TierraLens for consultants
Environmental consultants
Automate the first-pass screen. Bill higher on the analysis.
Mid-market environmental consulting firms run on hand-assembled GIS screens — slow, expensive, error-prone, and a margin-killer on fixed-fee Phase I and alternatives analyses. TierraLens is an API your junior staff hit to get a citation-ready first pass in seconds: Article 24 wetlands, Edwards WPAPs, SEQRA triggers, NYC DEP watershed — all with citations, authority, and permit paths. Senior staff spend their hours on judgment, not layer-stacking.
Why it hurts today
One-off reports, hand-assembled
Every Phase I or alternatives report starts from scratch in ArcGIS, a stack of agency tabs, and a junior-staff week. The same Edwards or SEQRA logic gets rewritten on every project.
Slow, expensive, error-prone
A missed Article 24 amendment or an out-of-date SOS boundary on a deliverable is a malpractice-grade mistake. Manual workflows guarantee that at least one project a year hits that risk.
Fixed-fee margin compression
Clients expect faster turnaround and flat fees, but the GIS-and-regs foundation still takes the same week it always did. The only lever is automating the foundation.
Citation discipline
Regulators push back when citations are thin. Hand-assembled reports often reference outdated CFR sections or miss the specific 6 NYCRR subpart. Machine-generated citations close that gap.
Why TierraLens
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First-pass screen, citation-ready
/v1/screen returns every triggered regulation with code, citation, authority, source URL, and typical timeline. Junior staff drop it into the report template; senior staff refine the analysis.
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White-label PDF export
Call /v1/screen?format=pdf&brand=your-firm and ship a branded, cited deliverable your client can hand to counsel. The API does the foundation; your firm keeps the relationship.
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Quick regulation lookup
GET /v1/regulations/NY-SEQRA for a structured, versioned record of any rule in the TierraLens corpus — cite-ready language, last-modified date, source URL. Faster than keeping 40 tabs open.
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Bill hours higher on automated foundations
When the first-pass screen is automated, partner hours shift to alternatives analysis, mitigation design, and agency negotiation — the work clients pay premium rates for.
Sample queries
3 examplescurl -X POST https://api.tierralens.co/v1/screen \
-H "Authorization: Bearer tl_live_..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"state": "NY",
"geometry": { "type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[...]] },
"format": "citations",
"include_permit_paths": true
}'curl https://api.tierralens.co/v1/regulations/NY-SEQRA \
-H "Authorization: Bearer tl_live_..."curl -X POST https://api.tierralens.co/v1/screen?format=pdf&brand=your-firm \
-H "Authorization: Bearer tl_live_..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "state": "TX", "lat": 30.2672, "lng": -97.7431 }' \
--output screen.pdfRelevant in our launch states
New York
Texas
- TX-EAPP-WPAPhighTexas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)Water Pollution Abatement Plan (Recharge Zone)30 TAC §213.5
- TX-ACTmediumTexas Historical CommissionAntiquities Code of TexasTex. Nat. Res. Code §191
- TX-TXR150000mediumTCEQ (EPA-delegated NPDES)TPDES Construction General Permit30 TAC §305 (TXR150000)
Automate the foundation. Keep the judgment.
Join the waitlist for firm-level API access. TierraLens ships with citation formatting, white-label PDF export, and a regulation corpus your juniors can cite with confidence.