FOR REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS
The AI-native planning firm that gets your site plan approved, faster
The AI agents read the by-laws and the plans, draft the package, and track the file. Then registered professional planners weigh the policy, sit with the city, and sign. One fixed fee per application, set before the work starts.
From site screening to the city's decision
One fixed fee covers the path, and a registered planner walks it with you.
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Site screening and feasibility
What the site allows as of right, what it needs an approval for, and what that development approval will take.
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Pre-application and city consultation
The planner meets the city's staff; the studies and the terms of reference are settled before anything is drawn.
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Rezoning and entitlement applications
The zoning amendment, the plan amendment, and the site plan application, drafted by the agents and signed by the planner.
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Permits and agency approvals
The permits beside the planning approvals: conservation, heritage, trees, and the minor municipal permits.
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Hearings, appeals, and public meetings
A planner in the room at committees, councils, and tribunals, with the evidence package behind an appeal.
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Application submission and tracking
Filed as your authorized agent, every circulation answered, and every re-submission carried to the decision.
The modern approach to land use planning
What changes when the agents do the reading and a registered professional planner signs.
| ZEVO | THE HOURLY FIRM | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | A fixed fee per application, set before the work starts, with the re-submissions and the statutory hearing inside it | An hourly estimate by phase, with every revision billed on top, and the statutory hearing as a separate line |
| Compliance checking | Every requirement checked against the full by-law and plan, in its current version, each finding logged to its clause | A planner's reading of the sections they remember, or a question pasted into a chat window |
| Regional coverage | Registered professional planners across the United States and Canada, one firm and one way of working | One office and one region, and a new firm to find for every new market |
| Communication | A planner who answers on Slack or WhatsApp, with every comment, revision, and decision kept on the record of the file | Email only, with the file's history spread across one planner's inbox |
| Signature | A registered professional planner on every file, in every city, with their title and their liability behind it | A registered professional planner where the city asks for one |
Accelerated by agents, validated by professional planners
The reading and the drafting move to the agents. The judgment, the room, and the signature stay with the registered planner.
The AI agents
- Read the whole zoning by-law, the official or comprehensive plan, the overlays, and the submission requirements, as they stand today
- Check the project against every requirement and log each finding to the clause it came from
- Draft the planning rationale, the application package, and the responses to the city's comments
- Read what the city said on every earlier file of the same instrument, and track the file through each circulation
The registered professional planners
- Weigh the policy, decide what the city will accept on this street, and settle what to ask for in return
- Run the pre-application meeting and negotiate the comments with the city's staff
- Sign the rationale and file as your authorized agent, with their title and their professional liability behind it
- Sit at the committee, the council, and the tribunal, and give the opinion evidence a hearing turns on