The Zoning & Entitlement Decoder
Paste a parcel's zoning, get the two answers that matter in minutes. What you can build here, with a buildable-unit count and the binding constraint named, and how hard it is to approve, with a realistic entitlement timeline.
Built for the top of your land pipeline: developers, land acquisition teams, homebuilders. It runs in ChatGPT or Claude. No code. It is a screen, not legal advice.
Download the pack
Built around your sourcing.
Get the full pack once, then use the walkthrough below to see exactly what is inside and how to run it.
Get The Zoning & Entitlement Decoder
Enter your details, then download the full decoder pack. No cost.
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Book a demoWho this is for
If you keep finding out what a site can actually hold three weeks into diligence, this is for you. The decoder tells you on day one, before you tie up the land.
Active developers
You screen more sites than you build, and the bottleneck is reading the code to know what each parcel really yields by-right.
Land acquisition teams
You need the buildable envelope and the entitlement path on every parcel before it goes to committee, not after.
Investors going ground-up
You want to know whether a broker's develop up to X units is real before you underwrite the land to it.
What is inside
A config for your program, the decoder prompt, a live buildable-envelope workbook, a 16-point entitlement risk checklist, and a worked site you can trace end to end.
Decode against your program
A config holds your unit size, efficiency, parking, and what to assume when the code is silent, so every site decodes against the same program and the envelopes compare.
Decode in one paste
Paste a zoning ordinance and get the allowed uses sorted by-right, conditional, and prohibited, every dimensional standard with its citation, and the entitlement path.
The buildable-envelope workbook
Type the decoded standards into the blue cells and the max units by density, by FAR, and by coverage fill in, with the binding constraint named and a parking test.
A 16-point risk checklist
Every landmine that turns a clean parcel into a two-year approval, from the overlay nobody read to the rezone you did not price, each with what to confirm.
A site decoded end to end
A worked 1.6-acre parcel taken from a wall of ordinance text to a by-right yield bound by the density cap, while the FAR would have let you overpay for nearly three times as many units.
Set up in under 15 minutes
Five steps from download to your first decoded site. Paste the prompt, set your program, paste an ordinance, read the decode. No setup, no plumbing.
How to run it
Install it in the AI tool you already use. The two no-code paths take about five minutes each. The dev-environment recipes are there if you live in a terminal, not because you need them.
ChatGPT
Custom GPT
No codeClaude
Project
No codeClaude Code
Skill
Dev envCodex
AGENTS.md
Dev envYour first prompt
Once the prompt and your config are loaded, paste the zoning and ask:
Decode this zoning for my parcel and program: [paste the zoning district text, a code section, or a planning summary]
You get the allowed uses, the dimensional standards, the buildable envelope with the binding constraint, the entitlement path, and the red flags. The QUICK-START guide in the pack walks all five steps, including how to trace the envelope in the workbook.
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