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ONE PROPERTY. ONE CITED, CHECKED MEMO.

Every site has a public record. Read it before the first diligence dollar.

For development teams deciding where the next diligence dollar goes. Give us an address, a parcel, or the boundary you draw. You get one site memo with one recommendation, checked: every material claim is cited to an admitted source and checked by the release gate before the memo ships, and gaps are named instead of guessed. We confirm the delivery window when we accept your completed property submission. Complex or thin-record sites may require more research. Whether the next $50K+ of per-site diligence — counsel, civil, utility, consultants — is worth spending, answered before you spend it.

We provision access and invoice directly. Once invited, you submit the property and complete intake in your workspace.

ONE ADDRESS IN. THIS DOCUMENT OUT. · WORKED EXAMPLE
RealClearWORKED EXAMPLE
SOURCE-CITED SITE MEMO · FIRST-PASS SITE DECISION
Ashburn Expansion
Data center · 72 acres · Loudoun County, VA
HoldCondition: utility evidence not established
54
Feasibility score / 100
The recommendation is the answer; the score is context.
WORKED EXAMPLE · CITED, CHECKED MEMO47 SOURCE DOCUMENTS · EVERY PERSISTED CLAIM CHECKED AGAINST ITS CITED SOURCENOT LEGAL ADVICE · VERIFY INDEPENDENTLY
RealClearWORKED EXAMPLE
02 · CONTENTS
01Recommendation — Hold1
02Site & submission2
03Zoning path3
04Power + permission4
05Community posture5
06Comparable outcomes6
07Risk register7
12Source appendix12
EVERY SECTION OPENS TO ITS SOURCES
RealClearWORKED EXAMPLE
07 · RISK REGISTER — EVERY ROW SOURCE-LINKED
Zoning pathPUBLIC-RECORD VERIFIED
Power + permissionCONSULTANT-NEEDED
Community posturePUBLIC-RECORD VERIFIED
Civil / traffic fitNEVER INFERRED
FULL REGISTER SHOWN IN 01 · HOW IT GETS MADE BELOW
RealClearWORKED EXAMPLE
12 · SOURCE APPENDIX — SHOWING 12 OF 47 DOCUMENTS
ORDINANCELoudoun County Zoning Ordinance — district map + use table
MINUTESPlanning-commission hearing — session one, on the record
MINUTESPlanning-commission hearing — session two, on the record
UTILITYElectric-utility service-territory filing for the parcel
COMPARABLES220+ cited case files, ranked by similarity
GAPAvailable MW — flagged as a gap, never guessed
…and 35 more on file.
EVERY DOCUMENT RETRIEVABLE FROM THE MEMO
Showing the cover page of the worked-example memo.
2,000,000+ references to the public record1,352 jurisdictions with local records on file390,000+ source documents on fileCited source records
THE OUTPARCEL · THE WHOLE ACQUISITION

Start with the entire site.

The shopping center, frontage, access, and outparcel enter one shared frame.

01 · HOW IT GETS MADE

How that document gets made. One research run, start to finish.

What you're looking atThe worked example from the memo above — a 72-acre data-center site in Loudoun County, VA — taken through the four stages that produce it. Choose a stage to follow the run.
SITE PACKET · WORKED EXAMPLE1
Ashburn Expansion
Data center · 72 acres · Loudoun County, VA
Parcel
buyer-provided
Intended use
data center
Scale
120MW target
Context
LOI go / no-go

1.Three fields — where, what, how big — plus an optional parcel and a line on what you're deciding. Scale is vertical-specific: megawatts for a data center, units for multifamily, square feet for a warehouse. Anything ambiguous triggers one or two targeted questions — not a long form — and you confirm the scenario before paid research begins.

How to read thisEach chip is a source document pulled for this site — a sampling of the 47 on file. A dashed chip is a flagged gap — something the record does not show, listed rather than guessed.
RECORD PULL · COUNTY + STATE + FEDERAL LAYERSWORKED EXAMPLE
ORDINANCE · zoning district + use tableMINUTES · two recent hearings, water + noise objectionsUTILITY · service territory filingCOMPARABLES · 220+ researched fightsGAP · available MW — flagged, not guessed
47 SOURCE DOCUMENTS ON FILE — THIS SITE

2.Where local records are not on file yet, the site is researched before anything is written — if the controlling record cannot be sourced, the memo is held, not guessed. Which research layers are enabled for your engagement is confirmed during onboarding.

RISK REGISTER · THE WORKED EXAMPLEEVERY ROW SOURCE-LINKED
Zoning pathSpecial exception path: Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors hearings.→ Appeal-exposure evidence not established.↗ Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance · permitted-use tablePUBLIC-RECORD VERIFIED
Power + permissionService territory is cited; available MW is not inferred.→ Utility capacity, queue, and upgrade evidence not established.↗ Electric-utility service-territory filingCONSULTANT-NEEDED
Community postureTwo recent hearings show water and noise objections.→ Plan outreach before first filing.↗ Planning-commission hearing minutes ×2PUBLIC-RECORD VERIFIED
Civil / traffic fitParcel size does not prove access, stacking, or turning.→ Civil and traffic layout evidence not established.↗ Not in the record — hand-off to civil + trafficNEVER INFERRED

3.The citation gate is mechanical: a claim without a cited source is blocked from delivery, and a failed check on a claim the recommendation depends on blocks the whole memo.

4.The recommendation is computed from the cited risk register, with a guard that keeps the score and the recommendation consistent.

✳ analyst's note — power adjacency is not power availability; the memo hands that question to the utility, on the record.

The whole product, one sentence

“You give us a site. We read the public record. You get a memo with a recommendation — and every claim carries its source. A memo that can't, doesn't ship.”

Your Loudoun site and your Phoenix site: read the same way, to the same standard, every time. The screening read that costs your team days per candidate — delivered as a document, with the sources attached. We confirm the delivery window when we accept your completed property submission. Complex or thin-record sites may require more research.

Pursue · Pursue with conditions · Monitor · Hold · Walk away. One of these five verdicts leads every memo. Pursue with conditions names the conditions to clear before the next dollar; it renders in memos from the next release, and until then the four cards below are what a delivered memo shows. Monitor asks the buyer to watch named changes without immediate diligence spend; recurring monitoring is not included.

Pursue
The record supports the next diligence dollar. Proceed to LOI-stage questions with the cited path in hand.
Monitor
Watch the named events or evidence changes. No immediate diligence spend is recommended.
Hold
Do not spend yet. The record does not establish evidence the decision depends on, and the memo names which: utility, legal/entitlement, civil engineering, or the local record.
Walk away
The record already shows the deal killer. The cheap no, delivered before the expensive maybe.
THE OUTPARCEL · THE RECORD

The records land on the map.

Parcel, access, frontage, utilities, and adjoining uses become evidence instead of assumptions.

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02 · WHAT IT SAVES

What the approval path does to the pro forma.

The cheap no belongs before the expensive maybe.

In Franklin Township, Indiana, a data-center rezoning cleared the Metropolitan Development Commission 8-1. Then: $1 billion withdrawn before the vote , once council opposition was on the record. The signals were in the public record the whole time.
Moratoriums don't announce themselves the week you close. They're written into the record months before.
How to read thisSame finding, three discovery moments — the later it surfaces, the more it costs.
WHAT AN APPROVAL FINDING COSTS — AND WHEN YOU FIND OUTILLUSTRATIVE FIGURES ARE LABELED
The finding
Discretionary rezoning
Not by-right: a legislative act with public testimony and political review — plus a second veto point behind it.
The calendar ILLUSTRATIVE RANGE
6–36 months
A discretionary path, first filing to final vote. Franklin Township ran about six months from filing to withdrawal — and never reached the vote.
The spend at risk ILLUSTRATIVE RANGE
$50K–$260K
Per-site diligence spend at risk — counsel, civil, utility, consultants — before the first veto point even votes.
Sensitivity band — when the same finding surfaces

Franklin Township, on the record: a 467.66-acre petition filed in March 2025 and withdrawn in September 2025, before the council vote. What was sunk by then — land assembly, counsel, senior-team time — sat on a path the public record had flagged as steep from the start. The dollar bridge above is illustrative.

ILLUSTRATIVE BRIDGE · IN A DELIVERED MEMO, EVERY GROUNDED FIGURE CARRIES ITS SOURCE; UNGROUNDED FIGURES ARE LABELED ILLUSTRATIVE

✳ analyst's note — the arithmetic is not the recommendation; it is why the recommendation is worth reading.

THE RECORD ON FILE
2,000,000+
References to the public record
390,000+
Source documents
1,352
Jurisdictions with local records on file
220+
Case files read from the public record
6,300,000+public parcel records available from county assessor sourcesSee the parcel layer →

1,352 jurisdictions with local records on file — and growing. The references are the reading inside the documents — passages of zoning codes, staff reports, hearing minutes, and utility filings, each one pointing back into a source document on file.

Any U.S. property can be submitted. Where local records are not on file yet, the site is researched before anything is written — if the controlling record cannot be sourced, the memo is held, not guessed. Every claim in the memo is tied to the document it came from. Which research layers are enabled for your engagement is confirmed during onboarding.

These aren't hypotheticals. They're withdrawals, denials, and reversals that already happened — data centers, multifamily, and the asset classes that follow them — with the paper to prove it. In Meridian, Idaho, In-N-Out's Ten Mile Road drive-thru drew more than 300 written submissions, and the council upheld its denial 5-1. Under the same ordinance, a Raising Cane's on Eagle Road faced an appeal from a single neighboring business, and its approval was upheld 4-2. Same council, same ordinance, opposite outcomes — and the difference was in the record.

In one 96-unit multifamily fight in Woodbridge, Connecticut, 150+ residents opposed on the record — and a month after approval, the commission rewrote the zoning underneath the next applicant. The record doesn't stop moving when the vote ends. Browse 220+ case files →

The parcel layer. It helps connect a site to jurisdictions, local documents, comparable outcomes, and the approval record around it.

THE OUTPARCEL · THE DECISION FRAME

Every limiting condition gets a name.

Setbacks, stormwater, buffers, and access geometry define the real development envelope.

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03 · WHERE IT LIVES

The memo is the deliverable. The workspace is where it lives.

What you're looking atThe site workspace your team gets — every tab, every claim, sourced. Shown with the worked example. The tabs are clickable.
PORTFOLIO / ASHBURN EXPANSION / RISK REGISTERWORKED EXAMPLE · TRY THE TABS · OPEN THE CITATION
OverviewThe site, at a glance
HoldCondition: utility evidence not established54Feasibility / 100
the recommendation is the answer
Parcelbuyer-provided
Intended usedata center
Scale120MW target
Memo formatCited, checked HTML + PDF
What this workspace holds

47 source documents on file · 4 risk questions answered. Every tab below is scoped to this site — and every line in it carries its source.

Risk RegisterEvery row source-linked
HoldCondition: utility evidence not established54Feasibility / 100
the recommendation is the answer
Zoning pathSpecial exception path: Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors hearings.PUBLIC-RECORD VERIFIED
Power + permissionService territory is cited; available MW is not inferred.CONSULTANT-NEEDED
Community postureTwo recent hearings show water and noise objections.PUBLIC-RECORD VERIFIED
Claim · source attached

A data center on this parcel needs a special exception — a discretionary path, not by-right.

cites
LOUDOUN COUNTY ZONING ORDINANCE · DISTRICT MAP + PERMITTED-USE TABLEWORKED EXAMPLE · REPRESENTATIVE TEXT

Within the district, the following uses are permitted only upon approval of a special exception by the Board of Supervisors, after public hearings before the Planning Commission and the Board:

Data center, subject to the additional standards of this section.

Uses not listed as permitted or by special exception are prohibited.

CLAIM · BOUND TO SOURCE DOC ON FILE · CHECKED AGAINST CITED SOURCE ✓
REPRESENTATIVE EXCERPT · IN A DELIVERED MEMO THIS PANEL SHOWS THE ORDINANCE AS FILED
Entitlement PathSpecial exception — discretionary, not by-right
Pre-application review
Planning staff read of the submission.
↗ Loudoun County zoning ordinance · special exception procedure
Planning-commission hearing
Public testimony lands on the record here.
↗ Hearing calendar + minutes
Board of Supervisors decision
The discretionary vote — the first true veto point.
↗ Board agenda records
Appeal window
Exposure after approval is a legal question.
↗ Legal evidence not established — never inferred
Source RecordsShowing 12 of 47 documents
ORDINANCE · zoning district + use tableMINUTES · two recent hearingsUTILITY · service territory filingCOMPARABLES · 220+ researched fightsGAP · available MW — flagged, not guessed
Why this shelf exists

Every claim in the memo cites into this shelf. A document your counsel wants to check is one click away — not a request ticket.

ComparablesRanked by similarity
Franklin Township — discretionary rezoning, about six months from filing to withdrawalWITHDRAWN
Meridian, Ten Mile Road — more than 300 written submissions, denial upheld 5-1DENIED
The comparable set

220+ cited case files read from the public record — withdrawals, denials, and reversals with the paper to prove it — ranked against this site's use, scale, and jurisdiction posture.

Give us one address. We'll show you the record behind it — and where every line came from.

04 · WHAT'S UNDERNEATH

It looks like a search box. It works like a research system.

A chat window answers from memory. RealClear answers from the record.

THE SYSTEM UNDERNEATHEVERY PIECE CHECKABLE
M·1Five layers, read in parallel

A zoning reader, a pathway mapper, a community sentinel, a comparable analyst, and a report writer work the record at once, following it onto the open web where the record points there.

M·2Nothing ships uncited

Every assertion must name a source document before it leaves the building — bound, in the database, to the exact source it came from.

M·3A living map of the public record

Underneath sits a knowledge graph — a living map of the record, built so the same ordinance, staff report, or filing is findable from every site it touches.

M·4One clear read at the end

Pursue, Pursue with conditions, Monitor, Hold, or Walk away — and every reason behind it opens to its source. Pursue with conditions renders in memos from the next release.

How you give us the siteAn address is a point. A drawn boundary is a site.
GIVE US THE SITE · WORKED EXAMPLE
Ashburn Expansion · 72 ac · Loudoun County, VAScreen a site

Start with an address, a parcel number — or draw the boundary yourself. The research reads the record either way. The modes shown here are illustrative, not a statement of current availability; which are enabled for your engagement is confirmed during onboarding.

WHAT STOPS A MEMO FROM SHIPPING
MISSING CONTROLLING EVIDENCEUNCITED CLAIMFAILED CITED-SOURCE CHECK

A memo that cannot stand behind its recommendation doesn't ship. Before delivery, every persisted claim is checked against its cited source. Load-bearing failures are held or removed. Unknowns are flagged, never filled in.

The recommendation is never written first and justified after.

Whether the next diligence dollar is worth spending — a cited, checked site memo.

Delivery window confirmed when the completed property submission is accepted. Complex or thin-record sites may require more research.

A chat window can sound certain. It can't hand you the source. The difference isn't a better answer — it's an answer your counsel can check.

THE OUTPARCEL · ILLUSTRATIVE SCENARIO

One possible operating configuration.

This downstream visual is illustrative—not a predicted operating asset, promised outcome, or RealClear deliverable.

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