A-12
B. F. Fuller Survey · A-12
Plotted
79.7
Deed
80
Delta
-0.3
For oil and gas land services
Discover, build, deliver. Landspect handles research, deeds, runsheets, mineral and surface title,
plats, and field-ready ownership reports, all in one workspace, from the courthouse to the division order.
Overview · Mineral project
Trinity Bay Resources, LLC · Ector County, TX · operated by Trinity Bay.
4
12
9
6
158
2
Mineral scope — chain math and percentages reflect mineral interest only.
Recent activity
View deeds →Verified MD · 1962 Jones to Williams, 1/2 mineral conveyed.
A-12·Margaret Calloway·12m
Uploaded AOH (1971) naming three Jones heirs.
A-12·David Whitlock·1h
Flagged 1/16 NPRI gap, needs reconciliation against tax roll.
B-7·Caroline Reeves·3h
Plotted perimeter calls; closure 0.43 ft (1:5,113).
A-12·Anthony Greer·yesterday
Curative alerts
2 to reviewA-12 mineral interest sums to 100.000%.
A-12
B-7 has a 1/16 NPRI not yet reconciled.
B-7
C-3 AOH names two heirs; verify completeness.
C-3
A-12 closure 0.43 ft (1:5,113).
A-12
Tract roll · 4 tracts
A-12
B. F. Fuller Survey · A-12
Plotted
79.7
Deed
80
Delta
-0.3
B-7
M. Sanchez Survey · A-491
Plotted
109.3
Deed
110
Delta
-0.7
C-3
J. Cobb Survey · A-12
Plotted
—
Deed
200
Delta
—
The problem
The tools landmen reach for are still spreadsheets, scanners, and a CAD license. Meanwhile the deed stack keeps growing.
Running a chain of title by hand eats most of a workday on a single tract. Now multiply that across a deal.
One wrong row in the interest math poisons every downstream owner. Caught at the title opinion, not before.
Clauses like "reserving unto grantor an undivided 1/2 of all minerals" vanish in a quick scan. Until curative finds it.
Excel for the runsheet, CAD for the plat, Word for the ownership report. None of them talk to each other.
How it works
The three phases every land services firm runs by hand today. Landspect carries the workflow end to end, keeps the CPL in the verify seat, and produces the artifacts you actually ship.
01 · Discover
Every project starts with research. Landspect pulls deeds straight from the county clerk, finds heirs in genealogy and probate, verifies current owners against tax rolls, and identifies tracts from their legal description.
County records
Search county clerk online indexes by grantor, grantee, Vol-Pg, or doc number. Pull PDFs into the project.
Genealogy + probate
FamilySearch and probate court lookups for the heirs every AOH chain bottoms out on.
Tax + GIS
County appraisal districts for current owners. GLO / BLM lookups to verify the legal description against a real tract.
02 · Build
Every verified deed updates the running mineral fractions, adds a runsheet row, and extends the ownership flowchart. The math is deterministic. The CPL stays in the verify seat. No spreadsheets.
AI extraction
Grantor, grantee, dates, Vol-Pg, mineral interest, and the reservations the chain hinges on. Per-field confidence scoring.
Runsheet + ownership
Each verified row builds the chain in real time. Fractions, heir fan-outs, and reservations resolve as the chain extends.
Curative gates
Deterministic detector catches sum mismatches, broken chains, name breaks, missing AOHs. CPL gates every deed before it touches the chain.
03 · Deliver
Runsheet, Mineral Ownership Report, ownership flowchart, plats, KML, DXF, and the submission ZIP — all generated from the verified chain in one click. The same data drives every artifact, so they always agree.
Runsheet + MOR
Print-ready PDF and Excel of the chronological abstract of title and the current owners with fractions and net mineral acres.
Plats + GIS
Legal-size plat (PDF), DXF for CAD, KML for Google Earth, GeoJSON for the GIS team. One click each.
Submission bundle
The whole package zipped with README, snapshot.json for re-import, and curative status — ready to drop into the client's portal.
The extraction
Drop a deed and Landspect walks the calls, plots the polygon, runs closure, and pulls every field the runsheet needs: grantor, grantee, dates, book and page, acreage, mineral interest, and the reservations the chain hinges on.
Full deed metadata
Volume and page, instrument number, effective date, signing date, recording date, acreage, mineral interest conveyed.
Call-type aware
Perimeter, tie, bearing tree, and adjoiner calls classified separately. The polygon walks only what belongs.
Reservation detection
A clause like reserving unto grantor an undivided one-half of all minerals surfaces as a structured event the chain consumes.
| L | Type | Bearing | Dist | Conf |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PERIMETER | S 83°47' E | 738.25' | 98 |
| 2 | PERIMETER | S 8°53'10" E | 362.31' | 97 |
| 3 | PERIMETER | N 83°39' W | 736.34' | 96 |
| 4 | PERIMETER | N 9°15'09" W | 361.17' | 97 |
| 5 | TIE | S 9°15'09" E | 636.51' | 92 |
| 6 | B.TREE | S 71°30' E | 14.2' | 84 |
PERIMETER
2,198.07 ft
CLOSURE
0.43 ft
ACRES
5.901
What we deliver
The three artifacts every landman ships today, generated as you walk the chain. Drop a deed. Verify the extraction. The runsheet adds the row, the flowchart redraws, and the ownership report recomputes. Export as PDF, Excel, KML, DXF, or the full submission ZIP.
Project
156.40 surface ac · San Augustine County, Texas
Prepared by Landspect
Run date · June 2, 2026
Title scope · Mineral
4 verified instruments · chain clean back to patent
| # | Grantor | Grantee | Instrument | Recording | Dates | Notes / Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | State of Texas | John A. Smith | U.S. Patent | Vol 1 / Pg 18 Land Grants | Mar 22, 1923 filed Apr 14, 1923 | All surface and mineral estate, by patent. balance · Smith — 100% |
| 02 | John A. Smith, et ux | Robert C. Jones, et ux | Warranty Deed | Vol 14 / Pg 218 Deed Records | Mar 12, 1947 filed Mar 15, 1947 | Conveys all right, title and interest in 156.40 ac. balance · Jones — 100% |
| 03 | Robert C. Jones, et ux | C.L. Williams | Mineral Deed | Vol 47 / Pg 503 Deed Records | Aug 4, 1962 filed Aug 19, 1962 | Grantor reserves an undivided 1/2 of the mineral estate; conveys remaining 1/2 to grantee. balance · Jones — 1/2 mineral · Williams — 1/2 mineral |
| 04 | Estate of Robert C. Jones | Heirs of Robert C. Jones (3) | Affidavit of Heirship | Vol 89 / Pg 14 Probate Records | Oct 22, 1971 filed Nov 8, 1971 | Intestate descent of decedent's 1/2 mineral interest equally among three named heirs. balance · Williams — 1/2 · 3 Jones heirs — 1/6 each |
Curative status
No outstanding curative items. Chain is unbroken from the 1923 patent to current ownership. Reservation arithmetic ties to 100% with no rounding remainder.
Reviewed by Registered Professional Landman
Signature on file · seal pending delivery
DEEDS PROCESSED
4
CURRENT OWNERS
4
MINERAL ACRES
156.40
Run the numbers
Title research and runsheet work eats roughly forty percent of a landman’s billable day. Adjust the inputs to match your shop and see today vs. Landspect side by side.
Today · Manual
Excel + CAD + WordAnnual labor cost (all landmen)
$1,560,000
Hours on title work
per year, firm-wide
12,480 hr
Labor cost on title work
$624,000
Software / tools
Excel, CAD license
$0
Total annual cost
$624,000
With Landspect
Team tierAnnual labor cost (unchanged)
$1,560,000
Hours on title work
CPL verify pass only
1,872 hr
Labor cost on title work
$93,600
Landspect subscription
15 seats × $249/mo · annual
$44,820
Total annual cost
$138,420
Net annual savings
$485,580
For a 15-landman firm, assuming 40% title load.
ROI
10.8×
On subscription cost
Hours recovered
10,608 hr
Per year
Throughput multiplier
6.7×
One landman on Landspect produces the title-work output of 6.7 landmen running the same shop without it.
Capacity recovered
5.1
landman-years per year, freed up to take on additional projects.
Opportunity revenue
$397,800
if the firm fills 75% of the freed capacity with new billable work.
Assumptions: Landspect automates extraction, fractional interest math, and runsheet generation. Fifteen percent of title hours stay with the CPL for verification and curative judgment. The opportunity revenue line assumes the freed capacity is filled at 75% utilization at your blended rate.
Founders
Landspect is built by people who actually run the deeds. Twenty-two years of land plus GIS expertise paired with software that ships.
I have run title by hand for two decades. Landspect does in thirty seconds what used to take me an hour, the fractions stay honest, and the chain visualization catches things a spreadsheet never would.
Louis Baggett, RPL
Co-Founder · 22 years O&G land + GIS
Pricing
Start free. Scale by seat. Annual billing saves seventeen percent.
Try metes and bounds
One-landman firm
5-seat land services shop
100+ seats, operators
Private beta
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