our solutions are live and operational in some of the world’s most complex land administration environments. See the work for yourself.
Get in touch
You’ve seen how we work. The next step is a conversation about your registry, your framework, and your journey. Contact us to learn more about what LAC will unlock for you.
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