See your project’s potential.
Find your path to approval.

Tribunus helps real estate developers understand what’s allowed, where there’s room to push, and what could stand in the way. By connecting zoning, planning policy, and past municipal decisions, it turns scattered information into a clear approval strategy for your project.

Move your planning and approval questions forward.

Understand what applies to your site, learn from comparable projects, and decide what to pursue, revise, or confirm with the City.

01

Understand your site’s constraints

Investigate the zoning, planning policies, and development guidelines relevant to your site and proposal. Understand where your proposal differs from the requirements and which questions need clarification.

02

Learn from comparable decisions

Examine relevant development projects and their documented outcomes, including revisions, conditions, and staff concerns where documented. Understand which precedents support your approach and which differences limit the comparison.

03

Build your case for approval

Weigh planning policy and precedents alongside your City correspondence and consultant advice. Identify what supports your request, what weakens it, and what further evidence could strengthen your position.

04

Move issues toward resolution

Assign responsibility, agree on next steps, and record decisions as planning issues progress. Keep the supporting research and reasoning together, with earlier findings and outcomes retained as your proposal evolves.

The technology behind Tribunus

Development intelligence takes more than access to a powerful AI model. It requires municipal knowledge, project context, and a system for investigating how the evidence fits together. We’re building Tribunus around all three.

Document intelligence

Specialized AI models extract text, tables, and structure from zoning bylaws, planning policies, and development records. Our processing pipeline makes this fragmented information searchable, preserving the detail needed to interpret development requirements.

Connected municipal knowledge

Our municipal knowledge bases connect planning requirements with staff reports, development applications, and council decisions. These relationships provide context for understanding how policy has been applied, what shaped past approvals, and where projects encountered resistance.

Specialized agent orchestration

Our orchestration framework coordinates reasoning models, targeted retrieval, and verification through workflows built for development research. Focused agents investigate planning requirements, policy conflicts, and relevant precedents, bringing the evidence together to inform approval strategy.

Team

Samuel J. Howard

Samuel J. Howard

CEO

BC real estate developer. His family has worked in development for three generations. CPA candidate.

M. Usman Zia

M. Usman Zia

Chief Product Officer

Leads product and AI design at Tribunus. Background in silicon design engineering for AI Chips at AMD. CFA candidate.

Gurinder Garcha

Gurinder Garcha

Chief Technology Officer

Leads engineering and platform development at Tribunus. Staff engineer trained at AMD.

Early Access

Working on a development project in Vancouver or Coquitlam? Request access to the pilot. We accept teams based on their projects and available capacity.