Property Intelligence

How We Build a Full
Intelligence Card in Seconds

Paste any address. Six data sources fire in parallel. A structured Property Intelligence Card arrives — PITI, comps, Track 5 score, vault-stored — before you finish reading this sentence.

RedfinFREDTavily AIGrok-4PITI EnginePrivate Vault
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RedfinProperty Data Extraction

When you paste an address or Redfin URL, our server fetches the live Redfin listing page and extracts: list price, beds/baths, square footage, year built, days on market, HOA fees, and the agent's remarks. No API key required — direct server-side fetch with structured parsing.

List price extracted with $50M cap to prevent data errors
HOA fee parsed from listing remarks and structured fields
Days on market used to score market heat (L2 signal)
Address normalized for downstream FRED and AI lookups
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FREDLive Rate Sourcing

The Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) API delivers the current 30-year fixed mortgage rate, 15-year fixed rate, and 5/1 ARM index — pulled fresh on every request. These are the same rates the Fed publishes. Not lender-paid placements. Not sponsored quotes.

PMMS series: 30-yr fixed weekly national average
Rate spread calculated vs 10-yr Treasury
No rate locked to a cache older than 24 hours
FRED data is public — reproducible by anyone
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PITI EngineDeterministic PITI Math

With the price and the FRED rate in hand, our deterministic calculator builds the full monthly payment: Principal + Interest (amortization formula), Property Tax (0.9% annual default, county-adjusted), Homeowners Insurance (0.3%), and PMI if down payment < 20%. No AI guesswork — pure math.

P&I: standard 360-payment amortization formula
Tax: 0.9% annual ÷ 12 (overridden by county data where available)
Insurance: 0.3% annual ÷ 12
PMI: 0.85% annual if LTV > 80%, drops at 78% LTV
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TavilyAI-Powered Web Search

Tavily's AI search API runs targeted queries for the subject property: recent comps, neighborhood trends, school ratings, walkability, local market conditions. Unlike a plain Google search, Tavily returns structured, citation-linked excerpts — not raw HTML. These feed directly into the Grok analysis.

Queries: "[city] [zip] home sales 2025", "[neighborhood] market report"
Returns top 5–8 cited excerpts per query
School scores, transit scores, crime indices sourced from web
Snippet length capped to control token cost in downstream AI call
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Grok-4Deep AI Reasoning

The Redfin data, FRED rate, PITI result, and Tavily search excerpts are assembled into a structured prompt for Grok-4 via the xAI Responses API. Grok's native web_search tool can run additional real-time lookups mid-analysis. The output is a strict JSON object — not freeform prose.

xAI Responses API: /v1/responses endpoint with grok-4 model
Native web_search_preview tool for live lookups during reasoning
Prompt mandates: 6 comps, PITI verification, Zillow views, market score
JSON schema enforced — malformed output triggers structured fallback
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Intelligence CardStructured Card Output

The validated JSON is rendered into a Property Intelligence Card — a structured, scannable artifact saved to your private vault. Every number is traceable to a source. Every score has a formula. Nothing is "AI-generated opinion" — it's computed signals presented clearly.

PITI breakdown with individual line items
Loan zone classification (Conforming / High-Balance / Jumbo)
Track 5 scores: Affordability, Market Heat, Value Gap, Location
Up to 6 comparable sales with price-per-sqft analysis
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Monthly PITI
P+I+Tax+Insurance+PMI
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Loan Zone
Conforming / High-Balance / Jumbo
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Track 5 Score
4 signals, weighted verdict
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Comparable Sales
Up to 6 recent comps w/ $/sqft
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Market Snapshot
DOM, list-to-sale, absorption
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Rate Sensitivity
Payment at ±0.5% rate scenarios
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Cash to Close
Down + closing cost estimate
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Location Signals
Schools, walkability, appreciation
🔐 Every Card Saved to Your Private Vault

Signed in with your free account? Every Intelligence Card you generate is stored in your personal Supabase vault, authenticated via Clerk. Your data never touches an ad platform, never gets sold to a lender, and never trains a model. You can revisit any card, compare two properties side-by-side, and export to PDF — no re-running the pipeline.

Clerk authRow-level securityNo lender accessPDF exportSide-by-side compareNo data selling
No API keys or accounts needed

You paste an address. We do the work. No Zillow account, no Redfin login, no manual data entry. Our server-side fetch handles everything.

Math first, AI second

PITI is computed with a deterministic formula — not estimated by AI. Grok reasons about context and market signals, but the numbers are always reproducible math.

Every number has a source

FRED rate: citable series ID. Redfin price: the live listing. Tavily excerpts: linked citations. Nothing comes from a black box.

Zero lead generation

Traditional "mortgage calculators" exist to capture your contact info and sell it to lenders. We have no lead forms. No lender relationships. No referral revenue.

See It Run on Any Property

Paste any address or Redfin URL. The full 6-step pipeline fires instantly. Free. No email. No forms.

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