Use cases · Emergency management

Which homes do we reach first when the storm comes ashore?

A flood map shows where the water goes and nothing about the homes it reaches; the heating fuel sits on the assessor’s card, the year the ground floor was built sits in the permit file, and the septic system sits in a drawer at the Board of Health. ArtifexAI connects the surge line to all three under each lot and puts the homes in the order a crew should reach them, with the record behind each one and the reason beside it.

A storm comes ashore; each white house is one to reach first.

Homes standing in the water after Hurricane Floyd, 1999

Homes standing in the water after Hurricane Floyd, 1999 · photograph by Dave Gatley, FEMA, public domain

To carry upstairs

One sentence for the manager, three for the chief and the Select Board

Manager’s sentenceArtifexAI connects the flood map to the records under every lot and hands the crews a list in order with the reason beside each home, which the town keeps and re-runs as its records change.
Board’s three sentencesOur flood map shows the surge line and says nothing about which homes behind it heat with oil or were built before the flood map’s base elevation was raised, and an MVP 2.0 plan, the state’s climate-resilience plan, asks us to show where the town is exposed. ArtifexAI ran that question as a storm run on one coastal Massachusetts town’s own records and found 18 homes inside the 100-year zone, with $42.2 million in assessed value between them and the record behind each one. One copy of our records, the kind the IT contractor already makes, and one public session make the whole first step, with a first answer in about a week and nothing on the chief’s desk replaced.

Neptune Flood Research Group, December 2025; FEMA’s flood maps are out of date for 84% of the country · NFIP Dwelling Form, exclusions V.D.5 and V.D.6; seepage and sewer backup excluded unless an area flood caused them · 2025 Massachusetts Climate Report Card; one town in five holds an MVP 2.0 plan

In one town

The 100-year zone, home by home, in a storm run on one town’s records

In a storm run on one coastal Massachusetts town’s records, ArtifexAI laid the federal 100-year flood zone over the assessor’s cards and permit files and found 18 homes inside it, with $42.2 million in assessed value between them and the record behind each one. No storm has tested the run, and the list says only what the records held on the day it was made.

18homes inside the 100-year zone in the run, each with its record
$42.2Min assessed value between them
1click from any home to the record behind it

Eighteen homes lit inside the 100-year zone, from a storm run on one town’s records rather than from a storm.

Open the nearest case, a question answered from the same records a storm run would use.

No storm has tested the run above, and no case study yet shows one; the nearest case is a rentals question, answered in one town from the same cards and permits a storm run draws on, and checked every day since.

The rentals case studyA question for ArtifexAI