Insight

Some businesses may not survive it. AI is becoming a strategic dividing line for councils, developers, consultancies and others working across planning, development, and approvals.

One of the reasons Australians love January is that it’s quiet. Emails slow down. Meetings drop off. The constant urgent requests disappear. And suddenly you can think. You plan.

Why developers and planning consultants will move first. If history tells us anything, it’s that real innovation in planning rarely begins in government. It begins in industry.

AI helps purposeful planners deliver meaningful places for us to live, work, and belong, and the future we want

Early in my career, I nearly left planning, then worked on 20-minute neighbourhoods, and founded Spero-ai; spero is Latin for hope, which we’re restoring to the planning system.