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What is the Build platform?

Build's platform, Dougie, is a multi-agent AI system built on LangGraph that automates the full commercial real estate development workflow – from site identification through investment committee approval. It processes hundreds of data sources simultaneously: geospatial, municipal, utility, environmental, and financial.

What workflows does Build automate?

Site selection, desktop due diligence, underwriting and financial modelling, investment committee memo generation, test fit analysis, market research, zoning analysis, environmental diligence, power and utility analysis, ESG/SFDR/CSRD compliance reporting, NDA execution, and portfolio monitoring.

What asset classes does Build cover?

Data centers, industrial and logistics, energy and power infrastructure, office, telecommunications, mixed-use development, hotels, and multifamily residential.

How is Build priced?

Build uses fixed deliverable-based pricing – upfront rates by the deliverable, not by the hour. Clients pay for outcomes: a site selection study, a due diligence report, an IC memo. No retainers, no hourly billing.

Is Build's platform secure?

Build is SOC 2 Type II certified with GDPR and CCPA compliance. The platform uses zero-trust architecture, AES-256 encryption, role-based access controls, and private cloud deployment. Client data is never used to train AI models.

Built By Builders, For Development Teams.

The next generation development firm built for execution.

A better path from concept to completion.

50%

Of market prices

10×

The speed

100%

Auditable accuracy

Axonometric stack of a multifamily building from raw shell to a finished, occupied asset

01

Site Selection

Build finds opportunities others miss. Off-market, parcel-level, validated against power, planning, and environmental constraints before a dollar is spent on surveys. Teams move to the right opportunity faster.

  • Locate viable land opportunities against your criteria.

  • Screen candidate sites on geospatial data (automated or expert-reviewed) and evaluate viability in detail across the key risk areas.

  • Confirm the most viable markets and benchmark the opportunity against comparable transactions and asset values.

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02

Permitting & Planning

Build produces compliant submissions built on live regulatory data, not recycled templates. Formatted to each authority's requirements from the start so teams can move faster and come back less often.

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03

Acquisition & Financing

Build screens deals, stress-tests income, and builds the underwriting model at speed. Teams evaluate more opportunities, make better decisions, and deploy capital with greater confidence.

  • Identify and qualify off-market and on-market opportunities before they reach the open process.

  • Screen properties and OMs against a strategy-specific buy box, with a risk matrix and a clear go/no-go.

  • Ingest and classify the whole data room, cross-reference every document against the deal assumptions, and surface the gaps, inconsistencies and red flags before IC.

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04

Design & Engineering

Build gets buildable options in front of decision-makers faster. Feasibility, massing, and block fit produced in days. More configurations explored, more risk removed, earlier in the process.

  • Define what the site can actually support – program, yield and regulatory envelope – and return a clear go/no-go.

  • Generate and compare project configurations from strategic and site constraints, with analysis and recommendations.

  • Bring the scheme to life in context through reference imagery and 3D model views.

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05

Pre-Construction & Legal

Build coordinates design, validates costs, and closes scope gaps before construction begins. Teams move faster to breaking ground with fewer surprises along the way.

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06

Asset Management

Build keeps the asset performing. Market vacant capacity, track NOI in real time, and coordinate maintenance from one system. Teams spend less time on coordination and more time on decisions that move the asset forward.

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07

Data Engine

The most comprehensive geospatial intelligence platform for the built world. Power, fiber, environmental, and zoning data across 18+ countries, updated continuously and cited in every output.

  • Power capacity, substation loading, fiber routes, gas mains, water/wastewater systems, and connection points mapped to every site.

  • Flood zones, contamination records, wetlands, soil classifications, seismic data, and groundwater conditions aggregated from public and commercial sources.

  • Parcel-level zoning classifications, permitted uses, comparable transactions, tax environments, and absorption metrics across markets.

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08

Platform

Build's platform turns every project into a system of action. Tracking, documents, and geospatial data in one place so teams spend less time coordinating and more time executing.

  • Every site, workflow, and deliverable tracked in one place – tasks, owners, and status across the full development lifecycle.

  • Secure, permissioned storage for diligence, financing, and stakeholder documents – organized by site and shareable in a click.

  • Every data layer – utilities, environmental, zoning, and market – mapped and queryable against any site or portfolio.

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Build Works Just Like You Do.

01

Email our AI worker, Dougie, with your project and relevant context.

02

Build's domain team makes judgement and ensures AI's accuracy.

03

Agents tailor to your preferences and get smarter with each project.

Trusted Across Geographies.

Traceable and verifiable.

Human verification

  • Every deliverable reviewed by Build's in-house domain experts before it reaches you.
  • Decades of experience across the world's most demanding development programmes.
  • The same institutional standard, every time.

Agentic verification

  • Every source ingested, structured, and cited before a claim is made.
  • Atlas data, VDR documents, and web sources each carry their own confidence score and citation modality.
  • Every claim in every output maps back to a verifiable fact. Nothing asserted without a source.

Trusted by Institutions.

UK Government
"Build has made an important contribution to the UK's ability to identify and assess sites for AI infrastructure."
Scott Campbell

Scott Campbell

Senior Policy Advisor, AI

Tishman Speyer
"Build.inc is a valued partner in supporting our deal-related workflows. By helping automate time-intensive research and analytical processes, they’ve enabled our team to evaluate a greater volume of opportunities across markets efficiently while maintaining a high level of rigor."
Michael Alderman

Michael Alderman

Managing Director, Head of US Industrial, Tishman Speyer

STACK Infrastructure
"For a long time I’ve worked on projects for hyperscale, including at AWS. With Build, we can make quality decisions, faster. Build helps us find the fatal flaws in our pipeline, and helps us find and move faster on the sites that can work. Other developers are sleeping on this. I’m happy we’ve partnered with Build since the early days."
Mark Gethings

Mark Gethings

Senior Manager, Site Selection & Development Due Diligence

Case Studies.

Build sourcing workflow

01

Tier-One Data Centre Developer

A tier-one developer spent three to four months qualifying candidate sites in each target market, working from broker lists that surfaced only what was already listed, and never at parcel level.

Build scanned the entire search ring instead, assessing 47 parcels across 2,400 sq km and ranking the top eight against the buy box on power, planning, and environmental grounds. The scan came back in four days, with no broker fees.

2,400

sq km search ring covered

47

parcels assessed

4 days

to a full market scan, from 3-4 months

0

broker fees

02

Global Hyperscaler

A global hyperscaler ran desktop diligence through external consultants at six to eight weeks per site, with power, environmental, title, and zoning each handled by a different firm for $80-120k a site.

Build now returns the full desktop DD in two days: power availability, interconnection queue, zoning, flood, geotechnical, fiber, and community sentiment in one cited report, at a fraction of the consultant cost.

2 days

for full desktop DD, from 6-8 weeks

7

risk categories covered in one pass

85%

cost reduction vs external consultants

03

Institutional Developer

An institutional developer reviewed its pipeline quarterly, three analysts working sites one at a time – forty to fifty opportunities a year, scored differently in every market.

Build screened 300+ sites across six markets in a single cycle, applying one Infrastructure Readiness Score to all of them. The same three analysts now cover ten times the pipeline without additional headcount.

300+

sites screened in one cycle

6

markets covered

10x

throughput, same headcount

1

consistent scoring framework

04

Government

A national government was selecting sites from developer submissions and broker proposals, with no systematic view of its own land base – decisions shaped by what was volunteered rather than what existed.

Build assessed every parcel in the country against power infrastructure, planning designation, grid capacity, and development feasibility, then ranked and mapped twelve AI Growth Zones. It took weeks, against the twelve-month study the conventional route would have needed.

National

land base assessed in full

12

AI Growth Zones identified and ranked

Weeks

not the 12-month conventional study

Frequently Asked Questions:

Site screens same day. Desktop due diligence in 2-3 business days. Site sourcing in 3-4 business days. Turnaround depends on project type and geography. If you have an urgent requirement, tell us and we will prioritise accordingly.

Digital infrastructure, energy, industrial, and institutional real estate. Data centres are our primary specialism. We cover all major geographies across North America, Europe, and APAC.

Proprietary datasets purchased directly from providers, including power and grid data, fiber infrastructure, and planning records. We also build and maintain our own geospatial database, Atlas, across 18+ countries. Every claim in a Build output is cited to its source.

Two layers. Agentic QA runs before any output reaches a reviewer: every claim is traced to an authoritative source and confidence-scored. Then Build's in-house domain experts review and validate the output before it is delivered. Nothing unverified ships.

Send us site coordinates, a redline, and any context you have. We handle the rest. For site sourcing, send us a search ring and your buy-box criteria.

Yes. Build operates under strict data confidentiality terms. Your site data, deal information, and client inputs are never shared with third parties or used outside your engagement. We are SOC 2 Type II certified.

Book a demo or email us at info@build.inc. We can typically run a proof-of-concept on a live site within days of first contact.