LanderyPrivate beta

Methods, evidence & limitations

A disciplined preliminary screen—not a professional determination.

Landery combines public records, mapped environmental evidence, supported local requirements and reproducible geometric screening to organize early land questions. It deliberately limits its claims.

What Landery is designed to determine

What Landery cannot determine

Landery does not establish survey boundaries, title rights, legal frontage, jurisdictional wetlands, septic suitability, well yield, engineered grades, structural feasibility, utility capacity, environmental liability, market value or permit approval. A drawn concept is never presented as a guaranteed building site.

Conclusion and confidence language

Top-level status is restricted to Preliminary opportunity, Material constraints or Insufficient data. Confidence describes the completeness, agreement and freshness of the evidence—not approval likelihood. Landery does not publish a consumer-facing “buildability score”; ranked possibilities are explained through program fit, conflicts, access, uncertainty and next actions.

How the screen is assembled

  1. Verify parcel identity against the current county service and require visual confirmation.
  2. Preserve parcel-by-parcel measurements and create the selected combined decision unit.
  3. Identify the controlling jurisdiction and apply a current, curated local ruleset where coverage is supported.
  4. Normalize, timestamp and save the relevant source evidence.
  5. Dissolve overlapping wetland polygons and union constraint areas before screened-land calculations to avoid double counting.
  6. Measure terrain, contiguous candidate areas, access interactions and requested component fit.
  7. Generate multiple possibilities only where the geometry and evidence support them; retain high-conflict examples when they explain an important risk.
  8. Run automated quality gates and require human delivery review before a client export can be shared.

How evidence is labeled

Authoritative record

An agency or local-government record such as a parcel service, zoning ordinance or effective FEMA layer.

Public screening evidence

A published GIS layer useful for early screening but not a field or legal determination.

Derived measurement

A reproducible acreage, distance, slope, overlap or contiguous-area calculation made from saved source geometry.

Automated interpretation

A rules-based conclusion, conflict flag or comparison generated from the available evidence and requested program.

Conceptual possibility

An editable planning idea—such as a home, septic reserve, driveway or easement corridor—that is not surveyed, engineered or approved.

Professional verification

A controlling survey, title review, soil evaluation, wetland delineation, engineering design or agency determination still required.

Current geographic coverage

The private beta currently has release-supported coverage for Grattan, Ada, Cannon, Vergennes, Lowell, Alpine, Byron and Plainfield townships in Kent County, Michigan. Courtland and Solon currently have parcel-specific acceptance coverage only; unsupported parcels there are blocked. Preflight may still block any property if its zoning district, required source or imagery vintage cannot be verified. Other Michigan counties and the continental United States are future coverage goals, not current claims.

Source freshness and updates

Parcel identity is checked fresh for each new analysis. Supporting layers may use a labeled snapshot last verified within 30 days when the agency source and effective or acquisition date are known. Local rulesets become ineligible for a full report when their verification window expires. A saved report remains tied to its original manifest; refreshing evidence creates a new analysis run.

Source families in the public sample

Kent County GISParcels, addresses, imagery, roadsLive identity check · retrieved Jul 28, 2026
Grattan TownshipZoning map and dimensional rulesCurated rule set · verified Jul 2026
Michigan EGLEMapped wetlands and environmental layersAuthoritative screening layer · retrieved Jul 2026
USFWS NWIWetland polygonsNational screening layer · retrieved Jul 2026
USDA NRCS SSURGOSoils and hydric ratingsScreening data · retrieved Jul 2026
FEMA NFHLFlood hazardEffective map service · retrieved Jul 2026
USGS 3DEPElevation and derived slopeTerrain screening · retrieved Jul 2026

Quality controls

Report completion is blocked when required source dates are missing, parcel identity is not fresh, acreage reconciliation fails, official and conceptual layers are ambiguous, local requirements are missing or stale, route or footprint geometry fails its checks, unsupported definitive language appears, or the report cannot be reproduced from its saved evidence.

Artificial intelligence disclosure

Landery uses deterministic geospatial calculations and rules-based screening for core measurements. Automated language may help organize findings and next-step explanations, but it does not replace the cited source record, measured geometry, quality gates or human delivery review. Uploaded legal and technical documents are private references and are not automatically interpreted in the current beta.

Required limitation

This is a preliminary planning analysis based on publicly available GIS and mapping data. It is not a boundary or topographic survey, engineering design, legal determination, title opinion, zoning approval, septic or well approval, permit decision, environmental site assessment or official wetland delineation. Public GIS layers have positional, classification and temporal limitations. Field investigation and agency determinations control.

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