What we have built, and what we will not publish
Four things you can use now, each reading from the same public data as the rest of the site and each carrying its sources and dates. None of them asks for an address, and none of them has seen your house — so every one states what it cannot tell you, and that statement is on the card before you open it.
Plumbing Triage
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Five questions about water trouble happening right now. It opens with the gas-smell question because that one cannot wait, then works through what to shut off and what to look at. No account, no address, nothing stored.
What it will not do. It ends at what to check. It is not an inspection, it cannot see your house, and it does not quote a repair or hand you to anyone.
AC Lifespan
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How much cooling a typical year demands in Austin and San Antonio, from NOAA's 1991-2020 normals at one named weather station near each city; the published Texas residential electricity rate; where a system age you enter sits against common parts-warranty terms; and the position of the expired federal 25C credit.
What it will not do. It will not tell you when to replace your system. It has not seen it, and age alone does not decide it.
Roof Scan
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Confirmed hail reports by county from NOAA Storm Events — every county in each metro, including the ones that reported none — re-roof permit activity counted separately for each city by that city's own mechanism, and where Texas licensing does and does not apply.
What it will not do. Counts only, no hail sizes: the radar product's size column has no published unit. And an area's storm record is not a statement about a particular roof.
Home Dashboard
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Enter a ZIP and see the Home Stress Index for that area — one 0-100 score, the five signals behind it, what changed since last week, and a link to how it is calculated. Open, no account, nothing stored.
What it will not do. It describes conditions across an area, not damage to a home. It is not a prediction, an inspection, or a probability of loss.
What we do not publish, and why
Each of these was tried and stopped by something we measured rather than assumed. They are listed here rather than as pages promising them, because a page that says "coming soon" about a thing blocked on a source that may not exist is a promise we would be making with someone else's data.
- Repair and replacement cost figures. We measured why. San Antonio's DECLARED VALUATION field is 0.00% populated on every residential and trade permit type, and Austin's coalesced valuation has a median of 1 — so neither city's permit record carries a usable cost. Declared valuation is in any case an applicant's fee-basis statement to the city, not a paid invoice. The free national alternatives publish price indices, which measure how prices moved rather than what a job costs; the one source giving per-unit installed costs is subscription-licensed. Publishing an index as though it were a price would be the same error as publishing a permit valuation as one.
- A report about one specific address. Travis Central Appraisal District's improvement export carries no street address in any member — the keys are internal parcel ids — and Bexar publishes no bulk export at all. There is nothing to look a property up by, so everything on this site is a reading for a ZIP, a county or a metro, and says which.
- Introductions to contractors. No mechanism exists and no list of companies exists. Our privacy page says so in the present tense, and it will keep saying so until both a handoff and a legal read exist. What we do publish is which Texas trades carry a state licence to check and which do not.
- What your water is doing to your pipes. This one is close. Austin Water publishes its treated hardness in its own water-quality report — 70 ppm at the low end, 126 at the high, 93 on average — which is a usable, utility-published figure for delivered water. San Antonio's equivalent has not been read yet, and the USGS ambient samples that are easy to get measure untreated water in streams and wells, which is a different question from what comes out of a tap. We are not shipping a two-metro tool that works in one metro.
Also on the site
The data catalog lists every feed behind these tools, with its publisher, its update cadence and its limitations, andmethodology explains how a reading becomes a score. The QuoteReady project brief at /start/ is an intake form that collects a name, an email and a property address; it is not part of the current build and is not listed above with the tools, because those four ask for nothing.