If you’re buying or selling a home, you have to use a title company. There’s just no way around it. And for years this has created a problem. It’s meant that you—the buyer, the seller, the real estate agent or lender—have had to settle for so-so service. With title companies unmotivated to create the best possible real estate closing experience, the industry became stuck.

Pat Stone couldn’t take it anymore. After watching the title industry stay inwardly focused with no real incentive to serve clients better, Pat, the former head of multiple title companies said enough. He was ready to give clients something new. So he started WFG in 2010.