For title, escrow, and closing offices
Wire instructions and closing documents, without the email trail
Send wire instructions buyers can trust, collect closing documents and seller information, and answer questions in encrypted chats. Everything is end-to-end encrypted, and it’s erased when you’re done with it.
Clients never need an account. Firm features are on the Business plan.
Email is where wire fraud starts
Criminals break into email accounts involved in a closing, watch quietly, and send look-alike wire instructions at the last minute. Every email with account numbers, IDs, or payoff details is something they can read or copy. Squawk Secret keeps that information out of inboxes, and gives your office a record of who opened what and when.
Send
Wire instructions, delivered and verified
Send wire instructions as a one-time link instead of an email body. Add a passphrase you give the buyer by phone, lock the link to their email address, and know the moment it’s opened. Once it’s read, it’s gone.
Squawk Drop
One secure place for closing documents
Give buyers, sellers, and lenders a page with your office’s name in the address to send IDs, payoff statements, and signed documents, up to 2 GB per submission. Limit it to approved senders if you like.
Intake
Buyer and seller information that comes back complete
Collect contact details, Social Security numbers, and bank information for disbursing proceeds with forms that check formats as clients type, plus a typed signature with a signature record.
Fillable PDFs
The official W-9, completed and signed
When you need a seller’s taxpayer ID, send the real W-9. They fill it in their browser and you receive the completed PDF. You can upload your own fillable forms too.
Secure chats
Closing questions, without the email chain
Talk through the details with buyers, sellers, and agents in an end-to-end encrypted chat. Add a colleague as a co-host. When it closes, it’s erased for everyone.
Oversight
Controls your office can stand behind
Require two-step verification for everyone, or sign in with Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, or Okta. Your logo on client pages, and an audit trail you can export.
Supporting your wire verification process
The standard advice to buyers is consistent: don’t rely on wire instructions received by email, and confirm them by phone using a number you already know. Squawk Secret supports that practice by keeping instructions out of email entirely and by protecting them with a passphrase you give by phone.
It reduces the risk; it can’t eliminate fraud. Keep your verbal verification process, and keep reminding clients to call before they wire. This page isn’t legal advice.
Records and retention
Squawk Secret erases what you send and receive on a schedule you set, which keeps sensitive information from piling up where it doesn’t belong. Documents that belong in the transaction file should be downloaded into your title or document management system before they expire. Squawk Drop items can be kept for up to a year, and the audit trail of who opened what, and when, is kept for your records.
Everything in one place
One Business account covers your whole team: closers, processors, and agents, each with their own sign-in.
- End-to-end encryption: we can’t read the contents
- Wire instructions as one-time links with a phone passphrase
- Squawk Drop page for closing documents, up to 2 GB at a time
- Buyer and seller information forms with typed signatures
- Official W-9 as a fillable PDF
- Secure chats with co-hosts
- Email-locked links and open notifications
- Required two-step verification and single sign-on
- Audit trail with CSV export
- Your office’s name and logo on client pages