Questions about SiteX, answered.
Get clear answers about the app, property data, planning tools, estimates, coverage, and pricing.
SiteX basics
What does SiteX do?
SiteX helps you understand a property, test a site plan, and compare early site-work costs before you buy or build. Use Map & Sketch for custom lines, areas, pins, photos, and notes—or guided Projects for automatic setbacks, supported routes, quantities, and estimates.
How much does SiteX cost?
SiteX is free for 7 days, then $9.99/year with Founding Member pricing for the first 2,500 users.
How does the Founding Member rate work?
Join while Founding Member pricing is available and keep the $9.99/year rate while continuously subscribed.
What happens if my subscription lapses?
If a founding subscription lapses or is canceled, the founding rate may no longer be available when you return.
What devices are supported?
SiteX is available for iPhone and Android.
Can I cancel?
Yes. Subscriptions are managed through the App Store or Google Play and can be canceled through your account settings.
Maps, coverage, and accuracy
Does SiteX have nationwide parcel coverage?
Yes. SiteX covers 161 million U.S. parcels. Coverage, freshness, and detail vary by county and provider.
What are the Hawaii limitations?
Parcel information is available in Hawaii, but some planning and cost-estimation features are not.
What property information can I review?
Depending on location, SiteX can show 45+ property details, including parcel, ownership, acreage, zoning, flood, imagery, topography, and terrain.
Where does the property data come from?
SiteX uses third-party parcel, mapping, imagery, flood, and related data, plus elevation data derived in part from U.S. Geological Survey sources. Coverage, collection dates, resolution, updates, and accuracy vary, so important information should be checked against governing records and current field conditions.
Does SiteX use LiDAR?
SiteX uses high-resolution elevation data, including LiDAR-derived elevation models where available, to support terrain-based planning. SiteX does not present the data as a survey or engineering-grade surface, and coverage, resolution, collection dates, and accuracy vary by location.
Are parcel boundaries survey-accurate?
No. Parcel boundaries are useful for early planning and context, but they are not a substitute for a licensed survey. Use a professional survey for final design, permitting, construction, or legal boundary decisions.
Can SiteX tell me whether land is buildable?
No. SiteX helps you identify planning questions and potential constraints. Local authorities and qualified professionals determine legal and technical buildability.
Can I use SiteX for rural or undeveloped land?
Yes. SiteX is designed for early research and planning on vacant, rural, and undeveloped property where the relevant data and features are available.
What should I verify outside SiteX?
Verify surveys, zoning, setbacks, soils, drainage, utility availability, permitting, engineering, and construction pricing with the appropriate professionals or local authorities.
Planning tools
What happens after I select a property?
Use Map & Sketch to draw custom elements, or start a guided House Project when you want built-in automatic setbacks for preliminary home placement. Other guided Projects apply workflow rules, generate supported routes, and build early estimates from the Project inputs.
How do automatic setbacks work?
In guided House Projects, SiteX automatically creates a preliminary setback-aware planning area to support home placement. Setback rules vary by jurisdiction and can depend on zoning, frontage, lot type, overlays, recorded restrictions, and other local requirements. Confirm the controlling requirements with the local authority before final design, permitting, or construction.
What does SiteX’s proprietary grading engine do?
In a House Project, SiteX analyzes the placed footprint, selected foundation, and elevation data to calculate planning-level cut, fill, and early grading cost. In a Driveway Project, it can suggest conceptual route options from analyzed terrain. SiteX does not choose the best homesite or produce an engineered grading or driveway design.
Can I mark up a property map?
Yes. SiteX supports property markup such as waypoints, lines, polygons, measurements, and layout-related planning elements.
Can I customize the proposed layout?
Yes. Draw custom lines, areas, measurements, and pins in Map & Sketch. In guided Projects, move the required points and change the Project choices; SiteX recalculates supported routes, quantities, and estimates.
Can I draw my own utility routes?
Yes. Draw custom utility lines in Map & Sketch. In supported guided Projects, SiteX generates connection routes from the selected points and Project rules. It generally compares a direct connection with a driveway-following route, using the direct path when it is more than 50 ft shorter or no usable driveway exists. Private septic, propane, off-grid electricity, and internet do not use this rule. All routes remain preliminary.
What assumptions does SiteX use?
Estimates combine layout measurements with the Project choices and assumptions you enter. They are not verified field conditions or guaranteed quantities.
Can I keep project photos and files together?
Yes. Keep property photos, files, notes, and planning context with the saved Project instead of spreading them across camera rolls, messages, and folders.
Can I keep or share my work?
Yes. A saved Project keeps the map, layout, estimate, photos, files, and notes together. Shared or exported materials remain early planning context, not a survey, engineered plan, permit, quote, or bid.
Buyers and property professionals
How can land buyers use SiteX?
Compare the property, test access and layout ideas, see major site-cost drivers, and organize what still needs due diligence.
How can agents and brokers use SiteX?
Help buyers picture the property, document the site visit, and organize the questions that may affect the deal.
How can builders and contractors use SiteX?
Review the customer's proposed layout, photos, files, and assumptions before the site conversation. SiteX does not create an engineered plan, quote, or bid.
How can land investors use SiteX?
Apply the same first-pass workflow across candidate parcels and compare major site-cost questions before deeper diligence.
Estimates and professionals
How should I use SiteX site-cost estimates?
Use SiteX estimates to compare early site-work scenarios—not as contractor bids. They combine the layout, selected assumptions, terrain-based quantities where applicable, and nationwide contractor and government rate databases; the pricing is not generated by AI.
How accurate are SiteX estimates?
They are early planning ranges based on the layout, selected details, available information, and assumptions. Field conditions, design, labor, materials, permits, engineering, and scope can change the actual cost.
Does SiteX replace surveys, engineers, contractors, or permit offices?
No. SiteX is a planning and property-context tool. It does not replace surveys, engineering, permitting review, professional site evaluation, contractor bids, or local authority requirements.
When should I hire a professional?
Bring in the appropriate professional when you need final boundaries, buildable-area confirmation, soil or septic review, drainage or structural engineering, permit documentation, utility confirmation, or executable construction pricing.
Start planning with SiteX.
See the property, test the plan, and know what to verify next.