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Read a job, permit, and certificate chronology

Follow dated construction records while keeping every relationship linked, partial, ambiguous, or not established.

Question answered

What can a sequence of job, permit, and certificate records establish?

Chronology is a typed relationship view over admitted DOB records, not a project-status prediction.

How PropSignal reads it

  1. Create dated event nodes from source-reported job, permit, and certificate records.
  2. Join records only through exact admitted job, permit, certificate, BIN, or BBL evidence.
  3. Assign each proposed edge a linked, partial, ambiguous, or not-established state.
  4. Display missing later evidence as an unresolved chain—not proof that work stopped or occupancy is unlawful.

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What this can establish

  • The order and source-reported status of the construction records found in the checked scope.
  • Which relationships are directly supported and which remain unresolved.

What this does not establish

  • That permitted work was completed, approved, or performed as filed.
  • Legal occupancy, code compliance, project delay, or construction quality.

Dates and missing evidence

Date meaning
Each event keeps its source-reported date and retrieval time. A later retrieved record is not treated as a later real-world event unless its effective date supports that order.
When evidence is missing
No later permit or certificate found in the checked sources means exactly that; it does not prove no record exists elsewhere or no work occurred.

Sources used by this method

Read a job, permit, and certificate chronology — PropSignal