Conflation Labs

A zoning question, whether a bakery can open at a given address or whether a site plan meets the setback rules, takes a planner or a due-diligence analyst days of reading ordinances, measuring drawings and cross-checking maps. Conflation Labs answers it in seconds from the jurisdiction's adopted code, with the section and the map cited so the answer can be checked, and reviews submitted plans against the measurable standards before staff spend hours on a first pass.

The United States has about 30,000 zoning jurisdictions and each one writes its own rules: base districts, overlays, setbacks, height limits, parking ratios, permitted uses. Whether a parcel can take a particular building is a question that a city planner, an architect and a commercial real estate buyer all have to answer, and today each of them answers it by reading, measuring and cross-checking by hand, so a routine plan review or a zoning report takes days and still rests on one person's interpretation.

Conflation Labs keeps the ordinance in the loop. Ask about a parcel in plain language and the answer is drawn from that jurisdiction's adopted code and maps, with the section attached so it can be verified. Upload a site plan and the platform measures the drawing against the development standards, counts the parking and flags the overlays before city staff pick it up. For due-diligence teams, a workspace resolves which code governs an address, reads the ALTA survey and drafts a cited zoning report. The company sells the same stack to local governments and to the architects and buyers who deal with them. Founded in San Francisco by Pradeep Bista and Shital Dhakal.