Altopia Solutions · Est. 2024 · India
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§ 00 · A note on Indian building compliance, filed on record —

In India, every building is governed by rules already written into law None of them are automated

Altopia is the institutional layer between a plot
and a permit. We build what the statute already requires.
Record · § 01
On the state of Indian
building compliance
Filed under Altopia Co.
India · 2024
  1. ¶ 01.

    The National Building Code of India (NBC 2016) runs to two volumes, ten parts, and over a thousand pages. It is mandatory. It is read by almost no one.

  2. ¶ 02.

    Every state, every municipality layers its own bye-laws on top. Setbacks, FAR, ground coverage, fire egress, parking ratios, solar rights. A plot in Gurgaon is not a plot in Bengaluru.

  3. ¶ 03.

    A practising architect in India is expected to hold all of this in her head, or in a PDF on her second monitor. She does not. Nobody does.

  4. ¶ 04.

    The consequence is not a design problem. It is an institutional one. Plans are submitted. Plans are rejected. Drawings are revised. Fees are paid twice. A building is half built before anyone notices the violation.

  5. ¶ 05.

    The rules, the entire time, were machine-readable. They were simply never read by a machine.

—  So we built one.
§ 02The Altopia position

A plot, entered once.
A compliant permit, returned.

01
The brief

The plot is entered.
The bye-laws are already present.

NBC 2016. DCR. Municipal bye-laws. Fire. Accessibility. Structural. Loaded, indexed, machine-readable.

Input →
02
The layout

A compliant plan
is the only thing that can be produced.

The statute is the constraint. A violation is not a warning flag. It is an impossible output.

Process →
03
The record

Every line, referenced
to the clause it satisfies.

The compliance report is not a guess. It is a line-by-line citation, addressed to the reviewer.

Output →
§ 03 · Position

Not software that helps with approval. Software that produces it.

§ 04Filed evidence

Two governments agree:
the rules exist. The system does not.

Delhi Development Authority

Compliance is mandated by law.

Obtained under the Right to Information Act, 2005.

On file · Altopia Co.
Gujarat State Government

No automated system exists.

Obtained under the Right to Information Act, 2005.

On file · Altopia Co.
§ 04.1Voices on record

The greatest innovation for both people and government.

State Government OfficialInstitutional review

Zero architects said they would stay with the manual process.

Altopia POC Programme100+ practising architects
Evidence trail
RTI filings · Primary research · Field deployment ongoing
§ 05 · Early access

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access.

We're onboarding a limited cohort of studios, developers and authorities across India and the GCC. Applications are reviewed individually.

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§ 06 · Closing
A note from the company
Altopia Solutions
India

We are not an AI company. We are a company that believes Indian statute is infrastructure, and that infrastructure should be wired into the work. Every setback, every egress width, every clause of the National Building Code is already a specification. We are the ones reading it, so the architect does not have to.

If you design, approve, or regulate buildings in this country, this tool is being built for you. Quietly, carefully, on record.

Altopia Co.
India · 2024