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☀  Summer Block Party Special — every package below is 50%+ off through Labor Day.

Packages & formats

Pick your depth.
Pick your format.

Plot is project-based: one block, one fixed scope, one price. Choose how deep the research goes, then choose how you want to hold the result.

Depth — choose one

Starter

$250$99

one-time · summer price

The foundation every block deserves.

  • ✔Full ACRIS deed chain for the block
  • ✔Interactive house-by-house map
  • ✔Block timeline from first recorded deed
  • ✔1940s tax photo for each address
  • ✔Delivered as a living web archive
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Standard

$600$249

one-time · summer price

The block, its people, and its press.

  • ✔Everything in Starter
  • ✔Census records 1880–1950
  • ✔City-directory occupancy history
  • ✔Newspaper sweep + structured life events
  • ✔Curated archive of ~20–40 photographs & maps
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Deep

$1,500$499

one-time · summer price

The definitive archive.

  • ✔Everything in Standard
  • ✔Recorded & transcribed oral histories
  • ✔Full press catalogue (tens of thousands of pages)
  • ✔Per-family dossiers + resolved people index
  • ✔The “wild files” — the block's best stories, written
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Landmark

Custom

scoped to you

When the block is the project.

  • ✔Everything in Deep
  • ✔Printed heritage book of the archive
  • ✔Historic-district / landmark documentation
  • ✔Optional documentary cut
  • ✔Ongoing stewardship & updates
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Struck-through prices are the standard rate; the Summer Block Party rate holds through Labor Day. Prices scale with block size and archive depth, and every project begins with a free scope.

Format — choose how you hold it

The same research, delivered four ways.

Web archive

Included in every package

A living, searchable site like the demo — house pages, a timeline, a people index, full-text search, and an “ask the block” chat over every source. Always online, always shareable.

Heritage book

Add-on / Landmark

A printed, designed hardcover of the archive — the narrative, the photographs, the family threads — built to sit on a shelf and be handed down. Priced by page count and print run.

Map poster

Add-on

A large-format, framed map of the block keyed to its deeds and eras — who owned what, when. A wall piece for a lobby, an association office, or a home.

Film cut

Add-on / Landmark

A short narrated documentary assembled from the archive's photographs, maps, and recorded voices — for a centennial, an annual meeting, or a preservation campaign.

No monthly contract

One price. Then it's yours to run.

Every package is a one-time project, not a subscription. When it's done, you own the archive and the site outright — and one person on the block can keep it growing without a developer.

  • ✔Add an oral history, fix a name, or drop in a found photo with a plain-English request to Claude Desktop (or any AI assistant) — no code.
  • ✔The archive lives in a free GitHub account and a shared photo folder; the site updates itself when you add to them.
  • ✔We hand you a plain-English playbook and set everything up. You keep the data and the site forever.
  • ✔Want a bigger refresh later — new research, a printed edition? We're a message away, but the day-to-day is yours.

How it works

1

Tell us the block

Send the cross streets and anything you already know. We scope it for free and recommend a depth.

2

We do the research

Plot runs the six-phase pipeline — deeds, census, press, photos, oral history — and builds the archive.

3

You get the archive

Delivered in your chosen format. Yours to keep, share, print, and hand down.

Curious how the research actually works? Read the full methodology →

Start with a free scope.

Tell us your block and what you're hoping for. We'll send back a depth recommendation, a format, and a fixed price.

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