Quick start

This guide walks you through the core loop of Pillar: sign in, filter a market, save the results, and enrich them with owner contact information. You should be able to finish in about five minutes.

1. Sign in#

Head to app.pillar.codes and sign in with the email address your team admin invited. If you don't have an account yet, use the Register link on the sign-in page — you'll be prompted to either create a new organization or join an existing one.

2. Open the map#

From the left rail, click the Map icon. The map opens on the last location you viewed, or on a sensible default if this is your first visit.

The three regions you'll use most often:

• Left rail — workspace switcher and CRM tabs.
• Filter bar (top of map) — every search filter, from geography to zoning to price.
• Canvas — the map itself. Click a parcel to see its details; draw a polygon to constrain searches to a specific area.

3. Filter for your criteria#

Let's say you're looking for 2–5 acre vacant lots zoned residential in Travis County, Texas. Set these filters:

1. In the geography filter, type "Travis County, TX" and select it.
2. Open the Size filter and set min = 2 acres, max = 5 acres.
3. Open the Zoning filter. Choose the residential zones that apply in this county. (If zoning isn't available for your county, you'll see a prompt to add it — see Zoning data.)
4. Optionally, add Land use = Vacant to exclude parcels with structures.

The map updates live as you adjust filters. The result count at the top of the filter bar tells you how many parcels match.

4. Save the list#

Once you're happy with the filter, click Save as list (top right). Give the list a name — something like "Travis Co. 2–5ac vacant res" — and hit Save. The list now lives under the Lists workspace.

5. Enrich with skip tracing#

From the Lists page, open your new list and click Enrich → Skip trace all contacts. Pillar will look up phone numbers, emails, and mailing addresses for every parcel owner. Skip tracing consumes credits; see Credits for how billing works.

When the job completes, every row has owner contact information attached. You can now:

• Export to CSV for your mail house or CRM.
• Design a mail campaign directly in Pillar (Outreach).
• Push the parcels into a project to track them through your pipeline (Projects).

You're done#

That's the loop: filter → save → enrich → act. Everything else in Pillar is either a better way of doing one of those steps, or a different way to think about them (the AI agent can run the whole loop on your behalf — see Agent overview).