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Secrets & hidden features

Sixteen power moves hiding in plain sight — the shortcuts, free intelligence, and levers that unlock a property's full potential. Everything on this page is live today; nothing is a roadmap.

On this page
  1. The index
  2. On the map
  3. Design studio
  4. Reports & certificates
  5. Stretch every dollar

The index

#SecretWhere it lives
01The lot brief is free — and instantProperties → open a property
02Casual clicks never cost youProperties map → click anywhere
03Reopen a report without paying twiceDashboard → Recent reports · Documents
04Ask "what if" before it’s realGeo chat → "what if this were rezoned to…"
05Draw the building you’re imaginingProperties → property → Design studio
06Hold Shift for clean anglesDesign studio → drag a corner + Shift
07Double-click to sculptDesign studio → double-click an edge or corner
08Describe it — AI drafts the massingDesign studio → Draft with AI
09The keyboard is fasterDesign studio → ⌘Z · Delete · Esc
10Put your name on the certificateCertificate → Present it as yours
11Pick the document’s colorCertificate → Document color
12Anyone can verify your certificateCertificate → scan the QR, or the /verify link
13Your own numbers print in the reportProperty → Pencil It → export
14The discount applies itselfBilling → the report packs
15A lot of it is free foreverNo card needed
16One Pro covers the whole teamSettings → Members & roles → Invite

On the map

01The lot brief is free — and instant

Open any covered property and the numbers appear before you spend anything: buildable square feet, the zoning district, clearance on every side of the existing structure, and the year built.

Where: Properties → open a property

02Casual clicks never cost you

Tapping around the map can’t drain your balance. A stray click stages the parcel and asks first — “Score this parcel? Runs a live lookup.” Nothing runs until you say so.

Where: Properties map → click anywhere

03Reopen a report without paying twice

Every report you’ve bought reopens free, from Recent reports on your dashboard or from Documents, with all its data. Bought once is bought.

Where: Dashboard → Recent reports · Documents

04Ask "what if" before it’s real

Geo’s scenario tool re-scores a parcel under a changed assumption — a rezone, utilities added, a hazard resolved — through the same engine as the real report, and hands back the before/after delta. Scenarios are free.

Where: Geo chat → "what if this were rezoned to…"

Design studio

05Draw the building you’re imagining

The Design Studio puts blocks, triangles, and any-sided shapes on your actual lot, to scale, checked live against the setbacks. Drag a wall to stretch it; drag a corner to reshape it; type exact dimensions.

Where: Properties → property → Design studio

06Hold Shift for clean angles

Dragging a corner with Shift held snaps the wall to 45° increments — crisp L-shapes and wings instead of wobbly sketches. Rotating a block snaps it to right angles of its original orientation as you pass them.

Where: Design studio → drag a corner + Shift

07Double-click to sculpt

Double-click any wall to add a corner right there. Double-click a corner to remove it. Between the two you can carve a rectangle into a courtyard plan without ever opening a menu.

Where: Design studio → double-click an edge or corner

08Describe it — AI drafts the massing

Type “two-story farmhouse with a garage and a porch” and the AI drafts realistic parts with real-world dimensions, placed on your lot and aware of the local height limit. Then drag, resize, and make it yours.

Where: Design studio → Draft with AI

09The keyboard is faster

Undo any edit with ⌘Z. Delete removes the selected block. Esc drops the selection. The studio keeps a full history, so experiments are free.

Where: Design studio → ⌘Z · Delete · Esc

Reports & certificates

10Put your name on the certificate

Every certificate has a "present it as yours" step — your name and firm print on the document, remembered for next time. No subscription required; brokers use it to hand clients a branded deliverable.

Where: Certificate → Present it as yours

11Pick the document’s color

The certificate’s seal, key numbers, and site diagram take whatever accent color you choose — presets or the full picker — and your browser remembers it for the next one.

Where: Certificate → Document color

12Anyone can verify your certificate

Each certificate carries an ID and a QR code. /verify looks it up in our register and recomputes the Score from the stored record under the methodology it was issued with. You’re not asking anyone to trust a PDF — you’re handing them the proof.

Where: Certificate → scan the QR, or the /verify link

13Your own numbers print in the report

Pencil It runs your deal math — proposed square footage, units, acquisition price — and the resulting cost, value band, and margin print into the export alongside the official record.

Where: Property → Pencil It → export

Stretch every dollar

14The discount applies itself

Reports slide from $99 down to $79 automatically as quantity grows — no code, no call. Reports at $89 from three, $79 from ten. And they never expire: buy at the volume price today, spend them next year.

Where: Billing → the report packs

15A lot of it is free forever

The live Score on any address in America is free — every factor, every citation. So are the parts people use daily: Geo chat, what-if scenarios, the sweep, bulk scoring and the lot brief.

Where: No card needed

16One Pro covers the whole team

Invited teammates don’t need their own subscription — seats ride the owner’s Pro, and everyone draws from one shared report pool that rolls over month to month.

Where: Settings → Members & roles → Invite

Found something on this page that didn’t work as described? Email us — a secrets guide is only worth keeping if every line of it is true.

Didn’t find it? The Help Center answers account and billing questions, and Geo answers questions about a specific parcel inside the app.