Every Entity.
Every Exposure.
Every Connection.

Starting from a tax lot, BuildNYC resolves the controlling LLC through DOB permit registration and ACRIS deed records, then traverses registered agent filings to surface co-registered entities sharing legal infrastructure. Each node in the chain is cross-referenced against HPD registration records, ECB violation rolls, and open lien filings. A building held by a single-purpose vehicle rarely stays single-purpose under traversal — the graph typically surfaces 3–9 related entities, associated properties, and the debt and enforcement history those entities carry.

A contractor of record on a target acquisition is simultaneously a node in every other project in the BuildNYC graph where that entity appears. Traversal surfaces their full permit history across BIS and DOB NOW filings, maps associated ECB violations by project and violation class, and flags any stop-work orders active on concurrent jobs. Before a GC is under contract, the platform has already traced their exposure across the portfolio — not from references, from municipal record.

When acquisition targets are controlled by layered holding structures, standard due diligence terminates at the first legal entity. BuildNYC continues the traversal: shared registered agents, common principal addresses drawn from HPD registrations, co-signatories appearing across ACRIS instruments, and prior entity names carried in historical DOB filings. The resolution is algorithmic, not interpretive — the graph either closes the loop or it does not.

A violation issued against a contractor on one project is a signal about every other project that contractor is currently executing. BuildNYC maps that signal forward across the ownership graph: which buildings in your portfolio or pipeline share that contractor, which of those buildings are in active permit status, and what the ECB enforcement history looks like on comparable jobs. Risk is not siloed to the asset where it was first observed — this traversal makes that explicit.