Thefuturefox offers ConsultAI, an AI‑driven platform that automatically ingests consultation data from any source—online surveys, emails, letters, PDFs, or scanned documents—and produces fully editable, committee‑ready reports. Each summary is traceable to the original comment, providing a complete audit trail that meets UK planning regulations and data‑protection standards, reducing months of manual analysis to hours for local authorities and other planners.
Funding
$500K raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Problem
Public authorities and planners must analyse thousands of free‑text comments from statutory and non‑statutory consultations, a process that is labor‑intensive, prone to error, and difficult to audit, often causing delays in producing committee‑ready reports.
Solution
ConsultAI is an AI‑driven platform that ingests consultation data from any source—online survey exports, emails, letters, PDFs, or scanned documents—and automatically structures, categorises, and summarises the feedback. The system generates complete, editable reports where every summary is linked back to the original comment, providing a full audit trail that satisfies regulatory scrutiny. Outputs are delivered in common formats (CSV, XLSX, Word, PDF) and can be reviewed or edited by planners before final sign‑off. By compressing months of manual analysis into hours, ConsultAI enables authorities to move from consultation close to committee submission in days to weeks, while maintaining compliance with UK planning regulations and data protection standards.
Target Audience
Primary customers are local authority planning teams, government agencies, and private developers who conduct high‑volume statutory consultations such as Local Plans, transport reviews, planning applications, and strategy documents.
Features
- Automatic ingestion of data from any platform or file type, including CSV, XLSX, PDFs, and OCR‑processed scanned or handwritten documents
- AI‑powered thematic categorisation and summarisation with traceability of each insight to its source comment
- Generation of fully editable, committee‑ready reports in multiple formats (Word, PDF, spreadsheet) with built‑in audit trails
- Compliance‑focused design that meets UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act, and statutory consultation regulations (Regulations 18/19/22)
- Scalable performance demonstrated on consultations ranging from 5,000 to 28,000 comments
- Secure UK‑based infrastructure with transparent subprocessors and no use of client data for model training