America’s built environment is governed by an enormous network of zoning codes, municipal documents, maps, regulations, and local processes, almost none of which were designed to be understood by machines.

That is about to matter.

As AI moves from answering questions to performing real work, agents operating in real estate will need more than foundation models.

They will need trusted domain intelligence: the ability to find the right municipal information, understand its relationship to a property, reason over it, verify the answer and take action.

Matthew Player, founder and CEO of Zoneomics, explores zoning as an early window into a much larger transformation: the creation of an intelligence layer for the built world. He’ll examine what becomes possible when fragmented real estate and municipal knowledge becomes infrastructure that AI can actually use and how that could reshape everything from site selection and underwriting to due diligence, permitting and development.