Councils are under unprecedented pressure
Professional staffing shortages. Devolution mandates that redraw the map. Continuous national planning reform. Budgets that shrink while statutory consultation volumes rise.
The result is a growing operational crisis: teams buried under backlogs, asked to deliver significantly more with materially less.
40%+
real-terms fall in planning budgets since 2010
1 in 4
public sector planners lost to the private sector in a decade
800+
statutory duties every council must keep delivering
Better decisions shouldn’t require more staff
You cannot recruit your way out of a capacity crisis. The answer is not more administrative headcount. It is giving the officers you already have their time back.
WE WILL NEVER REPLACE
- Professional judgement
- Statutory decision-making
- Local knowledge and context
- Officer accountability
WE TAKE OFF YOUR DESK
- Reading thousand-page PDF bundles
- Copying objections into Word templates
- Hunting across legacy case systems
- Re-keying consultee responses
- Building summary tables by hand
AI-powered decision support where it adds the most value
Our engine ingests public comments and statutory consultee responses as they arrive. It tags stance and topic, surfaces policy bottlenecks and drafts the evidence base for officer reports.
Unstructured correspondence goes in. Organised, actionable insight comes out.
