How to Find Off Market Land Deals in Minutes

How to Find Off Market Land Deals in Minutes

From AI for Real Estate by Dr. Adam Gower

May 6, 2026 · 57 min · Season 9 · Episode 13

About this episode

The episode discusses how AI can streamline the process of finding off-market land deals in real estate development.

Most development firms are competing over 1.5% of US land. The other 98.5% - 158 million parcels - exists. It just takes hours per parcel to analyze, which most teams can't afford to do at scale. So they don't. They fight over the same listed inventory everyone else can see. Oliver Alexander, founder of Prophetic Software, built a platform to change that calculus. AI-interpreted zoning across every US municipality. Single family detached housing alone has more than 9,000 naming variants across US zoning codes. Pre-AI search couldn't normalize that. Prophetic's Zone AI does, with citations back to the source document so developers can verify before committing capital. Analysis time: three hours to six minutes. That's the gap between how long it takes a trained analyst to answer ten basic questions about a parcel using county websites versus doing the same task in Prophetic. The platform covers site size, zoning, wetlands, environmental flags, owner contact, and affiliated holdings. Preliminary site plans in two to five minutes. Before a developer spends weeks and thousands of dollars on engineering, Site AI generates a preliminary unit count estimate - environmental constraints…

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Host: Dr. Adam Gower

Guest: Oliver Alexander

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Organizations: Prophetic Software, Prophetic

Products: Zone AI, Site AI

Places: US, US

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