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murmura labs presents

murmur — urban foresight platform by Murmura Labs

urban foresight platform

v0.1April 2026

What is murmur?

neighborhoods act

on behalf of their residents.

Equipped with 100+ metrics spanning demographics, health, housing, environment, mobility, and equity, each policy agent responds to proposed scenarios with their residents' interests at the center.

Multi-resolution model

Three resolutions. One interconnected model.

Parcel scale~25 m
demographicshealthhousingenvironmentmobilityeconomy

100+ data fields per cell.

Block scale~250 m
{
  "displacement_risk": 0.73,
  "health_burden": 0.61,
  "connectivity": 0.82,
  ...
}

Aggregate layer. Composite indices summarize conditions across children.

Neighborhood scale~1 km

Policy agent. Acts on behalf of its residents' interests, zoning constraints, and neighboring influence.

Platform

A living model
of every neighborhood

murmur divides your city into hex cells, each carrying 100+ real-world data fields. Apply a scenario — a new bike lane, a transit line, a rezoning — and see cascading impacts across every neighborhood.

100+ data fields per cell

Demographics, health, pollution, housing, transit, amenities, schools, and network metrics across every cell.

Scenario modeling

Test infrastructure changes, policy shifts, and investment scenarios. See cascading impacts across housing, health, environment, economic, mobility, education, and safety domains.

Equity-first analysis

Every scenario shows who benefits and who bears the cost — with displacement risk, equity breakdowns, and ripple effects mapped across the city.

Network intelligence

Neighborhoods are connected the way real cities work: by commute patterns, shared school districts, pollution corridors, housing markets, and economic ties.

Collaborate

Fork a scenario.
Compare futures.

Every team starts from the same living baseline — a shared, always-current model of your city. When you want to test an idea, fork a scenario and explore it independently.

Compare branches side by side. Merge the best outcomes back. City planning as version control.

baselinescenario Ascenario Bmain

About

Built by urban scientists

Murmura Labs builds decision tools for cities — powered by the latest in agent-based modeling, spatial data science, and generative AI.

Founded in the complexity economics tradition of the Santa Fe Institute [1] [2] [3], Murmura Labs applies agent-based modeling and spatial data science to the built environment, making the downstream consequences of urban decisions visible before they unfold.

Contact

Let's model your city

Based in San Francisco and working with cities across the Bay Area and beyond. Find out how murmur can help your city.

hello@murmuralabs.comTry murmur

mur·mu·ra·tion

/ˌmərmyəˈrāSH(ə)n/

The phenomenon in which many individual agents, each following simple local rules, produce coherent, system-wide behavior without central direction.