Built for BC developers and property owners

Property analysis in minutes, not weeks.

Ascend AI turns a BC parcel address into a citation-backed property analysis report (what you can build, the constraints, and the numbers), sourced directly from municipal bylaws. Live today in Kelowna, with the rest of the Okanagan coming soon.

Join the waitlist See how it works

Sample RU1 parcel · Kelowna, BC

Property Analysis

Generated in minutes

Zoning: RU1 · Large Lot Housing
Max density: 4 dwelling units / lot
Setbacks: Front 3.0m · Rear 6.0m · Flanking 3.0m
Max site coverage: 40% (buildings)
Max height: 11.0m · 3 storeys

Sourced from City of Kelowna Zoning Bylaw No. 12375, §11.4–11.6

Parcel

Lot area 560 m² · 17.0m frontage

The problem

Feasibility analysis in BC is slow, manual, and expensive.

Developers lose time and capital chasing answers that should take seconds. The data exists. It's just scattered, inconsistent, and buried in PDFs.

Days of manual research

Confirming what a parcel can support means cross-referencing OCPs, zoning bylaws, and parcel records by hand, often a week of work before a deal even pencils.

Fragmented across jurisdictions

Bylaws, zoning schedules, ALR boundaries, and setback rules live in different formats across every municipality and regional district in BC.

Error-prone and hard to defend

A missed overlay or outdated setback can sink a pro forma. Findings rarely come with the citations needed to defend them to partners or lenders.

Costly to commission

Commissioning a full feasibility study for every prospect is slow and expensive, so screening a whole pipeline is impractical and good sites get passed over before anyone runs the numbers.

The platform

One platform, built for the full development lifecycle.

Ascend AI is rolling out in three phases, from citation-backed property analysis today to concept generation and compliance review.

Live today

Phase 1

Property Analysis

Enter a parcel address in a covered jurisdiction and receive a structured, citation-backed property report: applicable zoning, allowable uses, density, setbacks, lot coverage, and buildable envelope, with sources you can defend.

Citation-backed bylaw references
Buildable envelope & density
Export-ready report

Coming soon

Phase 2

Concept Generator

Turn the buildable envelope into massing and unit-mix concepts automatically. Explore scenarios that maximize value within the constraints of the site.

Automated massing options
Unit-mix scenarios
Yield comparisons

Coming soon

Phase 3

Compliance Checker

Validate a proposed design against current bylaws before submission, flagging conflicts, overlays, and variance requirements early to de-risk the approval path.

Pre-submission validation
Variance flagging
Overlay & ALR checks

Live today

What you get in the first release.

Everything below is built and running in Kelowna today, with the rest of the Okanagan coming soon.

Address to report in minutes

Type a Kelowna parcel address, and a live cadastral match resolves the lot, its jurisdiction, and the governing zone before you spend anything.

Multi-zone parcel resolution

Split-zoned and multi-OCP parcels are resolved to a primary zone, with every overlapping zone and designation listed.

Citation-backed property report

An eleven-section report covering permitted uses, density, setbacks, lot coverage, height, and the buildable envelope, with every figure linked to its bylaw source.

OCP & ALR flags

Official Community Plan designation and Agricultural Land Reserve status are surfaced and flagged where they affect what you can build.

Terrain intelligence

Slope and grade read from provincial LidarBC elevation data, with a site terrain figure included in the report.

Follow-up Q&A

Ask the report questions like “can this be subdivided?” or “is there a variance pathway?” and get grounded, cited answers.

Confidence tiers

Every zone shows its review status (draft, reviewed, or human-verified) so you always know how far to lean on a number.

Daily bylaw freshness

Source bylaws are checked daily for amendments, so a report reflects the current rules, not last year's PDF.

See what your next site can support.

Run a sourced property analysis on your next site before you commit time or capital.

Join the waitlist

Product

Cited to the bylaw, built to be defended.

Every property report is structured, exportable, and backed by citations, ready to drop into a pro forma, share with partners, or attach to a deal report.

Property Report

Sample RU1 parcel · Kelowna, BC

Illustrative report · real values from Zoning Bylaw No. 12375

Citations

[1]Zoning Bylaw No. 12375 §11.4 · Subdivision Regulations, p. 137
[2]Zoning Bylaw No. 12375 §11.5 · Development Regulations, p. 138
[3]Zoning Bylaw No. 12375 §11.6 · Density & Height, p. 140

Zoning classification: RU1 · Large Lot Housing
Front setback: 3.0 m
Rear setback: 6.0 m
Min lot area: 450 m²
Max site coverage: 40%
Max height: 11.0 m · 3 storeys
Max density: 4 dwelling units / lot

Property report: citation-backed zoning, density, and constraints.

Library

Your property reports

Sample report
RU1 · Kelowna
As of Jun 2026
Sample report
C2 · West Kelowna
As of Jun 2026
Sample report
RU3 · Kelowna
As of Jun 2026

Jurisdictions live today

Daily

Bylaw freshness checks

Library: every property report you've run, with zoning and freshness at a glance.

Screen more sites in less time.

Developers and property owners use Ascend AI to go from a parcel address to a defensible property report in minutes.

Join the waitlist

Where we are

Built on real bylaws. Verified by humans. Now in early access.

Ascend AI is being validated with BC land-development professionals ahead of its public launch. The numbers below are the platform, not promises.

Okanagan jurisdictions live

Kelowna, West Kelowna, and Lake Country, with more Okanagan regions coming

Every

report shows its zone's review tier

draft, reviewed, or verified: the human-review status ships on the analysis itself

4,400+

bylaw passages indexed

every number cited back to its source

Daily

bylaw freshness checks

source documents monitored for amendments

Team

Built by the expert who lives inside the approvals process.

Ascend AI pairs deep BC land-development expertise with engineering built for accuracy and scale. The zoning logic behind every report is encoded and human-verified by people who understand how approvals actually work.

Erika Kretchmer

Co-Founder & CEO

Vision & land development domain

Erika founded Ascend Development Partners on a conviction that development approvals should be clear and certain, not a slow, uncertain process that stalls good projects. She built the firm to bring strategy, coordination, and better systems to work that too often runs on guesswork and lost time. Ascend AI is the natural next step. After watching teams lose weeks to the same repetitive research and compliance checks, Erika set out to encode that expertise into a platform that returns answers in minutes instead of weeks, so developers and landowners can move from concept to approval with confidence. She leads the domain side of Ascend AI, making sure every rule and report reflects how approvals really work.

William Tucker

Co-Founder & CTO

Engineering & AI

With more than a decade building and shipping production software, Will works AI-first and is known for making AI people can actually trust. He grounds Ascend AI in real data, backs it with validation and testing, and keeps a human in the loop for the decisions that matter. His work spans modernizing complex enterprise systems, full-stack TypeScript, and applied AI, held to one clear standard: move fast, but never let the tools make the call. That balance of speed and judgment is what defines everything he builds, and it is why every Ascend AI report traces back to a source.