Use cases · Public works

What does the town already hold on this lot when my crew is at the curb?

“Are you kidding me, I can use this.”

The public works director of one coastal Massachusetts town, on his first look at what the town’s own records could show him.

A sewer plan names watersheds, and a crew works one lot at a time; ArtifexAI files the septic record, the water connection card, the permit history and the state well report under each home, and the schedule the watershed permit asks for starts from those same records.

A hand-drawn water connection card, filed under its lot beside the septic file and the well report.

Sewer work on Winchester Street in Medford, Massachusetts

Sewer work on Winchester Street in Medford, Massachusetts · photograph by MassDOT, public domain

To carry upstairs

One sentence for the manager, three for the board

Manager’s sentenceArtifexAI puts everything the town holds on a lot on one page for the crew, and from the same records ArtifexAI sorts the septic homes by the groundwater under them.
Board’s three sentencesOur crews work one lot at a time, and what the town holds on that lot sits in four places; the water connection card in a drawer, the septic file at the Board of Health, the permit history in the building department and the well report at the state. In one coastal Massachusetts town ArtifexAI filed those four records under each home, and the list of septic homes over shallow groundwater came out of the same files, with the well report and the Title 5 permit, the state’s septic code, one click from each line. Nothing we run today would be replaced; a copy of our records starts the work, the first answer comes back in about a week, and the Select Board sees that answer before any contract is signed.

Massachusetts 2026 Clean Water State Revolving Fund intended use plan, April 2026; about $2.08 billion requested against $727.9 million offered · MassDEP nitrogen rules under Title 5, in force July 2023; a 20-year watershed permit in place of a five-year upgrade clock on each owner

In one town

The groundwater under each lot, from reports the state already held

Staff in one coastal Massachusetts town asked where the groundwater came closest to a septic system. ArtifexAI filed 758 state well reports under the lot each well was drilled on, and 373 lots now carry a depth to groundwater the state measured. Of those, 86 sit within 20 feet of the surface, and 51 of the 86 are on septic, each with its well report and its Title 5 permit one click away.

758state well reports, each filed under the lot its well was drilled on
86lots where the state measured groundwater within 20 feet of the surface
51of those on septic, with the well report and the permit behind each

A row of lots cut open, the groundwater drawn where the state’s well reports measured it, and the lots on septic marked.

Open the nearest case, a rentals question answered day after day.

No case study yet shows a sewer schedule, and the nearest case is a rentals question; the rentals case shows a check that kept running every day after the first answer, which is what a sewer schedule has to do as inspections and connection orders change.

The rentals case studyA question for ArtifexAI