Make them prove their offer is just compensation.

The government has a head start. Until now.

Every government taking begins with a published plan, a mapped corridor, and a budgeted timeline. All developed long before property owners are contacted. The owner is always the last to know. Proving Ground changes that. Now you have time to prepare, document, and negotiate from a position of knowledge rather than surprise.

Only 1 in 5 property owners ever retain counsel in a condemnation action. We exist to change that.

Check Your Property →How It Works

The Problem

By the time you find out, the DOT already has a file on you.

When a DOT project enters the pre-construction phase, the clock starts, and it starts for the state, not for you. Appraisers are assigned. Routes are finalized. Parcel acquisition budgets are set. The state spends months building a case for what your property is worth before you ever hear the words “right-of-way.”

By the time most property owners get a letter, and most attorneys get a call, the state's appraiser has already been to the property. The number is already set. The negotiating window is already narrowing.

That asymmetry is structural. And for decades, it was unavoidable.

The Acquisition Timeline

Pre-construction

Project enters planning

GDOT begins ROW design work. No public notice issued.

Corridor active — Your entry point

90–180 days before offers are issued

Intelligence delivered. File built. Property owners informed. Attorneys positioned. The state hasn’t made first contact.

— months pass —

Offer issued

Most attorneys enter here

GDOT's appraiser has already visited. The valuation is already locked.

Response deadline

Negotiation window closes

Leverage narrows. The window that existed months ago is gone.

How It Works

Three things that change everything about condemnation.

Surface it early.

Proving Ground monitors active DOT acquisition corridors across Georgia and North Carolina, tracking authorization dates, parcel counts, and acquisition budgets before the state makes first contact. When a corridor goes active, the clock starts for you, not just for them.

Build the file first.

Every active corridor generates a full intelligence dossier: parcel ownership, SOS entity compliance, joinder opportunities, damages frameworks, and statutory citations, assembled before the DOT’s appraiser ever visits. When you walk into that first meeting, you already know what the state spent months preparing.

Close the gap.

Proving Ground connects property owners to property rights attorneys, appraisers, and a Ground Network of trade contractors — fence, roofing, landscaping, and site work professionals who can document the full cost of what the taking forces. Contractor quotes become settlement evidence. That gap is where the real recovery lives.

The Intelligence

The state spends months building its case. You get the same head start.

Proving Ground operates a dedicated intelligence terminal, propertytakings.com, that tracks active DOT acquisition corridors before offer letters are issued. Every corridor comes loaded with corridor funding and authorization timelines, parcel ownership and entity compliance, joinder opportunities, and the statutory damages framework that governs what recovery is possible. When you walk into that first meeting, you already know what the state spent months preparing. Months before most attorneys ever get the call.

Corridor Budget & Funding

ROW authorization status, project funding allocation, and acquisition timeline, before a single offer is issued.

GIS-Verified Site Impact Flags

Setback violations, access impairment, internal circulation loss, and signage removal, confirmed against corridor geometry.

Acquisition Timeline

Construction letting date, phase status indicators, and projected first-contact window for each parcel in the corridor.

Statutory Damages Framework

Leasehold interest, business damages, severance damages, and access impairment, mapped to applicable state statutes for Georgia and North Carolina.

160 active corridors

199,000+ parcels tracked

840 SOS compliance alerts

13,616 joinder opportunities

For Property Owners

Track Your Property. Prepare Your Position. Take Action.

A government taking is not an event. It is a process that begins in public records months or years before the first letter arrives. Proving Ground built the owner's side of that process.

Track your property. Takings is a free app that holds your address against the government’s own records and sends one alert when the signal changes. One property, tracked continuously, at no cost. You will know when the process starts because the data will tell you.

Prepare your position. The free alert is a snapshot. The full file on your property and the project behind that alert already exists, built from the state’s own records. That file is our paid product. Owners who use it to prepare walk into their first meeting knowing what the state knows.

Take action. Proving Ground presents data. It does not advise. When you are ready to act, we connect you to independent professionals: property rights attorneys, appraisers, and the Ground Network of trade contractors who can document what the taking actually costs.

The government is about to make you an offer. It is probably not enough.

When a DOT acquires right-of-way for a road project, property owners are entitled to just compensation under state and federal law. The state's first offer is not the final answer. You have the right to an independent appraisal, to negotiate, and to challenge any offer you believe is inadequate.

Most property owners don't know this. Most never retain an attorney. And most walk away with far less than they were owed.

Proving Ground exists because of one property owner who needed help with a fence and didn't know she had rights. That case built this platform. Your situation may be different. But the asymmetry is the same.

Property signals for every type of property owner

For Property Owners and Property Rights Professionals

The professionals who get in now will know things their peers don't.

One data asset. Two delivery surfaces. The intelligence terminal at propertytakings.com serves condemnation attorneys, lenders, property managers, and multi-parcel owners: a purpose-built research environment carrying every corridor, every document, and continuous monitoring across the portfolio. Takings serves the single-parcel owner who does not need a terminal. They need one signal, delivered the moment it matters. Together, the two surfaces cover the full market for property rights intelligence, from a portfolio of hundreds of parcels down to the house someone lives in.

Access is invitation-only and deliberately limited. Not because we have to, but because the professionals who subscribe now, at charter pricing, are building a head start that compounds. Every month of early access is a month ahead of the market.

Sample Documents

Commercial Property

Parcel Intelligence Report

700 Douthit Ferry Road · Bartow County

A 1.05-acre commercial parcel facing GDOT corridor widening. Three documented infrastructure impacts including median installation and access impairment.

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Residential Property

Parcel Intelligence Report

227 Wilbur Ave SE · Fulton County

A 0.36-acre owner-occupied residential parcel in an active signal improvement corridor. Two parcels held by the same owner, creating joinder opportunity.

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Data Intelligence Package

Parcel-specific corridor intelligence for property owners facing a government taking. Priced by corridor exposure and parcel count. Contact us for a quote specific to your property.

If the project does not move forward, we refund your engagement fee in full.

Subscriber Access

$199/mo

charter pricing

A dynamic intelligence terminal for condemnation attorneys, property managers, lenders, and real estate advisors. All corridors, all documents, continuous monitoring. Standard pricing is $499/mo.

Georgia and North Carolina corridors active now. Florida, Virginia, and Tennessee coming in 2026.