AI for real estate development.
Break ground months sooner. PermitPortal's AI analyst does the site selection, due diligence, and permitting work that takes development teams months — in hours, with every claim cited to a primary source.
Your AI analyst · § 01
An AI analyst that runs the whole workflow.
Give it any objective — screen a deal, verify a permit condition, lay out a site, check a consultant's drawings against the county's comments. It plans the work, pulls the data, reads every document in the project, and delivers the output. Like a development analyst, minus the six-week turnaround.
Find the deal before anyone else does.
Pressure-test the site before capital commits.
Carry the project from submittal to approval.
Leases, title reports, surveys, staff reports, drawings — whatever your team and consultants drop in, it reads and cites by page.
Every claim traces to a primary source with a retrieval date. No black boxes.
It proposes; you decide. Nothing sends or dispatches without sign-off.
Board decks, Excel models, Word memos, GIS exports, site plans — built in the run.
Working with your analyst · § 02
Ask. It works. You approve.
No software rollout, no new process. Your analyst lives in your project workspace — with your team, your consultants, and every document they've dropped in.
Ask
State the objective in plain English. Attach whatever you have — a listing, a survey, a staff report, nothing at all. Your analyst confirms scope before it starts.
It works
It plans the run, pulls the data, reads the documents, and builds the deliverable — hundreds of hours of analyst work, compressed into one session. Every step and every source visible as it goes.
You approve
Nothing sends, files, or dispatches without your sign-off. Outreach, reports, and pipeline runs all wait for your approval. You stay the decision-maker; it stays the analyst.
Hours, not months.
From question to source-cited deliverable in a single working session — not a six-week consultant engagement.
Cited, not claimed.
Every finding traces to a primary source with a retrieval date. Present it to your committee without caveats.
A fraction of the cost.
One platform instead of a bench of consultants, expediters, and researchers billing by the hour.
Engagements · § 03
From first look to breaking ground.
Start with a Site Risk Brief on any parcel — delivered in 48 hours. Then AI agents keep working: monitoring jurisdictions, tracking approvals, and flagging risk before it hits your schedule.
Site Risk Brief
48-hour report covering parcel zoning, by-right status, required approvals, historical approval timelines, governing body composition, opposition signals, and entitlement risk score with go / no-go recommendation.
Jurisdiction Watch
Continuous monitoring of planning commission agendas, council votes, ordinance changes, moratorium proposals, and public comment trends. Weekly intelligence memos with red / yellow / green risk changes.
Portfolio Command Center
Dashboard across all active parcels and target jurisdictions. Approval tracking, critical path risks, risk trends by market, and executive summaries for leadership. One view across 10–100+ sites.
Intelligence signals · § 04
What surfaces before the delay.
AI agents read agendas, minutes, ordinances, and public records across every jurisdiction you care about — and surface the signals before they become project risks, schedule slips, or capital losses.
Global coverage · § 05
Anywhere your capital goes.
Data sources from any county, in any country. Your analyst reads planning records, GIS layers, cadastral data, and infrastructure records wherever the parcel is.
30,000+ jurisdictions scored and monitored, all 50 states
Zoning, GIS, and infrastructure analysis on any parcel worldwide
Frankfurt, Dublin, Amsterdam, London — analyst-run, source-backed
Platform capabilities · § 06
One platform for the whole pursuit.
Every capability is AI-run with development expertise in the loop. Deployable independently or as a unified stack — configured for your asset class, jurisdictions, and portfolio scale.
Automated due diligence
Zoning, utilities, environmental, title. AI-run, PE-reviewed. Structured memo delivered in 48 hours.
Moratorium tracker
Every moratorium and siting restriction affecting large-scale development in the US, updated weekly. Know before it hits the agenda.
Jurisdiction risk scoring
12 risk signals across regulatory, community, environmental, power, and economic factors. 30,000+ jurisdictions scored.
Entitlement path mapping
The exact approval route, agency by agency, with typical timelines, predecessor chains, and gate dependencies.
Opposition & sentiment monitoring
Community opposition campaigns, governing body voting patterns, public comment trends, and social sentiment tracked continuously.
Scenario analysis
Model different development parameters and compare entitlement paths, blast radius, and strategy impacts side by side.
Land bank analysis
Screen and rank parcels across a land bank by entitlement feasibility, zoning fit, and jurisdiction risk. Prioritize the sites most likely to get permitted first.
Common questions
Asked by every development team.
The short answers. For anything else, our team replies the same day.
How fast is a Site Risk Brief?
48 hours from parcel address to delivered brief — entitlement risk scored, approval path mapped, opposition signals identified. Live analyst runs come back in minutes to hours depending on depth.
What does the analyst actually deliver?
Real work product: due diligence memos, jurisdiction strategies, ranked parcel shortlists, permit matrices, site plans drawn on the parcel, Excel models, board decks, and GIS exports. Everything lands in your project workspace, ready to forward.
Where does the data come from?
Primary sources: official GIS layers, municipal and county portals, government PDFs, utility records, national databases, live web monitoring — and your own data room. Every claim in every deliverable cites its source with a retrieval date.
How do you ensure accuracy?
Structurally. Deliverables pass a validity gate before they reach you: claims must trace to sources, uncertainty must be labeled, and unverified findings ship with a verification path instead of a guess. Expert review backs the AI on delivered briefs.
Does it work outside the US?
Yes. US jurisdictions are scored and continuously monitored; internationally, your analyst works from official cadastral, planning, and infrastructure sources — with delivered work in markets across Europe and beyond.
How do we start?
Send one parcel — an address, APN, or jurisdiction. You get a Site Risk Brief in 48 hours. No software rollout, no onboarding project, no annual commitment to see the quality of the work.
Get started
Start with one jurisdiction.
Send a parcel address, APN, or jurisdiction name. We deliver a structured Site Risk Brief within 48 hours — entitlement risk scored, approval path mapped, opposition signals identified.