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Custom Platform · Private Engagement
Land Development · Confidential

Finding the best land, before anyone else

We built a land-acquisition firm a custom platform that scores every parcel across multiple counties for development potential — turning hours of manual GIS research into one filterable map.

Industry
Land Development
Build
Custom web platform
Data
Public GIS, unified
Coverage
Multiple counties
The outcome

Public data, turned into a decisive edge

The opportunities were always in the data — the firm just never had a fast way to see them. Now they do.

Multi-county
Parcel coverage
Every parcel across multiple counties on one map
Instant
Development scoring
Each parcel scored for development potential
1-click
Property reports
A full, shareable report on any parcel on demand
Hours → sec
Research time
Manual GIS work collapsed into one filterable map
Built on
Claude CodeNext.jsSupabaseVercel
The challenge

Finding land worth developing was slow, manual work

The data is public — county GIS portals hold parcels, zoning, acreage, flood maps, and ownership records — but it's scattered across separate systems, one county and one parcel at a time. Evaluating a region meant hours of clicking through maps, cross-referencing records, and eyeballing road access. For a firm whose edge is finding the right parcel first, that friction was the bottleneck.

What we did

One platform over every parcel

We unified the public GIS data into a single platform that renders every parcel on one map, scores it for development potential, and lets the team filter thousands of parcels down to a shortlist in seconds — with road-frontage analysis, owner history, and one-click reports.

How it happened

From scattered public records to a single, filterable view of every opportunity.

01
Phase 01

Unify the data

We pulled parcels, zoning, acreage, flood maps, and ownership from multiple counties' public GIS systems into one place — every parcel rendered as a polygon on an interactive map.

02
Phase 02

Score for development potential

We built a scoring engine against the criteria that actually matter for development, so the team spots the best opportunities at a glance instead of evaluating them one by one.

03
Phase 03

Make it decisive

Deep filtering by acreage, zoning, jurisdiction, township, score, and flood status; road-frontage measurement (with clearly labeled estimates where data is unavailable); and owner & land history alongside each parcel.

04
Phase 04

Secure & shareable

Saved searches and shortlists behind a sign-in, plus one-click downloadable property reports — so the firm's research stays its own and grows county by county.

What changed

Retired
×
Clicking through county GIS portals one by one
×
Cross-referencing records by hand
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Eyeballing road access from the map
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Evaluating parcels one at a time
Hours of manual work per region
Built with OneWave
Multi-county parcel map with live GIS data
Per-parcel development-scoring engine
Road-frontage analysis + owner history
Saved searches & one-click property reports
A permanent, owned asset

Have data worth mining?

If your edge is buried in public records, spreadsheets, or scattered systems, we build the tool that surfaces it — around how you actually work.