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A lighthouse standing on a rock headland above open water
PHOCIS Tech©

More than escrow. Built for stability.

The clearing platform that replaces legacy escrow — every dollar held by a neutral third party, every file cleared at zero fee, every wire released the same day.

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Fee to clear$0
Wire windowSame day
CustodyNeutral third party
Onboarding48 hrs
Vol. I · No. 1

The Beacon Ledger

West Hollywood · Est. 2026

What the light actually lands on

Three sweeps. Each one is a file type escrow companies price as an exception — and PHOCIS clears as the standard.

Sweep 01 · Construction

Draws that don't wait on a courier

Inspection to disbursement inside one ledger. Retainage, lien waivers and conditional releases tracked per line item, not per email thread.

Sweep 02 · Impounds

Taxes and insurance, held clean

Impounds held and managed by PHOCIS Tech© as your neutral third party, in FDIC-insured clearing accounts, with a statement your auditor can read.*

Sweep 03 · Payoffs

Multi-position payoffs, one wire window

Split payoffs across positions and states without a second settlement agent, a second fee schedule, or a second week.

Fee to clear — noneHeld as neutral third partySame-day wire window

Follow a dollar through the platform

Five stops from funding to release. Nothing leaves the ledger unaccounted for.

Accounts you can open

Six escrow structures plus a cross-border waitlist — all held and managed by PHOCIS Tech© as your neutral third party, all cleared at zero fee.

01

Business entities

Corporations, LLCs, partnerships and funds. PHOCIS does not open escrow for individual consumers.

02

Against a real file

Accounts are opened against a specific transaction — a loan, a payoff, a build, an acquisition.

03

Standard onboarding review

Entity documents and transaction records are reviewed before funding. Your specialist walks you through what applies.

Built for your side of the table

Four lanes. Pick yours and the questions change to match.

Lender

Private, bridge or balance-sheet. Put payoff funds, reserves and post-close capital to work between closings.

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Developer

Fund your own builds and clear your own draws — no fee to move your own money.

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Contractor

Retainage, draws and reserves you're owed, held by a neutral third party instead of someone else's balance sheet.

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Family Office

Capital deployed into real estate credit. Segregated custody, per-file traceability, full visibility.

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Pick the rail that fits the deal

Clearing is free on every rail. What changes is what the balance does while it waits.

Rail 01
$0

Standard Clearing

  • Subaccounts at Wells Fargo, held in segregated custody
  • Real-time visibility for all parties on the deal
  • Same-day disbursement against the draw schedule
  • Audit export · timestamped · one click
  • State Compliance Engine™ baseline
Rail 02
$0 + yield

Yield-Bearing

  • Everything in Standard
  • Yield on idle balance, paid monthly, allocated in writing
  • Daily accrual · sweeps configurable per subaccount
  • Optional yield-share with borrower or contractor
  • Earning on float requires a $5.0M minimum balance maintained for 3 consecutive months
Rail 03
Custom

Guaranteed Contractor Pay

  • On-time payment SLA on every approved draw
  • Pre-staged contractor subaccounts
  • Mobile draw submission · photo + lien-waiver capture
  • Family-office & capital-partner reporting view
  • 1031 QI-compatible structure available
  • Dedicated PHOCIS specialist on every account
The on-time promise

If the draw is approved, the contractor gets paid that day. Period.

Available on Rail 03 — Guaranteed Contractor Pay. Standard underwriting and draw-approval rules apply.

See what you're leaving on the table.

Every dollar your bank holds at 0% is a dollar PHOCIS could be turning into yield. Drag the slider. The number on the right is your money — at a fixed 1.0% APY, paid monthly.

Idle capital$5,000,000
$100K$50M
Assumed yield1.0% APY

Fixed rate · paid monthly · not adjustable. Annual APY ÷ 12 months.

↳ Yields are illustrative. Actual revenue depends on PHOCIS configuration, balance tier, and Treasury rates. Earning on float requires a $5.0M minimum balance maintained for 3 consecutive months. Speak with our team for current quotes.

Earning today, in escrow$0/mo
vs
With PHOCIS at 1.0%$4,167/mo

Same custody. Same access. The only change is who keeps the yield.

Monthly revenue$4,167on idle capital that's currently earning nothing
Annual$50,000
5-year$250,000

That's a quarter-million dollars over five years for changing where your money sits. We'd like to help you take it back.

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Four reasons the industry can't keep doing this the old way.

PHOCIS exists because legacy real estate banking has four structural failures that compound every closing, every draw, every exchange. Solving any one would matter. We solve all four.

01

Capital is leaking

$280B lost to slow construction payments in 2024. Lenders earn 0% on held funds. Hundreds of billions in real estate escrow sit dormant across the U.S. at any moment.

PHOCIS pays yield monthly and accelerates disbursement to same-day.

02

Fraud targets the gap

2026 wire fraud no longer attacks the IOLTA — it attacks the wire instructions mid-thread between the lawyer and the lender's operating account. Funds in non-custodied accounts are the soft target.

PHOCIS funds live in Wells Fargo custody. Wire instructions never exposed to email interception.

03

Regulators tighten unevenly

California CTAPP Rule 2.5 tightened IOLTA reconciliation but left held-funds untouched. 1031 QIs remain federally unregulated. State rules drift apart.

Our 50-State Compliance Engine™ refreshes daily. One platform. One source of truth.

04

Insurance is pulling back

E&O and crime carriers increasingly exclude losses where funds sat in non-custodied operating accounts. Coverage now requires regulated custody — Wells Fargo, BNY, or equivalent.

PHOCIS gives you Wells Fargo custody by default — and adds $250K of audit coverage per lender on top.

Built on proof. Not promises.

Where the money sits, who can see it, and what stands behind it.

Custody

Wells Fargo institutional custody

Client funds are held in clearing accounts at Wells Fargo Bank N.A., managed by PHOCIS Tech© as neutral third party.

Segregation

Never pooled

One subaccount per file. Every dollar traceable to the transaction it belongs to.

Insurance

FDIC coverage

Applies as noted, subject to account titling and recordkeeping requirements being met.

Compliance

State Compliance Engine™

Documents, disclosures and fund-handling posture checked against the rules of the state before an account opens.

Record

Timestamped audit trail

Every approval and release recorded and exportable in one click. Statements archived seven years.

Security

AES-256 encryption

Data encrypted in transit and at rest.

Why we exist

A fixed point, on a coast full of drift.

Escrow was built when a file moved by courier and a wire took a week. The money still moves that way, and every day of drift costs the lender who funded it. PHOCIS was founded by financial engineers, compliance experts and escrow-industry veterans — led by a United States Marine who knows that discipline, speed and integrity aren't values you list on a website. They're the only way forward.

$0Fee to clear
48 hrsOnboarding
Same dayApproved draws
7 yearsStatement archive

More than escrow.
A fixed point on the coast.

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*Property taxes and insurance are not monetizable in CA, TX, NV, or FL. Earning on float requires a $5.0M minimum balance maintained for 3 consecutive months. Funds are held and managed by PHOCIS Tech© as a neutral third party in FDIC-insured clearing accounts. General information only, not an offer or a guarantee of returns.

Open a Clearing Account

Business entities only. Tell us the file; we confirm the account structure and wire instructions within one business day.

Request sent.

A PHOCIS clearing specialist replies within one business day with the account structure and wire instructions.

International waitlist

Cross-border clearing for lenders, funds and developers outside the US — Canada and South Korea first. Join the list and we confirm your place and what onboarding requires in your market.

You're on the list.

We confirm your position by email and follow up as onboarding opens in your market.