What Locus is

Locus retrieves the official local records for a place. Agents and people answer with them.

Give Locus a U.S. address or area and it returns cited government records — flood zone, property tax, permits, development cases, environmental sites, governing districts, what’s nearby — each with its source and a link to verify. Locus does not interpret for you: it supplies the official local context, and you (or your agent) decide what it means.

It is built for commercial real estate owners and operators doing diligence and ongoing operations, and it supports renters, homebuyers, and small-business tenants with the same cited, caveated awareness layer.

What Locus will not do

The boundary is the product. Locus is stated once and enforced in code:

• No scores, rankings, or comparisons between places.
• No valuations, predictions, or “is this a good deal” judgments.
• No screening or eligibility decisions (tenant, employment, insurance, lending).
• No safe/unsafe or good/bad labels about a place.
• No data about people — no names, no dossiers. A reported record is not a conviction.

If a request asks for any of those, Locus declines that part and returns the cited records it can provide, plus what to verify next.

Two ways to use it

• As a person: the web app at locus.report — ask in plain English, get sourced records back.
• As an agent: the MCP server and the x402-paid tool suite. See Use Locus from an agent.

How it works

Every record is matched to its official government open-data source, returned verbatim with provenance, and deep-linked so you can verify it. Coverage is checked before any paid call — unsupported places return a free diagnostic, never a charge.