The problem
Drawing the map is easy. Gathering everything it needs is the slow part.
Every week, Dudley Land Company invoices a client for its leasing work, and every invoice needs a plat map: a simple diagram of the land that shows each parcel and who owns it. Drawing the map is easy. Gathering everything it needs is the slow part.
For each map, a Prospect Manager opens three separate spreadsheets that track the land’s title, ownership, and record dates, copies the right details into a template, then hand-draws and labels every parcel on a grid. That runs 20 to 30 minutes a map, and Dudley builds 20 to 50 of them a week. In a normal week it eats close to a full day.
The work can’t wait, either. That invoice has to go out before the client funds the next round of lease bonuses, so the maps jump the line and everything else waits.
The solution
A reusable setup that handles the routine 90%.
Benali built Dudley a reusable setup in Claude AI. The Prospect Manager drops in the same three spreadsheets plus the blank template, and Claude fills in every field, draws each parcel on the map, and labels it with its number and acreage.
Most of the work is routine, and Claude handles roughly 90% on its own. The rest takes real judgment, like an unusual property line or a record that’s hard to pin down, so Claude flags those and hands them back to the Prospect Manager to confirm. Nothing uncertain ever goes out unchecked. The whole thing is saved as a ready-to-run project, so every map is just a quick upload.
Time & impact
About 90% of the time back, on something Dudley does dozens of times a week.
A plat map that used to take 20 to 30 minutes now takes three to five. That’s about 90% of the time back on something Dudley does dozens of times a week. That’s close to a full day handed back every week, and the team spends it on work that actually moves projects forward instead of formatting maps.