For a while, a handful of ideas sat on our status page under a single honest label: Concept. Not a promise, not a date — just “here’s something the data could become.” Five of them just graduated.
We keep a deliberately separate list of concept apps — explorations synthesized from Philadelphia’s open records, shown with a non-committal label so they never read as a roadmap promise. Graduating means one crossed the line from an idea on a page to a real app you can open in the platform today. Five just did: OwnerRisk, MarketLens, CivicPulse, BlightSignal, and DisplacementWatch.
Is a landlord distressed — or negligent — across their whole portfolio? OwnerRisk rolls tax delinquency, open dangerous-structure cases, and absentee-ownership flags up to the owner, not just the one parcel in front of you.
What actually sold near you — and is your area heating up? Real recorded sale prices from deeds, nominal and intra-family transfers filtered out, rolled into a median price trend for a ZIP or council district, read against the same area a year ago and the city as a whole.
The vital signs of an area, in one read: crime, 311 requests, permits, and violations over the last year, each measured against the typical Philadelphia area — so “is this a lot?” is always answered.
Is a block emptying out, or being rebuilt? Demolitions and open dangerous-structure cases read against construction permits, area by area, against the citywide norm.
Is an area under displacement pressure — before the for-sale signs go up? Sale-price acceleration read alongside redevelopment: new construction and demolitions running hot against the citywide norm.
Because none of them needed new plumbing. Each is a new lens on data the platform already connects — recorded deeds, permits, violations, 311, crime, tax records, dangerous structures. OwnerRisk reuses the owner-resolution that powers LandlordEye. MarketLens and DisplacementWatch share one sale-price-trend engine. CivicPulse and BlightSignal share one “measure this area against the typical area” baseline.
Build the engine once, and the fourth and fifth app ship faster than the first two did.
That’s the whole bet behind one engine instead of five apps: the datasets describe the same city and are already connected in the real world, so a new app is a new question asked of shared infrastructure — not a rebuild.
Every one of these is beta. That means real data and real queries — and rough edges you may hit. It also means we held a line on honesty as they graduated:
The lab isn’t empty. More ideas are still wearing the Concept label, and the next data connections — neighborhood boundaries for true block-level reads, health inspections, shooting-level safety data — are what turn the next batch loose. The roadmap is built from the same registry the product ships from, so it can’t get ahead of reality: when something graduates, it moves there on its own.
No — all five are included for any signed-in account. See pricing for how the plans work.
Yes. It’s public Philadelphia records — deeds, permits, violations, 311, crime, and tax data — connected and read in plain language. See Data Sources for every dataset and where it comes from.
Because they’re genuinely useful now, and the fastest way to sharpen a rough edge is to have people find it. Beta is a promise to keep improving in the open, not a disclaimer.