§ 03 —Documentation
03 / 07Coverage
Coverage claims are where data companies are least honest, so this page is written to be checked. Atlas operates in specific places to specific depths. Where a layer is thin we say it is thin, and where a market is not ready we say it is not ready. We do not claim national coverage of property data, and we never claim 50-state coverage. Every jurisdiction we track is named in the record, so if you want to know whether a specific county is covered, the answer is a name in a table rather than a percentage.
How a Market Opens
A market moves through three layers before we will sell anything built on it, and a market is open only when all three clear the bar. Markets that fail stay closed even after we have built them, and several have.
Where Atlas Operates
67 counties
99 counties
169 towns
10 counties
5 boroughs
| Market | Status | Parcels | What is actually there |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | Open, template market | 1,272,905 | Full stack. Statewide sales, propensity scoring, governance layer across all 178 jurisdictions |
| Florida | Open | 10,998,001 | All 67 counties. 2,950,728 sales statewide. Distress is not statewide, and lis pendens reaches 12 of 67 counties |
| North Carolina | Open | 5,817,111 | 99 counties. 5,027,052 recorded transfers across 68 counties. Distress is metro-concentrated |
| South Carolina | Open | 1,227,144 | Metro-concentrated across four metros, never statewide. Native sale price in eight counties |
| New York City | Live, deepening | 859,510 lots | Full recorded-instrument history. Staten Island is absent from the source entirely |
| New York State | Not open | 4,641,680 | Parcel spine across all 62 counties, but no reachable transaction layer. Distress is Erie and Niagara only |
| Georgia | Not open | 2,112,950 | Strong parcel spine, thin transaction coverage, only two genuine distress vectors |
| Tennessee | Not open | 2,817,868 | Broad spine, but Memphis and Knoxville are dark and distress reaches two metros |
| Ohio | Governance only | — | Community layer built, no property stack |
Georgia and Tennessee show that the bar is real. Both have substantial parcel coverage sitting in Atlas right now, and neither is open. In Georgia the pre-sale foreclosure notice is never filed with any government body. In Tennessee the two largest metros do not publish the spine.
Markets we have excluded. Pennsylvania, Illinois statewide, and every non-disclosure state are excluded permanently. Their transaction layer exists only through private aggregators, and we do not buy resold data. This is structural, and it will not change when we are larger, because the underlying record still will not exist.
The Community Layer
| Jurisdictions | Meetings | Agenda items | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 478 | 9,992 | 144,592 |
| Connecticut | 178 | — | — |
| Ohio | 337 registered | — | — |
Florida is the deepest and the prototype for the rest. Jurisdiction records carrying a stored source document behind every consequential entry currently number 24 published jurisdictions and 46 verified actions. That number is small on purpose, because an entry becomes verified when the document is in hand rather than when a press release says so.
The National Baseline
Atlas holds a 50-state record of data center policy posture, plus interconnection queue positions, generators, transmission and substations nationally. This is a reference layer rather than coverage, and the difference matters. Depth across those 50 states is uneven and we measure it. Three states carry a full verified record, five are partial, and the remaining 42 are national-level only. Moratorium status is populated for roughly half the states, incentive status for fewer, and regulatory docket detail for fewer still.
So the honest statement is this. We can tell you the posture of every state at a national level, and we can tell you what a specific county decided and show you the document, in Florida, Connecticut and Ohio.
How a New Geography Gets Built
The national baseline is the framework. Depth is built where a customer needs it. When a firm licenses a geography Atlas does not yet hold at full depth, we build that depth out for them, in days rather than quarters, because the sourcing method, the schema and the verification layer already exist and only the local sources have to be connected. With the methodology in place, bringing a state's spine online takes about a week; Florida was the proof.
This is a deliberate choice. We do not store and pay to maintain deep records for places nobody is using. We hold the baseline everywhere, keep what is not in active use in low-cost storage where it can be recalled on demand, and fill in depth when a customer arrives. A firm in a county we have not built can be working with its data in days, which is fast relative to anything else on the market.