Prophetic CEO Oliver Alexander was recently featured in Forbes in an article examining how technology is helping address long-standing bottlenecks in affordable housing development.

The piece highlights how AI-driven platforms are accelerating land acquisition workflows. Prophetic reports up to a 32x improvement in land acquisition speed, reducing what was historically a three- to four-week process to minutes.

As Alexander explains in the article:

“Every site is a function of the dirt that you build it on, and it is the most fragmented. Prophetic helps you find it, analyze it and organize it, and do it in a way that hasn’t been possible because AI wasn’t sophisticated enough. We can rip zoning out of every zoning document, create it in minutes instead of weeks. The market is responding beautifully.”

Historically, land acquisition has been fragmented across multiple systems and manual processes, slowing development timelines. By unifying zoning extraction, site analysis, and parcel intelligence into a single AI-powered decision platform, Prophetic is helping modernize early-stage development workflows.

Read the full article on Forbes →