Show HN: AI for Building Design, Planning, and Permitting
15 pscsbs 8 5/26/2025, 10:50:15 PM spacial.io ↗
Saw Spacial recently — it's an AI tool that helps figure out what can be built on a piece of land, based on local zoning rules.
You enter a parcel and it generates 3D massing, site plans, and other planning details in a few minutes. Seems like it could be super helpful for early-stage architecture or development work.
I'm asking mostly because I'd be very interested in something like this, but the price point seems significant if the turnaround is truly "a few minutes." I mean, yes, those deliverables you list would cost that much (and more) if a person was producing them, but if what you're delivering gets done in a couple of minutes I'd be hard-pressed to believe that your gross margin wouldn't be extreme unless the R&D/capital cost was so huge to create that custom "AI" that you needed to charge this to ever get a return on that capital. maybe you could quantity "a few minutes" and then talk a bit more about how much back and forth there is after that initial few minutes and how much/many human resources are involved in those back and forths.