BuildNYC.ai is a construction intelligence platform that transforms raw New York City government records into queryable, analysis-ready datasets for real estate and construction professionals. The platform aggregates and normalizes data from agencies like DOB, FDNY, and HPD, covering everything from plan examiner objections to HVAC equipment scope, enabling users to conduct market research, due diligence, and risk assessment with unprecedented speed and depth.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Professionals in New York City's construction and real estate sectors face a fragmented and opaque data landscape. Critical information is scattered across multiple city agencies, legacy systems, and unstructured documents, making comprehensive due diligence, market analysis, and risk assessment a slow, manual, and error-prone process. This lack of centralized, queryable intelligence leads to hidden liabilities, missed market opportunities, and costly delays in a high-stakes environment.
Solution
BuildNYC.ai provides a unified, queryable platform that structures the city's built-environment data into a single, searchable resource. The platform's proprietary extraction pipeline ingests raw records from DOB, FDNY, HPD, and other agencies, normalizing them into clean, documented datasets. Users can interrogate this data through a live interface, asking complex questions about permit volumes, violation histories, and market trends that would take weeks to answer manually. The service also offers comprehensive due diligence reports and raw data products, delivering actionable intelligence directly to professionals for informed decision-making.
Target Audience
Primary customers are construction and real estate professionals, including contractors, manufacturers, lenders, and labor organizations, who need professional-grade intelligence for market sizing, due diligence, and risk management.
Features
- Live, natural-language query interface for exploring the entire dataset, allowing users to ask complex market and property-specific questions.
- Ten distinct, normalized datasets including DOB Plan Examiner Objections (565,000+ records), NYC Geotechnical Database (114,000+ borings), and HVAC Scope & Manufacturers (~600,000 records).
- Due Diligence Reports that synthesize findings from 12 city agencies into a single PDF and structured data, with every finding traceable to a government record.
- Data Products available for one-time purchase or annual subscription, with options for quarterly refreshes and live API access.
- Advanced analytics on market trends, such as the HVAC market report, which tracks cooling tons, equipment unit counts, and manufacturer share to reveal structural demand drivers like LL97 compliance.