Where the data comes from
The records behind real estate decisions sit in thousands of local government systems: a county’s mapping server, the assessor’s and recorder’s offices, a city’s permit portal, years of planning commission minutes. Many sit behind sites built to block automated access, or inside scanned PDFs. Ploti’s data agents are the AI software that does the collecting. They read the portals and documents and turn what they find into datasets. A dataset is one table of records, such as every parcel in a county or every building permit a city has issued. When a county does not publish a record online, Ploti can email the county’s office on your behalf and handle the reply. Ploti fetches each dataset once and stores all of it, so later questions are answered from the stored copy in seconds. It checks each source for changes and updates its copy when the source publishes. Every answer names the source it came from.The places you choose
You pick the US counties you work in, called your coverage areas, and pay per county. Every record Ploti holds for those counties is open to you. When you pick a county, Ploti shows what it already holds there. Where it holds little, its data agents start collecting as soon as you add the county. Ploti keeps adding data in your counties on its own, and data collected in a county is shared by every customer there, so what you need is often there before you ask. When something is missing, you ask your question in plain words. Ploti calls this a research request. It works out which data the question needs and starts a data request for each missing dataset: a job for its data agents to collect that dataset from the official source. When the data is in, Ploti answers your question and emails you. Coverage areas and data requests explains how that works.Why an AI assistant alone isn’t enough
An AI assistant like Claude or ChatGPT can research a task you describe in plain English. On its own, though, it searches the web. It stalls on permit portals and scanned PDFs, it has no county records in its training, and it starts over on every question. With Ploti connected, it reads stored, current records with the source attached.How Ploti differs from a data vendor
- No contract. You sign up yourself, with no sales call, and your first county is free.
- Pay for the places you work. Each county after the first starts at $50 a month. You don’t buy a whole region for a year.
- Full access. Every dataset in your coverage areas is open to your whole team on one plan. Nothing is priced per user or per record.
- It grows with you. Data Ploti collects in your counties stays and keeps updating, so the next question there starts with more.
Three ways to work
All three read the same data in the same counties. They run from quick answers to full control.
Choose how to work compares them in more detail.
What you can build
You can download the records and keep your copy current, so you can build on them:- Products for your customers. A site-selection or underwriting product that serves Ploti’s records from your own database.
- Internal tools. Dashboards and screening tools for your team that read your copy of the data.
- Automated agents. Software that watches for new permits or rezonings in your counties and acts on them.