HousingEach green house is a home rented year-round.
- Which homes in town are rented year-round, address by address?
- How many affordable rentals changed hands this year?
- Where could a small second home go under today’s zoning?
ArtifexAI
Every town and city has questions it can’t answer before it decides.
ArtifexAI answers them from the town’s own records, and the town keeps everything.
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United StatesClients at three levels of government.
Town of ChathamMassachusetts
New York StateDepartment of Public Service
U.S. Department of Defensethrough Alvarez & Marsal
MassachusettsEach cluster is one of 351 towns and cities, sized by its homes.
One town, its questions
Three questions, answered from records the town already kept
Each came from a different office, and those offices come next.
One coastal townThree offices, one set of records
RentalsWhy does the state count 1,500 rentals and the town 1,000?
GroundwaterWhich septic systems sit over shallow groundwater?
StormWhich homes do we reach first when the storm comes ashore?
Each office keeps a true file on the same home
Each file is right for its office. Comparing them is nobody’s job.
One home, lit in all eight files.
Every record, filed under the home it belongs to
The town owns the copy and every model built from it, and its records never train anyone else’s AI.
Eight files, one home.
When two records disagree, that is the finding
A card says six acres and the deed says three-quarters. One listing says five bedrooms where the septic permit allows three.
A card and a deed on one lot; the acreage differs.
8,315 assessor cards and 22,164 septic and inspection records, matched to homes in one town
“Are you kidding me, I can use this.”Director of Public Works · a Massachusetts town
What it is
ArtifexAI sits beside the systems a town already runs
It connects the assessor, permit and state records home by home, and runs forecasts on them that the town owns. No system is replaced.
The four verbs
See, predict, act, keep
- See
- One page per home, with every record on it and the source and date of each.
- Predict
- A sewer line or a storm, tried on the town’s homes before the decision.
- Act
- A ranked list an office can carry, such as which homes to inspect first.
- Keep
- Records, models and answers stay with the town, and every answer holds up at a public hearing.
Questions by office
Whichever office is asking, the answer starts in the same records
Questions towns and departments have brought to ArtifexAI, some answered and some next.
Public worksA water connection card, filed under its lot.
- What does the town hold on this lot when my crew is at the curb?
- Which homes connect to the sewer first, inside the watershed deadline?
- How much more water does a home use in summer than its neighbors?
Board of HealthA rental listed with five bedrooms, beside a septic permit written for three.
- Which listings claim more bedrooms than the septic permit allows?
- How far above the groundwater does a septic system sit?
- Which systems near water the state protects are due for inspection?
Rentals and permitsEach orange square is a state registration the town can now match to a home.
- Why does the state’s list disagree with ours?
- Which rentals are operating without a permit?
- How many permits expired while the home stayed listed?
Finance and grantsA finished permit beside the assessor’s card, with new growth to certify.
- What new growth can we certify this year, permit by permit?
- Which outside grants could the town apply for this cycle?
- What will the override question mean, home by home, before Town Meeting?
Emergency managementA storm comes ashore; each white house is one to reach first.
- Which homes do we reach first when the storm comes ashore?
- What sits inside the 100-year flood zone, and what is at stake there?
- How many septic systems sit below the surge line?
PlanningThe planner tries one proposed building on three lots, and one fits.
- What have owners built inside our 3A district, and what has compliance cost the town?
- Which lots would fit a project before anyone applies for a permit?
- Who owns the land we are planning around, and is the title clean?
Case study
Two lists that disagreed at a hearing, and the record that settled it
ArtifexAI×A coastal Massachusetts town
A resident asked at a hearing; the town’s own files answered that week, and the check has run daily since.
- Listing platforms
- 9
- First answer
- that week
- The check runs
- daily
The first step
Small to start, with a first answer in about a week
- 1
- export of the records the town already keeps
- 1
- contact in Town Hall
- 1
- public session
- 0
- systems replaced
Every question goes to a founder, and the first answer comes before any contract.
Bring us the question your town can’t answer.
Engineering firms, advisors and nonprofits work from the same public records. How partners work with ArtifexAI
The maps place every U.S. county and Massachusetts town at its true location. Aerial photographs are U.S. Geological Survey imagery in the public domain. The town drawing is an illustration, not a property map.