Reply to consultants, authorities and the owner's questions
Drafts can come from the project file. Anything that changes scope, cost or risk is checked by the manager.
AI for Development Managers
Development Manager
Oversees property development projects, coordinates consultants and approvals, tracks budgets and timelines, and reports progress to owners or investors.
What should stay human.
Keep and amplify
Advise the owner on whether a site or scheme should go ahead
Check planning controls, overlays and approval pathways for a site
Write a feasibility pack, board paper or progress report
Automate
Coordinate consultant meetings, site visits and authority dates
Log time and decisions against the project
Tasks, by type of work.
Each task has an experience tag (CX, SX or BX), a verdict, and example agents that often help with this kind of work. Agent suggestions come from our editorial scores, not vendor claims.
Inbox
Bookings & calendar
Coordinate consultant meetings, site visits and authority dates
Finding times across a large consultant team is a scheduling job.
Phone & voice
Talk through a delay, defect or disputed variation with a builder or authority
This needs judgement and a firm conversation.
Spreadsheets & data
Review the project budget, programme and variations
An agent can flag variances. The manager decides what to accept, resist or re-forecast.
Log time and decisions against the project
Notes and time can be prefilled from meetings and the file.
Documents
Write a feasibility pack, board paper or progress report
An agent can assemble figures, maps and a first draft. The manager stands behind the recommendation.
Research
Check planning controls, overlays and approval pathways for a site
An agent can find and summarise the relevant controls quickly. The manager must interpret them for the scheme.
Customer chat
Advise the owner on whether a site or scheme should go ahead
Feasibility, risk and capital are professional judgement. This stays a human conversation.
Admin
Track planning approvals, permits and lodgement deadlines
An agent can keep the register and warn early. The manager decides when a delay needs escalation.
Walk the site and check progress against the programme
Seeing what's actually being built, and the problems on the ground, needs the manager on site.
Time freed, and where it goes.
Work an agent can take on
What comes off the desk.
- Coordinate consultant meetings, site visits and authority dates
- Log time and decisions against the project
Where those hours should go
Back into people, and the business.
- CX — Advise the owner on whether a site or scheme should go ahead
- CX — Reply to consultants, authorities and the owner's questions
- CX — Talk through a delay, defect or disputed variation with a builder or authority
- SX — Staff experience: more time for the work that needs a person
- BX — Check planning controls, overlays and approval pathways for a site
- BX — Write a feasibility pack, board paper or progress report
- BX — Track planning approvals, permits and lodgement deadlines
- BX — Review the project budget, programme and variations
- BX — Walk the site and check progress against the programme
Seen at
Business types where this role often appears, with a note on how it shows up there.
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