Urbify Studio is a planning and consulting firm specializing in comprehensive municipal planning services and AI-powered planning tools — built for cities and communities ready to shape their future with intention.
Comprehensive plan updates, neighborhood-scale studies, and long-range strategy — grounded in data, community input, and the standards of the American Planning Association.
Trained on award-winning APA documents. Designed to extend professional judgment — never to substitute for it.
A plan is only as good as the document that communicates it. We synthesize public engagement, technical analysis, and regulatory work into clear, navigable, visually compelling deliverables.
Cities are not built by accident. They are shaped by decisions — about land, infrastructure, investment, and equity — and those decisions require rigorous thinking, local knowledge, and tools that can keep pace with the complexity of modern governance. Urbify Studio was founded on the conviction that smaller municipalities deserve the same quality of planning expertise as the largest cities, and that emerging AI tools, applied responsibly, can help close that gap.
Our services are organized around three areas of practice, each designed to address a distinct dimension of the planning challenges municipalities face today. Whether you are updating an aging comprehensive plan, launching a mobility initiative, or integrating emerging technology into your planning process, Urbify Studio brings the expertise to move the work forward.
We serve as your planning department's partner — or, for smaller jurisdictions without in-house planning staff, your planning department entirely. Our consultants bring graduate-level training from Clemson University and professional experience grounded in the rapidly evolving urban landscape of the American South, with a national reach and scope.
Services include comprehensive plan updates, land use studies, community engagement facilitation, rezoning analysis, and long-range strategic planning — guided by best-practice frameworks recognized by the American Planning Association.
Our proprietary AI planning assistant is trained on award-winning planning documents and best-practice frameworks recognized by the American Planning Association. The tool enables planners and municipal staff to query planning documents, generate draft recommendations, and accelerate document review — without replacing the professional judgment that sound planning requires.
This is particularly evident in its application for smaller municipalities, where planning staff capacity is often limited and the volume of public-facing document requests can be substantial. The tool is designed to extend the reach of planners, not to substitute for them — a distinction that proves crucial in maintaining the quality and accountability that communities deserve.
We produce comprehensive, publication-ready planning documents that synthesize public engagement findings, technical analysis, and regulatory requirements into clear, navigable, and visually compelling deliverables that municipalities can adopt, reference, and build upon for years.
Ultimately, the quality of a planning document reflects the quality of the process behind it — and our compilation service is designed to honor that process by producing work that is as technically rigorous as it is publicly accessible.
Urbify Studio was founded by two Clemson University-trained urban planners who share both a professional background and a conviction about the future of planning practice.
We believe every community — regardless of size or budget — deserves access to rigorous, forward-looking planning practice.
Urbify Studio was founded by two Clemson University-trained urban planners rooted in Greenville, South Carolina — a city that has, over the past two decades, become one of the most closely watched examples of intentional urban transformation in the American South. That context is not incidental to who we are.
Greenville's growth — its walkable downtown, its investment in public space, its ongoing negotiation between development pressure and neighborhood preservation — is the environment in which both founders developed their professional sensibility, and it informs the way we approach planning practice at every scale.
The firm was founded on a conviction that smaller and mid-sized municipalities, particularly those in rapidly growing regions, are often under-resourced relative to the complexity of the planning challenges they face, and that emerging AI tools, applied responsibly and grounded in professional expertise, represent a meaningful opportunity to close that gap.
We are based in Greenville and serve clients at the municipal, county, and regional level across the country.
Whether you are a municipal official exploring a comprehensive plan update, a county planner evaluating AI tools, or simply curious about what Urbify Studio can offer your community, we would welcome the conversation.
Our team brings the regional knowledge of the American South and the national reach to serve municipalities and counties at any scale, from rapidly growing mid-sized cities to small jurisdictions navigating their first comprehensive plan update.
We are developing a suite of AI-powered planning assistants trained on award-winning APA planning documents — enabling municipal staff to analyze plans, generate recommendations, and accelerate document review. More details coming in 2026.