Terminus
Terminus was the Roman god of boundary stones. When the Temple of Jupiter was built on the Capitoline, every other shrine was moved to clear the ground. Terminus would not be moved, so the temple was built around him — with an opening in the roof, because a boundary marker has to stand under open sky.
Land intelligence for Texas, built on public records. Five products, sold separately.
The idea behind all five
Texas keeps several independent records of the same land: the appraisal roll, the county clerk's deed index, municipal permits where they exist, and the surface of the earth itself as seen from orbit. They disagree constantly, and the disagreements are where the information is.
A structure with no permit and no roll entry. A buyer assembling forty contiguous acres under three LLC names. A vacant lot whose owner moved out of state in 2009 and has not been heard from since. None of these are hidden — they are simply spread across four systems that nobody reads together.
Terminus Roll — undocumented improvement discovery
Finds physical change on the ground that the appraisal record has never heard of, and hands the district the evidence behind each one.
What you get, as one engagement rather than tiers: a findings report for the board, a machine-readable evidence pack with every flagged parcel and its supporting observation, and ninety days of access to review and challenge the findings.
The limit, stated first. Our satellite layer resolves at ten metres. It cannot see a room addition or a pool, and we will not pretend otherwise. What it sees reliably is large change — pads, clearings, ponds, laydown yards, metal buildings, solar, industrial. If you already buy high-resolution imagery, this complements it; it does not replace it.
Pilot. Roll's findings can be computed statewide today, but their average confidence is still too low to sell as a finished product, largely because matching an observation to a parcel by bounding box is coarse. We offer it as a scoped pilot with one appraisal district, measured against that district's own field checks.
Terminus Watch — land assembly early warning
Alerts when one party, or a cluster of related entities, quietly accumulates contiguous acreage.
Assembly is done deliberately quietly and through affiliates, which is exactly why it is visible in the aggregate: one certified roll compared against the next shows the acreage moving even when each individual purchase looks ordinary. Corroborating public records — entity formations, state construction registrations, water well reports — usually appear first.
We do not charge per alert. Charging per alert on a detection product pays us to fire more often, and a detector with that incentive is not worth having.
Terminus Shield — parcel fraud risk
Scores a parcel for how attractive it is to seller impersonation, before a closing rather than after.
The industry's existing tools verify the person presenting at the table. This scores the property — vacant, unencumbered, owner out of state or an entity or an heir, tax mailing address that does not match the situs, long dormant hold. That combination is the published profile of a targeted lot.
It says nothing about the owner. A high score means verify harder. It is not an allegation, and it is not a consumer report.
Terminus Screen — SB 17 ownership screening
Screening Texas land records against SB 17's restrictions on acquisition by designated foreign persons and entities.
This one carries criminal penalties, which changes what a tool is allowed to be. Acquisition dates exist for 11.6% of parcels (1,521,024 of 13,124,564), and no analysis manufactures a date the county never recorded. So it is analyst-led, priced per engagement, and it produces the research counsel works from — never a legal determination.
Terminus Heirs — tangled title
Surfaces property likely held as heirs' property: inherited without a will, with title still in a deceased owner's name, and vulnerable to a forced partition sale.
Sold only to the protective side — legal aid, USDA relending intermediaries, extension services, community foundations and land-retention nonprofits. Never to a party acquiring or brokering the acquisition of such land, at any price.
That is not a policy we ask you to trust. It is a permissible-purpose grant enforced at request time and written into an append-only audit record, so the refusal is visible to anyone who audits us.
What the corpus is
| Texas parcels | 13.1 million |
| Counties | 252 |
| Deed index records | 122,000+ across 45 counties |
| Coordinates present | 98.9% (12,981,878 parcels) |
| Owner mailing state present | 98.1% (12,880,723 parcels) |
And the limits, because they decide what the products can honestly do: acquisition dates on 11.6% of parcels (1,521,024), market value on 55.6% (7,300,243), year built on 0.46% (60,674). Texas is a non-disclosure state — sale prices are not public record — so no vendor has reliable Texas sale prices, including the national ones.
Pricing
Seats are scoped by territory, per seat per month: $1,999 statewide, subscribed on the Billing page once your access is approved. Single-county ($249) and regional ($749) seats are arranged through us while per-county scoping is completed. Roll pilots are scoped per district. Screening is quoted per engagement.