This started as an argument about a rezoning.
“There’s no way to know if the county will approve a rezoning until you put it in front of them.”
A broker, on a call about a Charleston project, 2026
That’s a reasonable thing to say and it isn’t true. The county votes in public. It publishes the ordinance, the staff recommendation, the motion, and the roll call. Everything anyone would need in order to know what that body actually does with requests like yours has been sitting in the record the whole time.
So we went and read it. Council votes on zoning amendments led to the zoning board, which led to the GIS layers underneath, which led to permits and assessments and every other record that attaches to a parcel. It turned out the reason nobody had the answer wasn’t that the answer didn’t exist. It’s that assembling it by hand costs more than most deals can justify.
Then we quoted those numbers back to the same broker, about parcels they were actually working. They asked where the numbers came from. That conversation is why this is a company.
Provenance first, and no exceptions to it.
A fact needs a source
If we can’t point at the record a value came from and the date we pulled it, the value doesn’t ship. There is no field on this product that exists because someone believed it.
A gap needs a name
Blank fields mislead people without ever stating a falsehood. Every absence is typed — not published, not parsed, no record found, not applicable — because those mean very different things.
The record isn’t ours
None of this belongs to us. We didn’t create a single fact in it. What we did was make it readable, and we try to remember the difference.
Bounds are the pitch
The coverage page publishes where we’re thin, because a vendor who won’t tell you their limits is asking you to discover them on a deal.
Votes, not motives
We publish what officials did, quoted from the record and cited to the page. We don’t characterize why anyone voted as they did. That line matters and we hold it.
Your searches are yours
We don’t sell, share, or broker watchlists, searches, or uploads. The parcels you’re looking at are your business strategy, and we treat them that way.
A real email, read by a person.
One address, not a routing tree. We’re small enough that it reaches the person who can actually answer, and we’d rather say that than publish four inboxes that land in the same place.
If you’re municipal or county staff and something we publish about your jurisdiction is wrong, please write. We’ll check it against the source and correct it, and the correction will carry the name of whoever verified it and the reason they gave. We’re republishing your record; getting it wrong is our problem to fix, not yours to live with.