John Reid Companies

John Reid Companies had significantly expanded their operations—from a handful of real estate assessments annually to several hundred per year.

Their existing manual process involved labor-intensive, error-prone searches for property data:

• Manually researching addresses one-by-one using consumer-grade tools.
• Individually querying disparate county registries and databases.
• Navigating specialized proprietary GIS data.

This approach was inefficient, taking three to five minutes per property and limiting scalability.

They needed a solution that could rapidly and accurately aggregate critical GIS and real estate data.

Futureproof developed a tailored mapping tool leveraging rapid application development methods. Key elements included:

• Superbase Backend: Hosted GIS and property data tables, providing rapid querying based on geographic map interactions.
• GIS Mapping with Mapbox: Interactive map visualization enabling real-time navigation, property searches, and data filtering.
• Automated Data Enrichment: Leveraged Smarty APIs for automatic address verification and retrieval of enriched property data (plot size, zoning details, county information).
• UMC Data Integration: Scraped 45,000 properties from umdata.org, automatically distinguishing closed and operational properties to streamline property selection.
• HUD Data Layers: Integrated Qualified Census Tracts (QCT), Distressed Designation Areas (DDA), and Area Median Income (AMI) data layers to pinpoint optimal investment regions.
• Airtable Dashboard: Integrated real-time data export to Airtable, offering sophisticated filtering, visualizations, and reporting capabilities for strategic decision-making.

Implementation took just three days from kickoff to deployment, facilitated by lightweight yet targeted collaboration between futureproof and John Reid Companies.