Reimagining the
Built Environment
Founders Story
The Problem and Going from Plans to Code
It began with frustration — years of working within a planning system that hadn’t evolved with the world around it.
A system defined by complexity: countless documents, overlapping policies, and language that often obscured more than it revealed.
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Every project required navigating this maze from scratch.
The process was slow, repetitive, and unnecessarily opaque. The inefficiency wasn’t the exception — it was the rule.
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At some point, the question changed.
Instead of how to work within the system, it became why the system still worked this way.
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That question led to a different kind of experiment — using technology to read, interpret, and connect planning policy the way a professional would, but faster and without fatigue.
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What began as an exploration into automation soon revealed something deeper: the opportunity to augment professional judgment with machine precision.
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That idea became Urbanome AI — a platform designed to translate the vast body of planning policy into clear, actionable intelligence. It represents a shift from paperwork to insight, from administration to strategy.
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Urbanome AI wasn’t built to replace expertise.
It was built to amplify it.
The Birth of Urbanome AI Rewiring the Planning System
Urbanome was created to bring clarity to one of the most complex systems in the built environment — planning.
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For decades, professionals have relied on instinct, experience, and time-consuming research to interpret an ever-growing body of national, regional, and local policy. While the rest of the world moved toward data-driven decision-making, planning remained locked in a text-based past.
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Urbanome changes that.
It reads and understands policy — from the NPPF and London Plan to Local Plans, SPDs, and heritage guidance — transforming thousands of pages into structured, transparent intelligence for every site.
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Its purpose is not to replace planners, architects, or consultants, but to empower them — to remove friction from analysis and give professionals back the time to focus on design, strategy, and impact.
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Urbanome AI represents a quiet but fundamental shift in how the built environment is understood:
from documents to data, from interpretation to insight, from complexity to clarity.
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It’s more than a tool — it’s the foundation of a new kind of planning intelligence.
Our Vision
The Future of Planning, Made Intelligent
To redefine how the built environment thinks, decides, and creates.
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For too long, the planning system has been a maze of documents — disconnected, opaque, and resistant to change. Urbanome envisions a future where every policy, constraint, and opportunity is connected by intelligence rather than paperwork.
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A future where insight is instant, collaboration is seamless, and every professional — from architect to planner to policymaker — operates with clarity, confidence, and foresight.
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We believe that technology should not replace human judgment but refine it — amplifying expertise, revealing patterns invisible to the eye, and transforming the way cities evolve.
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Our vision is a planning ecosystem powered by understanding, not obstruction.
Where data informs design.
Where intelligence drives progress.
Where clarity replaces complexity.
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Urbanome AI exists to build that future — one insight at a time.
Our Mission
Turning Data into Decisions
To make the intelligence of the planning system accessible to everyone who shapes the built environment.
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Urbanome AI exists to close the gap between knowledge and action — transforming static policy into living insight. We bring together data, design, and regulation into a single, comprehensible framework that empowers better decisions at every scale.
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Our mission is to free professionals from the weight of inefficiency — to turn what was once buried in reports, PDFs, and endless guidance into clarity that informs every drawing, proposal, and plan.
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By translating complexity into intelligence, we help the people who design, plan, and invest in our cities move faster, think deeper, and build with purpose.
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Urbanome AI’s mission is simple but radical:
to make understanding the system as intuitive as shaping the future it governs