---
title: "How to read and export a feasibility report"
description: "Turn a project's cited analysis into an audience-ready deliverable — what's inside, how to pick an audience, and how to export it."
last_updated: "2026-08-17"
---

A feasibility report is Bucky's
[deliverable](/docs/getting-started/core-concepts#deliverable): a reusable
artifact built from a project's cited parcel, zoning, and feasibility read,
for the next decision maker — a client, lender, board, or resident committee.

## Lead with the decision it supports

Before you generate one, know who reads it and what they decide:

- **Investor / lender** — is this worth funding?
- **Owner** — should I move forward on my own site?
- **Board** — should the organization commit resources?
- **Resident** — what does this mean for the neighborhood?

Bucky asks for that audience up front, because a report for a lender and a
report for a resident committee lead with different facts even when the
underlying analysis is the same.

## What's inside

A report is built from the same cited analysis you already read on the
project:

- The **parcel** — geometry, dimensions, identifiers.
- The **zoning** — permitted uses and envelope limits, each with a
  [source status](/docs/platform/zoning#what-you-see).
- The **feasibility** read — whether the project pencils under that zoning.

Anything that isn't `cited` or `cited_conditional` in the underlying analysis
stays flagged in the report, too. A deliverable does not upgrade an
`unverified_default` value into a fact.

## How to produce one

Ask BuckyAssist from an open project, for example:

- "Draft an investor report from this project"
- "Draft a brief report for the board"

Pick:

- **Audience** — investor, owner, board, or resident.
- **Detail** — brief or detailed.

BuckyAssist composes a plan first. Preview it before you spend an export — the
plan is free to review and revise; exporting the PDF is not.

<Callout>
  Confirm the plan before exporting. Composing and previewing a report plan does not spend your
  export allowance; confirming and exporting the PDF does.
</Callout>

## Other deliverable types

A feasibility report is the most common deliverable, but the same cited
project record can back other artifacts as the project moves further along —
an investment memo, an RFP package for a design-build search, or a permit
package once you reach entitlement. See
[core concepts](/docs/getting-started/core-concepts#deliverable) for how these
relate.

## Before you send it

<Callout title="Decision support, not a professional certification">
  A Bucky report is decision support built from cited and, where noted, unverified data — not a
  permit, appraisal, or legal opinion. Review it, and flag anything that still needs verification,
  before it goes to a lender, board, or municipality.
</Callout>

## Where to go next

- [Feasibility](/docs/platform/feasibility) — what the analysis behind the report considers.
- [People on a project](/docs/platform/people) — decide who on the project sees the report before you share it externally.
- [Prompting BuckyAssist](/docs/guides/prompting-buckyassist) — more example prompts for project workspace tasks.


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