Today marks an exciting milestone for both CREXI and Zoneomics.
CREXI has introduced AI-powered zoning intelligence powered by Zoneomics, enabling commercial real estate professionals to ask natural language questions about zoning regulations directly within one of the industry’s leading marketplaces. What once required navigating lengthy municipal codes, zoning ordinances, and planning documents can now be explored through conversational AI, helping users evaluate real estate opportunities faster and with greater confidence.
For CREXI users, this is a powerful new capability. For Zoneomics, it represents something much larger.
It is another milestone in a journey that began with a simple belief: that zoning regulations, one of the most important yet least accessible datasets in commercial real estate, could become structured intelligence capable of powering the next generation of real estate software and artificial intelligence.
Zoneomics was founded by Matthew Player, an urban planner and proptech entrepreneur; Asim Mushtaq, a computer scientist and GIS engineer; and Sara Player, an attorney.
Each approached the same problem from a different perspective.
Matthew had spent years watching developers, investors, planners, lenders, and municipalities struggle with fragmented zoning regulations that were difficult to access, interpret, and compare.
Asim recognized that these complex regulations could be transformed into structured, machine-readable intelligence that software and AI could understand.
Sara understood that zoning is fundamentally a legal framework, one where accuracy, transparency, and trust are essential when decisions involve millions or billions of dollars in investment.
Together, they shared a vision that went beyond simply digitizing zoning. They set out to build the intelligence infrastructure that modern real estate, and eventually artificial intelligence, would come to require.
Five years ago, generative AI was still years away from entering the mainstream.
Yet we believed that one day AI would need more than language models. It would need trusted knowledge, structured regulations, verified citations, and continuously maintained intelligence.
That belief became the foundation of Zoneomics.
Over the past five years, Zoneomics has quietly built one of the most comprehensive standardized zoning intelligence platforms ever assembled in the United States.
Today our platform covers:
Behind every property is a continually expanding foundation of standardized zoning districts, permitted uses, development standards, overlays, ordinance citations, planning documents, and land use intelligence purpose-built for enterprise applications and AI.
That infrastructure has become the foundation for many of the industry’s leading technology platforms.
Zoneomics partnered with Moody’s to bring standardized zoning intelligence into institutional commercial real estate workflows, helping establish zoning as a core component of modern property intelligence.
At the same time, another journey quietly began inside the company.
Matthew recognized that solving zoning at a national scale would never be possible through manual processes alone. With thousands of municipalities, each maintaining different zoning codes, terminology, maps, overlays, and regulatory frameworks, the problem demanded a fundamentally different approach.
Together with CTO and co-founder Asim Mushtaq, Zoneomics began investing heavily in proprietary artificial intelligence, machine learning, and geospatial technologies to automate the extraction, standardization, verification, and maintenance of zoning intelligence. Long before AI became the technology story of the decade, it had already become central to how Zoneomics was building its platform.
UK proptech leader LandTech became both a strategic partner and investor, accelerating development of nationwide zoning intelligence and next-generation land use data models.
Later that year, Redfin launched zoning information for more than 70 million homes powered by Zoneomics, dramatically expanding public access to zoning information and making zoning transparency available to millions of consumers.
As artificial intelligence and generative design began reshaping commercial real estate, leading technology companies recognized that intelligent software requires intelligent data.
Google’s Sidewalk Labs selected Zoneomics to provide zoning intelligence within Delve, bringing structured zoning constraints into AI-assisted site planning workflows.
At Autodesk University, Autodesk announced its partnership with Zoneomics, integrating nationwide zoning intelligence into Autodesk Forma and enabling architects and designers to incorporate zoning regulations directly into generative design.
Bowery Valuation selected Zoneomics to strengthen its technology-enabled appraisal platform, helping automate one of the final manual components of property valuation.
Regrid launched the parcel industry’s first nationwide combination of parcel boundaries and standardized zoning intelligence powered by Zoneomics, establishing a new benchmark for nationwide property intelligence.
Later that year, Zoneomics completed its Seed financing led by CEAS Family Office, with participation from Rosecliff Ventures, Acronym Ventures, Simplex Ventures, BDev Ventures, Forefront Ventures, and other strategic investors. The investment accelerated the company’s AI initiatives and laid the foundation for its next stage of growth.
TestFit partnered with Zoneomics to bring nationwide zoning intelligence into AI-powered feasibility and site-planning workflows.
Prophetic incorporated Zoneomics zoning intelligence into its AI platform, supporting initiatives that included D.R. Horton’s adoption of AI-assisted zoning analysis to accelerate residential development.
Then came one of the most significant milestones in the company’s history.
Google Earth introduced nationwide zoning intelligence powered by Zoneomics, bringing standardized zoning data into one of the world’s most widely used geospatial platforms.
With Google’s Gemini capabilities, professionals could begin asking natural-language questions about development opportunities, operational restrictions, permitted uses, development potential, and zoning constraints directly in Google Earth.
For the first time, one of the world’s leading frontier AI models could reason over nationwide standardized zoning intelligence at enterprise scale.
Today’s launch with CREXI represents another important milestone in that journey.
By combining CREXI’s commercial real estate marketplace with Zoneomics’ nationwide zoning intelligence and AI capabilities, users can move from searching properties to understanding development potential in seconds.
The future of commercial real estate will not simply be powered by more information.
It will be powered by intelligent infrastructure.
Large language models have transformed how professionals interact with information.
But enterprise AI demands much more than a conversational interface. It requires trusted data, structured regulations, continuously maintained knowledge, citations, and context.
Artificial intelligence is only as valuable as the intelligence it can reason over.
For zoning, permitting, land use, and development, that intelligence has taken years to build.
We believe the next generation of commercial real estate AI will not be defined solely by increasingly capable models, but by the specialized knowledge infrastructure that powers them.
Everything we have built has led to this moment.
Bassett, which we first introduced in 2025, is the AI Operating System for zoning, permitting, and land use.
Built on Zoneomics’ nationwide zoning intelligence platform and powered by Zoneomics Labs, Bassett combines trusted regulatory data, reasoning, and agentic workflows into a single platform for the built environment.
Rather than simply retrieving information, Bassett understands zoning regulations, reasons across complex ordinances, explains development constraints, identifies opportunities, cites authoritative sources, and helps execute land use, due diligence, and permitting workflows from start to finish.
It brings together frontier AI models with one of the nation’s most comprehensive zoning intelligence platforms to help developers, architects, engineers, lenders, brokers, municipalities, and property professionals make faster, more informed, and more confident decisions.
We believe this marks the emergence of a new category we call Agentic Zoning, where AI moves beyond answering questions to becoming an intelligent infrastructure layer that powers the workflows behind real estate development, permitting, and land use decision-making.
While Zoneomics Labs is being introduced publicly today, its origins date back much further.
From the beginning, Matthew Player recognized that solving zoning at a national scale would never be possible through manual processes alone. With more than 25,000 jurisdictions, each maintaining different zoning codes, terminology, maps, overlays, and regulatory frameworks, traditional approaches could never keep pace with the complexity or the rate of change.
As a result, Zoneomics began investing in artificial intelligence and proprietary technology as early as 2021. Together with co-founder and CTO Asim Mushtaq, the company developed internal AI, machine learning, and geospatial technologies to automate the extraction, standardization, verification, and maintenance of zoning intelligence at a scale that had never before been possible.
These technologies became the foundation that enabled Zoneomics to build one of the nation’s most comprehensive zoning intelligence platforms, powering partnerships with Moody’s, Redfin, Google, Autodesk, Regrid, TestFit, Prophetic, Google Earth, CREXI, and many other enterprise platforms.
Zoneomics Labs represents the next evolution of that journey.
Rather than keeping these AI capabilities solely behind the scenes, we are bringing them to market through a dedicated AI research and product organization focused on advancing what we call Agentic Zoning.
In many ways, Zoneomics Labs is not a new beginning. It is the public expression of the AI innovation that has quietly powered Zoneomics from the very start.
Every generation of software changes how professionals work.
The next generation will do more than retrieve information. It will understand regulations, reason across constraints, coordinate complex workflows, and work alongside the professionals shaping our cities.
Five years ago, we set out to standardize America’s zoning regulations.
Today, that foundation powers leading real estate platforms, institutional workflows, nationwide geospatial applications, and frontier AI experiences.
Tomorrow, it will power the intelligent agents that redefine how land is planned, developed, financed, permitted, and approved.
We believe zoning, permitting, and land use are among the last major categories of institutional knowledge waiting to become AI-native.
Bassett and Zoneomics Labs are the next chapter of that vision.
This is not simply about building AI for real estate. It is about building the intelligence infrastructure that allows AI to understand, reason, and operate within the rules that shape the built environment.
That future has already begun, and we are proud to be building it.
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