The short version
myLot is a multi-state AI planning platform for Australian councils. Its proven flagship is Enquire — a 24/7, multi-lingual resident enquiry chat — alongside a newer planner-facing assessment product, Assess. It operates across Victoria, NSW and Queensland.
PlanSuite is purpose-built for the Victorian planning system. It covers all 79 Victorian local government areas, reads live VicPlan and Vicmap data, and produces six council-ready statutory report types. Its zone and overlay determinations are designed to match the VicPlan property report a Victorian planner verifies against.
If you work across multiple states and want a resident self-service front door, myLot is a strong fit. If your work is Victorian statutory planning — where every overlay, clause and determination has to match the scheme exactly — PlanSuite is built for that.
Side by side
| PlanSuite | myLot | |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Victoria, in depth — all 79 LGAs | Multi-state — VIC, NSW, QLD |
| Property & spatial data | Live Victorian planning data; overlays/zones designed to match the VicPlan property report | "Real-time regulation and mapping data" and "authoritative mapping data" (their words) |
| How the AI answers | Reads the actual scraped scheme ordinance and cites the specific clauses relied on | LLMs that "draw directly from local legislation" (their words) |
| Reports | Six types — Permit Required, Initial Assessment, Delegate, Subdivision, Town Planning Assessment, Compliance & Permit Review — in editable Word, PDF & HTML | Assess "completes repetitive report sections" with report templates (formats not specified publicly) |
| Resident self-service chat | PlanSuite Chat answers any Victorian planning related questions — multi-lingual too | Enquire — a dedicated 24/7 resident enquiry service |
| Audience | Councils, consultants, developers, compliance & enforcement teams & residents via Maps and Chat | Councils & state government (and their residents) |
This comparison reflects our opinion, not an independent or impartial assessment. It is based on publicly available information as of May 2026, sourced from mylot.ai. myLot product and feature claims are quoted from their website.
Where PlanSuite is different
VicPlan-accurate by design. Reading the legislation is not the same as getting this parcel right. PlanSuite's overlay and zone determination is built to match the VicPlan property report — the artefact a Victorian planner checks against — down to which overlays actually affect the land versus merely sit nearby.
Cited, scheme-based answers. The AI reads the actual ordinance text and shows the clauses it relied on, so a planner can verify the reasoning rather than trust a black box.
Six council-ready report types. Permit Required, Initial Assessment, Delegate, Subdivision, Town Planning Assessment, and Compliance & Permit Review — all exported as editable Word, plus PDF and HTML, so a planner finalises rather than retypes.
Built by a Victorian planner. PlanSuite is built by a practising Victorian local government planner, so it follows the way Victorian schemes actually work — not a generic engine adapted after the fact.
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 myLot might be the better fit
myLot is a strong product, and there are genuinely cases where it's the better choice:
- •You work across multiple states (Victoria, NSW and Queensland) and want one platform spanning all of them.
- •Your top priority is a 24/7 resident enquiry front door to deflect routine questions from your planning team.
- •You want the resident-facing experience first, with planner assessment tooling a secondary consideration.
Where PlanSuite earns its place is the other end of that: deep Victorian statutory assessment, with zones, overlays and reports built to match the scheme exactly.
See PlanSuite on your own properties
Run a real Victorian address and see the zones, overlays and a council-ready report — then judge the accuracy yourself.
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