What other planners are saying...
Emma Larsen, Head of Resource Consents
"Rico is a key part of our action plan to improve our timeframes and deliver a quality resource consent service, by streamlining planning assessments, removing administrative tasks and allowing our planners to focus on the planner stuff that requires their skills and expertise."
Every year, councils and planning consultants lose thousands of hours to slow, inconsistent reporting and decision-making…
This isn’t just a frustration—it’s a roadblock, costing applicants and communities millions of dollars and slowing down outcomes.​ Rico helps planners work smarter, improving the quality of reports and underlying decision-making.
Faster Decisions: Smarter Report Templating
The average planner spends about 30% of their time formatting, copy-pasting, and piecing together responses. Rico moves report-writing into modern digital workflows where technology adds automation and efficiency.
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Leverage pre-drafted templates and existing assessments to guide your team through new responses faster and more accurately.
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Streamline your team’s workflow so every report is faster to draft—and easier to finalize.
Better Decisions: Process-Driven Assessments
When decisions take too long, it’s often because fear of error and complexity slow down the process. Planners feel the weight of client, public and legal scrutiny, and that pressure creates room for overthinking, bias, or inconsistency.
Rico introduces a process-driven approach that reduces errors and helps planners ensure they've covered the bases to make confident, accurate decisions.
More Control, Less Review and Rework: Centralised Approach
Word documents get messy and unruly, making it hard to keep teams on the same page and reports consistent.
Inconsistent or out of date wording and unstructured formatting, result in manual corrections that waste senior planners’ time. Rico simplifies this by centralising your templates and workflows:
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Maintain control over report structures, wording, and formatting.
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Ensure team-wide consistency while freeing senior planners to focus on high-value work.
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Consolidate reporting into a single, powerful system that eliminates silos and inefficiencies.​
Made for planning, and all its quirks!
Handles complex, changeable rules
Rico has the flexibility needed to handle the quirks, exceptions and other complexities of continually changing planning rules and regulations.
Keeps planners in the driver's seat
Rico avoids any overstep or interference with your professional judgements and sticking to the mundane work not worth your time.
Personalised to your approach
You can completely customise the look, feel and flow of your assessments and reports and output these in a flexible Word (.docx) format.
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