Overview
- In late May 2026, Zahid Khan posted on LinkedIn that he used Claude’s “computer use” feature to search Uttar Pradesh land portals for his late father’s name and extract Gata Sankhya plot numbers tied to his family.
- The AI reportedly detected that the government mapping site used UTM coordinates, converted them to standard latitude and longitude, captured polygon vertices for 25 plots, generated a KML file and uploaded it to Google My Maps to produce GPS-routable boundaries.
- Khan said the land records were digitized but scattered across multiple government portals and written in dense legal Hindi, which made manual searches slow and error-prone.
- The LinkedIn post went viral and drew praise as a concrete, personal example of AI solving a practical problem, and Khan noted the work moved him from Claude’s free tier to paid Pro/Max plans.
- News coverage frames the episode as a user-led proof of concept rather than a verified government rollout and highlights questions about verification, cost, tooling and whether similar agents could be integrated into official land-registrar workflows.