Built by a developer.
Designed for planners.

The Problem We Saw

It started with a conversation. A close friend and experienced urban planner described her typical workday: juggling twelve active projects across spreadsheets, email threads, shared drives, and sticky notes. Client calls asking for updates she had to manually dig up. Agency reviews tracked in color-coded cells that only made sense to her. Invoices disconnected from the projects they belonged to.

She didn't need another generic project management tool. She needed something built specifically for the way urban planners actually work — permits, plan checks, agency reviews, client communication, zoning data, and financial tracking, all connected in one place.

The Solution We Built

UrbanPlanning.app was built from real conversations with real planners. Every feature exists because a planning professional said, "I wish I had something that could do this."

The Plan Check Tracker? Built because tracking agency reviews across multiple departments in a spreadsheet was a full-time job by itself. The Client Portal? Built because planners were spending hours every week answering the same status questions by phone and email. The GIS Maps? Built because location context shouldn't require switching to a separate tool.

We didn't start with a business plan. We started with a problem that needed solving — and we kept building until the people who live this work every day said, "This is what I've been looking for."

Our Approach

We believe the best software is built close to the people who use it. That's why UrbanPlanning.app is shaped by ongoing feedback from planning consultants, municipal staff, and permit expeditors who use the platform daily.

We're a small, focused team. We ship fast, we listen carefully, and we don't build features that don't solve real problems. Every update is informed by how planners actually work — not how we imagine they might.

What Drives Us