AI-Powered Application Intake for
Faster Assessments
Parcel-specific feasibility and planning scheme controls, powered by AI, so your team can triage faster and decide sooner.
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Built on the PermitNow AI Permissibility Engine, FrontDesk delivers trusted, site-specific planning guidance powered by your planning controls and spatial data.
Platform
PermitNow
Consistent guidance. Better applications. One source of truth.
The end-to-end PermitNow journey
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- Property & Spatial Data
- Planning Controls
- Eligible Developments
- AI Planning Guidance
Shared platform services
Purpose-Built for Housing Acceleration
Our proven granny flat & new dwelling pre-check model gives councils a fast, transparent way to increase compliant submissions and speed approvals.
More compliant submissions. Faster approvals. A transparent, modern public process.
Reduce preventable development assessment delays, before assessment begins.
Fewer "what can I do here?" calls and council enquiries
Cleaner first submissions through clearer requirements up front
Faster, more consistent intake triage across teams and shifts
Fewer redesigns driven by late-discovered constraints
The Intelligence behind every Development Assessment
The #1 software that uses AI Permissibility Engine to instantly check every plan against your council's own planning controls, before it ever reaches an assessment officer's desk.
Rule Inputs
Powered by the AI Permissibility Engine
Decision Output
Built on Your Planning Controls
Configured to your planning scheme, overlays and development standards.
One Shared Source of Truth
The same controls power both applicant guidance and staff workflows.
Decision Support
AI accelerates assessments while planning officers remain in control.
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