By Verbolta

The best land was never listed.

Describe the project the way you would to a colleague. Tractex reads the county's own ownership records live, scores every parcel against what you need, and hands back a ranked, mapped shortlist with the flood zones, the slopes and the septic problems already on it.

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Status: Live
Parcels: All 100 NC counties + 3 in SC
Zoning: 26 counties, from county GIS

Fields read on every parcel: 35
Land checks on every parcel: 17
Public government sources: 64

A Tractex search for a 10-home subdivision near Mooresville: the plain-English request and Tractex's written summary on the left, 4,487 matching parcels ranked by suitability in the middle with two blocks of adjoining land and seller-signal badges, and the matches clustered on a map of the Lake Norman area on the right.

A real search, captured from the working product. One sentence is read back as eight constraints, 4,487 parcels are read live from five counties and ranked by fit, and two blocks of adjoining land turn up among them.

Three things a listings search cannot give you.

Land nobody else is looking at

Nothing Tractex searches is for sale. These are ownership records, so every result is off-market by definition and you are not bidding against everyone who set an alert on the same listing.

Buildable, not merely available

Up to 35 fields from the county record and 17 land checks arrive with every parcel, from flood zone and soil through septic suitability, slope, zoning, wetlands and road access. The deal breakers surface in the first minute instead of the third week.

A shortlist you can defend

Every parcel carries the reasons it ranked where it did and the public source behind each check, so the list holds up to the first hard question from a partner, a lender or your own engineer.

Screens from the working product.

Real captures from the working product, not mockups and not renders. Owner names are blurred. Nothing else is staged.

Live records

Live from the county. Never a stale copy.

A downloaded dataset starts ageing the day it is made. Tractex reads the county's own records at the moment you search, so what you see is what the county holds today, with the county's data date beside it. This parcel came from Iredell County's records as published on 24 May 2026.

Owner and mailing address, acreage, assessed value, land use and sale history arrive exactly as the county published them, up to 35 fields in all. Seller signals sit on the parcel as plain facts: vacant, absentee, company or trust, long-held. Tractex never turns them into a prediction of who will sell.

A parcel record in Tractex for W Center Av in Iredell County: the parcel outline, badges for Vacant, LLC-owned and Held 10+ yrs, acreage, assessed value, value per acre, land use and owner type, a LIVE marker with Iredell County's data date of May 24, 2026, then the valuation, ownership and land condition sections.

The land conditions of the same parcel in Tractex: low flood risk in zone X, well-drained soil, a 6 to 10 percent slope band, septic suitability somewhat limited, soil type, farmland of statewide importance, zoning, no wetlands mapped at its centre, a perennial stream 150 feet away, public road access and a gentle slope, then four EPA sites nearby, no historic district, air quality in attainment, not on protected land with the nearby check unavailable, and a FEMA natural hazard rating of very low.

Land checks

17 checks before you pick up the phone.

Everything that decides whether you can build, on every parcel, each from the public source that publishes it: 64 government sources in all, from FEMA and the USDA to the county's own GIS.

Flood zone: FEMA
Wetlands: USFWS
Streams: USGS
Soil + drainage: USDA
Septic suitability: USDA
Terrain + slope: USGS
Regulatory zoning: County GIS
Protected land: USGS
Historic districts: NPS
Road access: Census
Transmission lines: HIFLD
Freight rail: FRA · BTS
Contaminated sites: EPA
Air quality: EPA
Natural risk: FEMA
Market + incentives: Census · HUD
USDA rural eligibility: USDA

The Tractex results map at street level over Mooresville with flood zones and wetlands switched on: FEMA's regulatory floodplain along the creeks labelled Zone AE, mapped wetlands and streams, and result parcels drawn with their county boundaries.

Map

Flood zones and wetlands, right on the map

FEMA's regulatory flood zones and the national wetlands inventory lie under the results, each parcel drawn with its real county boundary, so you see what touches what before you drive out. Zoomed too far out to draw them, the map says so instead of passing for an all clear.

Compare

Every neighbour, side by side

The land around any parcel within 0.3, 0.5 or 1 mile, numbered on the map and in a list. Pick the ones you care about and they line up beside yours in one table: acreage, value per acre, status, land use and last sale.

Tractex results showing adjoining land: a block of three adjoining parcels totalling 47.53 acres across two separate owners, marked boundaries meet, above the ranked parcel list.

Assemblage

The whole block, not one parcel

Tractex finds the parcels that adjoin yours from the county's own boundaries, and the other land the same owner holds nearby. Here, three parcels make 47.53 acres across two owners. It says the boundaries meet and leaves the survey to you.

The Tractex Today page: counts of signals, overdue tasks, tasks due today and dates ahead, a live signals panel watching 15 saved parcels against the county's records every day, the team's discussion, open tasks and upcoming key dates.

Alerts

Know the day the record moves

Saved land is checked against the county's records every day for sales, ownership changes, lot splits, new or demolished buildings, land use changes and reassessments, and saved searches re-run to catch new matches. A new name on the record is never reported as a sale.

Pipeline

From first look to closing

Save land, file it into deals and move each one through diligence to closing on a board the whole team shares, with acreage and value totalled at every stage. Owner letters are drafted from the parcel and your project for you to edit and send yourself. Tractex never sends mail.

Captured from the working product against live North Carolina county records. Owner names and mailing addresses are blurred. The figures belong to those captures and will differ from any given search.

It will tell you the deal does not work.

Finding the parcel is half the job. Tractex runs the residual method on your own assumptions and shows every step, so the answer is yours to check, not a number to take on faith.

Your assumptions, not its guesses

Usable share, lots per acre, revenue per lot, site cost, soft costs, contingency, finance and carry, and the profit you require. Tractex brings the parcel and the acreage. Every figure that decides the answer is one you entered yourself.

Every step on the page

Gross revenue, site development, soft costs, contingency, finance and carry and required profit each appear with the arithmetic that produced them, down to the residual land value at the bottom. Nothing happens off-screen.

A negative answer stays negative

When the costs and your required profit consume the revenue, it says the assumptions leave nothing for the land and prints the figure in red. A tool that only ever encourages you is not doing arithmetic.

A notice inside Tractex reading: these are your numbers, not Tractex's. Tractex does not estimate land value or score the deal. It runs the residual method on the assumptions you enter and shows every step, so you can check it. — In the product's own words Most software in this category will happily hand you a valuation. Tractex refuses, in writing, on the same screen where it does the maths. It will not estimate land value and it will not score your deal, because both would be a guess wearing a number's clothing.

Four decisions that shape the product.

Input

Plain English, not a filter form

Type the project the way you would say it to a colleague: the homes, the town, the price, the preferences. Refine it the same way, with “more like 30 acres” or “within 10 miles instead”, and it keeps everything else you asked for.

Data

Read live, not from a copy

Comparable tools copy county data into a warehouse and serve results from that copy. Tractex queries the county during the search, so what you see is current at the moment you ask. It is also why a dense metro search takes seconds instead of appearing instantly.

Ranking

Reasons, not just a number

Filtering and scoring are deterministic: the same parcel and the same request always produce the same result. Every result carries the reasons it ranked where it did, written out in plain language.

Honesty

It tells you when it does not know

Public records are uneven. Most systems collapse “not recorded” into “no”. Tractex keeps them apart and says which it is, and when part of a request is something no public record can answer, the search says so instead of quietly dropping it.

The top-ranked result in Tractex, badged Strong fit, carrying FEMA flood zone AE alongside Vacant, LLC-owned, Held 10+ yrs and Absentee owner. — It flags the risk. It does not bury it. The best result on the list is also in a flood zone, and both facts sit on the same row. The score is not quietly discounted and the flag is not buried a click away.

Two rows from a Tractex parcel: Protected land reads not on protected land, nearby check unavailable; Natural hazards reads FEMA NRI Relatively Low. — It says what it cannot see. Not on protected land, and the nearby check was unavailable. Two different statements, kept apart, instead of being rounded together into a clean and slightly false no.

From client platforms to a product of our own.

2025

The idea

Tractex began as Zack Murphy's idea, and he still shapes where the product goes.
2026

Verbolta turns to product

Client work taught us the parts that matter most: data modelling, deployment, and being honest about what a system does not know. We started building for ourselves.
Now

Live on its own site

Tractex reads parcels live in all 100 North Carolina counties and three in South Carolina, with regulatory zoning in 26. The search pipeline, the scoring and the data layer underneath are all our own work.

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Get on it before your competition.

Tractex is live on its own site, built for North Carolina developers. Describe a project in plain English and see what the county's records return.

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Nothing to install: it runs in your browser
Answered by the people who build it, usually the same day

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Built by Verbolta in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Coverage

Every North Carolina county, read live.

Parcels: All 100 North Carolina counties, plus York, Lancaster and Spartanburg in South Carolina
Regulatory zoning: 26 counties, each read from that government's own GIS and checked against real parcels
Everywhere else: The assessor's land use, labelled plainly as not zoning

Flood, soil and terrain are federal layers, so they cover every parcel Tractex shows.

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