Built for Design Professionals
Design professionals, whether architects, engineers, surveyors, draftspeople, certifiers, or compliance specialists, work in an environment where accuracy isn’t optional. A missed overlay, a misread setback, or a dataset that hasn’t been updated since the last planning scheme amendment can mean a redesign, a resubmission, or worse, a compliance dispute with a client. uDrew gives practitioners verified, live site intelligence and compliant design tools to make confident decisions from the first moment of engagement, before any design time is committed to a site that hasn’t been properly understood.
Three Tools. One Workflow.
uDrew gives design professionals the ability to assess site feasibility, create compliant layouts, and present verified options to clients, all from one connected platform.
uDrew OnSite surfaces planning constraints, overlay conditions, environmental controls, AS/NZS-compliant design criteria, and infrastructure requirements instantly for any property. Only uDrew calculates the site engineering and design criteria that normally take days and thousands of dollars to commission, geotechnical conditions, site classifications, wind ratings, corrosion categories, AHD ground levels, and utility depths. Design professionals use it to assess what applies to a site before any design investment is made, replacing manual research and fragmented data sources with a single, verified source of current planning intelligence.
uDrew Studio is where verified site intelligence becomes a compliant, professional design. Layouts are created and adjusted interactively, with live validation ensuring every decision stays within the planning rules that apply to the specific property. When the design is finalised, the council-ready documentation is already prepared, accurate, consistent, and ready for submission. No post-design formatting step. No manual compliance check. No risk of a formatting error creating an unnecessary delay. Get all the information right the first time, from a single source.
The designs produced in uDrew Studio flow directly into Connect for client and council presentation. Share plans digitally with clients for sign-off, with councils and certifiers for assessment, or with project teams for internal review. Because every Connect visual is generated from the same validated Studio design, everyone in the project workflow is looking at the same accurate, compliant picture. For practices producing tender documentation or working across multi-stakeholder projects, Connect turns fragmented approval processes into a single, traceable conversation.
Hear It From Design Professionals
The practices and firms using uDrew aren’t just working faster, they’re producing more accurate work, reducing professional risk, and winning projects they would otherwise have lost to slower competitors. uDrew puts the kind of planning intelligence that was previously only available to large developers with dedicated resources into the hands of every practice that wants to operate at the highest level of efficiency, accuracy, and professional confidence.
Results that deliver
Design professionals who use uDrew don’t just reduce rework, they deliver a standard of accuracy and compliance that builds client confidence and sets their practice apart.
uDrew users report saving 2 to 4 hours per project on feasibility research and desktop study time, with site classifications, geotechnical conditions, overlays, and council requirements surfaced instantly. That time saving compounds quickly across a busy practice, creating genuine capacity without additional headcount.
Grosvenor Engineering Group report cutting approximately 6 hours of labour per project after integrating uDrew. Compliance validated throughout the design process rather than reviewed at lodgement means submissions are accurate the first time, with far fewer queries and resubmissions from council.
Design decisions grounded in verified live data rather than manual interpretation narrow the margin for compliance disputes. What uDrew presents reflects current planning scheme requirements, not a practitioner’s reading of them.
Whether a senior practitioner or a graduate is running the project, council-ready documentation is produced to the same standard every time. The quality of the output doesn’t depend on who completed the research.
FAQs
Everything you need to know about site planning, compliance, and how uDrew fits into the way your practice operates.
Yes. Every design built in uDrew Studio is validated against current planning rules as you work, and Studio includes the design tools your practice needs to produce professional, scaled documentation without separate formatting or drafting steps. When the design is finalised, the documentation exports correctly formatted for councils, certifiers, and project teams.
Yes. uDrew OnSite automatically reports the constraints most likely to affect design feasibility: boundary setbacks, easements, zoning overlays, heritage and environmental controls, and council-specific planning requirements, using live data for the specific property. Those constraints carry directly into uDrew Studio, so as the design develops, any decision that intersects with a rule that matters is flagged the moment it happens.
By confirming site constraints and compliance information upfront, uDrew gives design professionals a verified source of current planning intelligence, replacing manual interpretation with documented, auditable data. Every decision made in Studio is validated against the planning rules that apply at the time of design, which narrows the margin for compliance disputes with clients, councils, or insurers.
Most tools handle one slice of the workflow. CAD platforms draw, compliance tools check at lodgement, planning portals serve raw data. The work of joining them up still falls to the practitioner. uDrew brings the full process into one connected platform, with verified planning and environmental datasets feeding directly into a design environment that validates against current rules as you work. That means setbacks, easements, overlays, AS/NZS criteria and site engineering are not a separate review step, they are part of the design itself. The output is a council-ready document, formatted to professional standards, produced from the same dataset your team has been working with from the first site enquiry. Practices like Grosvenor Engineering have reported saving around 6 hours of labour per project after integrating uDrew into their workflow.
Winning new work as a design practice usually comes down to two things: how quickly you can respond to an enquiry with something credible, and how well a prospective client can picture the outcome. uDrew Connect addresses both. Connect Live embeds an interactive design experience on your practice website, so an enquiry arrives with the property already assessed and a working concept already on screen, qualified before your team picks up the phone. Connect Display lets you take that same experience to industry events and client presentations, with compliant designs placed on a real address rather than illustrative imagery. And because every design shown through Connect is grounded in the same verified site data your team uses behind the scenes, the work you present at the pitch is the work you can stand by at lodgement.
See uDrew on a Design Project
Architects, engineers, surveyors and consultants need to be right the first time. uDrew gives you verified site data and live compliance validation from the first enquiry, so the work you present is the work you can stand by at lodgement. Book a demo on a property you know.