Metes & bounds · plotted by AI
MetesAI reads metes-and-bounds legal descriptions — typed, scanned, or photographed — and returns a survey-grade plot in seconds, auto-anchored to the PLSS grid, with every line traceable back to the words that produced it.
Beginning at an iron pin at the Southeast corner of the NE¼ of Section 22, Township 2 North, Range 3 West; thence N 02°15′ W a distance of 640.0 feet to an iron pin; thence N 87°30′ E 495.0 feet; thence S 41°45′ E 310.0 feet to a stone monument; thence S 12°00′ W 455.0 feet; thence N 88°30′ W 581.4 feet to the point of beginning, containing 9.43 acres, more or less.
Paste the legal description, or upload the document itself — PDF, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, DOCX. Built-in OCR reads scans and photographs, including the crooked courthouse kind.
Every call is parsed — bearings, distances, curves, monuments — the traverse is computed, closure is measured, and the parcel is anchored to its section, township, and range.
Export to GIS, CAD, or a title packet in seven formats. Edit calls by hand if the record needs correcting — the plot redraws in real time and keeps its provenance.
MetesAI reads the section, township, and range in the description and anchors the parcel to the public land survey grid — real coordinates, not a floating sketch.
Select any line of the plot and see the exact words in the deed that produced it — bearing, distance, and monument. Built for work that gets challenged.
Misclosure, area, and perimeter computed on every plot. Descriptions that don't close are flagged with the call most likely at fault.
Take the parcel into GIS, CAD, or a title packet.
The difference
Other plotting tools hand you a shape floating in empty space, and you drag it into position by eye. MetesAI resolves the description's own anchor — quarter-section, township, and range — and puts the parcel where the deed says it is. Verification starts at the right spot, every time.
Verify a legal description against the record before it becomes a claim.
A head start on retracement — DXF out, into your CAD, minutes not hours.
Mineral tracts, easements, and lease boundaries plotted straight from the instrument.
See what the words actually describe — and whether they close — before you sign off.
For builders
One call in, a georeferenced parcel out. Send the raw legal description; get back GeoJSON with the anchor, the closure report, and a provenance span for every call — the exact characters in the source text that produced each line.
Title production systems, county records tooling, land platforms — plot at intake, not at review.
Early access · onboarding design partners nowNo. MetesAI produces drafting aids — a faithful drawing of what the words in a legal description actually describe, placed where the description says it sits. It expresses no boundary opinion and is not a substitute for a licensed survey. Surveyors use it the other way around: as a head start on retracement before fieldwork.
Just the legal description. Paste the text, or upload the document — PDF, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, or DOCX. Built-in OCR handles scans and photos of recorded instruments.
Most descriptions carry their own anchor — a section, township, and range, often down to a quarter-section corner. MetesAI reads that anchor and resolves it against the public land survey grid (CadNSDI), so the parcel lands at real coordinates instead of floating in empty space. Descriptions without a PLSS anchor can be placed manually.
You get the numbers, not a shrug: misclosure distance, closure ratio, area, and perimeter on every plot, with the call most likely at fault flagged. You can correct a bearing or distance by hand and watch the traverse redraw in real time.
GeoJSON, Shapefile, DXF, KML, KMZ, WKT, and PDF — GIS, CAD, and title-packet formats from the same plot.
They're used to produce your plots, and that's it. Your documents aren't sold, shared, or used for anything beyond your own account.
MetesAI is a trade name of Old Forrest Consulting LLC — a small software shop that builds tools for people who work where the land meets the record. You'll get replies from the people who wrote the code.
Early access
MetesAI is onboarding early users now. Send a legal description — typed or scanned — and we'll return the plot with the full provenance panel.
Request early accesschris@oldforrest.net · replies from a human surveying nerd