Guided due diligence¶
Guided Due Diligence converts a completed SiteIQ run into a structured screening checklist. It combines automatically completed GIS findings with manual verification and data-setup tasks.
It is not an AI-generated legal opinion and does not replace professional diligence.
Prerequisite¶
A completed buildable-area run must be saved before due diligence can be generated. The checklist is tied to that specific project and run so its evidence remains traceable.
Generate the checklist¶
- Complete the parcel/AOI, constraints, and buildable-area workflow.
- Save the project and latest run.
- Open Report.
- Select Generate Due Diligence.
- Review the generated phases and actions.
Regenerating due diligence refreshes system findings from the current saved run. Review previously entered manual information before deliberately replacing a checklist.
Due-diligence phases¶
Jurisdiction and regulatory¶
SiteIQ attempts to identify the governing city or county from the AOI. The checklist then identifies follow-up work such as zoning confirmation and the need for an appropriate zoning dataset.
Infrastructure and utilities¶
Available run outputs can complete transmission-proximity and general infrastructure-context actions. Utility contact, interconnection, service availability, capacity, ownership, and connection rights remain manual verification tasks.
Environmental and physical¶
Existing flood, wetlands, protected-area, buildability, and slope results are brought forward from the saved run. When screening thresholds indicate elevated risk, the checklist can mark targeted professional studies as required rather than merely recommended.
Field verification¶
Site visits, photographs, physical access checks, encumbrances, and constructability observations cannot be completed from GIS alone and remain user-managed actions.
Action types¶
| Type | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Automated | Completed or evaluated from SiteIQ's saved run and configured datasets |
| Manual | Requires user, consultant, agency, utility, owner, or field confirmation |
| Data setup | Requires an additional usable dataset before the related analysis can proceed |
Automated actions cannot be manually changed to contradict the system result. Manual and data-setup actions can be tracked by the user.
Statuses¶
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Complete automatically | SiteIQ resolved the action from saved calculation evidence |
| Required | The action should be completed because the current evidence or intended use triggers it |
| Recommended | The action is appropriate for continued diligence but is not currently marked mandatory by the screening rules |
| In progress | A user has started a manual action |
| Complete | A user has completed a manual action |
| Blocked | A prerequisite, authority, or dataset is missing |
| Skipped | A user deliberately omitted a manual action |
| Error | The automated action could not be resolved |
Saved progress and evidence¶
Manual action status, notes, and evidence references are saved against the run. The checklist summary reports total, complete, blocked, and required-open actions.
Saving a URL, note, or evidence reference records the user's diligence progress; it does not independently validate the source or convert a manual finding into a SiteIQ calculation.
Current automated logic¶
The current release can use:
- AOI-based city or county jurisdiction detection
- Flood-overlap results
- Buildable percentage
- Transmission proximity
- Road proximity
- Slope score
- Overall SiteIQ score
- Selected development purpose
For environmental escalation, the current screening logic treats flood overlap above 10% or buildable percentage below 45% as an elevated signal for targeted studies. These are product screening triggers, not statutory thresholds.
Appropriate use¶
Use Guided Due Diligence to organize the next investigation and preserve a transparent record of what SiteIQ calculated versus what still requires people or additional data. Do not use checklist completion as a substitute for permits, surveys, engineering, legal review, utility confirmation, or regulatory approval.