A lot of land development coordination is just finding out where things stand. Which comments are still open on the last submittal? What's overdue this week? Did the target date for the next milestone move? The answers usually live in a portal, a spreadsheet and three email threads, and pulling them together takes longer than it should.
Starting today, BaseLD is available in Claude's connector directory. If your engineering firm or development company uses BaseLD, you can connect it to Claude, the AI assistant from Anthropic, and ask about your projects in plain language.
Ask where things stand.
Once it's connected, Claude can read the same project information you see in your BaseLD portal. A few examples of what you can ask:
- "Which of my BaseLD projects have overdue tasks?"
- "Summarize the open review comments on Riverside Logistics Park and tell me which ones still need a response."
- "What's left on the schedule for Meadowbrook Commons before the first submittal goes out?"
- "Give me a status update on every project I'm on, in one paragraph each."
Handle the routine updates.
Claude can also make the small changes that eat up a day, but only when you ask. It can create a task and assign it to a teammate on the project, mark a task done, move a milestone date, update a contract phase status, or add your company's reply to a jurisdiction review comment. Every change shows up in BaseLD right away, the same as if you had made it in the portal.
Same permissions. No shortcuts.
The connector is built so it can never do more than you can:
- Every request runs as you, under the same rules that protect your portal. Other companies' data is never visible.
- It follows your role. If your company admin has limited what your role can do, Claude is limited the same way.
- Schedule changes and comment replies are only allowed for the company that manages the project, just like View Only mode in the portal.
- It can never delete anything, and every change is recorded with your name.
Connecting also always requires signing in to BaseLD (with two-factor authentication if you use it) and approving access, so turning it on is always a deliberate choice.
How to connect.
- In Claude, open Settings, then Connectors.
- Find BaseLD in the directory and click Connect.
- Sign in with your BaseLD account and click Allow Access.
Full details, including everything Claude can and can't do, are on the BaseLD for Claude page. The connector is available today for engineering firm and developer accounts. Jurisdiction support is on the roadmap.
Not on BaseLD yet? We're onboarding civil engineering firms, developers and jurisdictions now. Request access and we'll walk you through it with your real projects.