Planning evidence briefs from official UK data.

CivicProbe helps planning teams turn a site, postcode, or local-policy question into a sourced first-pass brief across planning history, local context, housing, flood risk, demographics, and related official data.

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Planning consultancies and development advisers still lose hours jumping between planning portals, maps, PDFs, spreadsheets, and official datasets just to build a first-pass site evidence note. CivicProbe compresses that work into one sourced workflow, so the first hour of a planning question becomes a brief that can be reviewed.

From site question to evidence

A planning workflow that ends in a sourced brief.

Start with a live site or planning question.

Type the question your team would actually ask about a place, policy area, or development site. CivicProbe assembles the relevant official data and returns a first-pass brief with visible sources.

  • Planning context
  • Source-backed commentary
  • Export-ready first pass
CivicProbe app with planning-focused starting prompts

Evidence across planning, place, and risk.

Combine planning activity, constraints, housing pressure, flood and environmental context, demographics, and local risk signals in the same answer. The UK planning workflow stays the spine.

  • One site, multiple sources
  • UK planning first
  • Reviewable source trail
CivicProbe answer with source-backed evidence summary

Map or chart evidence where the data supports it.

When a question has geographic or numeric evidence, CivicProbe can render maps and charts inside the answer, while keeping the source trail and caveats visible for review.

  • Rendered map evidence
  • Chart-ready data
  • Sources kept visible
CivicProbe answer showing rendered map evidence
Trust first

Every brief should be reviewable by a planner.

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official sources and datasets, used where they support the planning question.Not a catalogue. A source-led evidence workflow.

Source trail

Briefs should show the source, query date, and context behind the evidence so a planner can check the basis of the answer.

Planning data, environmental context, housing signals, and local indicators are kept visible rather than hidden behind a summary.

Designed for review, not blind trust.

Caveats and gaps

The absence of a result is not treated as proof that nothing exists. The brief should make coverage limits and weak evidence explicit.

This matters for planning work, where a quick note still needs to survive professional scrutiny.

Useful uncertainty beats false confidence.

Professional judgement

CivicProbe shortens the first-pass evidence-gathering stage. It does not replace planning judgement, client knowledge, or detailed technical reports.

The goal is to get to the useful first draft faster, with the assumptions exposed.

A faster evidence layer, not a substitute planner.

Who it is for

Built first for planning consultancies.

01 / Primary

Planning consultancies

Build planning context, site appraisal, local-policy, and place evidence notes faster, with sources and caveats visible from the start.

02 / Adjacent

Development advisers

Prepare early due diligence and location context before deeper viability, design, legal, or environmental work begins.

03 / Later

Local insight teams

Produce sourced notes on housing, regeneration, community safety, and local conditions once the planning workflow is proven.

04 / Proof

Researchers and investigators

Use CivicProbe for sourced public-data investigation and evidence gathering where planning or place context is part of the question.

Payment acceptance

Packages for planning, place, and worldwide evidence work.

CivicProbe can sell simple one-off work while keeping the recurring plans clean: monthly for active users, annual for teams that want commitment pricing, and a separate worldwide benchmarking subscription for international public-data work.

One-off

Single Evidence Brief

£349

One sourced planning or place evidence brief for a live site, postcode, or context question.

  • One scoped evidence question
  • Official source trail
  • PDF or Word-ready output
Select package
One-off pilot

4-Week Design Partner Pilot

£1,500

Founder-supported pilot for teams testing CivicProbe on real planning and context workflows.

  • Up to 3 users
  • Live onboarding
  • Real site and context questions
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Monthly

Professional

£199/mo

Monthly access for an individual consultant, adviser, or researcher.

  • Planning/place research workspace
  • Exports
  • Limited Stitch reports
Select package
Monthly team

Team

£799/mo

Monthly access for small planning, property, or research teams.

  • Team pilot access
  • Higher report volume
  • Workflow support
Select package
Annual team

Team Annual

£7,990/yr

Annual team package for organisations ready to standardise the workflow.

  • Annual team access
  • Priority onboarding
  • Commercial review included
Select package
Worldwide data

Research & Worldwide Benchmarking

£399/mo

International policy, ESG, health, economy, and emissions benchmarking using global data sources.

  • World Bank, WHO, UN, Eurostat, Climate TRACE
  • Cross-country comparisons
  • Benchmark evidence briefs
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Card payment is handled by Stripe. CivicProbe stores the package, contact email, organisation, and Stripe session identifiers, not card numbers.

Recommended launch mix: keep one-off payments for briefs and design-partner pilots, offer monthly subscriptions for active individual and team use, keep annual as a discounted commitment option, and split worldwide benchmarking into its own subscription because the value and source set are different.

Run CivicProbe on one live site or planning question.

Tell us a little about your team and we will follow up about a walkthrough and pilot fit. No automated funnel, no marketing sequence. Just a real conversation around the evidence workflow.

What happens next
A short walkthrough around a real geography.
A clear yes or no on pilot fit.
No follow-up sequence if it is not relevant.
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