America is short millions of homes. Developers want to build, but the land development process works against them. Zoning codes that run thousands of pages. Environmental data scattered across dozens of sources. Go/no-go decisions that take weeks of manual work and burn through tens of thousands of dollars. We talked to over 200 developers, municipalities, and land professionals. The pattern was the same everywhere.
It's too hard to build in America.
We built Dirt to be the first AI-native land development platform so that developers can spend less time on diligence and more time doing what they do best: building the places we call home.
Want to help solve one of the hardest problems in land development? We’re always excited to meet exceptional people who care deeply about the space. Even if there isn’t a formal opening listed, we’d love to hear from you.
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Frequently asked questions
How is Dirt different from how I am doing site feasibility analysis today?
Dirt changes both sides of that: it searches your existing and new markets for parcels that match your criteria, ranked by fit, then evaluates each site against your buy box — surfacing the risks that matter and flagging fatal flaws like infrastructure risks, zoning conflicts, and soil issues before you commit time and dollars. And you pay for the work, not the software: unlimited seats, MSAs, and parcels, at a fraction of the cost and time of third-party consultants.
How do land developers reduce dead-deal costs?
Dead-end deals can cost a development firm tens of thousands or more in wasted engineering, legal, and diligence spend. Dirt reduces that by shifting risk discovery upstream — flagging environmental constraints, zoning conflicts, and infrastructure gaps before those costs are committed, so teams can focus on the right deals for them, and win them faster.
What data does Dirt use?
Dirt goes deep into the markets we cover, pulling data from GIS databases, municipal zoning codes, environmental records, flood and wetland maps, infrastructure data, rezoning histories, and more — including sources your team may not have time to dig up. It combines them with your own deal data to surface insights to help you make defensible decisions.
How does Dirt work alongside my team?
Dirt is built to augment your team's expertise, not substitute for it. Every feasibility recommendation, constraint flag, and zoning assessment includes source references and a complete audit trail so your team can verify the reasoning and make the final call. Developers stay in control of every decision — Dirt just makes sure they're working from a complete, defensible picture instead of piecing it together manually.
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