The short version
Mosaic is a map-first planning-data platform built by Mecone, a national urban planning consultancy. It layers zoning, height, heritage, lot size, flood, bushfire, housing targets and demographic data on an interactive map across Australia, with a free tier and paid Plus and Pro plans. Its premium insights — development application pipelines, property sales, land valuations and an automated site finder — are deepest in NSW.
PlanSuite answers a different question. It's an AI planning assessment platform for Victoria: it reads the planning scheme, works out whether a permit is required and why, and produces council-ready reports — across all 79 Victorian LGAs.
Put simply: Mosaic shows you what the controls are on a map; PlanSuite tells you what you can do and writes it up. For strategic map research they sit comfortably side by side — Mosaic for the layers, PlanSuite for the Victorian determination.
Side by side
| PlanSuite | Mecone Mosaic | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary job | Planning determination & council-ready reports | Planning-data map layers & strategic analysis |
| "Do I need a permit?" | Answers it — with reasoning and a report | Surfaces the controls for you to interpret; Mecone offers human consulting for advice |
| Zones & overlays | Determines which actually affect the parcel (matched to the VicPlan report) and interprets them against the proposal | Displayed as map layers; updates appear 1–2 weeks after gazettal |
| Scheme text | Reads the live ordinance text and cites the clauses relied on | Map layers and site snapshots — not clause-level interpretation |
| Reports | Six council-ready statutory reports — Permit, Initial Assessment, Delegate, Subdivision, Town Planning, Compliance — in editable Word, PDF & HTML | Site snapshot PDF exports (Plus and Pro plans) |
| Coverage | Victoria — all 79 LGAs, in depth | Australia-wide map layers; premium DA, sales & valuation insights are NSW-focused |
| Audience | Planners, councils, consultants, developers | Planners, developers, researchers & Mecone's consulting clients |
This comparison reflects our opinion, not an independent or impartial assessment. It is based on publicly available information as of June 2026, sourced from meconemosaic.au. Mosaic feature and plan claims are quoted from their website.
Where PlanSuite is different
It answers the planning question. Mosaic shows you the layers; PlanSuite reads the scheme and tells you whether a permit is required, on what grounds — and produces the assessment to back it.
VicPlan-accurate determinations. Beyond showing overlay map layers, PlanSuite works out which overlays actually affect a parcel — built to match the VicPlan property report a Victorian planner verifies against.
Reads the actual scheme, live. The AI reads the current planning ordinance text and cites the clauses it relied on — not a map layer that updates a week or two after gazettal.
Six council-ready report types. Permit, Initial Assessment, Delegate, Subdivision, Town Planning Assessment and Compliance — exported as editable Word, plus PDF and HTML.
Minimum input from you. We know you hate filling out forms. PlanSuite works the answer out from what it can already see — your address, the plans you upload, and the live planning record behind them — so you do almost nothing and the results are still thorough.
When Mosaic is the better fit
Mosaic is a genuinely useful research tool, and for a lot of work it's exactly the right one:
- •You're doing strategic or multi-state map research — housing targets, demographics, renewable energy zones and infrastructure corridors layered on one map.
- •You're working in NSW, where Mosaic's development application pipeline, property sales, land valuation and planning proposal insights are deepest.
- •You want to find sites at scale with its automated site-finder and build your own spatial datasets in its Workbench.
Where PlanSuite picks up is the next step: once you know the property, PlanSuite tells you what you can do on it under the Victorian scheme and produces the council-ready planning report. Many people run both.
Get the planning answer, not just the layers
Run a Victorian address and see PlanSuite determine the zones, overlays and whether a permit is required — with a council-ready report to match.
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