ABOUT US

The pre-construction AI partner for real estate developers and City Hall

Zevo was founded to compress the longest, riskiest stretch of residential and commercial building delivery, the development approvals, without compromising on compliance.

The Vancouver skyline from the harbour, towers against the North Shore mountains

Zevo is based in beautiful British Columbia

What we offer

The same agents read the same by-laws on both sides; the difference is who signs and what they pay for.

For City Hall: a review dashboard

AI agents check every development application and permit against the jurisdiction's own plans and by-laws, and the city department runs on one annual licence priced per resident. Available to cities and counties in the United States and Canada.

For real estate developers: a planning firm

Registered professional planners sign and represent, AI agents read and draft, and every service is priced on an outcome, from the site screening to the hearing and approval. Available wherever the developer builds in North America.

What Zevo is built on

Four commitments Zevo is built on, whichever side of the counter you sit.

Private and secure project data

Projects, submissions, and the review record stay private to the team that owns them. Every finding carries source-traceable evidence, with an auditable history that counsel, or Council, can defend.

Complete & verified regulatory corpus

Each jurisdiction's zoning by-laws and ordinances, official and comprehensive plans, overlays and secondary plans, provincial and state policy, and planning statutes, modelled, versioned, and kept current.

Pre-construction focus

Development approval and compliance are the slowest, most uncertain part of any real estate project. Zevo works there exclusively, not as a feature inside a broader construction suite.

Subject matter expertise

Registered professional planners, certified across the US and Canada, alongside Zevo's AI specialists, build every check and service together: a review dashboard for City Hall, a planning firm for developers.

Meet the founders

A lean, senior team with deep experience in software, AI, and the realities of pre-construction on both sides of the counter.

Portrait of Otavio Ferreira

Otavio Ferreira

Co‑founder & CEO

Otavio leads Zevo. He comes from a multi-decade family background in construction, and is a former GM at Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), a C-level board member at Corpay (NYSE: CPAY), and a 3x founder in the B2B space.

Portrait of Chris Lewis

Chris Lewis

Co‑founder & CTO

Chris leads engineering & infrastructure at Zevo. Previously a senior engineering leader at Amazon Web Services (AWS), across cloud platforms and developer tooling, with deep experience shipping B2B systems at scale.