ZoneLyft.ai
Built at Google I/O Hackathon · May 23, 2026 · San Francisco, CA
Zonelyft.ai is an autonomous environmental compliance platform that uses a multi-agent AI pipeline to perform full NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) audits and generating EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) in minutes - a process that today takes atleast 2.5 years and costs millions. Every real estate and infrastructure project in the United States that involves federal land, federal funding, or significant environmental impact is legally required to file an Environmental Impact Statement before construction can begin. A single EIS takes 4–7 years on average, costs $2–10 million, and is done almost entirely by hand - consultants manually reading regulations, cross-referencing satellite imagery, pulling permit histories, and writing a formal legal document that can run over 1,000 pages. Zonelyft.ai solves this by automating the entire workflow. A developer submits a parcel location and project description. Five AI agents - powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash on Google ADK - immediately get to work: one analyzes 8 years of satellite imagery from Google Earth Engine to establish the environmental baseline, one searches 2M+ indexed federal regulations to identify what applies and what is violated, one retrieves 30 years of permit history and EPA violation records, one cross-references all of it against the developer's own claims to detect contradictions, and one drafts the formal NEPA document in statutory language. The result is a compliance determination, a conflict matrix, a regulatory findings table, and a downloadable draft EIS - in under few minutes. The problem it solves is not just speed. It is honesty. Today, developers self-report their environmental impact and regulators catch errors months or years later. Zonelyft.ai grounds every finding in satellite truth that cannot be disputed, regulatory text that is publicly searchable, and an immutable audit trail that ties every conclusion to its source.