AI-powered planning & zoning intelligence for county staff, developers, and residents — grounded in your jurisdiction's actual ordinance code, with a citation behind every answer.
Purpose-built for county & city planning, building, and permitting teams
Click through what your jurisdiction gets — and try a few questions to see how each one answers.
Pick a public parcel, toggle the data layers — then ask the AI about it.
Purpose-built for planning departments — deploy in weeks, not months.
We start from the bottlenecks your team feels every day — and replace each one with a grounded, instant answer.
Staff spend hours answering the same zoning questions.
Residents and applicants self-serve 24/7 with grounded answers — freeing staff for the work that needs judgment.
Code interpretations vary depending on who's at the counter.
Every answer comes from the same ordinance source with a section citation — consistent, transparent, and defensible.
Applicants submit incomplete projects, then bounce back.
Pre-application due diligence — ADU, setbacks, SB 9 — up front means cleaner submittals and fewer resubmissions.
Parcel research means juggling GIS, permits, and the code.
One search returns zoning, hazards, permit history, and AI analysis in a single view.
Grounded AI — not a guessing chatbot. Here's the path from a plain-English question to a sourced, defensible answer.
A resident, applicant, or staffer asks a normal question — no codes, forms, or jargon required.
Semantic search pulls the most relevant passages from your ordinance, parcel, and permit data — never the open internet.
The answer is composed only from those retrieved passages, with a clickable section citation behind every claim.
A confidence signal flags uncertainty; if your code doesn't cover it, OpenCivic says so. Your staff make the final call.
Move the sliders to match your department — see the staff time and budget a 24/7 grounded assistant can free up. An estimate, not a quote.
≈ 7,200 routine questions answered 24/7 each year, so your team spends its time on the work that needs judgment. Illustrative estimate from your inputs — not a quote.
Get a tailored estimateOpenCivic layers on top of your existing stack — no rip-and-replace. We connect to your permitting, GIS, code, and identity systems through their published APIs.
Live today · Don't see your vendor? We add connectors on request — tell us what you run.
Your code, your data, your authority — with the guardrails government work demands.
We never sell your data or train public models on it. Each deployment is isolated to your jurisdiction.
All traffic and storage is encrypted in transit and at rest, on SOC 2-compliant cloud infrastructure.
Granular roles plus Microsoft Entra and Google SSO control who sees what — staff, admin, and public views stay separate.
Every answer is grounded in your ordinance with a clickable section citation. If the code doesn't cover it, OpenCivic says so.
OpenCivic informs decisions — it never makes them. Your staff and officials remain the final word on every determination.
Every question, answer, source, and confidence score is logged and reviewable any time in the admin console.
The boxes your IT, legal, and procurement teams need to check — already handled.
WCAG 2.1 AA, Section 508, and ADA Title II in mind for every public-facing screen — so all of your residents can use it.
Every question, answer, source, and confidence score is logged and exportable to support PRA / FOIA and transparency requests.
A named rollout team, responsive support, and ongoing tuning as your ordinances change — not a license you're left to run alone.
Prove it in one department on your real questions before any broad commitment. Low risk, no rip-and-replace.
A per-jurisdiction subscription scoped to your size — no per-seat surprises and no usage cliffs.
Works with standard municipal agreements and cooperative purchasing, so you can buy the way you already buy.
The same grounded intelligence serves everyone who touches land use — from the public counter to the applicant's desk.
Answer setback, height, and permitted-use questions in seconds instead of digging through the code.
Pull a parcel's zoning, hazards, and full permit history by APN in a single click.
Run pre-application due diligence — ADU eligibility, SB 9 splits, development potential — before you submit.
Ask plain-English questions about your property 24/7 — no counter visit, no phone hold.
Get the exact ordinance section behind every answer — auditable, never hallucinated.
Screen sites for feasibility and surface constraints early to keep projects moving.
No multi-month integration project. We do the heavy lifting — your team reviews and launches.
We map your ordinance code, GIS layers, and permit system, and set up secure access.
Your code is ingested into the retrieval engine; GIS and records integrations are wired to your data.
Your team reviews answers in a private pilot; we tune retrieval and add verified responses for your top questions.
Go live for staff and the public — with an admin console, analytics, and a citation on every answer.
Big enough to transform,
small enough to deliver a specialized solution.
Enterprise-grade AI infrastructure with the focus of a specialist — every deployment is configured to one jurisdiction's code, data, and workflows. You get the rigor of a platform and the precision of a partner.
The questions planning leaders ask us most.
No. Every answer is retrieved from your actual ordinance code and ships with a clickable section citation. When the code doesn't cover something, OpenCivic says so instead of guessing.
You do. Your ordinance, parcel, and permit data stay isolated to your jurisdiction. We don't sell it, and we don't train public models on it.
No — it's a force multiplier. OpenCivic handles the repetitive lookups so your team spends time on the work that needs judgment. Staff and officials remain the authority on every decision.
Through their published APIs. We have live connectors for Esri ArcGIS and Tyler EnerGov today, and add others — Accela, OpenGov, CentralSquare, Municode, and more — on request.
About two weeks. We ingest your code, wire up your data integrations, run a private pilot with your team, and launch — no multi-month integration project.
Re-ingest the updated section in minutes. You can also publish verified answers from the admin console that reach the chatbot within a minute — no redeploy.
OpenCivic is a per-jurisdiction subscription scoped to your size and needs. Book a demo and we'll put together a tailored quote.
Still have questions? Book a demo or email info@opencivic.net.
A focused civic-technology partner — built for the public sector, not passing through it.
OpenCivic exists to make land-use regulation accessible, transparent, and efficient. We partner with county and city planning departments to put grounded, cited answers in the hands of staff and the public — cutting counter wait times, phone calls, and misread code sections, while keeping your team the authority on every decision.
We design for how government actually works — procurement, public records, accessibility, and the authority of your staff — not enterprise sales theater.
Our whole architecture exists to make answers come from your code with a citation. Accuracy and defensibility beat a clever-sounding guess.
We do the heavy lifting on setup and keep tuning as your ordinances evolve. You get a responsive team — not software you're left to figure out alone.
We do one thing — planning & zoning intelligence — and configure it to your jurisdiction. Big enough to transform, small enough to deliver.
Interested in bringing OpenCivic to your jurisdiction? Tell us what systems you run today and we'll show you a tailored walkthrough. We work with counties and cities across California.