Lunan.

For land surveying firms

Get research, notes and proposals drafted, so your surveyor reviews, not retypes

Lunan sets up the AI tools that already exist for deeds and title work, connects them into one office process from commitment to crew brief to proposal, and trains your staff under a written AI-use policy. Your licensed surveyor stays in responsible charge.

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Median surveyor pay is $36.27 an hour, and the field expects about 3,100 openings a year through 2035, many to replace people retiring or leaving. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2025

What gets in the way

Title review eats hours before anyone goes to the field

Someone reads the commitment, finds every Schedule B-II exception, pulls each recorded document and decides what can be plotted. One vendor puts a traditional ALTA/NSPS title review at 3 to 5 hours per survey (vendor figure).

The tools are cheap. Fitting them to your office is not

Deed readers and title readers now exist at software prices. None of them write notes in your wording, brief your crew, draft your proposals or keep a record of who checked what.

Boards that have spoken expect verification, records and data care

Texas, North Carolina and the NCEES (National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying) agree that AI is allowed and you stay responsible. North Carolina and NCEES add that outputs must be checked and documented, and Texas flags client data. Staff experimenting in free chatbots with client files, with no written policy, is the risk.

What we set up

Title commitment to review packet

You upload the commitment and exception documents. A title tool or business AI account drafts the Schedule B-II exception table with recording references; we add a retrieval checklist, document summaries, draft plat notes in your wording, a one-page crew brief, and a sign-off log showing who verified each item against which page. Your surveyor makes every plottability call.

Before: a technician builds the exception list by hand and the check lives in someone's head. After: a draft packet the surveyor checks line by line, with a written record that the check happened.

Deed calls, closure check and adjoiner digest

We set up a deed reader where it fits your work, so calls land in a table you check against the image. Closure runs in plain code or your COGO (coordinate geometry) software, never in a chatbot's arithmetic. Adjoining deeds and old plats are summarized into a short brief that flags where records disagree.

Before: calls typed from scans and a stack of PDFs for the party chief. After: a call table and closure report to verify, and a short brief the crew can read in the truck.

Proposal and scope letter from the request

When a client emails a request, AI drafts a scope letter and fee estimate from your similar past jobs and standard terms. You adjust and send.

Before: quotes wait until someone has a free evening. After: a draft is ready for you to edit the same day.

How it works

  1. 1

    Free conversation

    We walk through one recent job from request to final plat. You get a short written list of which office steps AI could draft, which stay with your surveyor, and whether an off-the-shelf tool alone would do the job.

  2. 2

    Test on finished jobs

    We set up the tools and the workflow and run them on surveys you have already sealed. You see every miss next to your own work before anything is used on a live job.

  3. 3

    Train, write the policy, keep it working

    Staff learn the process, you get a written AI-use policy and sign-off log, and each month we review misses, add new county document formats and update templates.

Ways to work together

Each is scoped and quoted after the conversation.

Learn

Firms that want staff using AI carefully before changing any process

  • Live session for your office, built on your own document types
  • Hands-on practice with commitments and deeds like the ones you see
  • Where AI fails: old scans, handwriting, judgment calls
  • A written AI-use policy covering verification, records and client data

Build

Firms doing steady boundary and ALTA/NSPS work

  • Tool selection and setup for deed and title reading
  • Commitment-to-packet workflow: exception table, retrieval checklist, draft notes, crew brief
  • Closure check in plain code with a readable report
  • Sign-off log for every AI-drafted item
  • Tested on your finished jobs before live use

Run

Firms that want someone keeping it accurate

  • Monthly review of misses and corrections
  • New county and recorder formats added
  • Policy and template updates when board guidance changes
  • Training for new hires

Guardrails

Your licensed surveyor stays in responsible charge: AI drafts exception tables, call lists, notes and proposals, and never weighs boundary evidence, chooses a corner or touches anything sealed. Every AI-drafted item is checked against its source page and logged, in line with the verification and record-keeping that the North Carolina board (AI guidelines, Jul 2025) and NCEES Position Statement 6.10 describe; the Texas board (Policy Advisory Opinion No. 71, Nov 2024) adds competence and client-data confidentiality. Closure math runs in code, not in a chatbot. Client and title documents go only into business accounts whose data terms you have confirmed in writing.

Questions

Is it legal for a surveyor to use AI?

No state board we found bans it. Texas (Policy Advisory Opinion No. 71, Nov 2024) and North Carolina (guidelines, Jul 2025) allow AI as a tool and keep the licensee fully responsible; North Carolina also expects outputs to be verified and records kept. Idaho shared NCEES Position Statement 6.10 in Jan 2026, which says the same, though Idaho has not adopted it into rule. We found no Utah guidance as of October 2026. This is a summary, not legal advice; check with your own board.

Why not just buy a deed reader or title reader?

For some firms that is the right first step, and we will tell you so in the free read. Those tools handle extraction well. What they don't cover is your note wording, crew briefs, proposals, staff training and a record of who verified each item. That is the part we set up.

Where do my clients' documents go?

Only into business AI accounts you control, after we confirm in writing that the provider does not train on your files. No free or personal chatbot accounts for client or title documents. We write down where files are stored as part of your policy.

Can it read old, handwritten or badly scanned deeds?

Sometimes, and that is where errors are most likely. A practitioner on RPLS.com pointed to older, poorly scanned title documents as a weak spot. That is why we test on your finished jobs first, show you every miss, and require a check against the source image.

Does the training count toward Utah continuing education?

We sell it as a plain workshop and make no claim that it earns continuing-education hours. Utah requires 30 hours of qualified professional education every two years, ending March 31 of odd years (next: March 31, 2027), and rule R156-22-304 sets the standards a course must meet. If you want to claim it, check it against the rule or ask DOPL. This is not legal advice.

Reading list

Start with one finished job

Start a free conversation. We walk through one recent survey with you and send a short written list of which office steps AI could draft and which should stay with your surveyor.

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