Solving the affordable housing crisis takes technology and innovation.
Housing Automation Ai combines decades of housing development experience with the most advanced artificial intelligence capabilities. The result is an Ai-powered and prototype driven approach to housing development that accelerates development while delivering considerable cost savings. From feasibility through construction management, Housing Automation Ai is reinventing how affordable housing is done.
What the numbers say
Hard costs are the biggest line in housing. Process is the biggest lever, and the one technology can move.
- 40.6%
of multifamily development cost goes to complying with regulation at every level of government.
NAHB and NMHC, 2022 - 9%
median cost of rework on a construction project once indirect costs are counted. Design errors are a leading cause.
Navigant Construction Forum - 7.4 months
average delay when a project meets neighborhood opposition, which also adds 5.6% to its cost.
NAHB and NMHC, 2022
More figures and sources on the technology page.
The foundation is Ai-native software that does the work.
A junior assistant for architects and engineers
Insource Ai builds Ai-native platforms that automate much of the design process. The architect or engineer gives the instructions; the platform does the work, from feasibility and schematic design through construction documents. The licensed professional stays in charge and stamps what they directed.
It learns from every project
The Ai in each platform learns from every project: how the architect or engineer works, what they prefer, how their firm does things. Each job makes the next one faster and closer to right the first time.
The same approach for construction management
A companion platform, now in development, brings the same automation to scheduling, takeoffs, procurement, change orders, and progress tracking, so the people on site can focus on building.
A community designed for the average renter
One proven building, configured to each site. Apartment suites, extended-stay suites, coworking offices, and micro-units on the same property, with shared amenities residents subscribe to only when they use them.
Built by a developer who automated his own process first.
Jason Van Sickle spent decades developing apartments and building tools around a prototype design to cut their cost: the research and project planning department at WoodSpring Suites, Wichita State University's first full-time real estate analyst, and a 216-unit complex built with a planning methodology of his own. Then he turned to Ai, and the cost savings of prototypes became the far larger time and cost savings of Ai-powered automation.
From raw land to certificate of occupancy, one connected process
Housing development is usually a chain of separate firms handing work to each other. Housing Automation Ai runs it as one process.
Site and feasibility
Design configuration
Code pre-check
Construction documents
Permitting
Construction management
Build
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Insource Ai is an applied Ai company that builds Ai-native software platforms for work that is complex, regulated, and expensive. Housing Automation Ai is that capability pointed at one problem: making affordable housing development possible by automating how housing is designed, documented, permitted, and managed.
Work with us
Housing Automation Ai is a development process, not a software product for sale. These are the people it is built for.
Architects and engineers
Licensed professionals who want a tireless junior assistant rather than a competitor. You give the instructions and stay in responsible charge; the platform does the work and learns how you work.
Cities, housing authorities, and landowners
Bring a site. We will show what the model produces for it: unit mix, massing, pro forma, and a schedule, before anyone commits to anything.
Builders and trades
Contractors who want projects that arrive with complete, coordinated documents and a schedule that was built from real data.