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documents ingested — typed and scanned, read together
Real Estate · Land Use · Entitlements
A development's full document history — searchable and mapped.
Entitlement and land-use matters accumulate a sprawl of records — development agreements, zoning and specific-plan materials, CEQA and environmental impact reports, agency comment letters, board resolutions, hearing records. For developers, land-use counsel, and planning and environmental consultants, BDS ingests the whole file, makes it searchable with grounded, cited answers, and maps every party and place involved — running entirely on your own hardware.
Entitlement and land-use matters pile up records — development agreements, zoning and specific-plan documents, CEQA and environmental impact reports, agency comment letters, board resolutions, hearing records. For developers, land-use counsel, and planning consultants, BDS takes in the whole file, makes it searchable with answers that quote the source, and maps every person and place involved — all on your own computer.
On-premise
Cited answers
Entity graph
Handles scanned records
A Real Case, Not a Demo
We ran BDS on the NBCUniversal Evolution Plan.
The NBCUniversal "Evolution Plan" is a well-known Los Angeles County redevelopment with a large, public land-use record — no synthetic data, no NDA. Native-text PDFs and scanned filings, agency jargon, inconsistent naming: the messy conditions BDS is built for. Here's what one real run produced.
The NBCUniversal "Evolution Plan" is a well-known Los Angeles County redevelopment with a big public record — no fake data, no NDA. A mix of typed PDFs and scanned filings, agency jargon, inconsistent names: exactly the messy conditions BDS is built for. Here's what one real run produced.
5,801
people, agencies & places found across the record
41,039
connections mapped between them
872
entity profiles written from the documents
One real matter, shown to illustrate the pipeline — an illustrative case, not a benchmark average.
Ask the Record
Real questions, answered from the documents.
Three questions put to the case file and answered by BDS from the source documents — each answer built only from what the record says, with the source shown. Nothing here is hand-written.
What traffic improvements does the plan promise?
A $100-million transportation package — a new on-ramp to the US-101 freeway, upgrades to more than 100 intersections, expanded bus and shuttle service, and carpool and vanpool programs — developed together with Caltrans and Metro.
Source: Public correspondence to the Regional Planning Commission
What is the NBCUniversal Evolution Plan?
A redevelopment of the Universal Studios property in Universal City centered on film, television and theme-park growth — including the Wizarding World of Harry Potter — with $100 million in transit improvements. The original residential component was dropped in response to community concerns.
Source: Plan supplemental package & specific-plan guidelines
What environmental concerns did state agencies raise?
State agencies — Cal/EPA and the Department of Toxic Substances Control — raised air-quality and toxic-exposure concerns. The project answered them with a formal Health Risk Assessment, and the Final Environmental Impact Report adopted the "No Residential Alternative" to reduce local impacts.
Source: Final Environmental Impact Report & Health Risk Assessment
Grounded answers from hybrid search — where to look in the record, not a verdict on it.
The Map
The people, agencies, and places — connected.
A readable slice of the entity map from the same run — the Obsidian-style vault BDS builds: each dot is a party found in the documents, sized by how often it appears; each line joins two that show up together. Tap any dot to drill into it and its connections, or use a question above to light up its cast; drag to pan, scroll to zoom.
You’re seeing a readable slice — not the whole graph.The full map from this run holds 5,801 entities and 41,039 connections — far too dense to read on a page. So this shows the strongest 22-entity backbone: the people, organizations and places that come up most, and the ties between them. Drag, zoom, and click to explore — the full graph lives inside the system, on your hardware.
Every dot and line is drawn from the source documents — nothing is invented.
What It Does Today
Ask the matter, and map it.
Ask the matter anything
Hybrid semantic + keyword search with grounded, cited answers — built only from retrieved passages. When the file doesn't cover something, it says so rather than inventing an answer. Native filings and scanned exhibits are searched together, no manual conversion.
Map every party
The entity graph is the association network of everyone and everything involved — developer, county and city agencies, consultants, places, and plan elements. 5,801 entities, 41,039 links on this case, rendered as an Obsidian-style wiki graph. It answers "who appears alongside whom," so the cast of a sprawling matter is legible at a glance.
Ask the matter anything
Search by meaning and by keyword, with answers built only from the documents that quote their sources. When the file doesn't cover something, it says so instead of making an answer up. Typed filings and scanned exhibits are searched together — no manual conversion.
Map every party
The map shows everyone and everything involved — the developer, county and city agencies, consultants, places, plan pieces. 5,801 people and organizations, 41,039 links on this case, drawn as a clickable web. It answers "who shows up alongside whom," so a sprawling matter is readable at a glance.
Why It's Different
Private, grounded, and built for real records.
BDS is an on-premise alternative to the cloud land-use and entitlement document tools most teams reach for — the record, and the analysis, stay on your own hardware.
BDS is an on-premise alternative to the cloud land-use and entitlement tools most teams reach for — your records, and the work, stay on your own computer.
On-premise & private
Much of a land-use record is public — the point is keeping all of it and your own working analysis in one private place. The core pipeline runs on your hardware, never leaves, and can be air-gapped. See the deployment & security model →
Grounded answers you can trust
Answers are built only from retrieved passages and cite their sources — and the system says "not in these documents" instead of inventing, so you're never quietly misled.
Handles scanned records
OCR brings scanned agreements, letters, and exhibits into the same searchable, mapped corpus as the native-text filings — no manual conversion.
On your own hardware
A lot of a land-use record is public — the point is keeping all of it and your own notes and analysis in one private place. The core system runs on your computer, never leaves, and can run offline. See the deployment & security model →
Answers you can trust
Answers come only from the documents and cite their sources — and the system says "not in these documents" instead of inventing, so you're never quietly misled.
Handles scanned records
It reads scanned agreements, letters, and exhibits and searches them right alongside the typed files — no manual conversion.
A Living Archive
And it's cumulative. A development runs for years — keep adding documents as it moves through review and they join the existing corpus, so the full history stays one searchable, permanent archive.
And it keeps growing. A development runs for years — add documents as it goes and they join what's already there, so the whole history stays one searchable, permanent archive.
Private AI. On Your Hardware.
See it run on a matter of your own.
Send a representative, de-identified sample from a development or land-use file — and a BDS evaluation returns searchable, cited answers and the entity graph, drawn from your own material. The trial runs in a dedicated encrypted workspace that's destroyed on delivery, with a certificate; a real deployment runs entirely on-premise.
Send us a sample from a development or land-use file (with sensitive details removed) — and we'll show you the search with cited answers and the map of everyone involved, built from your material. The trial runs in a locked, encrypted workspace that's destroyed on delivery, with a certificate; a full setup runs entirely on your hardware.
Other practices: Private eDiscovery · Investigations · Due Diligence