QuickCheck

One parcel. Everything we can learn about whether it will approve, what it will yield, and how long it takes. In writing, in two days.

Price	$1,000flat, one parcel
Turnaround	2 daysfrom the order
Format	Writtenreport, with maps

Real due diligence costs five figures and takes weeks. That’s appropriate for a deal you’ve decided to do. It’s the wrong tool for the twenty deals you’re looking at to find the one you’ll actually pursue.

A QuickCheck is the fast, inexpensive read that tells you which of those it is. It’s the same analysis a full diligence engagement starts with, the political record, the code, the dirt, the utilities, the yield, compressed into two days and priced so the decision to order one isn’t a decision.

If it comes back green, you’ve spent a thousand dollars to move forward with confidence. If it comes back red, you’ve spent a thousand dollars instead of a hundred thousand.

What’s in it

Nine sections. Every one carries a risk score, and the report opens with the summary so you can read the answer before you read the reasoning.

Section	What it answers
Go / No-Go summary	Every topic scored, the binding constraint identified, and a recommendation you can take to a land committee.
Water & sewer	Who provides it, whether there’s capacity, who controls allocation, and what has to happen before you can file.
Environmental	Floodplain, mapped wetlands, streams and buffers, topography and slope, watershed overlays.
Zoning	District standards, permitted uses, what the ordinance actually allows here, and where it’s ambiguous enough to need a written interpretation.
Land use plan	What the adopted plan designates, whether your program is plan-supported, and which policies a board would reach for either way.
Transportation	Counts and capacity on your frontage, funded and unfunded improvements, whether a TIA and turn lanes are coming.
Projected yield	A land budget and a realistic lot or unit count, with the binding constraint named, and the range if it’s contingent.
Approval path & timeline	The recommended path, the sequence of steps, who decides each one, a phased timeline to recordable lots, and the fallback if the primary path fails.
Precedent & political climate	What that board has actually approved and denied, on what votes, what the recurring objections are, and what the record suggests about how your project lands.
Costs to budget	The line items beyond ordinary engineering and legal, capacity fees, TIA and roadway improvements, recreation obligations or fee-in-lieu.

The precedent section is the one you can’t get anywhere else. Anyone can read you a zoning ordinance. What that board has done with projects like yours, and what they said before they voted, is in a public record that takes years of meetings to read.

The ordinance tells you what’s permitted. The record tells you what gets approved.

What it isn’t

Worth being direct about, because a thousand dollars buys a serious document and not an unlimited one.

• It’s a preliminary read, not a substitute for on-site investigation. Everything in it comes from public data, available mapping, and professional experience.
• It isn’t a survey, a geotechnical report, a Phase I environmental assessment, a wetland delineation, or a title opinion. Where one of those is needed, the report says so and says when.
• It isn’t an appraisal or a market study. It tells you what you can build and get approved, not what it’s worth when you sell it.
• It doesn’t predict an approval, and we won’t tell you it does. It shows you precedent, named constraints, and a recommendation. The board still votes.
• It covers one parcel or one contiguous assemblage. If you’re comparing sites, that’s a separate report each, and usually worth it.

Does it cover my parcel?

The political record is deep in some jurisdictions and thinner in others, and the honest answer depends on where your site is.

So tell us the parcel before you pay. We’ll come back within a day with what the record holds there, and if it’s thin, we’ll say so rather than sell you a thin report.

How it works

• Order it. Parcel number or address, what you’re thinking of building, and payment. Two minutes, no account, no call.
• We work. We read the jurisdiction’s record, the ordinance, the plan, the mapping and the utilities against your program.
• You get the report in two days, as a written document with mapping, ready to forward.
• If you want to talk it through, fifteen minutes with the person who wrote it, no charge.