AI land acquisition for developers

The best land was never listed.

Describe a project in plain English. Tractex reads the county's own ownership records live and hands back a ranked, mapped shortlist, deal breakers included.

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100 NC counties35 fields a parcel17 land checksLive county records

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Say it however it comes out.

No filter forms and no field names. Type the project the way you would say it to a colleague: the homes, the town, the price, the preferences. Tractex works out what you meant, reads every county in range live, and ranks every parcel that matches by fit.

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want to build a 10 home subdivision near mooresville. vacant land, under $800k if we can, and long-held would be a plus

Read as

10-home subdivisionWithin 25 mi of Mooresville4–25 acresUnder $800KVacantLong-held

Parse the requeststructured
Resolve the locationgeocoded
Read county recordslive
Filter and scoredeterministic
Rank and mapshortlist

Returns ranked parcels, mappedNorth Carolina

One sentence, every constraint

Home count, location, acreage, price and seller signals come out of one plain sentence. A 10-home subdivision becomes the acreage it needs without you doing the arithmetic.

Refine by talking

Follow up the way you would in conversation: “more like 30 acres”, “within 10 miles instead”, “just vacant land”. It keeps everything you already asked for and changes only what you said.

Honest about what it could not do

If part of a request is something no public record can answer, the search says so instead of quietly dropping it. Every result carries the reasons it ranked where it did.

A Tractex search for a 10-home subdivision near Mooresville: the plain-English request and Tractex's summary on the left, 4,487 matching parcels ranked by suitability in the middle with adjoining-land blocks and seller-signal badges, and the matches clustered on a map of the Lake Norman area on the right. — A real search, captured from the working product: 4,487 parcels read live from five counties and ranked by fit, with the summary, the constraints it read, and the deal breakers already on every card.

Live from the county. Never a stale copy.

A downloaded dataset starts ageing the day it is made. Tractex reads the county's own records at the moment you search, so what you see is what the county holds today, with the county's own data date beside it.

Fields read on every parcel

Land checks on every parcel

Public government sources

100

NC counties, read live

The full record

Owner and mailing address, acreage, assessed value, land use and sale history: up to 35 fields from the county record on every parcel, exactly as the county published them.

Owner
Mailing address
Acreage
Value

Seller signals, as plain facts

Each is a fact from the record, shown as a badge. Tractex never turns them into a prediction of who will sell.

Vacant
Absentee
Company or trust
Long-held

What it will not do

Tractex will not estimate a land value, will not score your deal, and will not tell you an owner is likely to sell. Each would be a guess wearing a number's clothing. Where a county publishes nothing, it says so plainly.

A parcel record in Tractex: the parcel outline, acreage, assessed value, value per acre, land use, owner, a LIVE marker with the county's data date, and the valuation, ownership and land-condition sections. — One parcel, read from Iredell County's records at the moment it was opened, with the county's own data date beside it.

Flood zones and wetlands, right on the map.

Every result is drawn with its real county boundary. Switch on FEMA's flood zones and the national wetlands inventory and they lie under the parcels, so you can see what touches what before you drive out. Draw an area and search only inside it.

FEMA's floodplain, under the parcel

The regulatory flood zones FEMA publishes, drawn beneath every result's county boundary, so you see exactly where the floodplain meets the land instead of reading “Zone AE” on a card and guessing how much of the parcel it takes.

FEMA NFHL
Zone AE
1% annual chance

Wetlands and streams beside it

The national wetlands inventory and the mapped streams, on the same map, so a wet corner or a creek through the middle shows up before the site visit does.

USFWS NWI
Streams

Honest when it cannot draw

Zoomed too far out, the federal services publish nothing. The map says to zoom in, rather than letting an empty map read as “no flood risk here”.

No false all-clear

The Tractex results map at street level over Mooresville with FEMA flood zones and USFWS wetlands switched on: the regulatory floodplain along the creeks labelled Zone AE, mapped wetlands and streams, and result parcels drawn with their county boundaries.

17 checks before you pick up the phone.

Everything that decides whether you can build, on every parcel, each from the public source that publishes it: 64 government sources in all, from FEMA and the USDA to the county's own GIS. The deal breakers surface in the first minute rather than the third week.

A parcel's land conditions in Tractex: flood risk, soil drainage, slope band, septic suitability, soil type, farmland class, zoning, wetlands, a stream 150 ft away, public road access, slope in degrees, nearby EPA sites, historic district, air quality, protected land and FEMA's natural-hazard rating.

Flood zoneFEMA
WetlandsUSFWS
StreamsUSGS
Soil + drainageUSDA
Septic suitabilityUSDA
Terrain + slopeUSGS
Regulatory zoningCounty GIS
Protected landUSGS
Historic districtsNPS
Road accessCensus
Transmission linesHIFLD
Freight railFRA · BTS
Contaminated sitesEPA
Air qualityEPA
Natural riskFEMA
Market + incentivesCensus · HUD
USDA rural eligibilityUSDA

Every neighbour, side by side.

Open any parcel's neighbourhood: the land around it on a map, a list to pick from, and the ones you pick lined up in one table with acreage, value per acre, status, land use and last sale. Filter to vacant land or a minimum size, within 0.3, 0.5 or 1 mile.

The whole neighbourhood, mapped

Every parcel around the one you opened, numbered on the map and in the list, read live from the county like everything else.

0.3 · 0.5 · 1 mi
Vacant only
Min acreage

Pick, then line them up

Tap the ones you care about and they line up beside your parcel in one table, with the lowest value per acre picked out, so the outlier is obvious at a glance.

Acreage
$ / acre
Status
Last sale

Never lose your place

Open any neighbour's full record and come straight back to the comparison exactly where you left it.

Open
Back

Compare nearby land in Tractex: the parcel outlined on a map among 60 numbered neighbours within 0.3 miles, a list of the neighbours with distance, acreage and value per acre, and a side-by-side table of the parcel and two picked neighbours.

06Assemblage

See the whole block, not one parcel.

Tractex finds the parcels that adjoin yours from the county's own boundaries and the other land the same owner holds nearby, so a single parcel can become a conversation about several.

One deal, one set of numbers

Group the block into a deal and feasibility runs on the combined acreage.

Everything the owner holds

One click lists the other land the same owner holds nearby, so one conversation can cover several parcels.

Candidates, never claims

Boundaries are drawn by the county and simplified for the map, so Tractex says “adjoin” and leaves the survey to you.

Tractex results showing adjoining land: a block of three adjoining parcels totalling 47.53 acres with two separate owners and a 'boundaries meet' badge, above the ranked parcel list.

From first look to closing.

Save land, file it into deals, and move each deal through diligence to closing on a board your whole team shares. When it is time to make contact, the owner letter is drafted from the parcel and your project, addressed from the county's own record.

A diligence clock and checklist

The diligence period counts down on the deal, and the checklist carries its evidence from the public records.

Stages
Dates
Evidence

Feasibility on your numbers

Lots, price per lot and site costs, with the arithmetic shown line by line. It never estimates a land value for you.

Lots
Costs
Residual

Owner letters you send yourself

Edit every word, then copy or download it. Tractex never sends mail, and every contact is logged on the parcel.

Edit
Copy
Log

The Tractex pipeline board: deal packages in Watching, Contacted, Under review, Under contract, Closing, Closed and Passed, each card with its parcels, acreage, value and stage.

08Alerts

Know the day the record moves.

Because Tractex reads live records rather than a stale copy, it re-reads your saved land and saved searches on a schedule and tells you when something changes. There is no listing for any of it, which is why no listing site can see it.

Ownership watch

Every saved parcel's county record is re-read on a schedule, and you hear about a change the same day.

A sale is recorded
The owner changes
The land is subdivided
A building appears or comes down
The land use is reclassified
The owner moves away
The county revalues it
The boundary shifts

Saved searches that keep looking

A saved search re-runs on its own schedule and tells you when new parcels match what you asked for.

A name change is not a sale

A sale needs the recorded sale date to move. A new name on the record is reported as exactly that.

The Tractex Today page: what needs attention, live signals on saved land, the team's discussion, open tasks and upcoming key dates.

Covering all 100 North Carolina counties + 3 South Carolina counties.

Parcels, FEMA flood and USDA soil are statewide and federal, so a covered state means every county in it. Zoning is adopted county by county and no state publishes one combined map, so Tractex reads 26 county layers directly and verifies each against real parcels. Everywhere else it shows the assessor's land use and says plainly that it is not zoning.

Parcels: All 100 NC counties
Regulatory zoning: 26 counties, from county GIS
Everywhere else: Assessor land use, labelled as such

Check your county

Get on it before your competition.

Tractex opens to North Carolina developers first. Tell us the kind of project you are chasing and the counties you work in, and we will make sure you are on that list.

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