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Broadband Lookup API

For any US address, return every ISP serving it with technology + speeds. 924M FCC location records, 2,135 ISPs, single-call lookup.


[ WHY_IT_MATTERS ]

The locational-truth layer for the portfolio. For any address: who serves it, with what technology, at what speeds. Real-estate platforms, relocation tools, ISP comparison sites, and the internal Rural Service Lead Engine all consume this same API. Free for existing PermitLookup customers; Stripe-gated for external buyers.

[ OVERVIEW ]

Three FastAPI endpoints live on production (Railway + Cloudflare Tunnel): /v1/broadband/lookup returns every ISP serving an address with technology code + max download/upload speeds + low-latency flag + business/residential code; /v1/septic-score/lookup returns the v2 rural_septic_score for any TX address with component breakdown; /v1/rural-leads/county returns a ranked list of rural-septic candidates by county.

All three are backed by the 924-million-row FCC Broadband Data Collection table (116M unique US broadband-serviceable locations, 2,135 ISPs across all 50 states + DC + PR), partitioned by state for sub-second range scans. Address resolution flows: input address → property_sales fuzzy match → block_geoid → BDC range scan → JSON response. Verified production curls: FM 1696 Huntsville returns 14 ISPs and max 5000 Mbps fiber; 5160 FM 55 Italy returns rural_septic_score 85 with "Strong rural-septic indicator" interpretation.

[ BY_THE_NUMBERS ]
  • > 924,014,277 FCC location-provider-technology records
  • > 116M unique US broadband-serviceable locations
  • > 2,135 ISPs covered
  • > 3 production endpoints (broadband/lookup, septic-score/lookup, rural-leads/county)
  • > Sub-3s typical response time on sparse-rural tracts
  • > State-partitioned for scale (52 partitions: 50 states + DC + PR)
[ NEXT_90_DAYS ]
  • Optimize dense-tract response times (Houston downtown timeouts > 5s)
  • Replicate v2 MV to R730-2 for read-replica load balancing
  • Launch broadband.ecbtx.com marketing landing + Stripe checkout
  • Sign first real-estate API pilot customer
  • Extend /broadband/lookup to all 50 states (currently TX-optimized)
[ KNOWN_RISKS ]
  • ! Dense-tract performance (some Houston tracts have 2,400 BDC rows; tunnel-proxy throughput becomes the bottleneck)
[ TALK_TO_PHIL ]

QUESTIONS ABOUT BROADBAND LOOKUP API? ASK PHIL DIRECTLY.

// Phil is Will's voice agent. Architecture, pricing, roadmap, licensing — for any product.