How Terranown works

Most of what you need to know about a piece of land is already on public record. The trouble is that it is spread across a dozen agencies, each with its own map viewer, its own vocabulary, and its own idea of what a parcel is. Terranown does the legwork of visiting each of them for one specific property and then tells you, in plain language, what they said.

It starts with the real parcel, not a pin

You search an address or click the map. Terranown resolves that point to the parcel boundary the county itself maintains — the actual shape of the land. Every later step uses that shape, which matters more than it sounds: a floodplain that clips the back corner of a lot and one that covers the house site are very different findings, and a pin in the middle of the property cannot tell them apart.

Many lines of research run at the same time

Once the parcel is known, each line of research queries its own authoritative source independently: FEMA for flood zones, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for wetlands, the USDA soil survey for soils, Census road data for access, and so on. They run side by side, so one slow county server does not hold up the rest.

When a source cannot be reached, the report says so in that section rather than guessing around the hole, and everything else is still delivered. A gap you can see is far less dangerous than a gap that was quietly filled in.

The findings are written up as one analysis

Raw data is not an answer. An AI analyst reads every finding against the others — a wetland next to a soil that drains poorly next to a road that stops short of the boundary — and writes a single report about the property and the ground under it. Every statement in it points back to the record it came from, so you can check anything that matters to you.

Two depths of report

1. A Basic report screens the physical picture of the land in well under a minute. It is for deciding whether a parcel deserves your attention.
2. A Deep Dive adds the county record, zoning, imagery, and wider research, and takes a few minutes. It is for a parcel you are serious about.

A Basic report can be turned into a Deep Dive later without redoing what it already found. To see what a finished report looks like, read the sample report, or learn how to read one.