Research, product updates, and field notes for land development teams, civil engineers, and site consultants.
· 6 min read
Civil work runs on what touches the site, not what is near it. Our new foundation layer distinguishes parcels and roads that directly touch the subject from those within a radius, with state DOT surveyor-grade frontage data where available.
· 5 min read
The hours between a land development question and a defensible answer are the most expensive hours in the project. Here is how AI-assisted research changes the math for developers and engineers.
· 7 min read
In an industry that stakes professional licenses on research accuracy, the AI that hallucinates is the AI that gets fired. A note on the design decisions behind citations, audit trails, and public-source-by-default.
· 8 min read
Zone X, AE, VE, and the difference between 100-year and 500-year events. A working reference for developers and engineers doing pre-acquisition site screening.
· 6 min read
Municode and AmLegal ship structured APIs. Not every municipality is on them, but the trend matters for anyone writing software against local ordinance. Where we think this goes in 2026.
· 5 min read
A faster wrong answer is worse than a slower right one. How we decided to make citations load-bearing on every agent response, and what it cost us on latency.
· 4 min read
A breakdown of the hours-per-site cost of doing site screening manually, from FEMA panel lookups to Municode chapter walks. Why the lost hours are mostly invisible in the budget.
· 4 min read
Not every task belongs to an AI. But a specific five questions consistently take us under two minutes with the agent and over two hours without it. Here are the five.
· 9 min read
A practical walkthrough of the public sources that answer the top five pre-acquisition questions. Most of it is free, if you know where to look.
· 10 min read
A retrospective on the first year of PrecisionDocs. The pieces that worked, the pieces we threw out, and the decisions we still argue about on Slack.
· 8 min read
ALTA/NSPS surveys have 20-plus required items plus Table A options. Here is what an acquisition team needs to catch before closing, in plain language.
· 7 min read
Sackett v. EPA narrowed federal jurisdiction. But state laws still matter, and the NWI polygon on your parcel is not a legal determination. A field guide for acquisition teams.
· 7 min read
Water, sewer, power, gas, fiber. Developers who skip a pre-close utility check can eat $500K to $2M in unexpected extensions. Here is what to check, and who to call.