Civic Intelligence

Undervolt

GPU-accelerated urban intelligence platform that analyzes 2.2M City of Austin building permits to surface energy infrastructure trends nobody else sees.

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2.2M
Permits analyzed
22:1
Solar-to-battery gap
12x
Equity gap found
60W
Inference power

The Discovery

Austin installs solar panels at a 22:1 ratio to battery storage. When the grid fails — as it did in the 2021 freeze — those panels become useless. The AI surfaced this automatically from 2.2 million permits that no human had cross-referenced.

It also found a 12x equity gap in backup power: Westlake (District 10) has 2,151 generators installed since 2021. East Austin has 175.

How It Works

NLP pipeline extracts structured data from free-text permit descriptions. GPU-accelerated pattern matching (RAPIDS) identifies clusters: solar installations, battery storage, EV chargers, generators. Natural language Q&A lets anyone ask: "Where are the solar installations in my district?"

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Why It Matters

City planners, utility companies, and policy makers need to see infrastructure patterns to make decisions. Undervolt turns 2.2 million rows of permit data into actionable intelligence — running entirely on-device at 60 watts, no cloud dependency.

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