Properant gives real estate investors access to property intelligence & distress signals across all 15 million California parcels in one place.
Search foreclosures, ownership, liens, equity, tax data, property details, and more without piecing together multiple data sources.
What makes Properant different is the combination of statewide coverage and deep parcel-level intelligence. Find an opportunity, then immediately research the property and owner behind it — all in one platform.
Here's the thing nobody tells you about building permit software: the problem isn't technical. It's that every city in America has different zoning rules, different codes, different processes. There's no API for "can I build an ADU on this lot in Dallas?"
So we built one.
My son and I spent a decade in real estate buying land, developing properties, running into the same wall every time: weeks of research just to figure out if a property was buildable. We'd pay consultants $2-5K or burn 40+ hours on municipal websites that look like they were built in 2003.
ReadyPermit.ai takes any US address and returns a full buildability report in 60 seconds. Zoning classification, setback requirements, flood zone risk, ADU eligibility, permit complexity scoring all sourced from real municipal data.
We re all builders here, which usually means at some point we looked at something clunky, slow, or frustrating and thought, there has to be a better way. Most products don t start with a grand vision; they start with irritation, curiosity, or firsthand pain.
I d love to learn more about how others here have navigated that journey:
How did you uncover the problem you decided to work on? What signals told you this problem was worth solving? How did you validate (if at all) whether people would actually pay for a solution? Has your product stayed true to the original problem, or did it evolve into something different? What surprised you the most along the way?
