Question 1

What does Petal actually do?

Accepted Answer

Petal analyzes zoning codes, land-use rules, parcel data, and market information to instantly tell you what can legally be built on a property. It produces a clear, lender-ready feasibility report in minutes — replacing months of manual work.

Question 2

Who is Petal built for?

Accepted Answer

Petal is designed for real estate developers, lenders, architects, consultants, and anyone involved in early-stage site evaluation. It helps teams move faster, reduce risk, and identify winning opportunities before competitors do.

Question 3

What types of reports does Petal generate?

Accepted Answer

Petal outputs a complete, cited feasibility report that includes buildable envelope, allowable uses, risks, constraints, and multiple development scenarios. The report is lender-grade and ready to share internally or with partners.

Question 4

How does Petal compare to other real estate AI tools?

Accepted Answer

Unlike tools that bolt a chatbot onto public data, Petal combines live external data layers (zoning databases, permit records, transaction history, environmental datasets, market comps) with your proprietary deal history and documents. The result is grounded, deal-ready answers that reflect your firm's specific context — not generic summaries.

Question 5

Can Petal replace manual real estate due diligence?

Accepted Answer

Petal compresses weeks of manual due diligence into minutes. It directly connects to zoning databases, permit records, transaction history, environmental datasets, and market comps — then reasons across all of it in seconds. Your team still makes the decisions, but without the grinding data collection work.

Question 6

Is Petal an alternative to Nura, GoliathData, or RealAI?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Petal is a comprehensive alternative to real estate AI tools like Nura, GoliathData, and RealAI. Petal uniquely combines zoning analysis, pro forma modeling, market intelligence, deal automation, and a document vault in a single AI-first platform built specifically for real estate developers.

Question 7

What zoning data does Petal provide?

Accepted Answer

Petal provides height limits, floor area ratio (FAR), setbacks, permitted uses, full permit history, zoning code classifications, boundary visualizations, development controls, and AI-generated development briefs — for any parcel, instantly.

Question 8

Does Petal build pro formas automatically?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Petal's AI-assisted pro forma builder pulls from real market comps and cost data to populate inputs automatically. It calculates NOI, cap rate, cash-on-cash return, DSCR, and IRR — and lets you refine assumptions using natural language prompts.

Thoughts fromthe Petal team.

The Intelligence Layer for Real Estate Development

Thoughts fromthe Petal team.

The Intelligence Layer for Real Estate Development