Connecting data for meaningful insights.
Research and development at Homicity is about one thing: turning the fragmented, messy data of the built world into connected, trustworthy understanding — and shipping it as infrastructure the industry can build on.
Fragmented data is the industry's biggest constraint. Connecting it is the opportunity.
The built world generates enormous amounts of data — boundaries, addresses, listings, permits, demographics, energy, schools, businesses — but it lives in incompatible silos, in different formats, at different resolutions. On its own, it's noise.
Our research is the work of connecting it. We resolve every dataset to a single location graph, standardize it, and study how the layers interact — so a coordinate becomes context, and context becomes insight.
The result isn't a paper — it's a platform. Every research advance becomes a data layer teams can build on.
Where we're pushing the frontier.
Six areas where connecting data creates genuinely new understanding.
The location graph
One hierarchy that connects everything. We anchor listings, permits, schools, businesses and environment to a single geopolitical graph — so disparate data becomes connected context.
Livability intelligence
Quantifying what makes a place. We research how amenities, schools, demographics and environment combine into a meaningful, comparable sense of livability.
Valuation & markets
Understanding value and where markets move. Automated valuation and forward-looking market signals grounded in real transactions and characteristics.
Geospatial machine learning
Teaching machines to read place. Boundary inference, catchment resolution and spatial modelling that scale across the country.
Predictive signals
The earliest signs of change. Building permits, energy and environmental data as leading indicators of growth, demand and risk.
Grounded AI
AI that reasons over real data. Agentic systems that work from verified property data rather than guesswork — the foundation behind Agentous.
Principles that keep the research honest.
Ground truth first
Research is only as good as the data beneath it. We invest in authoritative, verified sources and standardize them relentlessly.
Privacy by design
Consented data, aggregated insights and PIPEDA compliance built into the architecture — never raw exposure.
Research that ships
We build to production. Findings become data layers and products, not papers in a drawer.
Measurable & honest
We test our claims and show our work, so the results hold up in the real world.
What we're building now.
Recent research already shipping — or on its way — as data layers and products.
Better location data serves the public interest.
Connected, trustworthy data helps with the questions that matter beyond the market — housing, planning, accessibility and community. We're committed to using our platform for public benefit, and to research partnerships that advance it.
Build on the research.
Every advance becomes a data layer you can build on. Explore what we've shipped, or partner with us on what's next.