01 · Data transparency

Every source, on the record.

This page is generated straight from the registry the engine runs on, so it always shows exactly what KOANO queries and can never drift into naming a source we do not use. Most of it is live public data. Some figures are honest stand-ins for licensed data we have not funded yet, and they say so wherever they appear.

Five

Provenance states

Sourced

Every figure, every verdict

Daily

Archive of the public record

02 · Live sources

Live public data, queried in real time.

KOANO calls authoritative public data at the moment you run an analysis: municipal building records, parcel and zoning data, recorded sales, federal hazard and climate data, environmental contamination records, crime statistics, mortgage and lending activity, employment and migration. National sources run anywhere in the US. The NYC-tagged municipal layers are the deep local record that lets a New York verdict roll up fully live.

Municipal building records

NYC DOB NOW Approved PermitsNYC
Infrastructure pipeline agent
NYC HPD / ECB / DOB violationsNYC
Risk and regulatory agents
NYC DOB Job Application FilingsNYC
Regulatory and policy agent

Parcel, zoning and ownership

NYC GeoSearch + US Census geocoderUS
Every verdict
US Census TIGERweb + NYC DCP MapPLUTOUS
Maps and comp distance ranking
NYC MapPLUTONYC
Regulatory and policy agent
NYC MapPLUTO block ownership and unused FARNYC
Development analysis
NYC HPD registrations + Speculation Watch ListNYC
Regulatory and policy agent

Recorded sales

NYC DOF Rolling SalesNYC
Market timing agent and CMA

Environmental contamination

EPA Facility Registry Service (Superfund + brownfields)US
Risk and volatility agent

Federal hazard and climate

FEMA National Flood Hazard LayerUS
Risk and volatility agent
USGS Earthquake Hazards (ASCE 7-22 + ComCat)US
Risk and volatility agent
OpenFEMA Disaster DeclarationsUS
Risk and volatility agent
NOAA NCEI climate normalsUS
Risk and volatility agent
FEMA National Risk IndexUS
Risk and volatility agent

Crime statistics

FBI Crime Data Explorer / NYPD complaintsUS
Risk and volatility agent

Mortgage and lending activity

CFPB HMDAUS
Demand sentiment agent
Freddie Mac PMMSUS
Market timing agent

Employment and migration

BLS QCEWUS
Demand sentiment agent
IRS SOI county-to-county migrationUS
Demand sentiment agent

Prices, demographics and housing policy

US Census ACS 5-yearUS
Demand and market agents
FHFA House Price IndexUS
Market timing agent
IRS / Treasury Opportunity Zone designationsUS
Regulatory and policy agent
HUD QCT + DDAUS
Regulatory and policy agent
HUD Fair Market RentsUS
Market timing agent
Census Building Permits SurveyUS
Market timing agent
03 · Representative sources

The sources KOANO does not run live.

KOANO runs live everywhere it can. Where a source is licensed commercial data we have not funded, it uses a clearly labeled representative stand-in and names the license that turns it live. These never feed a verdict. They support documents only, and they are never shown as real.

RepresentativeLand & construction costs

Pro-forma benchmarks

Development documents

Becomes live with a CoStar Market Analytics or HouseCanary license. A one-line change in the provider registry.

RepresentativeCommercial transactions

Institutional comparable deals

Portfolio documents

Becomes live with a CoStar/LoopNet or MSCI Real Capital Analytics license. A one-line change in the provider registry.

04 · Provenance

Every figure carries one of five labels.

A figure is only as trustworthy as where it came from, so KOANO tags each one and keeps the states distinct. A verdict's overall label equals the weakest input it used, so a computed score can never hide a stand-in inside a tidy average.

Live

Fetched in real time from an authoritative public source KOANO queried when you ran the analysis. Full trust.

Partner

A third-party partner feed. It carries that partner's trust profile and is attributed to them by name, never shown as something KOANO verified itself.

Representative

A labeled placeholder for a licensed source KOANO has not funded. You can inspect it, and it is never shown as real.

Fetch failed

A source KOANO covers and attempted, that failed on this run. The figure is shown as missing, never guessed, and it usually clears on a retry.

Not covered

A market or layer KOANO does not cover yet, such as the municipal record outside NYC. Nothing was queried, and the gap is named honestly.

05 · The pipeline

How data becomes a verdict.

01

Sources called at request time

When you run an analysis, KOANO queries its live sources right then. There is no cached market report sitting behind the answer. Each figure carries the source it came from and the time it was fetched.

02

Normalization

Every signal is normalized to a common shape: location (lat/lng and census tract), timestamp, provenance state, and source attribution. Nothing enters the reasoning without a label.

03

Storage

Records are stored in Supabase with Row Level Security enforced, scoping every record to the account that owns it. Dedicated per-tenant isolation is on the enterprise roadmap, not live today.

04

The daily archive

Separately, a daily job snapshots the free public record, such as permits, violations, zoning, and ownership, into a weekly time series the source datasets themselves do not keep. Only live data is ever archived.

05

Reasoning and synthesis

The assembled signals go to the five specialist agents at once. The synthesis agent arbitrates and issues one verdict, whose overall provenance equals the weakest input it used.

06

See it on a building you know.

Every KOANO verdict cites its sources and labels every figure. Sign up, run three analyses free, and check the work against an address you already understand.