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Who it is for

One engine, three ways in.

Everyone who has to answer “what can we build here?” for a living, each arriving with a different question, and leaving with an answer built the same way.

Residential feasibility

Design-build firms and renovators

“Can I put a garden suite or a fourplex here?”

An answer on the site visit

About thirty seconds from typing the address to a graded envelope you can show the owner while you are standing on the lot.

3D the client understands

The volume drawn to scale on their own property, with the neighbours at their real heights, not a plan they have to be taught to read.

A PDF under your logo

The deliverable leaves with your firm's branding and typeface, not ours.

A detached lot with the house at the street. The dashed ring is the rear-yard setback, and the suite is what fits inside it.
Development potential

Small-to-mid developers and land buyers

“What is the real upside here, and what kills it?”

A graded scenario ladder

As-of-right, mid-rise, tall building, assembly, maximum use, each carrying its evidence tier, GFA, storeys and a unit estimate.

Assembly you can test on the map

Click neighbouring parcels and watch the massing, the card, the report and the assistant all recompute against the same four gates.

The layers that decide it

Heritage, conservation, rental replacement, archaeology and secondary plans, read on the real parcel outline before you bid, plus a park-shadow screen cast from the massing itself.

Three adjoining parcels. The dashed lines are the ones that stop existing once the assembly closes, and the footprint spans all three.
Professional due diligence

Architects, planners and consultants

“What do I need to know before I quote this?”

Constraint-first ordering

The Site Context report leads with what could stop the project, then policy, then context. That is the order you would read it in, not the order it was fetched in.

Traceable, layer by layer

Every report closes on a Sources page naming each layer it actually drew on, and a figure carrying an honesty flag, whether an estimate, a sample size or a lower bound, keeps it into print. What you rely on, you can go and check.

The reading you would do by hand

The first pass, done in minutes, so the hours you bill are the judgement rather than the gathering.

A parcel read against its layers. The bottom row is dashed with a hollow marker because that is the one that could not be established, which is the claim the drawing exists to make.
Residential feasibility

What each of them actually gets.

Design-build firms

An answer while you are still on the lot

When
You are on the driveway with the owner and they ask what fits back there.
What you get
A graded rear-yard envelope drawn on their actual lot, on your phone, before you leave.
What it will not do
Servicing, fire access and the state of the existing structure are site conditions. The envelope does not test them.

Renovators & additions

What the envelope allows before drawing

When
Before a line is drawn, while changing your mind is still free.
What you get
Coverage, height, storeys, and the front building line the neighbours have already set.
What it will not do
It grades a plan against the envelope. It does not design the addition for you.

Agents advising owners

A branded page a client can hold

When
The listing appointment, where upside is often the reason you win the mandate.
What you get
A page under your own brokerage's logo showing what the lot permits.
What it will not do
Permitted is not approved, and the page says so in your client's hands rather than after.
Development potential

What each of them actually gets.

Developers

As-of-right through maximum use, graded

When
Underwriting, where the gap between as-of-right and modelled is most of the spread.
What you get
A scenario ladder with GFA, storeys and a unit estimate, each carrying its evidence tier.
What it will not do
Everything past as-of-right is graded conditional and labelled as modelled. None of it is a verdict.

Land buyers

Screen a site before the offer goes in

When
Before the offer goes in, while walking away still costs nothing.
What you get
A read that reaches rental replacement and the conservation limit, not just the zone.
What it will not do
It cannot tell you who owns the parcel next door, or whether any of it is for sale.

Brokers

Show the upside without promising it

When
The pitch, where overstating once is the thing that costs you the relationship.
What you get
The upside with its grade attached, so the number survives the buyer's own consultant.
What it will not do
A nearby approval is evidence somebody comparable got one. It is not a forecast for your buyer.
Professional due diligence

What each of them actually gets.

Architects

The reading you would otherwise do by hand

When
Fee proposal stage, before the unbillable hours start accumulating.
What you get
The envelope and the controls that bind it, with the governing clause reproduced as written.
What it will not do
It renders volume, not architecture. The judgement about what to draw stays yours.

Planners & consultants

Constraint-first, with a source on each claim

When
The first read, when working out which document governs decides the whole approach.
What you get
A brief that leads with what could stop the project, then the policy, then the context.
What it will not do
A clause is reproduced rather than summarised, because whether it helps or hurts is your call.

Lenders

A report whose numbers can be traced

When
Credit review, where a figure you cannot source is a figure you cannot use.
What you get
A Sources page naming every layer the report actually drew on, and only those.
What it will not do
Five of the six constraint screens cannot yet tell a clean read from a failed fetch, and say so.

Every ZoneForm output is preliminary and not legal advice. It is a first-pass reading of the City’s own data, meant to be verified with the City before anyone spends money on it.

Bring a lot you already know. See whether it agrees with you.

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