Outside research engagements
Three to six weeks and five figures per study, commissioned on the deals worth the cost. Claxton delivers the same depth of analysis on every parcel you consider, in minutes.
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Built to do the work behind every deal.
For the most ambitious
residential developers.
Today’s top land teams trust Claxton to evaluate more deals faster and navigate the complexity beneath them.
Depth your land committee didn't think was possible.
Every deal.
Every dimension that matters.
When a parcel crosses your desk, Claxton goes to work: comps, market and demographic context, environmental and zoning risks, financial sensitivity, entitlements complexity. Every output cites the underlying source data so your team can verify before they commit. Today, that intake fragments across outside research engagements, market data subscriptions, analyst hours, and a VP Land’s gut check. Claxton runs it on every deal, in minutes, and goes as deep as each deal demands from there.
Catches the deal-killer
before you sign the LOI.
“We had a parcel under contract and we were in due diligence. Claxton flagged a grading issue that our land development team and land acquisition team had missed. That would have been a six-figure negative swing for us. We renegotiated the price to absorb the impact and prevented the deal from becoming a real problem for us.”
A screening, end to end.
From parcel
to verdict.
Goes as deep as the deal demands.
Each deal, its own depth.
The methodology of the best.
No two deals unfold the same way, and Claxton doesn’t screen them as if they do. When the zoning is the live issue, he goes three layers deep on it. When the pro forma assumptions look shaky, he surfaces them and runs the scenarios. Before a site visit, he prepares a risk briefing calibrated to that specific parcel. He draws on a wide range of data sources and synthesizes them at a depth and speed your team can’t feasibly reach consistently on every deal. The methodology is grounded in how the best land professionals in the industry evaluate risk. Every screening reflects what this deal actually demands.
Layered assessment
- 01Market health
- 02Submarket quality
- 03Product fit
- 04Price validation
- 05Risk assessment
Compounds with every deal your team runs.
Learns your organization.
Sharpens with every deal.
No two builders evaluate deals the same way. Your financial model, your market assumptions, your approach to risk, the nuances of the markets your team works in: these reflect years of accumulated judgment. Claxton learns them. The way your team reads absorption in a softening submarket. The entitlements complexity particular to the jurisdictions you operate in. The risk thresholds that have kept your organization out of the wrong deals. The longer you work with Claxton, the more precisely he reflects how you and your team work, not how builders in general do. Every deal teaches him something. Every catch makes the next screening sharper.
Tuned to your team
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Fits into your existing budget.
Every deal.
The analysis you’d commission on your best deals.
Your team already commissions outside research on the deals that matter most. It already subscribes to market data. It already pays analysts to work through the rest. Claxton delivers all of it, on every deal, in minutes. The spend is already there. It just covers more deals now.
Market data subscriptions
Your existing market data subscriptions stay. Claxton synthesizes that data, along with the pro formas and documents your team uploads, into screening verdicts, CMAs, and committee-ready analysis your team couldn't consistently produce on their own.
Senior land team time
Your senior team has better uses for their hours than manual screening triage across multiple systems and data sources. Claxton handles the full evaluation intake so they focus on the deals that deserve their attention.
Analyst capacity on every deal
Comps, pro forma analysis, zoning and environmental research, demographic context. Claxton runs the complete intake on every deal, not just the ones worth committing analyst time to. When a deal should be killed quickly, he kills it, saving everyone the time a drawn-out pass would cost.
First in. At terms that won’t last.
Founding members.
Limited acceptance.
We’re bringing on a small group of builders to get early access to run their deals and help shape what gets built next. The terms reflect your position as a founding partner and lock before standard pricing takes effect. Applications close end of Q3 2026.