Christchurch City Council publishes every resource consent received and issued across the district. It is, in theory, public. In practice, it is a cryptic spreadsheet with no map, no search, no alerts, and no summary, buried in a corner of the council website where almost nobody looks.
Meanwhile the people whose livelihoods depend on knowing what is being built, where, and by whom (the builders, designers, developers, suppliers, and investors of this city) are paying for patchy second-hand information, or finding out weeks late when a project is already on site.
Consented exists to close that gap. We take the council's raw data, refreshed daily, and turn it into something a working professional can actually use: personalised email digests on your chosen cadence, and a live dashboard you can filter by suburb, developer, or consent type.
Public data should be usable. Information that gives one side of a market an advantage over the other shouldn't be locked behind friction. It should be in front of the people who can act on it. Our job is to remove the friction and put the signal in your inbox before your competitors find it.
We are not a council. We are not a real-estate portal. We are not an AI startup chasing a trend. We are a small Christchurch team building a focused tool for one city and four kinds of professional. We plan to be very good at exactly that before we are anything else.
One flat plan, $49 NZD per month, everything included. No tiers, no upsells, no “contact sales”.
Christchurch first. We will get this right for one city before we think about a second. Future expansion will be announced when the data, the people, and the local knowledge are all in place. Not before.
If you want to know more, or you have feedback on what would make Consented more useful to your work, get in touch. We read every message.