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Clarity,before concrete.
Enter an address. Get the zoning verdict, every approval body, every required study, bylaw standards cited to section, construction costs, and how nearby applications were decided. In 60 seconds.
Canadian developers are flying blind into a $300B market.
A developer buys a site. Three weeks of research across 6 agencies. $25K to a planning consultant. The 1st submission still comes back rejected over one missing study, and the resubmission takes 4 months at $43K/month carrying cost. Total delay cost: $197K+ before a shovel hits dirt.
TIMELINE
0months
Average permit timeline in the GTA
COST
0K/mo
Carrying cost on a single stalled project
REJECTIONS
0%+
Of applications require at least one resubmission
COMPETITION
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02 / The Platform
The platform, screen by screen.
Two tools. Built for pre-development. Works for any Canadian address.
app.prebuildiq.ca
03 / Inside the Report
Eight sections. None of them a Google search away.
Every report reads like a drawing set: indexed, dimensioned, and cited. Assembled from zoning bylaws, municipal GIS, agency terms of reference, and planning decision records for every municipality we cover.
As-of-right, minor variance, or ZBA. Read from your municipality's zoning fabric for the exact parcel, including holding provisions and overlays.
A-01
Suitability analysis
Every barrier between your intended use and an approvable path, ranked by severity, with the approvals, studies, weeks, and cost to clear each one.
A-02
Agency circulation
The full commenting list: planning, building, conservation authority, region, utilities. Who reviews your file and what each one requires.
A-03
Required studies
Every study your submission triggers, with the terms of reference, the consultant who produces it, market cost, and duration.
A-04
Bylaw standards
Setbacks, height, FSI, lot coverage, parking. Pulled from the governing bylaw and cited to the exact section.
A-05
Building envelope
Your maximum buildable envelope drawn to the parcel's real geometry. Plan and elevation, every setback dimensioned.
A-06
Construction cost
Structural, engineering, permit fees, finishes, HST. An all-in range for your project type and scale, plus the carrying cost of every month of delay.
A-07
Nearby decisions
How comparable applications near your site were decided: approved, refused, conditions attached. Precedent without digging through committee minutes.
Project
YOUR ADDRESS
Jurisdiction
43 MUNICIPALITIES
Turnaround
60 SECONDS
Status
READY TO RUN
Three weeks of research. A $14,000 consultant engagement. Compressed to 60 seconds.
04 / Sample Output
What a report looks like.
Try a sample scan. This illustrates real output. Live data goes live with our Toronto launch.
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Checking agency requirements, zoning by-law, and submission triggers…
05 / How It Works
Three steps. From land to permit.
Built around how developers actually work.
PHASE / 01
Know the site
Before you commit.
Enter an address. Get your zoning verdict, every approval agency, every required study, and every submission trigger. In 60 seconds.
Zoning verdict: as-of-right, ZBA, or minor variance
Suitability barriers + remediation path
Agency circulation, studies, and ToRs
Construction cost + carrying cost forecast
PHASE / 02
Check the drawings
Before you file.
Upload drawings. Catch OBC violations and zoning conflicts before the reviewing agency does. One clean 1st submission saves months.
OBC Part 3 compliance review
Zoning by-law and setback checks
Drawing conflict detection
Section-cited comment responses
PHASE / 03 ROADMAP
File and track
Ship it.
File directly. Track every submission across every agency in one view. Get alerts the moment a review stalls.
Direct portal submission
Live agency review dashboard
Stall detection alerts
Commenting package response tracking
06 / Who It's For
Built for the people on the ground.
Canadian developers, GCs, and architects spending weeks on research that should take minutes.
Developers
5–20 projects per year with no in-house planning team. Know your zoning verdict, your ZBA exposure, and your full agency circulation list before you commit capital. Not after.
Architects and GCs
You prepare the drawings. You face the reviewing agencies. PreBuildIQ catches OBC and zoning by-law violations before the 1st submission so your commenting package comes back clean.
Permit expeditors
Deliver same-day pre-consultation packages instead of two months of manual research. Handle more clients across more jurisdictions, without adding headcount.
07 / Why PreBuildIQ
A Canadian dataset nobody else has.
US platforms don't have Canadian municipal data. Generic AI tools don't have it. We're building it, municipality by municipality, from the portal up.
Proprietary Canadian data
Built to scrape and update weekly from hundreds of Canadian municipal portals. No US platform has this dataset.
Terms of reference, by jurisdiction
What each required study needs, who produces it, what the agency expects. For every municipality we cover.
Canadian code, from day one
Built for the OBC and Canadian regulatory structure. Not a US engine adapted for Canada.
Zoning intelligence, not just permit tracking
Knowing you need a ZBA before you commit capital is worth more than any permit dashboard.
08 / Pricing
Simple pricing. Full report.
Start free. When you need more, run a single site — no subscription required.
Free
$0 / forever
1full report
at sign-up
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The complete report, all eight sections
After that: zoning verdict + summary view
1 drawing compliance check
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Single Report
$499 / one time
1full report
address stays unlocked
One site, the complete report
Full report — all eight sections
Every agency, study, and bylaw standard
Suitability analysis + path to permit
Construction cost + carrying cost calculator
Nearby council decisions (precedents)
Export to CSV and Word
No subscription, no recurring charge
Retail consultant rates
What you pay without PreBuildIQ
Typical fees charged per pre-application engagement in Ontario.
Pre-application service
Market rate
Agency identification and circulation mapping
$2,500–$4,000
Required studies scoping (TMP, EIS, HIA, FSR)
$3,000–$8,000
Zoning compliance review and verdict
$2,000–$4,500
Pre-consultation package preparation (ZBA)
$5,000–$12,000
Approval timeline and carrying cost forecast
$1,500–$3,000
Total per pre-application engagement
$14,000–$31,500+
PreBuildIQ covers all of this in 60 seconds. On a plan: under $100 per report. A single project more than pays for the year.
$199/mo
vs. $14K+ per engagement
09 / Questions
Asked before every first report.
Q-01What does a report include?
Eight sections for any address: the zoning verdict (as-of-right, minor variance, or ZBA), a suitability analysis with every barrier ranked by severity, the full agency circulation list, required studies with terms of reference and market costs, bylaw standards cited to the exact section, a building envelope drawn to your parcel, an all-in construction cost range, and how comparable nearby applications were decided. In 60 seconds.
Municipal zoning bylaws, municipal GIS parcel and zoning data, agency terms of reference, and planning decision records for every covered municipality, kept current as bylaws change. Not scraped blog content. Not a generic AI summary.
Q-04Does this replace my planning consultant?
No. It front-loads the research a consultant spends the first weeks of an engagement assembling, so you walk into pre-consultation informed and spend consultant hours on strategy instead of lookup. Planning consultants and permit expeditors are among our heaviest users.
Q-05How accurate is the zoning verdict?
The verdict is read from your municipality's own zoning fabric for the exact parcel, including holding provisions and overlays, and every bylaw standard is cited to its section so you can verify it yourself. PreBuildIQ is decision support for pre-development diligence, not legal advice.
Q-06What does it cost?
Your first full report is free, no credit card. After that, plans start at $199/month for 20 reports a year. A comparable consultant pre-application engagement runs $14,000 to $31,500.
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