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Pathfounders · July 1 · 11 min

Xylo arrives to rescue the UK from its planning nightmares

When Habs Kim’s family moved from South Korea to the UK, one of their first encounters with the British state was one of the most feared entities on the British Isles: The planning department. That experience now sits behind Xylo, the UK govtech startup Kim cofounded with former lawyer and operator Dermot O’Riordan, which has now raised £2.8m in pre-seed funding to help local authority planning officers process applications faster and more accurately. Xylo is building AI agents for planning teams. The pitch is not that AI should make planning decisions. It is that officers are drowning in admin before they even get to the decision. Kim spoke to Pathfounders’ Mike Butcher.

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When Habs Kim’s family moved from South Korea to the UK, one of their first encounters with the British state was one of the most feared entities on the British Isles: The planning department. That experience now sits behind Xylo, the UK govtech startup Kim cofounded with former lawyer and operator Dermot O’Riordan, which has now raised £2.8m in pre-seed funding to help local authority planning officers process applications faster and more accurately. Xylo is building AI agents for planning teams. The pitch is not that AI should make planning decisions. It is that officers are drowning in admin before they even get to the decision. Kim spoke to Pathfounders’ Mike Butcher.

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