For journalists
Ratifyly press kit
Everything you need to write about Ratifyly accurately: boilerplate, a fact sheet, founder bios and headshots, and the logos. Take what you need; no email required first.
Boilerplate
Two approved descriptions. Copy either one as it stands.
One for the end of an article, one for a memo or a background note. Both are wordings we stand behind, so nothing has to be pieced together from the rest of the site.
Ratifyly is the neutral orchestration layer for the residential real estate transaction. Its AI reads the documents every party already produces (contracts, addenda, lender and title updates) and turns them into one live, connected transaction: every deadline tracked, every document filed, every party seeing their own view of the same deal, with a licensed human approving what counts. Founded by a former principal broker and built inside a working brokerage, Ratifyly is headquartered in Blacksburg, Virginia, and is currently in invite-only early access. Learn more at ratifyly.com.
Ratifyly is the neutral orchestration layer for the residential real estate transaction. Instead of asking anyone to adopt new software, it works with the documents every party already produces: an agent forwards the paperwork by email, and Ratifyly's AI reads every page, builds the deal, audits the contract against the brokerage's compliance rulebook, and extracts and tracks every deadline across the contract, the loan, and the closing. It chases missing documents on its own schedule, keeps buyers and sellers informed through a live client portal, and gives every party their own view of the same connected transaction, with a licensed human approving what counts. Ratifyly was founded by a former principal broker, built inside a working brokerage, and proven on real transactions before opening to others. It is headquartered in Blacksburg, Virginia, and is currently in invite-only early access. Learn more at ratifyly.com.
Fact sheet
The details a desk checks before it runs a story.
Every row is sourced from this site, and it is the version we will confirm on the phone.
- Company name
- Ratifyly (capital R, one word)
- What it does
- AI reads the forwarded paperwork, builds and audits the deal against the brokerage's rulebook, and tracks every deadline from accepted offer to closing. A human approves what counts.
- Category
- Neutral orchestration layer for the residential real estate transaction.
- Founders
- Austin Cummings (Co-founder & CEO) · Zach Stotz (Co-founder & CTO)
- Headquarters
- Blacksburg, Virginia
- Stage
- Invite-only early access
- Website
- www.ratifyly.com
- Media contact
- hello@ratifyly.com
Founders
Two bios and two headshots, cleared for editorial use.
Written third-person so they can run as they are, or be trimmed to a line. The download link gives you the full-resolution photograph.
Austin Cummings is Ratifyly's co-founder and CEO. A former top-producing agent who went on to build his own brokerage from the ground up and to found Bellro, the brokerage infrastructure Ratifyly was built inside, he lived every problem the industry treats as already solved: compliance that still meant reading every page by hand, agents chasing deadlines across email and text, clients with no idea where their deal actually stood. He set out to build the tool he always wished he'd had: software designed for brokers and agents, not sold at them.
“It's the software I needed back when I was the one at the closing table, and getting it into the hands of the independent brokerages and agents who deserve far better than what I had to fight through is the part I care about most.”Austin Cummings, Co-founder & CEO
Zach Stotz is Ratifyly's co-founder and CTO. A mechanical engineer who fell in love with the design process (turning messy, real-world problems into things that just work), he leads the technical team and owns the technology end to end: the AI that reads every contract, the engine that tracks every deadline, and the infrastructure that finally makes these disconnected systems work as one.
“I bring an engineer's obsession with getting the details right to an industry that has tolerated ‘good enough’ software for far too long.”Zach Stotz, Co-founder & CTO
Brand assets
The mark, the wordmark, and the one rule for the name.
- Icon (SVG)
- Wordmark (transparent PNG)
- Wordmark on white (PNG)
- Wordmark for dark backgrounds (PNG)
- Icon (PNG, 1024px)
The name is Ratifyly: capital R, one word. Never “Ratify.ly” and never “ratifyly” in running text. Need a size or a format that isn't here? Additional formats are available on request.
Story angles
The parts that are genuinely notable.
Four that would hold a paragraph on their own, if you are looking for the way in.
Built by a broker, inside a working brokerage
Not a software company on the outside looking in. Ratifyly was built in-house by a licensed brokerage for its own agents and clients, and proven on the founders' own transactions before it opened to anyone else.
AI that reads and audits the actual contract
The AI reads every page and audits the file against the brokerage's own compliance rulebook (signatures, dates, amounts, contingency deadlines) while a human clears each finding. Nothing that carries consequence ships on the AI's word alone.
The email-forward intake model
No new software to adopt and no logins to learn. An agent forwards the paperwork the same way they'd hand it to a coordinator, and gets back a built, tracked, audited deal.
A free educational resource library
Plain-English guides and checklists on the closing process, transaction deadlines, and compliance: a genuine reference, not a brochure. See the resource library, or start with the founder essay The Other Forty Days.
Ask us anything you cannot source here.
Interviews, a walkthrough on a real transaction, a number confirmed before you file. Press email gets answered fast, by a person at Ratifyly.