{"id":97122,"title":"AutoSitu: AI-native Development Plan Review for Faster Approvals","tagline":"Pre-validates submissions against jurisdiction requirements and patterns so teams submit cleaner sets and cities review faster","body":"**TL;DR:** Hi YC! We’re Lin and George, founders of AutoSitu. We’re building software that automatically reviews site and building plan sets in minutes and surfaces what a city is likely to flag before you submit.\n\n**🧱 Problem**\\\nIn real estate, _time kills deals_ — and permitting/review is one of the biggest sources of delay and variance.\\\nMost projects go through **2–3 resubmittal cycles**, adding **3–9 months**.\n\n* Developers: **$50k–$250k+** in carrying costs while projects sit in review\n* Architecture teams: **80–200 hours** of unplanned work per resubmittal\\\n  → at **\\~$130/hr**, that’s **$10k–$25k+** of margin erased on fixed-fee work 🐌\n\n**⚡ Solution**\\\nAutoSitu is an AI-powered development plan review engine that flags the issues that typically surface later — **before submission**, when fixes are cheap.\n\nTeams use AutoSitu to:\n\n* reduce city comments **50–70%**\n* cut resubmittals from **2–3 → 0–1**\n* shorten approvals by **3–6 months+**\n\n**💰 Impact**\\\nThat’s **$100k–$400k** in avoided carrying costs for developers and **$10k–$25k** in preserved fee margin per project for architecture teams.\n\n👋 **Backstory**\\\nLin worked across **20+ U.S. public and private projects** in planning and architecture, sitting on **both sides of the table**, and repeatedly hearing the same question from teams and clients: _why does review take so long when the issues are so predictable?_\n\nGeorge spent years building automation systems in robotics and AI, turning processes that took **weeks of manual effort** into scalable pipelines, cutting costs from **$50k to $2k** while keeping humans in the loop.\n\nAutoSitu started from a shared realization: permit review isn’t slow because people aren’t trying, it’s slow because the same checks are repeated manually, at scale, with no early signal.\n\n[🎥 **Launch Video**: https://youtu.be/77ErS3Ja4Ho](https://youtu.be/77ErS3Ja4Ho)\n\n🤝 **Ask / CTA**\n\nIf you’re an **architecture/development** team, we’d love to **apply the same playbook from our successful deployments** to your next submission, we’ll help you run AutoSitu end-to-end on a real plan set.\n\n**Reach us** at [**founders@autositu.com**](mailto:founders@autositu.com) or [DM](https://www.linkedin.com/company/autositu).\\\n**Visit us: [https://autositu.com/](https://autositu.com/)**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=97122\u0026key=user_uploads/2679474/04e7826b-9b84-4745-9714-a57ac24f95d1)\n\n","slug":"PGU-autositu-ai-native-development-plan-review-for-faster-approvals","created_at":"2026-01-26T21:00:55.911Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T00:27:10.527Z","total_vote_count":5,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PGU-autositu-ai-native-development-plan-review-for-faster-approvals","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=97122\u0026key=user_uploads/2679474/04e7826b-9b84-4745-9714-a57ac24f95d1","company":{"id":31130,"name":"AutoSitu","slug":"autositu","url":"https://autositu.com/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2e152edb1a93ed2437635e5b7630e93b7466a400.png","batch":"Winter 2026","industry":"B2B","tags":[],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/31130"}}