For developers & acquisition teams · Hawaiʻi

Underwrite the parcel before the purchase agreement locks you in.

KILO gives acquisition teams a parcel-level read on entitlement and land-use feasibility, water (wastewater + supply + quality + federal CWA permits), shoreline, cultural-resource, and regulatory exposure — instantly, with every conclusion traced to its source. Price the risk into the offer, or walk before capital is committed.

The problem

The worst line item is the one you find mid-construction.

A developer's worst exposures don't show up in the pro forma. A discretionary-permit requirement that adds a year. A cesspool conversion the seller never mentioned. A shoreline setback that shrinks the buildable lot. An inadvertent cultural-resource discovery that freezes a capitalized project. Each one lands after the decision, when it is most expensive to absorb.

On Oʻahu the cultural-resource version of that surprise is the most public. The Park at Keʻeaumoku towers were redesigned around an in-place reburial after a 2024 settlement. Walmart Keʻeaumoku absorbed forced design changes and a public dispute mid-construction. Kawaiahaʻo Church's project has been halted for over a decade. Same root cause every time — the exposure was knowable before the decision, and no one read the parcel first.

Before the LOI

Add land-risk to the diligence file — alongside title, flood, and zoning.

Enter an address or TMK and KILO returns a parcel-level risk band, a due-diligence synthesis verdict, and a confidence rating — built from authoritative public data (Hawaiʻi Statewide GIS, USDA soils, the HCPT cesspool inventory, FEMA, DOH). Every rule that fired is shown with its reasoning and the statute it triggers.

It is a pre-decision signal, not a survey — designed to slot in before you commit capital, before the entitlement, before you engage a CRM firm. So the risk is something you priced, not something you discovered.

What discovery costs

Same root cause. Different parcels. Different decades.

A few documented Oʻahu iwi kūpuna discovery events — each one a project that was already capitalized when the cost arrived:

Documented iwi kūpuna discovery events on OʻahuPublic record · all post-2000
Park at Keʻeaumoku · 2022Inadvertent discovery during development of a 972-unit, two-tower project. Reburial in place required, project redesigned, multi-year litigation.TOWER
Walmart Keʻeaumoku · 2003Mid-construction inadvertent discovery prompted forced design changes, public dispute, and lasting reputational impact.RETAIL
Kawaiahaʻo Church · ongoingMultifunction-building project halted indefinitely after iwi kūpuna were disturbed. Multi-decade litigation.INSTITUTIONAL
The cost of finding out runs multiples-to-orders-of-magnitude higher after the decision than before. KILO exists to move that finding-out upstream of the purchase agreement.
How it works

Three steps, before the capital is committed.

01
Run the TMK at diligence
Enter the address or parcel number; KILO returns the risk band, the due-diligence synthesis verdict, and a confidence breakdown in seconds.
02
Read the cited trace
Every rule that fired, its plain-English reasoning, and the statute it triggers — defensible enough to put in front of an investment committee.
03
Price it in, or walk
Carry the exposure and its schedule-and-cost range into the offer — or pass on the parcel before the purchase agreement is signed.
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