Kukun Launches Permits API to Make Building Permits the Default Data Layer for Underwriting and Real Estate AI

▤ Summary

Kukun launched the Permits API v1 and made its national permit dataset available through direct programmatic access. The API covers 750 million U.S. permits across 57 million parcels and supports search, filtering, and geo-distance queries for lenders, insurers, valuation platforms, real estate software firms, and AI developers. Kukun positions building permits as a default input for underwriting, valuation, and real estate AI workflows. The company also highlighted its broader property state graph and said an MCP server is in development to connect the data layer to AI agents and frameworks.

▦ Linked Companies