Every dataset, one question
Ask AI works across all Searchland data - planning, titles, constraints, policy, comparables and more - in England, Scotland and Wales.
From answer to action, instantly
Turn any search into map results, a saved alert, or a project board in one step. No filters to learn or layers to find - just ask, and Ask AI does the set-up for you.
Searchland UI | Ask AI assistant drafting a letter to the registered owner of a pub, addressed using the title’s Land Registry details

AI-powered site sourcing

Just describe the site you’re after. Ask AI picks the fields and runs the search, then shows every result on the map.
Searchland UI | Ask AI assistant listing the planning constraints on a selected title, including agricultural land, transport connectivity and green belt, with a short explanation of the Green Belt impact

Assess any title in seconds

Ask about the title you’re looking at to get the owner, tenure, lease terms, sale price, and every planning constraint on or around it.
Searchland UI | Ask AI assistant answering a question about the affordable housing requirement in the Cheshire East Local Plan, citing Policy SC5 and its site-size thresholds

Search local plan policy text

Search policy text directly for affordable housing thresholds, parking standards and more, answered from the plan itself.
Searchland UI | Ask AI assistant showing a bar chart of 2026 decisions on 2-9 dwelling schemes in Cornwall, split into approved, rejected and withdrawn, with a 74% approval rate

Understand any area at a glance

Get the numbers in seconds, from approval rate trends and average prices to site counts and census and demographic charts.
Searchland UI | Ask AI assistant charting 3-bed house prices and counts by property type for the current map view, beside a satellite map of the area

An AI assistant that works with your map

Ask AI understands the site or planning application you’re viewing, so you can pull local data and find similar projects without starting a new search.
Searchland UI | Ask AI assistant finding 81 similar planning applications within 3 miles of a site and confirming a monthly email alert has been saved

Save, track and organise your sites

Turn results into work. Save searches as email alerts, track applications, and add every title from a search to a project board at once.
Searchland UI | Ask AI assistant drafting a letter to the registered owner of a pub, addressed using the title’s Land Registry details

Draft landowner letters in seconds

Ask AI writes your first approach to a landowner, using what it knows about the title, ready to edit and send.

Frequently asked questions

What is Ask AI?

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Ask AI is Searchland’s AI assistant. It sits alongside the map and answers questions about land, planning and property data in plain English, then shows the results on the map.

What data can Ask AI access?

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All of the data in Searchland - planning applications, titles and ownership, planning constraints, local plans, committees, comparables, demographics and energy network data.

What can Ask AI do?

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Ask AI handles most of the everyday work in Searchland from a plain-English question. It can find sites that match your criteria, check a title’s ownership and planning constraints, search local plan policy, research how planning committees decided, and pull area statistics and charts. It can also act on what it finds: showing results on the map, saving searches as email alerts, tracking applications, adding sites to project boards, and drafting letters to landowners.

How is Ask AI different from the Searchland MCP?

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Ask AI works inside Searchland and controls the map. The MCP connects Searchland data to your own AI assistant, such as Claude, for research and reporting alongside your other tools.e.

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