AI Easement Detection
The Problem
“Your valuations ignore hidden easements—until they blow up deals and risk models”
Organizations face these key challenges:
Easements and ROWs are buried in scanned plats/deeds, forcing manual, slow, error-prone review
Valuation outputs vary by reviewer and often miss buildability/use constraints that change true market value
Surprises late in the deal cycle trigger re-appraisals, renegotiations, and lender exceptions
No consistent way to map easements to parcels and feed them into AVMs/appraisal explanations
Impact When Solved
The Shift
Human Does
- •Manually read deeds, plats, surveys, and title commitments to find easements/restrictions
- •Interpret legal descriptions, measurements, and exhibit references; reconcile inconsistencies
- •Create narrative summaries and attach exhibits for appraisers/underwriters
- •Decide when to escalate to surveyor/title counsel for ambiguous cases
Automation
- •Basic keyword search in document repositories
- •Static GIS overlays (when available) without document-level extraction
- •Spreadsheet/database entry and templated report generation
Human Does
- •Review AI-flagged exceptions/low-confidence detections and approve final constraints
- •Handle edge cases (poor scans, conflicting instruments, unusual local recording formats)
- •Define policy rules (what constraints affect valuation, underwriting thresholds, audit requirements)
AI Handles
- •Ingest and OCR recorded documents; extract easement clauses, parties, dates, and affected areas
- •Detect and classify easement types (utility, access, drainage, conservation, setbacks) and normalize terminology
- •Derive geometry from plats/surveys; link constraints to parcels and map them in GIS
- •Score confidence, flag conflicts (e.g., overlapping easements), and generate audit-ready explanations
Operating Intelligence
How AI Easement Detection runs once it is live
AI runs the first three steps autonomously.
Humans own every decision.
The system gets smarter each cycle.
Who is in control at each step
Each column marks the operating owner for that step. AI-led actions sit above the divider, human decisions and feedback loops sit below it.
Step 1
Assemble Context
Step 2
Analyze
Step 3
Recommend
Step 4
Human Decision
Step 5
Execute
Step 6
Feedback
AI lead
Autonomous execution
Human lead
Approval, override, feedback
AI handles assembly, analysis, and execution. The human gate sits at the decision point. Every cycle refines future recommendations.
The Loop
6 steps
Assemble Context
Combine the relevant records, signals, and constraints.
Analyze
Evaluate options, risk, and likely outcomes.
Recommend
Present a ranked recommendation with supporting rationale.
Human Decision
A human accepts, edits, or rejects the recommendation.
Authority gates · 1
The system must not finalize a valuation, appraisal adjustment, or underwriting conclusion without human review of the detected easements and encumbrances. [S1][S2][S3]
Why this step is human
The decision carries real-world consequences that require professional judgment and accountability.
Execute
Carry out the approved action in the operating workflow.
Feedback
Outcome data improves future recommendations.
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Operational Depth
Technologies
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Key Players
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