About LotBrief
LotBrief is a small, independent project — not a brokerage, not a fund, not a course business. The premise is narrow on purpose: take a California county's tax-deed list, cut it down with rules you can audit, research what survives, and hand you a shortlist with honest reasoning. That's the whole product.
Why you might trust this (and how to check)
Trust in this niche has to be earned, because the niche is full of people selling certainty they don't have. We're trying to earn it the only way that's durable: by being checkable. The filters are rules you can read, not a black box. The worked example uses a closed sale with the real per-filter numbers — including the filter that did 89% of the work and the enrichment we haven't finished. The legal claims in our posts cite primary sources. And there's a real person behind it, below — not a faceless brand.
The person behind it
LotBrief is one person — not a team, not a fund. A solo analyst working with AI tools, learning California tax-deed sales in public and showing the work, rather than selling a track record that doesn't exist yet.
We'll tell you plainly what we are and aren't. We are not licensed real estate brokers, agents, or attorneys, and we don't claim a track record we don't have. What we have is a transparent process and a published worked example you can inspect end to end.
How a brief actually gets made
For each sale: we pull the county's official list, run the six deterministic filters, then use a language model to do the analyst work — validating the sale details and writing the per-parcel reasoning — and a human reviews the output before it ships. Rules do the reduction. AI does the research and the write-up. A person checks it. You make the decision. The methodology page walks every step.
What we won't do
- We won't tell you what to bid, or imply a number is a recommendation.
- We won't fabricate valuations, testimonials, or "trusted by N" metrics to look more established than we are.
- We won't sell a course, a coaching upsell, or a recurring "membership."
- We won't pretend the data is guaranteed — it isn't, and we say so on every page.
Contact
Questions, corrections, or you think we got a legal point wrong? Email hello@lot-brief.com. We take corrections seriously — if a post is wrong, we'd rather fix it than defend it.