Rural Parcel Decision Brief
One Michigan parcel. One decision question. Source-linked public-record research, delivered within 48 business hours of confirmed scope and payment. $450 founding pilot.
How it works
You send a Michigan parcel address or parcel ID plus one primary decision question — for example, "What should we verify before my client spends more money on this rural Michigan parcel?" We convert that question into an ordered diligence sequence supported by public records.
- Request + fit-check. Send the parcel and your question through the intake below. We perform only enough unpaid fit-check research to confirm the assignment fits the one-parcel pilot, and reply within one business day.
- Scope + payment. Full diligence begins only after scope is confirmed and the one-time $450 payment is confirmed received. Payment is a PayPal invoice after the fit-check (crypto on request — say so in your intake).
- Delivery. Your brief arrives within 48 business hours of confirmed scope and payment, white-label or CropCircuit-branded.
What the finished brief looks like
A short decision-oriented summary identifies the strongest supported public-record finding, the uncertainty most capable of changing the decision, and the cheapest highest-value verification step to take next. The brief does not call a parcel "buildable" unless an appropriate authority or professional has actually established the relevant proposition.
Decision snapshot
| Topic | Evidence shown | Output boundary |
|---|---|---|
| Parcel / jurisdiction | assessor/GIS and jurisdiction records | confirms identity/context, not title |
| Zoning / land use | current published zoning sources | reports published rules; authority confirms application/approval |
| Wetlands | state/federal screening sources | screening indicator unless authority/site determination exists |
| Flood | official mapping | map status/context, not a survey or elevation certification |
| Soils | USDA soil survey information | soil-survey context, not septic/geotechnical approval |
| Well | recorded well/public groundwater context | record context, not a promise of yield/quality |
| Septic | responsible authority + permitting pathway | pathway/requirements, not approval |
| Access / title | public-record clues where available | flags questions; title professional resolves title/easement conclusions |
Instead of silently averaging conflicting records, the brief identifies what disagrees, whether the conflict is temporal, definitional, measurement-related, or logical, why it matters to your decision, and who or what can resolve it. It ends with an ordered next-diligence queue designed to avoid paying for expensive diligence before cheaper decision gates are cleared.
What the $450 pilot includes
- One Michigan parcel and one primary decision question
- Source-linked public-record research
- Parcel/jurisdiction and zoning/land-use orientation
- Wetland, flood, soil, well, and septic screening and pathway research
- Explicit unknowns and contradictions
- An ordered next-diligence queue
- White-label or CropCircuit-branded presentation
- Delivery within 48 business hours after parcel, scope, and payment are confirmed
What it does not include
The brief is not a survey, appraisal, legal/title opinion, engineering or geotechnical report, environmental certification, wetland delineation, septic/well approval, municipal approval, or guarantee of buildability. Screening evidence stays labeled as screening evidence, and authority or professional determinations stay attributed to the authority or professional that made them.
Correction policy
If within 7 days of delivery you find a factual error, a broken or misquoted source link, or a place where your stated main question was not addressed, send us the specifics and we will correct and re-deliver the brief once, free, within 5 business days. Research conclusions reflect what public records show; where records are thin or missing, we say so explicitly in the brief rather than filling gaps. Payments are final once research has begun, except as noted here.