Know if it can be built before you commit a dollar.
Cardo is the ICHOR engine for site and market readiness. It fires thirty authoritative government feeds on one parcel and returns an A to F readiness grade, and it is honest, on the memo, about what it has not verified.
The decision problem
A site looks buildable until it isn't. Power capacity, water and sewer will-serve, rail access, entitlement path, labor shed, soils, environmental and airspace overlays. Any one of them can end a project, and most do not surface until months into diligence, after real money and real time are committed.
The information exists. It is spread across dozens of public bodies and datasets that no one has the time to assemble parcel by parcel, on a deal timeline. So the risk that should have been a red flag on day one becomes a write-off in month six.
Watch it run
A readiness scorecard: a single parcel graded across sixteen factors, each one scored and sourced. The methodology and the underlying government and soil data are public and authoritative.
The method, applied to readiness
The same five-step method behind every ICHOR system, run into the ground truth of site delivery. See the method in full →
On a single parcel, fire roughly thirty authoritative feeds at once: USDA-NRCS soils, FEMA flood, USGS slope, USFWS wetlands and habitat, HIFLD grid, FAA airspace, EPA and state environmental, Census labor, and the county parcel and zoning layers.
Reconcile them into one picture per parcel, each factor tagged for how it is known, and the will-serve items that cannot be auto-checked left unresolved rather than assumed.
Score each of sixteen factors with its own function derived from the real physics or regulation, weight them for the intended use, and roll them to an A to F grade, re-normalized over only the factors that returned live data.
Run four knockout gates independently, so a fatal flaw renders the site NOT READY regardless of the grade, and surface the blockers and drivers for the go or no-go call.
Every factor traces to its authoritative feed. The score is deterministic and reproducible, and the memo states plainly what it has not yet verified.
Sixteen factors, each computed for real
Not a checklist. Each factor has its own scoring function, built from the physics or the regulation behind it.
What it will not fake
A skeptical developer's first objection to any AI is that it overclaims. This one is built to pre-empt it.
By the numbers
Breadth times speed: a full site-diligence memo on one parcel click, from the authoritative record.
The entitlement layer, read every day
Cardo does not wait for the GIS map. It reads the corridor's governing bodies every day, harvests each new agenda and set of minutes, and extracts the rezones, annexations, and development agreements with the source excerpt. When a council approves an industrial rezone, the parcel scores by its new, approved zoning before the public map catches up.
See it run on your pipeline.
ICHOR deploys one industry at a time, forward-deployed and tied to outcomes. Every inquiry is read personally.
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