Zoneomics, a leading zoning data and intelligence company, today announced the launch of Bassett.ai, an AI operating system for zoning and the built environment. Designed for real estate developers, urban planners, architects, brokers, lenders and legal teams, among other professionals, Bassett.ai is the first publicly available intelligence product to optimize Zoneomics’s market-leading library of streamlined zoning data, which includes every U.S. municipality over 25,000 population. As artificial intelligence reshapes professional software across industries, Bassett.ai brings the same transformation to one of real estate’s most fragmented and difficult-to-access data layers: municipal zoning, land use and development regulations.

Within seconds, Bassett.ai can transform complex municipal codes into structured, conversational intelligence to power both human decision-making and AI-driven workflows. This will save significant time and resources previously required to sift through dense documents or raw datasets, often using different terminology and lacking uniform metrics.

Trusted by organizations including Cushman & Wakefield, Stanford University, Crexi and Sidewalk Labs, Zoneomics has spent years building one of the nation’s most comprehensive zoning intelligence platforms, with market-leading SaaS, API and due diligence products. Bassett.ai represents the next evolution of that foundation, moving beyond searchable data into an AI-native operating system for the built environment.

“Commercial real estate and land development still rely heavily on PDFs, fragmented municipal websites and manual research. Bassett.ai transforms that complexity into intelligence that professionals and increasingly AI agents can use to make better decisions in seconds,” said Matthew Player, CEO and Co-Founder of Zoneomics. “With responsive and interactive tools to access easy-to-consume zoning information, cities can run more efficiently, development project analysis and completion timelines can accelerate, and planners can have a trusted assistant and operating system to guide their work.”

Rather than simply serving as a chatbot, Bassett.ai is designed to become the intelligence layer powering agentic workflows throughout the property lifecycle, including:

  • Site selection and acquisition

  • Due diligence and underwriting

  • Land entitlement

  • Architectural design and feasibility

  • Permitting and development approvals

  • Lending and valuation

  • Government planning and zoning administration

Users can ask natural language questions such as “What can I build here?” or “What zoning constraints should I be aware of?” and receive detailed, citation-backed answers covering permitted uses, development standards, parking requirements, dimensional controls, neighborhood context and other critical zoning information within seconds.

Beyond the user interface, Bassett.ai also introduces the /Ask API, allowing organizations to integrate Zoneomics’s AI-powered zoning intelligence directly into their own applications, internal workflows and digital planning platforms. The API enables natural language querying without filters, forms or complex municipal code interpretation, bringing intelligent zoning capabilities into enterprise software and government systems. This service is ideal for integration into digital planning platforms, help desks and public zoning portals.

The Bassett.ai name honors Edward Bassett, widely regarded as the father of modern zoning in the United States for helping establish the country’s first comprehensive zoning ordinance.

More information about Bassett.ai, including product demonstrations and frequently asked questions, is available at Bassett.ai.

About Zoneomics

Zoneomics is a real estate intelligence platform powered by AI and machine learning that collects and puts crucial zoning data, land use data and analysis into the hands of users at the click of a button. Built by experts in real estate, technology and urban planning, Zoneomics products understand the challenges modern users face when seeking this information for important decision-making. The Zoneomics platform extracts and standardizes the latest zoning data from thousands of sources around the clock and then delivers insights in multiple popular formats including a map-enabled web platform, various zoning reports, zoning data APIs and GDE-Enabled APIs. Zoneomics is backed by leading venture capital and strategic investors including CEAS Investments, Acronym Venture Capital, Rosecliff Ventures and LandTech.

Visit www.zoneomics.com for more information.

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