City of San Francisco has 52 IT departments. Baltimore, Maryland has ca 13,000 vacant homes, while Dallas has 900-plus data-source systems. Whether it’s 50,000 lines of your raw data in a spreadsheet, government databases, site selection websites, local news outlets or tailored solutions pursuing a new science of cities and urbanism like Aretian’s City Digital Twin — urban AI is not just a way to plan innovation hubs or enhance urban and economic decision-making. For entrepreneurs and startups, it’s also a great tool to boost your hyperlocal marketing efforts. 

Take a program like Air Quality Forecast that uses AI to predict pollution levels and alert residents. Businesses could use this to promote indoor or online services on high pollution days in their local area. Urban AI can help health tech startups with hyperlocal marketing in a few cool ways. For starters, it can help these businesses really understand their local market. AI can analyze things like foot traffic, local events, or social media trends to figure out where to focus their marketing efforts.

Also, AI can help with personalization. Imagine an app that uses AI to suggest nearby specialized health services based on a person’s individual needs and habits. 

Without considering individual needs, an urban planning concept like 15-minute city often evaluates the city for an ‘average’ person. 

A solution by Aino does away with the need to hardcode lists of target amenities for each persona and location in a neighborhood and allows their model to understand and meet individual needs autonomously. 

5,000 Cities keeps an eye on the progress of hyperlocal solutions by Aino and Aretian and we will for certain continue experimenting with such modalities in our marketing campaigns to promote your business.