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Documents & certificates
Documents holds everything you take out of Buildability: your property reports, the memos and decks drafted from them, and certificates anyone can verify.
The Documents tab
Documents (in beta) has two shelves:
- Property reports: every report you’ve bought. Each opens free.
- Documents: memos, decks and area-screen memos, searchable by title. Each card shows what it’s made of: from the record, drafted, or by you.
Document kinds
| Kind | What it is | Made by |
|---|---|---|
| IC memo | An investment-committee memo on one parcel, drafted from its report. | Documents, or ask Geo |
| Council deck | A presentation for a council or board. | Ask Geo · 2 reports |
| Area screen memo | The result of a Geo area screen. | Find → Have Geo screen this area |
| Certificate | The one-page verifiable record of a parcel’s Score. | Report → Export → Create certificate |
Editing and sharing
- Format with the toolbar or the usual keys (⌘B, ⌘I, ⌘U); ⌘F finds and replaces.
- Version history keeps every save; restore any one.
- Tick Certificate to add the parcel’s certificate as page one.
- Share makes a read-only link that pins the current version and expires after 30 days.
- Print prints or saves a PDF through your browser.
Certificates
Generate
From a report, Export → Create certificate. Optionally present it as yours: your name and firm print on it, and the browser remembers them. Pick a document colour.
Hand it over
The certificate carries its id (
BC-, six characters of the parcel id, and the Score), a QR code and a verify link. Print it or save it as a PDF.Anyone verifies it
Scan the QR or enter the id at buildability.us/verify.
Certificates are free once you’ve bought a report. Re-issuing the same certificate is always free.
How verification works
/verify looks the id up in the certificate register, then recomputes the Score from the stored parcel record under the methodology version the certificate was issued with, and compares.
| Result | Means |
|---|---|
| Verified — this certificate is authentic | Registered, and the Score reproduces. |
| Score reproduces — but this isn’t a registered certificate | The number is right, but we never issued this certificate. |
| Score changed since issue | Registered, but the recomputed Score differs from the one printed. |
| Not found | No certificate has this id, or it was revoked. |
Verification recomputes from the record that was stored when the certificate was issued. It proves the certificate is ours and its number follows from that record; it doesn’t re-read today’s sources. To see today’s record, re-run the report.
Try it on the sample: /verify/demo.
Didn’t find it? The Help Center answers account and billing questions, and Geo answers questions about a specific parcel inside the app.