Assess the site in minutes, design it in 3D, find the best approval pathway and prepare the SoEE, CDC or DA submission with AI built for NSW. Save hours on every job and take on more work with the same team. Get your client an answer before the competition has called back.
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MAN THIS IS AWESOME. You have really killed it mate, it's exactly where I hoped AI would get to.
My most recent DA was accepted for assessment and put on exhibition within days. The SoEE created with PlanningAI was so comprehensive that it really left no stone unturned. This stage was a really profitable one for me and this job is making great headway. Thanks for the tool! I love it
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Find the lot and instantly get the key LEP and DCP controls: zoning, height, FSR, setbacks, bushfire, flood, heritage and your approval options, every control cited.
Upload the drawings, pick a saved design or just describe the house. It's built in 3D on the actual lot. Move it, resize it or change it by talking to our AI agent. Every setback and key compliance control is checked live.
Exempt development, a complying development certificate (CDC), Low and Mid-Rise or a full development application (DA), tested side by side with one clear recommendation and the compliance requirements you'll need to meet.
A clause-by-clause statement of environmental effects (SoEE), a full CDC compliance check or a BCA report drafted from your project in minutes. Edit anything with AI then download to Word.
Run the same checks council or the certifier will run. Fix the gaps before they become an RFI, a delay, a rejection or an unhappy client.
Every condition becomes a dated and assigned task with reminders and evidence. Certifiers and consultants join free. Export an audit-ready pack.
Look up the lot, find the constraints and then manually search the mapping, the LEP and the DCP for the design criteria. It's essential work. It's also the least valuable thing a skilled professional can spend a morning on.
Even with templates everything needs tailoring and checking. The pile only moves as fast as your people can type.
More work means more hours or more staff. AI breaks that link. Get more output from the same team without the burnout, the overtime or the hiring round.
Every outsourced report is a queue, an invoice and a client left waiting. Bring the work in-house instead. Give your team capability it never had and deliver faster than the business down the road. Clients get a better experience and you take on more jobs without adding staff.
The reading, measuring and first drafting come off your plate. Your hours go on the work clients actually pay for.
Incredible! Has saved myself and our team sooooo much time expediting many parts of our small & large projects.
When every job takes less time you can take on more of them. More profit without more hours or more staff.
What impressed us the most was its ability to understand the planning process, providing tailored feedback that was spot on. The responses were quick, accurate, and felt genuinely helpful.
No setup, no custom development and no steep learning curve. Start using AI in your business today.
Great product. Very intuitive and improving all the time. This is a great town planning tool.
Every consultant, builder and council will use AI eventually just like how every business now runs on computers and the internet. Right now it's a clear head start. Soon it will be required to stay in business.
of construction businesses across Australia and APAC already use AI in some form. In the NSW planning space, most teams are not using it for planning work. This gap is your opportunity.
Deloitte for Autodesk, State of Digital Adoption in Construction, July 2026AI drafts. You decide. Review every step, edit anything and override any decision. Nothing is final until you say so.
No invented rules. Every control cites its clause word for word and anything it isn't certain about is flagged for human review.
Nothing to install and nothing to integrate. Open it in your browser and run your first real job today.
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PlanningAI is deliberately conservative. It assumes nothing and cites the exact clause behind every finding. Anything it can't assess with complete certainty is flagged for a human to decide. Follow one real clause from a Blue Mountains assessment as it goes from Uncertain to Compliant.
PlanningAI reads the application and suggests the clauses that apply. Here it picks 22 of the 142 clauses in the LEP. 20 are suggested by the AI and 12 match what the SoEE already addresses.
One platform tuned to the work you actually do. Pick your role to see your tools and your outcomes.
What do you do? Choose an option to continue with a tailored experience.
Assessment capacity is now the bottleneck. PlanningAI gives every planner a head start on every file without adding headcount.
Fourteen steps from permissibility and triage through every LEP, DCP and SEPP clause to determination. They are compiled into one report the planner can edit before it goes out. Scroll through a real example.
Duty planners pull the site's controls, constraints and likely pathway in minutes, cited clause by clause. Applicants then lodge better applications first time.
Documents sorted, gaps found and the lodgement or RFI letter drafted the day an application lands.
Every clause assessment cites the instrument with the verbatim text one click away. Reports follow the official NSW formats and match your templates.
Planners spend their hours on judgement, site visits and applicants instead of retyping controls into a report.
Built for OFFICIAL and OFFICIAL: Sensitive information from day one and ready for your security and privacy review.
All data is stored and hosted in Australia in AWS Sydney. For councils and government, AI is also processed only on Australian-region endpoints. Prompts and outputs are never used to train models.
No autonomous statutory decisions. A qualified planner accepts every output.
MFA is mandatory for every user. Optional single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID means your conditional access policies apply.
AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2+ in transit, full tenant isolation and role-based access with per-record permissions.
Annual independent penetration testing. Controls aligned to ISO 27001 and the ACSC Essential Eight.
Council owns its data. Full export and verified deletion at exit. Retention follows the State Records Act 1998.
Handled as OFFICIAL and OFFICIAL: Sensitive, with personal information managed under the PPIP Act and documented data flows for your PIA.
A 99.9% availability target, recovery within 4 hours and backups kept in Australia. Security events are alerted and council is notified of any incident within 24 to 72 hours.
Browser only with nothing to install. Custom integration with government systems available.
Hosted on AWS Sydney (IRAP-assessed to PROTECTED, ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II). Security documentation and a sub-processor register are available on request.
Read our security overviewBook a government demonstration tailored to your council's workflows and templates. We also offer a no-cost pilot program so you can prove it works with absolutely no risk.
Choose any lot in NSW and PlanningAI instantly knows the boundary, contours, setbacks, max building height and other key design criteria. Test different designs on the site live for both CDC and DA.
Upload the drawings, pick from your own catalogue or simply describe the home. It's built in 3D on the real lot with the real contours either from our database or matched to an uploaded survey. Talk to the AI to make design changes live and fully visualise the development before any work commences.
Every assessment in the app reads this same 3D model, so your other reports and assessments get more accurate too including SoEEs, BCA Assessments, CDC and DA Assessments.
Every room furnished automatically, kitchens fitted, real design. Click any surface to change the finish, colour or material while your client watches. There are thousands of design combinations to choose from.
Frame any view and PlanningAI renders it as a photograph in about a minute, with the same house, colours and landscaping you designed. Every image here came straight out of PlanningAI, exactly as it was rendered: no retouching, no Photoshop.
For State Significant Development (SSD) and State Significant Infrastructure (SSI) and the consultancies, proponents and determining authorities behind them. Draft against the SEARs you'll be judged on. Then rehearse the adequacy check before the assessor ever sees it.
Months of drafting and review compressed into days. Same team, more projects and higher margin. Plus a real edge when tendering.
SEARs fetched and analysed from the Major Projects Portal. Analyse consultant reports, perform consistency checks and draft chapters in the correct order plus a SEARs compliance table.
Every SEAR checked and every finding page-cited in minutes. Fewer RFIs and less risk of IPC escalation.
A Part 5 REF in the right language on your template. Options, safeguards and a determination confirmed limb by limb.
EIS Generator, REF Generator and EIS Adequacy Review are available per project or by subscription for consultancies, proponents and government teams. They are strictly not included in standard subscriptions or available on free trials.
A battery energy storage system at Kurnell checked against all 60 of its SEARs. Open any requirement to read the finding, the page it cites and why it passed or was flagged.
General chatbots paraphrase planning law from their general training data. PlanningAI is built on the actual NSW instruments and the actual lot and it shows you exactly where every answer came from.
As a CDC, what side and rear setbacks apply to a 7.2 m high, two-storey house on a 15 m wide, 600 m² lot?
Side setbacks are usually around 0.9 m to 1.5 m, and rear setbacks often somewhere between 3 m and 6 m, but they vary from council to council. You should check your local council's DCP for the exact figures.
CDC setbacksCitedAs a CDC, what side and rear setbacks apply to a 7.2 m high, two-storey house on a 15 m wide, 600 m² lot?
Under the Housing Code, a lot 15 m wide at the building line (the >10–18 m band) with an area of 600 m² (the >300–900 m² band) needs:
Citation: State Environmental Planning Policy (Exempt and Complying Development Codes) 2008, Part 3 Housing Code, cl 3.10(4) (side setbacks table) and cl 3.10(10) (rear setbacks table).
Open the exact clause behind any answer. Then accept it, edit it yourself or ask the AI to redraft it.
Every current SEPP, every council's LEP and DCPs, the NCC and about 200 NSW spatial datasets. All refreshed as the law changes.
Verdicts include Uncertain and Missing context and gaps are marked [TO BE CONFIRMED] rather than invented.
Editable Word documents that read as your own work. White-label it all with your logo and branding on every report and export.
Use it on real projects straight away. If it doesn't earn its place in your business, simply walk away.
No setup, no integrations and no onboarding project. Your first real planning output in minutes.
Purpose-built for NSW. You approve everything before it's final and your data stays private.
No credit card to start. No lock-in contracts on any plan.
$250+ GST / month
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Contact usWhat's includedEIS Generator, REF Generator and EIS Adequacy Review are not included in Individual or Team plans. Access is quoted per project or by subscription for consultancies, proponents and government teams. It can also be included in an Enterprise plan.
Councils and government agencies: request a demonstration for public-sector pricing and no-cost pilots.
Still unsure? Start the free trial and run it on a job you've already done. You'll know within the hour.
It is built on about 150,000 NSW planning clauses held word for word, including every council's LEP and DCPs, plus about 200 NSW spatial datasets. Every control cites its clause and anything uncertain is flagged for you rather than guessed. You review and approve everything before it's final.
Professional planning work needs a purpose-built AI solution. That is exactly what PlanningAI has been built for. Generic AI simply doesn't cut it and chatbots are fundamentally restricted in what they can do. The step-by-step interface gives the AI the data and context it needs to deliver accurate outputs.
PlanningAI is configured to be ultra-conservative in its assessments so it doesn't hallucinate like generic AI can. AI validators confirm that everything generated has the facts to back it up. Anything the AI can't determine accurately is flagged as Uncertain or Missing context. Gaps are marked [TO BE CONFIRMED] instead of invented, so you can review just the flagged items. Edit any step yourself or ask the AI to redraft it.
You are, exactly as you would be for a report drafted by a junior. PlanningAI drafts and cites. The professional reviews, edits and signs off. Every report downloads as an editable Word document you finalise under your own name.
No. It prepares, pre-assesses and drafts. The certifier or council planner reviews the work and makes every determination.
No. It removes the repetitive reading, measuring and first drafting so professionals can spend their time on judgement, clients and site visits. The people who use AI well will simply outpace the people who don't.
The library holds every current consolidated SEPP and the LEPs and DCPs across NSW. It is refreshed as instruments change. Every citation shows the clause text itself so you can check it in seconds.
Yes. PlanningAI accommodates any site and LGA in NSW.
Yes. Upload the drawing set and it builds a measured 3D model. Each room is checked against the printed dimensions and anything more than 50 mm out is flagged. The model builds in the background while you carry on working.
All data is stored and hosted in Australia in AWS Sydney. For councils and government, AI is also processed only on Australian-region endpoints. Your data is never used to train models. MFA is mandatory. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit. Every AI action is on the audit trail.
No. Reports are editable Word documents that read as your own work. You can white-label it all with your logo and branding on every report and export.
Sign up with no credit card and a guided start takes you from an address to your first real report. Use it on live projects. If it doesn't earn its place in your business, simply walk away.
Individual plans start at $250 + GST a month. Team and enterprise plans suit larger businesses. There are no lock-in contracts on any plan.
Not in Individual or Team plans. They are priced separately per project or by subscription. They can also be included in an Enterprise plan. They are not available on free trials. Talk to us about access.
Yes. Team plans put everyone on one company account. Work is shared between colleagues and everyone can be logged in at the same time. Certifiers, surveyors and consultants you invite to the Conditions Portal join free.
No. PlanningAI runs in your browser and on your phone with no setup or IT project. The 3D design tools work best on a desktop.
Yes. We run tailored government demonstrations and support no-cost pilot programs with success criteria agreed up front. Request a demonstration and we'll set it up.
They are AI-generated visualisations of your design, made from the exact 3D view you frame. They're for showing clients and aren't used for assessment.
Run it on a real project today. No credit card. No setup. No lock-in.
Questions about the platform, team plans, enterprise pricing or EIS and REF access? Send us a message and we'll come back to you.
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