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Petter CedellGroup Director of Property Investments, Selvaag Bolig
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Kristian AkslandPartner, CMS Kluge

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“We have 25 salespeople using Placepoint every day to generate leads and find tenants.”
Henning BjørnsgårdHead of Sales and Development, EIR
“We use Placepoint daily for credit work. Among other things, we can identify ownership concentration in business parks.”
Lars Kristian TveterSenior Relationship Manager, Danske Bank

Updates in Placepoint AI

Placepoint AI is updated often. The most important improvements are listed below, with the newest first. New functionality requires you to update the connector in Claude. Go to Settings, Customize, Connectors, select Placepoint, click the three dots and select Refresh tools list.

04/11/2026​

Placepoint AI is now much faster, and several tasks that used to fail now work. We measured each tool before and after with the same lookups. The slowest are now more than 20 times faster than before.

TaskBeforeNowFasterTime saved
Geology at two locations in Oslo: loose deposits and possible marine clay18.2 s0.84 s22x95%
Plan status for five properties29.7 s7.3 s4x75%
Current zoning plans for one property in Oslo7.5 s1.9 s4x74%
The largest transactions in a municipality9.9 s1.4 s7x86%
Which historical aerial photos exist around a property7.3 s0.99 s7x86%
One historical aerial photo of a property3.6 s0.36 s10x90%
Aerial photos from three years in one lookupincomplete answer0.53 snow works

“Before” is the version that was in production on 31/10/2026. The figures show the time one lookup takes, from when the question goes to Placepoint until the answer comes back. How long a full answer takes also depends on the AI app and model you use, and on how many lookups the model makes along the way. A faster model or a fast mode in the app gives faster answers in any case. What we have made faster are the lookups in Placepoint, and they are just as fast whichever app you use.

  • Top lists are correct. If you asked for, for example, the five largest transactions in a municipality, the same property could appear several times, so others dropped out. Now the search engine builds the list, and it is both correct and faster.
  • Reports about a company did not get a cover, and neither did some addresses. Now they do.
  • Annual accounts as PDF for large companies now come through. Brønnøysundregistrene takes up to 36 seconds to produce the PDF, and we gave up after 15. Now we wait up to 60 seconds.
  • Some map layers, including hazard zones for quick clay, gave errors when they were drawn on a map. Now they are drawn. A map layer that can only be queried and not drawn gives a clear message about this instead of an error.
  • Plan lookups on large properties with a detailed boundary failed. Now they work.
  • You can ask for historical aerial photos from several years in one lookup, for example 2016, 2020 and 2024, and see how a plot has changed.
  • Large map lookups give much smaller answers, because empty fields are not sent. In a test with 1,000 rows, the answer shrank from 2.5 million to 104,000 characters. This leaves the AI more room in the conversation.
  • If a data source does not respond in time, the AI is told and can explain to you what happened. Before, it only got an internal error.
  • Reports and presentations start with a two-page summary, so the reader gets the main points first.

To get aerial photos from several years in one lookup, you need to update the connector once. Everything else works without you doing anything.

29/10/2026​

Answers from Placepoint AI now show where the data comes from and link straight into Placepoint Fusion. Connecting from ChatGPT, Copilot Studio and Perplexity now has an extra security step.

  • Answers give Placepoint as the source. Every property and company in the answer has a link that opens it in Placepoint Fusion. If the answer is about, for example, owners, sales, zoning or accounts, the link opens the property panel or the company panel on that tab.
  • The tools now have readable names, and each tool says whether it only reads data or also changes something. The AI app can then ask you before it creates, changes or deletes a dataset.
  • If you connect from ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot Studio or Perplexity, you first see a page from us that shows which app is asking for access. Only continue to the login if you started the connection yourself. The page stops anyone who sends you a connection link to get access in your name. If you are already connected, you will not notice anything, and Claude, Claude Code and Codex log in as before.
  • If you open the address of one of the servers in your browser, you come to Placepoint AI on placepoint.no instead of an error message. You still enter the address in the AI app, see How to install.
  • New page: The tools in Placepoint AI shows what each tool does, with an example question. It is for you if you choose tools for an agent, for example in Microsoft Copilot Studio.
  • Three map layers from Placepoint 3.0.33 can now be used in Placepoint AI: Property Tax per property in 2026 and per municipality back to 2007, Wildlife migration routes and Hotels. For example, ask “What is the property tax on this property?” or “Which hotels are within 800 m of Oslo S?”. All eight new map layers in 3.0.33 are now available in both Fusion and Placepoint AI.
  • The old connection addresses from the pilot period have been switched off. If you use an address that is not listed under How to install, connect again with one of the addresses there.

If you have used Placepoint AI before, update the connector once to get the new tool names.

28/10/2026​

The biggest update to Placepoint AI since launch. Placepoint MCP has a new search engine and 286 new fields, and now answers from the same data as Placepoint Fusion. Much of what used to take five questions now takes one.

  • Zoning and plans per property. Every property now has zoning plans, municipal plan, land use, consideration zones and provision areas, with how many m² and how large a share of the plot each of them covers. Ongoing planning work has its own flag. Ask about one property and the assistant separates the plan that actually governs the plot from neighbouring plans that only touch the boundary. Before, it knew only the land use in the municipal plan.
  • Value estimates for homes. Our home valuation model is in the search, with value, range and rent estimate per unit, summed per property. “Homes with an estimated value above 10 million kr in this basic statistical unit” and “total home value in this housing cooperative” are one question each. The estimate covers homes, not commercial property.
  • The whole ownership chain in one search: who owns directly, who owns through whom, how many links, effective ownership share and who is the group parent. SPV-owned properties, foreign owners, known landlords and leaseholders are included. “Who owns Munkedamsveien 27, and who sits at the top?” takes one lookup, not nine.
  • Access follows the licence. Placepoint MCP is now its own licence, and only licensed users get in, whichever AI app they use. Access can be limited to named users, see How to install.
  • If you do not have a licence, you are told why. The assistant tells you what is missing, for example that your company has no licence, that the trial period has ended or that the licence covers named users, and who can give you access. Before, the connection simply failed, and Copilot Studio replied with a message about escalation.
  • 63 quick filters from Filter in Placepoint Fusion work directly: office, warehouse, undeveloped, SPV-owned, adopted zoning, sold in the last twelve months, energy rating A to C, tenant bankrupt and more. The assistant picks them itself, so you don't need to know they exist.
  • Managing director, chair and board come with both owners and tenants. “Properties where the tenant's managing director also sits on the owner's board” is one search.
  • Areas the way people say them. Basic statistical unit, sub-area and urban settlement are looked up by name, for example Ullevål Hageby, Berg or Frogner.
  • Address search hits the right thing: the exact address first, the base property before the sections, and a hit in a different municipality than you asked for is marked.
  • Every registered transaction on a property, with buyer, seller, amount, type and date. Before, you only got the latest sale. A sale covering many sections is counted once.
  • Reports get a cover with the latest aerial photo from Norge i bilder, in print quality and with the property drawn in.
  • Travel time zones by public transport can now be calculated from a departure time you choose.
  • Your login renews itself. From the end of August, Claude could show “failed to connect” when your login had timed out, and you had to connect again. This has been fixed.
  • Messages about login and access are now in English, and dates in them are written as 2026-10-28.
  • Login from Perplexity works.
  • Every report ends with an offer of the rows it is built on, as an Excel file.
  • If you have vacant premises, the assistant finds and ranks companies that could be relevant tenants. Give the address or matrikkelnummer (cadastral number), the area and the use. See also Tenant analysis and tenant search.
  • If you ask how exposed a property is to lightning strikes, Placepoint AI answers with the lightning density, the number of strikes per km² per year. Lightning strikes are not part of the risk check.
  • If you ask for many maps in a short time, the assistant waits its turn instead of replying with an error message.

The 286 new fields break down like this:

AreaNew fieldsExamples
Plan and zoning74Zoning and municipal plan per property, overlap in m² and %, ongoing planning work
Owners and ownership chain50Group parent, effective ownership share, SPV, leaseholders, known landlord, housing cooperative
Plot, parcel and section31BYA and undeveloped area, disputes and uncertain boundaries, section fraction
Buildings25BRA instead of BTA, year built, TEK level, building type by NS 3457
Transactions19Every registered transaction with buyer, seller, amount, type and date
Roles18Managing director, chair and board at owners and tenants
Energy rating14Rating per building and unit, average per property, heating, from Enova SF
Certifications13BREEAM-NOR, Nordic Swan and LEED per certificate, with status and validity
Value estimate12Value, range and rent per home, sum per property
Units12Flats and homes with rooms, bathrooms, floor and area
Tenants9Status, foreign, sub-unit, largest tenant
Areas and search9Basic statistical unit, sub-area, urban settlement, better address and cadastre search

Try for example:

  • “What zoning applies to Storgata 10 in Lillestrøm, and how much of the plot does the plan cover?”
  • “Find undeveloped plots zoned for housing in Bærum above 2,000 m²”
  • “Who owns this building, who is the group parent, and who is the managing director at the largest tenants?”
  • “Transactions above 50 million kr in Trondheim in the last two years, with buyer and seller”
  • “Office buildings above 5,000 m² in Oslo owned by an SPV with energy rating E or worse”

If you have used Placepoint AI before, update the connector once to get the new tools. Saved queries with old field names get a message saying what to replace them with.

14/10/2026​

The risk check of a property now covers radon and counts each hazard once. Two new map layers are also included: fire stations and charging stations.

  • Radon is included. If you ask for a risk check of a property, the assistant now checks radon susceptibility. It also checks landslides, floods, quick clay, cultural heritage sites, contaminated ground and protected areas.
  • Each hazard is counted once. Many hazard maps are available from several suppliers. Before, the same hazard could appear twice in the report. Now it is counted once, from the best source, and you get the answer faster.
  • “Not mapped” is no longer a finding. Some maps only show where mapping has been done, and they used to be read as a hazard. Now they appear as a note about coverage.
  • Large plots go through. Lookups against protected areas and contaminated ground often failed on large plots. Now they work, and the answers come directly from Miljødirektoratet (the Norwegian Environment Agency).
  • New map layer: fire stations with response time. It shows all fire stations in Norway, with the areas they reach within five, ten and 20 minutes' drive. “Is this plot within ten minutes' drive of a fire station?”
  • New map layer: EV charging stations. If you ask for “charging stations near [address]”, the assistant now finds them. Before, the same question gave no hits.
  • Coming soon: the grid connection queue from Statnett, with grid capacity per transformer substation, will be updated every day. Today the figures are from August. The daily update comes in the next version of the map layers.

30/09/2026​

Placepoint AI now also works in Microsoft Copilot Studio and OpenAI ChatGPT.

  • You can connect Placepoint AI to Microsoft Copilot Studio and ChatGPT, as well as Claude Desktop, Claude Cowork and Claude Code. You use the same two servers and the same login with your Placepoint user wherever you connect. Claude is still where we test each new feature first, and where the tools give the best answers.
  • The steps for each of them are under How to install. You get the server URLs from your contact person with us.

23/09/2026​

The company register has been updated, and employees are counted where they work.

  • The company register has been updated to a new version with all grunnkretser (basic statistical units) and delområder (sub-areas) from Statistisk sentralbyrå (SSB). You can now look up and count companies in a neighbourhood, not just per municipality.
  • Employees are counted where people work. The assistant distinguishes between employees at one address and employees in the whole company.
  • Departments now have names. Each office, shop and branch is listed with its own name, address and number of employees. You can list “all Kiwi stores in Oslo” or “Entra's regional offices” place by place.
  • If you ask how many employees a company has, the assistant gives three figures and asks you to choose: the company itself, the departments split by address, or the whole conglomerate. Before, it guessed, and the guess gave wrong figures in reports.
  • The conglomerate overview combines the shareholder register, the organisational units at Brønnøysundregistrene (BRREG) (municipality, agency and municipal enterprises) and international conglomerate links. A municipality is then shown as one conglomerate, with its agencies, municipal enterprises and departments under it.
  • Owning and controlling are two different questions. You get everything a company has an ownership share in, and everything the company controls with more than 50%. The top of the conglomerate is named. The ownership structure report is built on the same picture.
  • When the assistant analyses a property, it counts the employees who sit in the building, not the head office total. This gives more accurate figures in tenant analyses and area reports.

20/09/2026​

The company data has several new fields, and you can combine them freely in a single question.

18/09/2026​

Several improvements to the Swedish connection from Combify.

16/09/2026​

Several improvements to the Swedish connection from Combify.

14/09/2026​

The Swedish connection from Combify has been extended. It is used in the Agent.

10/09/2026​

  • The landlord is linked directly to each tenancy, and coverage is almost 50% higher than before. If you ask about a conglomerate that owns its properties through single purpose companies, the assistant still finds the tenants. You do not have to go via the subsidiaries. These are the same tenancies that Enheter og leietagere shows in Placepoint Fusion.
  • Employees are counted at the address, not just in the company. A head office with departments around the country no longer gives the whole company's employees as the figure for the building.
  • The tenant lists are cleaner. Owner and holding companies are not counted as tenants, companies in liquidation are flagged, and the move-in date is included.
  • Building Type is linked to the companies, both for what they own and for the premises they rent. You can combine industry, employees, status or conglomerate with the kind of building the company sits in, in one question. This works the same way that Filter combines criteria in Placepoint Fusion: “IT companies in Bergen with more than 20 employees that sit in office buildings”.
  • Codes in extracts to Excel get a column with plain text alongside, for both properties and companies. You do not have to look up the codes yourself.
  • Geographic searches give the matrikkelnummer (cadastral number) per hit, so you can go straight on to the property. Lookups that could be rejected before because of the format of keys or field names now go through.
  • The assistant states which source a figure comes from and says when a figure is an estimate. It does not count the same tenant twice in a conglomerate.

09/09/2026​

  • The company as the starting point. The assistant now has the whole company register from Brønnøysundregistrene (BRREG). It is linked to the properties the companies own, rent and are located in. You can start with the company and end with the property, or the other way round, in the same conversation. Selskapspanelet is built on the same search.
  • Find and rank companies. Filter by industry, municipality, organisation form, employees and turnover. You can also filter by whether they own property, have tenants or have subsidiaries. “Property companies in Bergen with more than 50 employees” is one question. Free text matches trading names and stated purpose. “Companies that run self-storage” finds what they do, not just what they are called.
  • Rankings count each company once: largest property holders, most tenants, most subsidiaries, highest turnover in an industry. Chains and franchises are included, because the outlets are registered as sub-units with their own organisation number.
  • One company in depth. You get the board and managing director, shareholders with ownership share, parent company, ultimate owner and subsidiaries at all levels. You also get accounts back to 1998, address history, and owned properties, both directly and through the ownership chain. It also shows where the company itself rents, and who rents from it. The ownership structure report is built on the same picture.
  • Screening of single purpose companies as a separate profile: a limited company in the property industry, owned by another company, with one to three properties and no employees of its own. You can narrow it to one municipality. The owner behind each company comes with it in the same result, and the assistant says which criteria it used.
  • Extracts to Excel and CSV of company and property lists. They have separate sheets for properties, subsidiaries, shareholders, roles, tenants and accounting history.
  • Dissolved companies and sub-units are filtered out by default, since half the register is history. The links use organisation number and matrikkelnummer, never internal IDs, so you can check the figures. Aggregates used to stop at 1,000 documents without warning. They now count correctly in large datasets, on the property side too.

03/09/2026​

  • Log in with your Placepoint user on both servers. Click Connect in Claude and log in the way you do in Placepoint Fusion. Access follows your user instead of the URL.

02/09/2026​

19/08/2026​

11/08/2026​

  • New land use plan suite. You can search land use plans and retrieve plan details with the plan map. You can see which plans apply to a property. You can retrieve plan documents (provisions, planning description and more) as PDF. This corresponds to the zoning map layers in Placepoint Fusion.
  • The plan check per property only needs the matrikkelnummer. The property's actual boundaries are retrieved automatically and used in the lookup. This gives more accurate hits than before. Municipality plan proposals are included as a separate category.
  • Plan documents are read, not just listed. If a plan is to be described in a report or analysis, Claude first checks that the provisions and planning description have been read. If plan data is missing for a property, the delivery says so explicitly. The property does not appear to be unzoned.
  • Property lookups suggest plan status and a hazard check (landslide, flood, quick clay and similar) as the next step, so zoning and risk are not skipped.
  • Reports are delivered as HTML by default, which is considerably faster. PDF is produced on request. You can choose between one long page or real paginated pages. You are told how long it will take before the slower PDF option runs.
  • The map tools give better error messages. Unknown map layers give a message with valid alternatives. Large geometries are simplified in a controlled way, with a clear note. You can reuse geometries between tools without pasting them in again.
  • The usage guide and the tool descriptions have been extended, so that Claude chooses the right tool for planning and zoning questions.
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