KnowToYes Launches Self-Serve Municipal Intelligence Products for Real Estate Professionals

RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KnowToYes, a platform designed to provide commercial real estate consultants, developers, municipal staff, and data managers throughout the US with a comprehensive intelligence tool for land use and zoning, has announced the launch of a full line of municipal intelligence products that convert public records of councils, planning boards, and committees into structured answers and intelligence that historically have taken days of manual research, if found at all.

The real estate industry has spent a decade focused on improving the approaches to answering what a parcel is and what can be built on it. The governance questions – how the local board will treat it; who votes how; what gets approved or denied and why – have stayed locked inside meeting minutes, video archives, and institutional memory. KnowToYes unearths, structures, and makes that layer available in an easy-to-access format.

"Parcel data tells you what you can build. It doesn't tell you what the town will actually let you build – and that's the part that kills deals," said Charlie Yokley, AICP, President and Co-Founder of KnowToYes. "I spent 23 years sitting in council chambers running entitlements. We built the layer the way someone who has lived that process would build it, not scraped from the outside. KnowToYes provides quick, inexpensive answers to questions that used to cost days of someone's time."

Every KnowToYes product is built from the same source, the public meeting record, so awareness and research run on one continuous dataset. Current product offerings include: Municipal Monitoring; Council Member Profiles; Project History Reports; Market QuickCheck; and Comp Approval Reports.

Entitlement risk is the single largest source of uncertainty in a real estate deal, and it is the least quantified. By making the political and regulatory climate searchable and comparable across jurisdictions, KnowToYes empowers developers, land use attorneys, brokers, and capital partners to price that risk before they commit.

While the initial products are delivered as self-serve reports and monitoring tools, the underlying asset is a continuously updated municipal intelligence dataset that can be embedded into software platforms, internal workflows, and AI systems that depend on understanding local government activity.

KnowToYes is a municipal intelligence platform that converts fragmented public records into structured, machine- and human-readable data on how local government decisions actually get made. Learn more at know-to-yes.com