Split illustration of a brownstone: the left half is its hand-drawn facade, the right half is its blueprint X-ray, tagged with 14 violations, a heat complaint, a soft-story flag, and 3 open 311 calls

Before your next apartment tour.

Every building has
a facade. See what's
behind it.

AI-powered apartment building reports from 50+ government databases. Check violations, landlord records, and predicted problems before you sign.

Free for your first 10 apartments. No credit card. Takes 10 seconds.

2M+

Apartments covered

169K+

Buildings rated

1.1M+

Reports served

50+

Government data sources

Renting without checking isn't brave. It's expensive.

Bad apartments don't announce themselves. Here's what waits for the renters who didn't look.

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The "newly renovated" trap

That fresh coat of paint is covering something. The city might have filed a dozen building code violations in the last two years — unresolved, unfixed. The listing won't mention them. Your landlord won't either. Once you've signed, you're their tenant, not their problem to impress.

Once you've signed, breaking the lease costs thousands. Knowing before costs nothing.

A master ledger binder fanned open with building photos and a warning tag, mapping a landlord's portfolio

Some landlords run problem portfolios

There are landlords in NYC who own 30+ buildings with hundreds of open complaints across them — and keep doing it because most renters check one building without knowing about the other 29. A pattern that's invisible from one address is obvious when you see the whole portfolio.

One bad landlord can mean 12 months of ignored repairs, withheld deposits, and legal headaches.

Scattered permit, violation, and certificate-of-occupancy documents swirling into a single Augrented dossier folder

Your landlord knows this lease. You don't.

The permit history, violation record, 311 complaint log, fire incident reports — all public record. Just scattered across 15 different city databases that no individual has time to query. So most renters sign on information that's available but inaccessible.

We pull all of it. You read one report.

From the Possible podcast with Reid Hoffman

My favorite GPT‑3 service was a tool called Augrented, which would help tenants...Many people in that demographic wouldn’t necessarily have access to a lawyer — you can actually help people do things they wouldn’t be able to otherwise.

What you get

Everything the listing leaves out.

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AI-Powered

Know if trouble is coming — not just what already happened.

Our machine learning model analyzes every building's trajectory — not just its current violations — and predicts the likelihood of future code violations up to 12 months in advance. A building that's been clean for 10 years and started slipping two years ago is a different risk than one that's been consistent. You'd never know the difference without this.

  • Predictive quality scores — trajectory, not just snapshots
  • AI-generated summary of building history and risk factors
  • Compare nearby buildings to find the safest option on the block
Deep Data

One report. Every record that matters.

We pull from 50+ government databases and connect permits, violations, complaints, fire incidents, 311 calls, and more — so you don't have to. Not just the last 6 months. The full history.

14

SF data categories

29

NYC data categories

Violations Complaints Permits Fire incidents 311 calls Evictions Bedbugs Rodents Tax liens Asbestos +40 more
Building report dashboard showing Pass, Caution, and Alert status badges, violation bar charts, and complaint timeline
Network graph showing a landlord at the center connected to 10 buildings, some with red warning badges and others with green checkmarks
Landlord Intel

Research the person who'll have your deposit — not just their listing.

A building is only as good as the person managing it. We surface real owner names, contact info, and every other property in their portfolio — so patterns that were invisible from one address become unmistakable.

  • Portfolio search — see every building a landlord owns
  • Cross-building patterns in violations and complaints
  • Owner contact info from public registration records
Community

Data tells one story. The people who lived there tell another.

Read reviews from verified tenants, flag unhelpful ones, and contribute your own experience after you move in. The public record shows what was filed. Tenants tell you what it was like to actually live through it.

Verified Tenant

"Checked the building before signing. Report flagged some older heat complaints — I asked the landlord directly, they'd replaced the boiler last year. 18 months in, no issues. Checking first changed how I negotiated."

— 3 days ago · 22 people found this helpful

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How it works

Three steps. Before you sign anything.

1

Search the address

Enter any address in NYC, SF, LA, Austin, or Chicago. We match it to our database of 169,000+ rated buildings in seconds.

2

Read the report

AI risk score, violation history, landlord portfolio, complaints, permits, fire records, and verified tenant reviews — all in one place.

3

Sign with certainty — or walk away with yours

Compare buildings side by side. Set watchlist alerts. Export reports to share with roommates. Either way, you're not guessing.

Watchlist & Alerts

Decided but not signed yet? New problems can be filed any day.

Add buildings to your watchlist and get email alerts whenever new violations, complaints, or permits are filed. Violation patterns often intensify right before a landlord lists an apartment. Know the moment something changes — before you're legally committed.

Free watchlist

2 buildings

+ your home building

Business watchlist

10 buildings

Daily weekday alerts

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New

Research any building by asking your AI.

Ask ChatGPT, Claude, OpenClaw, or Hermes about any address and get violations, complaint history, and landlord records pulled live from 50+ government datasets. No tabs. No searching. Just ask.

  • MCP server — your AI gets live access to violations, permits, and landlord portfolios across 4 cities
  • Agent skill — turns raw government data into clear, actionable answers with the context you need
  • Free for your first 10 lookups — same account as the web app, no separate signup
.mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "augrented-buildings": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://augrented.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Or install the skill

npx skills add augrented/augrented-rental-research

Pricing

Start free. Upgrade when you find the one.

No credit card required. Your first 10 reports are on us every month.

Free

Start checking — it costs nothing

$0/forever

No credit card. No catch.

  • 3 building reports — no account needed
  • 10 reports per month with a free account
  • Safety grade, violations & complaint history
  • Neighborhood percentile comparison
  • Public records tables (10 most recent)
  • AI-powered analysis
  • PDF & Excel downloads
Create Free Account

Report Bundle

For the buildings you're deciding on right now

$10 one-time

~$3.33 per building. No subscription ever. Each credit unlocks one building's premium report for 30 days.

  • 3 full AI-powered reports
  • Download PDF reports
  • Advanced safety analysis
  • Compare multiple buildings
  • Credits never expire until you use them
  • Full public records (200 rows per dataset)
Buy 3 Reports — $10

Apartment Hunter

For a wide search across many buildings

$39 one-time

30 reports — ~$1.30 each. No subscription ever.

  • 30 full AI-powered reports
  • Download PDF reports
  • Advanced safety analysis
  • Compare multiple buildings
  • Credits never expire until you use them
  • Full public records (200 rows per dataset)
Buy 30 Reports — $39

Found nothing wrong? Good — you signed knowing that, not hoping. That certainty is what you paid for.

Need a single report? Buy credits — pay per building, no subscription needed.

Coverage

Five cities. Millions of apartments.

We currently cover New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, and Chicago. More cities coming soon.

Your next landlord already knows everything about that lease.
You deserve the same information.

One search takes 10 seconds. If the building checks out, great — sign with confidence. If it doesn't, you just saved yourself months of problems and thousands of dollars.

Free for your first 10 buildings every month. No credit card needed.

We cover NYC, SF, LA, Austin, and Chicago — not everywhere yet. But for renters in those cities, we're the most complete building intelligence tool that exists.