The repetitive office work — fee proposals, consent forms, the RFI scramble, re-keying every job — pulled into one place. Starting with the council application vetter Richard asked for.
Cardrona Hotel — building consent
Predicted RFI from G. Harwood (weathertightness) ~day 18. Close it now to keep the clock running.
The reality today
Straight from the discovery call — the work Richard does every week that the platform takes off his plate.
2.5–3 hrs
Every fee proposal
Manually gathering operative + proposed district-plan info for the project section — by hand, every time.
~a full day
To lodge a consent
Filling in council forms for a single building consent. Clients grumble, but they have to pay it.
Day 18–19
The RFI clock game
Council holds the application, then issues an RFI near the deadline — stopping the 20-day clock.
×3
Triple-handling jobs
Every new job re-keyed across the Auckland server, the southern server and the laptop.
The platform
Nothing here forces anyone to change how they work — it sits alongside the current tools. Built, prototype, or roadmap is labelled on every screen.
Pre-submission consent vetter
Submit to this before council. It scores every required item, predicts the RFIs and tells you which officer will raise them.
OpenPractice dashboard
Every job, stage and deadline on one screen — the spine the whole platform plugs into.
OpenFee proposal generator
NZIA complexity × cost × the per-m² model, amalgamated. The 2.5–3 hours per proposal, gone.
OpenCouncil eDocs & RFI tracker
Every consent on the statutory clock, the predicted RFI, and a response drafter.
OpenDocument auto-fill
Outline specs and schedules, auto-filled from the job and the latest drawing.
OpenTimesheet → Xero → billing
Capture time once — including drawing-board time — and feed it straight to invoicing.
OpenFor Richard & the directors
This was built in a day from public information and the recording of our conversation. Send through your blank templates and an example fee proposal, and the next version is trained on JCY's own way of working.