Beta Participation Notice

Status: the beta is paused as of 17 August 2026. New report requests are closed while we complete our company formation, and the site no longer collects any information. This notice is unchanged and remains in effect for reports already issued — including your right, set out below, to have your information deleted on request at any time by emailing support@groundwisedata.com.

This is a free beta of a data report about soil and foundation-repair-activity conditions. It is not a home inspection, an engineering opinion, or a prediction about your house. If you take one thing from this page, take that.

Not a sale. Nothing is being sold to you during beta and you are not being charged. Separate Terms of Use will govern the paid product when it launches; they do not apply to a free beta report, and you are not agreeing to them by requesting one.

What you are getting

A PDF report describing conditions in the mapped areas that contain the address you give us:

Soil conditions for the USDA soil map unit at that location — a mapped area that routinely spans many lots.
Foundation-repair activity recorded across the surrounding census tract, relative to the metro median. A census tract contains thousands of homes.

Both figures are area-level. Neither is a measurement taken at your home, and the precise spot sampled within a soil map unit is not known. Conditions at an individual lot can differ from the mapped area around it. The full method is on the methodology page, including a plain statement of what the data does and does not support.

What it does not tell you

Whether your foundation has a problem. The report contains no observation of any structure.
Whether your house will experience foundation movement, or what any future work would involve.
Whether your property has ever had foundation work done.
Anything about drainage, grading, plumbing leaks, or tree roots at your property — all of which strongly affect how soil behaves around a particular home.

Two neighbouring homes on the same soil map unit get the same soil reading, because the underlying survey does not distinguish between them.

Please don't rely on it alone

Use this report as one input, not as the basis for a decision. It does not replace a licensed home inspector or a structural engineer, and it is not a substitute for someone looking at the property. If anything in it concerns you, or if you have a structural question about a specific house, that question belongs with a licensed professional who can inspect it.

Please also don't use a GroundWise report as a factor in deciding anyone's eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing, or tenancy. It is a report about land and soil, not about people, and it is not a consumer report.

It's a beta, so expect rough edges

Reports are provided free and as-is while the product is still being refined. The data comes from federal soil survey records, municipal permit records, county appraisal district records, and professionally certified project records — none of which we control, and none of which are guaranteed complete or error-free.

A report reflects the data available on the date it was generated and is not updated afterwards. That date appears on the report.

Where the underlying data is too thin to support a reading, the report withholds it and says so rather than showing you a number that looks more solid than it is. Where a value was estimated rather than read directly, the report labels it as estimated.

Feedback is the point. If something reads oddly, looks wrong, or is hard to follow, please tell us — that is genuinely why the beta exists.

What we do with your information

Your property address is used to work out which soil map unit and census tract you are in, which involves sending it to a third-party geocoding service. Your address appears on the report itself, because a report about a property has to say which property.
Your email address is used to send you the report and to follow up about it.
Your request is stored by the service hosting this site, including the address as you typed it, so we can act on it.
Our internal record of reports generated does not contain your address. It holds a one-way coded value in its place, along with the county, census tract, and public appraisal district identifier.

We do not sell or rent your address or email, and we do not use them for advertising. We are still settling how long beta material is kept; in the meantime we are keeping as little as we can and are not building an archive of beta reports.

You can ask us to delete your information at any time, including your report and your request, by emailing support@groundwisedata.com. During beta we will do it on request, without asking why.

Questions, or something looks wrong

Email support@groundwisedata.com and quote the report identifier printed on your report. If a report went to the wrong address, or contains a factual error in the data, we want to know and we will correct and reissue it.