The question at the heart of every deal
Six months. $2,500–$5,000. Just to ask "can I build here?"
After five years of watching zoning kill every deal, we built the answer. 20 seconds. Any U.S. address.
5 federal agencies queried live · All 50 states · 6,743 city pages
Where this started
We had the demand. Zoning had other plans.
Our previous ventures, TinyHomies and Mod.Homes, are where we learned the hard way.
Two brands, one mission: get affordable modular homes onto real land for real families. We built AI rails from manufacturer to property in 90 days. The demand was overwhelming. We should have been celebrating.
Instead, every deal died in the same place: zoning. Not the build. Not the delivery. Not the financing. The permission to start.
| Where the time goes | |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing | 30 days |
| Logistics | 15 days |
| Site prep | 25 days |
| Zoning and permitting | 270 days |
Zoning took 9x longer than every other step combined.
The gap was not in the homes. It was in the answer.
Why now
Three forces converged. The seat is open.
The next 18 months decide whose data layer every chatbot quotes from.
Tool use and the Model Context Protocol turned chatbots into agents that call government APIs directly. "Can I build here?" went from a human-only question to an answerable one. The race now is whose data layer every AI quotes from.
State mandates (California SB 9, Utah HB 82, Oregon HB 2001) pushed thousands of jurisdictions onto Socrata and ArcGIS portals. The parcel and zoning data finally exists at the API layer. It is just scattered across portals that do not talk.
America is short about 7M homes. Every fix (ADU, infill, missing-middle multifamily) gets stuck on the same zoning question. The $2,500–$5,000 consultant answer does not scale to a housing crisis.
The engine
Five years in the making.
Buildability™ is built by a father-son team out of Utah, Landon and Carson Reid. Every setback sharpened the product. Every failed deal taught us what builders actually need.
- 2021
TinyHomies launches.
A tiny-home community takes off.
- 2022
Zoning kills deals.
$2,500–$5,000 just to ask "can I build?"
- 2023
The data layer.
Federal data spine mapped: Census, FEMA, USGS, EPA, USDA.
- 2024
Galax Studios.
Family venture studio founded.
- 2025
Buildability ships.
Score, six personas, Geo.
Landon Reid
Founder & CEOBuilds predictive AI for the built world: land, permitting, off-grid. Years abroad shaping infrastructure thinking.
Carson Reid
Co-founder & CTOFull-stack engineer. Architects the data layer powering Buildability. Building since day one.
Built through Galax Studios, their family venture builder.
To the angels and partners who believed in us before the product existed: thank you. You bet on the mission when the work was still invisible. Buildability exists because you did.
The product
The Buildability Score™.
What a $2,500–$5,000 feasibility consultant analyzes over six weeks, compressed into nine weighted factors, tuned by region, and one number.
A 0–100 composite with a letter grade, a confidence rating, and a full factor breakdown you can audit. Six personas, same data, six answers. A lender, a developer, and a homeowner read the same parcel differently. Buildability writes each of them their own report.
| Nine weighted factors | National default |
|---|---|
| Terrain | 18% |
| Zoning | 14% |
| Flood | 14% |
| Soil | 11% |
| Wildfire | 11% |
| Utilities | 11% |
| Lot geometry | 10% |
| Seismic | 7% |
| Radon | 4% |
Scope
What we do, and don't.
Buildability works the same whether you are evaluating a single ADU, a small multifamily infill site, or a master-planned community. The engine is asset-agnostic.
We do
- Aggregate and interpret public government data in real time
- Route every question to the right model for the job: fast lookups on a cheap tier, deep reasoning on a frontier tier
- Cover all 50 states, with 6,743 city pages live
- Turn weeks of feasibility research into a 20-second, cited verdict
- Power our own ventures with the same reports you receive
We don't
- Apply for, issue, or guarantee permits
- Provide legal, engineering, architectural, or financial advice
- Replace direct consultation with professionals
- Accept liability for decisions based on our reports
Always verify officially before acting. We are the shortcut to the facts, not the final authority.
Infrastructure
The data layer for American land
All data sourced directly from official government APIs. Never scraped, never stale.
- FEMA · Flood maps and risk zones
- USGS · Geology and terrain
- EPA · Environmental hazards
- Census · Demographics and trends
- OpenStreetMap · Utilities and infrastructure
- USDA · Soil and land classification
- Regrid · Parcel boundaries
- Mapbox · Geospatial rendering
256-bit SSL · CCPA compliant · Live federal queries · No scraped data · Official sources only
Why we're different
Not another property tool.
Most property platforms scrape a handful of sources and wrap them in a dashboard.
| Buildability | Typical tools | |
|---|---|---|
| Data sources | 5 federal agencies, queried live on fresh runs | 1–3 scraped or cached sources |
| AI analysis | Model-agnostic router: fast, default, and frontier tiers picked per query | Single model, no routing |
| Data freshness | Live from official endpoints on every fresh run (7-day cache for repeats) | Monthly snapshots or stale archives |
| Coverage | All 50 states, 6,743 city pages | Limited to select metro areas |
| Infrastructure | Purpose-built scoring engine with a versioned, frozen methodology | Generic SaaS template or spreadsheet |
| Time to answer | 20 seconds per parcel | 2–3 weeks of manual research |
Ecosystem
The data layer that powers the flywheel.
Buildability ships today. The rest is the studio's longer roadmap on the same thesis.
Buildability
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A Galax Studios venture, built by Landon and Carson Reid from Utah.
Legal disclaimer
- Buildability provides informational property intelligence only
- Data derived from public government sources and AI analysis
- All content is "as is" without warranties of accuracy or completeness
- Not a substitute for professional advice or official approvals
- Always consult experts and authorities before making decisions
Five years of the wall. Twenty seconds to the answer.
No signup walls. No credit card. Enter any U.S. address and see what you can build.
Free to score · Full report $99 · All 50 states