AI That Takes Admin Off Your Urban & Regional Planners
Planning offices spend staff hours on staff reports, public comment summaries and code lookups. 12² builds report templates, comment summaries and a code-search assistant around the firm's or agency's documents.
Planning Report & Comment Desk · From $3,500 + $249/mo, by team size · proposed estimate · It says it is an automated assistant whenever it talks to someone directly, and your team reviews what it drafts before it goes out.
Ai for urban planners: the short answer.
12² builds AI for planning firms and departments that takes routine work off their urban and regional planners: drafting staff report sections, summarizing public comments by theme, searching the zoning code with citations and drafting notices and minutes. It runs inside the tools you already use. Planners verify every citation, and boards decide.
Sources
- General office-writing evidence, not a study of this job: in an RCT, ChatGPT cut professional writing time 40% and raised quality (Noy & Zhang, Science 2023)news.mit.edu
Research figures above describe the cited studies, not results 12² promises. Results vary. Disclosures
Where the hours go now.
Staff report sections
Planning offices spend staff hours on staff reports, public comment summaries and code lookups.
Summarizing public comments by theme
Hours go to reading and re-reading before the real work starts.
Searching the zoning code and past decisions with citations
Long documents and threads pile up waiting for someone to read them.
What it handles, and what it never does.
What it handles
- Staff report sectionsIt drafts staff report sections from planner notes.
- Summarizing public comments by themeIt summarizes public comments by theme for review.
- Searching the zoning code and past decisions with citationsIt searches the zoning code and past decisions with citations.
- Meeting notices and minutesIt drafts meeting notices and minutes.
- Hand-off to your teamAnything that needs a person goes to the right person, with the details attached.
What it never does
- Make up a price or a factIt works only from the documents, records and price lists you give it. Anything it can't find goes to your team.
- Promise a resultQuestions about outcomes go to the person who does the work.
- Pretend to be a personIt says it is an automated assistant whenever it talks to someone directly.
- Send anything on its ownDrafts wait for your team's approval before anything goes out.
Built and tested on your own work.
Before handoff, we run your build on your own real examples and fix anything that misses.
- Tested on your own workBefore handoff, we run your build on your own real examples and fix anything that misses.
- Retainer, then balance on deliveryRetainer up front. Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass.
- Fixed price, scope and timelineAll three in writing before work starts. The timeline is set in your quote.
- What 12² buildsReport templates, comment summaries and a code-search assistant around the firm's or agency's documents.
- How it connectsWe confirm how it connects to your or agency's documents on the first call and write it into your quote.
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From $3,500 + $249/moSetup + monthly, by size. The monthly fee covers monitoring, fixes and re-tests for your package as your templates, documents and staff change. AI and software usage is billed at cost. Proposed starting estimates by team size, not fixed prices; the final price is in a written quote.
- Small: Small studio (1-4 staff)From $3,500 + $249/mo. The core build for 1-4 staff: report templates, comment summaries and a code-search assistant around the firm's or agency's documents. Proposed estimate. Small tier; monthly covers hosting, monitoring and fixes.
- Mid-size: Mid-size firm (5-19 staff)From $7,500 + $550/mo. Everything in Small studio, for more users, inboxes and calendars, with hand-off rules set for each role. Proposed estimate. More users, locations or integrations.
- Enterprise: Enterprise (20+ staff or several offices)From $15,000, custom quote. Everything in Mid-size firm, across locations or departments, with system integrations and a security review scoped in your custom quote. Proposed estimate floor; scope, integrations and security review set the final number. No cap.
- Retainer up front Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass. Scope, price and timeline are agreed in writing before work starts.
- You own itThe accounts, scripts, templates and data sit in your name. You can leave at any time.
- Compliance and dataOpen-meetings and public-records laws apply (unverified per state); public agencies buy under their procurement rules; planners verify every code citation.
- Not professional adviceAdministrative work only: your staff make every decision, and your procurement, records and accessibility rules apply. 12² builds software and automations. It is not a licensed professional in your field, and your team makes every professional decision. Disclosures
Straight answers.
Does AI make zoning decisions?
No. Planners and boards decide.
How does payment work?
Retainer up front. Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass.
How long does it take?
Timelines are set per project in the quote, after we see your systems and volume.
Are these prices final?
No. They are proposed starting estimates. You get a written custom quote after a short scoping call.
Tell us how you handle staff report sections now.
A few lines is enough. If it's a fit we'll say so, and if it isn't we'll tell you why.
- You'll hear back within one business day12² reads your note and replies about your project.
- A free 20-minute callHow the work runs now, what gets missed, and what your team needs from it.
- A fixed quoteYour size, scope, date and price in writing before any work starts.
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