Growth milestones: Bereavement platform Exizent signs 50th legal services customer and brings staff numbers up to 35
Legal technology firm Exizent has hit a number of significant milestones including signing its 50th customer and raising its staff numbers to over 35, just over a year after launching.
Glover Priest, a law firm operating across Birmingham, Staffordshire & Northamptonshire and North Wales-based Hughes Parry are the latest clients to sign up to Exizent’s revolutionary cloud-based bereavement platform, which enables users to capture all estate information, upload and securely store documents, personal details, assets and liabilities, generate and populate forms and run data searches to quickly populate missing information.
Exizent launched in September 2020 and is fast becoming the technology of choice amongst probate professionals. Early adopters of the platform include Friends Legal and Thorntons, while Trust Inheritance Group, who only signed up in May 2021, have adopted the technology quickly and already show very high levels of engagement.
As well as acquiring several high-profile clients, Exizent has secured a number of important partnership deals throughout the year. These include a collaboration with digital estate planning firm Arken.legal to link up the pre and post death journey for legal firms, running a pilot with Scottish Building Society to test a solution connecting legal services to Financial Institutions and most recently, Experian, to automate the asset discovery process. Thanks to the partnership with Experian, Exizent has been able to address a major challenge for legal service practitioners by making the process of identifying key banking assets and financial liabilities associated with an estate faster and more reliable, including those not necessarily known to relatives or family executors. Legal professionals and firms using the Exizent platform now have access to an Experian report with data about the deceased in minutes, a process that often takes a solicitor many weeks to complete.
Further product developments have included the automating of forms on the platform, allowing users to automatically produce fully or partially completed Court and Inheritance Tax forms using data from the case, make complex financial calculations, and reformat data. This reduces rekeying for users, mitigates the potential for error and greatly reduces the time taken to complete forms.
In another significant milestone, Exizent has seen team numbers reach 35 following the recruitment of two new marketing specialists. The appointments come just a few weeks after Exizent bolstered its senior team by bringing in Graeme Jones, ex-CEO at Scottish Financial Enterprise, as Senior Adviser to the Board. Graeme is the second senior hire for Exizent in less than a year – following former Deutsche Bank Global CIO and Nationwide Director Mitchel Lenson who joined as Non-Executive Director in December 2021.
Nick Cousins, Founder and CEO of Exizent, says:
Cousins concludes:
Exizent Platform
Exizent is the industry platform for professionals involved with managing the bereavement process. When someone passes away, Exizent connects the data and services used by legal services firm, banks and financial institutions, and executors to sort out what’s required to make the journey for the bereaved an easier one. The Exizent platform is an integral part of the bereavement landscape helping to reduce uncertainty, increase speed and overall, make the process more straight forward for everyone.
It’s a business inspired by powerful stories, stories of people who have lost loved ones that have then found themselves caught in a web of complexity at a time of personal anguish. We don’t believe it has to be this way. By connecting the professionals, institutions and executors tasked with sorting out the administration involved when someone passes away Exizent is reducing the burden on those grieving.
If you would like to learn more about Exizent’s innovative platform and how it can benefit the bereavement process, get in touch today.