Cedar Build

Cedar is an Austin, Texas company building software and design services for urban infill housing development. Its cedarOS platform automates predevelopment work, pulling zoning, environmental, and regulatory data to evaluate a site's housing potential, model multiple development scenarios with financial underwriting, and track projects through permitting. Cedar pairs the platform with its own licensed architects, who take selected schemes through design and permitted drawings, and offers a catalog of pre-vetted housing designs. Founded in 2022 by Kyle Vansice, Nate Peters, and Rahul Attraya, it also has an office in Carlsbad, California.

Cedar compresses a feasibility and entitlement process that traditionally takes six to twelve months into roughly 72 hours by running algorithmic zoning and yield analysis, and it is unusual in coupling that software with an in-house licensed architecture team that can carry the resulting scheme to permitted drawings.