Skip to main content
The Advisor answers zoning and permitting questions across every Study in your workspace. Every code-based answer cites the verified municipal source.
The Advisor is an AI assistant. Its answers cite verified municipal sources and are not legal advice. It answers zoning and permitting questions only.

​
What you can ask

It can draw on:
  • the code for every jurisdiction your firm has enabled;
  • your Studies, their submittal items, reports and board filings;
  • your My Work items and recent changes in jurisdictions you watch;
  • your firm’s own documents (see Firm knowledge).
Examples to start with:
  • “Which of my plans have filings due soon?”
  • “Compare parking minimums across my jurisdictions”
  • “What changed in my watched jurisdictions this week?”
Click + New to start a conversation. Past conversations are listed under Conversations, and each one has its own link.

​
Reading an answer

  • Numbered markers such as [1] and [2] open the source. You see its label, the verbatim quote, and Open at … to read it on the publisher’s site.
  • Sources (N) under the answer lists every citation.
  • A confidence badge shows how well-grounded the answer is.
  • Confirm with … rows suggest the right next step, such as a pre-development meeting.
Labels tell you when part of an answer is not a cited determination:

​
When the Advisor won’t answer

Rather than guess, the Advisor says I can’t answer this. and gives the reason:
  • The question is outside zoning, permitting and your Studies.
  • It couldn’t find authoritative information in the code it has.
  • Its draft cited a source it couldn’t verify, so it refused rather than guessing.
  • It ran out of lookups for that question.
Try again retries, or you can rephrase the question. If you send more than 30 messages in a minute, it asks you to wait a moment before continuing.

​
Firm knowledge

The Advisor can also search documents your firm has chosen to add. Answers drawn from them show a chip reading Your firm’s document, and never a numbered citation. If firm documents are the only basis for an answer, it says so first. To add a document, open a Site, find the file in the Site file, and choose Add to firm knowledge. Manage what’s included under Settings → Firm knowledge, where you can also add notes. Removing a document deletes what Urbee indexed from it; your file stays in the Site file. Firm knowledge is readable only by people in your organization. Urbee’s staff can’t search it, and it’s never used in a compliance determination.