This video explains how rural municipalities struggle with slow, manual zoning workflows that stall economic growth. To solve this, DICE created the Zoning Intelligence Platform (ZIP), an AI-powered digital utility that translates dense zoning laws into a “living computable map”. ZIP acts as an AI research assistant that performs complex compliance audits in minutes instead of weeks, though human staff still make all final permit decisions. By making this tool affordable and open-source, DICE helps under-resourced rural counties overcome administrative barriers and achieve “digital sovereignty” over their own data and infrastructure.