
State of Place is a data-driven SaaS platform that leverages AI and big data to help citymakers, including public and private sector planners, developers, and governments, assess, optimize, imagine, and justify urban development projects. The platform quantifies built environment quality and livability using over 125 street-level urban design features, prioritizes investments to maximize quality of life outcomes, and provides scenario planning tools to co-create community futures. It also forecasts social, economic, environmental, and health benefits of proposed projects to secure approvals and funding. With over 50 citymakers worldwide as clients, State of Place supports evidence-based, equitable, and efficient city planning to create thriving, walkable, and sustainable communities.

State of Place is a data-driven SaaS platform that leverages AI and big data to help citymakers, including public and private sector planners, developers, and governments, assess, optimize, imagine, and justify urban development projects. The platform quantifies built environment quality and livability using over 125 street-level urban design features, prioritizes investments to maximize quality of life outcomes, and provides scenario planning tools to co-create community futures. It also forecasts social, economic, environmental, and health benefits of proposed projects to secure approvals and funding. With over 50 citymakers worldwide as clients, State of Place supports evidence-based, equitable, and efficient city planning to create thriving, walkable, and sustainable communities.
Business: AI-driven SaaS for measuring and forecasting walkability, livability, and built-environment quality
Founder: Dr. Mariela Alfonzo (Founder & CEO)
Product differentiator: Extracts 125+ street-level urban design features to produce a State of Place Index and sub-indices
Scale: Serves over 50 citymakers worldwide; employee count ~9
Funding: Seed round May 14, 2018; reported total funding $520,000 USD
Urban planning, walkability, livability, built-environment assessment, scenario forecasting for public- and private-sector citymakers.
2017
Urbantech / PropTech / Urban analytics
224000.00 USD