This page documents the operating mechanism behind the First-Mover Acquisition Protocol™. It exists so investors, partners, and counterparties can evaluate the system on its mechanics — not on marketing claims. Every step below maps to a verifiable public-records workflow, statutory authority, or live performance metric.
Every distressed property in Michigan begins its life as a public-record event at the county level — a tax-lien filing, a notice of default, a probate petition, a code violation. These records are filed under statutory authority (see Michigan FOIA Act and the Michigan General Property Tax Act) and are immediately public.
Commercial list providers — PropStream, BatchLeads, ListSource, and similar aggregators — do not access these records at the moment of filing. Their business model requires aggregating, cleaning, and formatting the records before distribution, which takes 30 to 90 days. During that window, every commercial-list buyer in Michigan receives the same record at the same time. The motivated seller hears from 30 to 50 investors within days of the list shipping. The first investor to make contact captures the deal. Investors 2 through 50 are competing for whatever's left.
The First-Mover Acquisition Protocol™ exists to collapse that 30-to-90-day window to zero. We do this by interfacing directly with the same county systems the aggregators eventually scrape — but at the moment of filing, not 30-90 days later.
Our ingestion pipeline reads Michigan county records the moment they are filed. We do not buy data from PropStream, BatchLeads, ListSource, or any other commercial aggregator — we read the same public records directly. Currently 489,892 Michigan parcels are tracked in real time. New filings surface in the ingestion pipeline within minutes of being recorded at the courthouse. Live count and freshness metrics are public at vision.michiganfoiareports.com.
Every intercepted address is scored 0–100 by our proprietary algorithm. The algorithm runs a compound signal stack — several different distress signals are weighed together to produce a single defensible ranking per property. We deliberately do not publish the exact signal list or the weighting. Operators receive the ranked output; the signal recipe stays inside the system. The score is updated whenever new public records affect that address.
The highest-scored properties in your county surface in your territory dashboard. Because the upstream interception happens at the moment of filing — not 30-90 days later — operators receive the lead before the same address reaches any commercial list. This is what "first-mover" means in practice: you are not racing the other investors on the list; you are operating outside the window in which they receive the list.
PropStream, BatchLeads, and ListSource are not slow because their engineering is bad. They are slow because their unit economics require selling the same record to as many investors as possible. To do that profitably, they must batch-aggregate records, clean and format them at scale, and distribute them as a refreshed list. That entire workflow takes 30 to 90 days.
Compressing that window would require them to either (a) charge significantly more per record, or (b) restrict the number of investors who receive each record. Both moves break the commercial-aggregator business model — which is built on commodity volume, not exclusivity.
The First-Mover Acquisition Protocol™ does not compete with these aggregators on the same axis. We operate on the opposite axis: one partner per county, premium price per partner, full-pipe access to live filings. The two models are not interchangeable.
Coverage: Michigan only. We do not operate outside Michigan because the FOIA workflow, courthouse filing systems, and tax-lien procedures are state-specific. Expanding to a new state requires re-mapping the entire ingestion pipeline against that state's public-records architecture.
Onboarding cap: 5 new partners per month. This is not artificial scarcity — it is the operational ceiling at which we can deliver the 30-day performance promise. Onboarding more than 5 partners per month degrades the quality of territory setup and the timing of first-lead delivery.
Territory exclusivity: 1 partner per county. Once a county is allocated to a partner, no second partner in that county receives the same leads. This is enforced in the delivery layer, not in the data layer — the underlying records remain public.
Performance promise: If a partner does not identify at least 10 distressed off-market properties in their territory within 30 days of activation, the partner's access extends free until they do. We have not invoked this promise to date.
What we do not claim: We do not claim every lead closes. We do not claim every distressed property is reachable. We do not claim our scoring is infallible. We claim that operators using this system are the first investor in their territory to receive a high-quality lead — and that they are competing on conversion, not on timing.
Methodology page reviewed: 2026-05-19. Live metrics refresh continuously.
5 new partners onboarded per month. 1 partner per county. Once a county is allocated, the next operator joins a waitlist.