Feasibility tools model whether to buy the land. Construction software runs the contractor. Development delivery — the years of approvals, design, authority coordination, claims and compliance in between — has run on spreadsheets, inboxes and disconnected portals. Engis is the operating system built for exactly that work.
Development delivery software manages a land development project from the day the planning permit is issued to the day the Statement of Compliance is achieved and lots title. It is the system of record for the delivery phases in between: functional layout, detailed design, authority approvals, tender, construction phase services, and compliance close-out.
It is a distinct category. Feasibility platforms answer an acquisition question and stop. Construction management tools are built around a head contractor running site work. Practice management systems track a consultancy’s hours and invoices but know nothing about permits, referral authorities, or subdivision compliance. Development delivery sits across all of it — one project, many authorities, many consultants, one commercial outcome — and that is the gap Engis is built to close.
On a typical subdivision, the delivery record is scattered across council portals, referral-authority correspondence, consultant fee spreadsheets, a document folder tree, a GIS viewer someone half-maintains, and hundreds of email threads. Nobody can answer basic questions quickly: which permit conditions are still open, which approvals block the next phase, how much fee is burnt against each stage, what was claimed and what was certified.
One environment, structured around the phases an Australian development project actually moves through — planning permit, functional layout, detailed design, tender, construction, Statement of Compliance.
Projects are structured around real delivery phases with budgets, status and schedule — including a dependency-aware programme with finish-to-start, start-to-start and lag logic. Portfolio dashboards roll every project up into one live view.
Track every permit condition through to close-out, with dependencies between conditions, approvals and phases. AI extraction reads permit and planning documentation and builds the condition register for you.
A structured record of councils, water authorities and referral bodies on each project — who owns which approval, what has been submitted, what is outstanding — instead of a trail of portal logins and email threads.
Fee budgets by phase, live work-in-progress and ageing, progress claims, variations and invoicing in one commercial view. Claims can push to Xero, with payment status syncing back automatically.
A controlled document register with numbering, transmittals, RFIs and submittals — the delivery paper trail in one place, linked to the project record it belongs to.
Live parcel, zoning, overlay, flood and utility-asset layers from Australian authority services — Vicmap, planning schemes, Melbourne Water and water authorities across states — on an interactive map inside the project workspace.
A delivery-focused risk register alongside the projects it concerns, so risk review is part of running the job rather than a standalone spreadsheet ritual.
Weekly timesheet grids feeding WIP and fee burn directly, so the commercial position reflects the hours actually going into each phase.
Drop a contract, fee proposal or program and ask questions of it. Engis reads AS 2124 and AS 4000 style contracts, extracts key terms, and pre-fills project setup from fee proposals.
A development project is delivered by a network — developer, consultants, council, utilities. Engis gives each a working view of the same record.
Portfolio-level visibility of phases, approvals, spend and risk across every active project — without waiting for a monthly consultant report.
Delivery and the business of delivery together: project control alongside fees, WIP, timesheets, claims and variations for the firm.
Structured application, referral and permit workflows, engineering approvals, inspections and asset handover — built as council-grade workflows, not a contractor tool with the logo swapped.
Visibility of the developments touching your network and the approvals you own within them.
Feasibility software models acquisition — yield, funding, margin — and ends at the purchase decision. Engis begins where feasibility ends: it runs the delivery of the project you now own. It includes site feasibility context, but its centre of gravity is delivery.
Construction platforms are built around a head contractor administering site works. Development delivery is broader and longer: permits, referral authorities, design phases and compliance sit outside a contractor’s scope, and they are where development programmes are usually won or lost.
Practice management systems track hours and invoices for any professional firm. They have no concept of a planning permit, a referral authority, a parcel, or a Statement of Compliance. Engis carries the commercial layer and the delivery domain in the same system.
Development delivery software is the system of record for a land development project between planning permit and Statement of Compliance — tracking phases, permit conditions, authority approvals, fees, claims, documents and risk in one place. It is distinct from feasibility software (which models the acquisition decision) and construction management software (which administers the contractor’s site works).
No. Engis is built for the delivery side of development — developers, consulting engineers, councils and authorities — rather than for a head contractor running site production. It manages approvals, conditions, commercial control and documents across the whole programme, including the long pre-construction phases contractor tools never see.
Engis is structured around Australian development delivery: planning permits and permit conditions, referral authorities, functional layout and detailed design phases, progress claims and variations, GST-aware invoicing, and subdivision compliance through to Statement of Compliance. Its spatial layer draws live from Australian authority services such as Vicmap and Melbourne Water.
In Australia. Engis runs on Australian-region infrastructure with per-firm data isolation enforced at the database level, and each tenant’s isolation is verified by automated tests on every release.
Engis is currently onboarding firms directly. You can request a three-day sandbox preview on synthetic data, book a demo, or contact the team — access is provisioned per firm rather than by self-serve signup.
Request a sandbox preview on realistic synthetic data, or book a 20-minute demo walking through a live delivery programme.
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