About

A planning practice with a database behind it,
and a person’s name on every report

answers one question about a property: what is allowed to be done with it. We answer it in writing, from the planning instrument in force, Council’s own mapping and the decisions Council has actually made nearby, and a named person signs the answer.

The company

Casa Intelligence Pty Ltd

Legal entity
Casa Intelligence Pty Ltd
ABN
41 695 129 465
Registered for GST
Yes, since 10 September 2026
Based
Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
Founded
2026
Founders
Robbie Spooner and Finlay Schulz
Email
hello@casaintelligence.com.au
Phone
0417 029 036
What we sell

Two things, priced on the page

  • A preliminary planning report, $199. For any address in Australia. Every option the land supports, the approval pathway each one takes, the provisions that decide it quoted word for word, and a written statement of what was not checked. Delivered by email within three business days. If we cannot cover an address we say so and do not charge. Order one.
  • A development application, quoted per job. We prepare the planning report and assessment tables, coordinate the specialists Council will ask for, lodge, and answer Council’s information requests. Every document is reviewed and signed by the person named below before it is lodged. How that works.
  • Agency accounts, $150 a report, invoiced monthly. Real estate offices order on one link with no card and no login. The agency program.
Who does the work

Two founders, and no call centre

You deal with the people who prepare and sign your work. There is nobody between you and them.

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Robbie Spooner

Co-founder and Director, planning

Robbie prepares and signs every planning report and runs every development application. He holds a Master of Architecture and built the planning database and the measurement tools the reports are drawn from, so the research is automated and the judgements are his.

Qualifications and background
Master of Architecture · Town planning, site assessment and development applications across Queensland, with reports delivered interstate
Responsible for
Every report and every DA: the research record, the pathway decisions, the measured site plan, the assessment tables, the lodgement and the responses to Council.
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Finlay Schulz

Co-founder and Director, agencies and clients

Finlay came to Casa from residential real estate, where he sold more than $20 million of property in a year. He works with the agencies and owners who use the reports, sets up agency accounts, and is the person a client speaks to about what a report means for a sale or a purchase.

Qualifications and background
Residential real estate sales, Sunshine Coast and South East Queensland · More than $20 million in residential sales in a single year before co-founding Casa
Responsible for
Agency accounts and partnerships, client relationships, and the listing and sales side of every job.

Specialists (surveyors, civil and structural engineers, geotechnical and flood consultants, ecologists, traffic and acoustic engineers) are external. A report names the ones a site will need; a development application engages them, and their reports are lodged under their own names.

How a report is made

Automated research, human judgement, one signature

  1. Step 1

    The record is assembled

    The parcel is drawn from the cadastre and read against our own planning database (285,000+ development applications and 1.4 million properties with their zone, overlays and lot geometry), the planning instrument in force at that parcel, and Council's live mapping. This part is automated and the same for every address.

  2. Step 2

    The provisions are quoted

    Every rule the answer depends on is quoted from the scheme text, not paraphrased. The report says where a figure came from and, when something is not held for a site, says so instead of assuming it.

  3. Step 3

    A person decides

    Robbie Spooner reads the record, decides each pathway, measures what has to be measured on the plan, and writes the findings. When the answer needs a specialist, the report names the discipline rather than guessing at their answer.

  4. Step 4

    It is signed and sent

    Nothing leaves without a named person having checked it against the sources. The report is sent by email with a site plan drawn to scale. A factual error is corrected and reissued at no charge.

Read a complete, real report before you order: Dual occupancy (a duplex) at 166 Jesmond Road Indooroopilly, Secondary dwelling (a granny flat) at 6 Finlay Street Slacks Creek, Townhouses at 21 Regency Place Mudgeeraba, Placing a dwelling on a constrained site at 7 Hartwig Crescent Mount Warren Park.

Recent work

Three jobs, described by what was actually done

We do not claim approvals we have not been granted. Each of these says what was asked, what we did, and where it stands.

Agency listing, on account

Three adjoining rural-residential lots, Purga (Ipswich)

Asked
The listing agency, ordering on its monthly account, wanted to tell buyers what each lot allowed: a second dwelling, a new house, and what the flood mapping meant for each.
Done
Each lot read against the Ipswich planning scheme, Council's flood and overlay mapping and Council's own historic flood reports; a planning assessment across the holding and a buildability assessment with a measured site plan.
Where it stands
Two written reports delivered to the agency on 24 September 2026. Two of the lots do not support a second dwelling under the scheme as it stands; one has a site for a new house. The agency uses the reports with buyers; no application has been lodged.
Planning project

A four-lot character holding, Bundamba (Ipswich)

Asked
The owner wanted four small lots realigned into three, keeping two pre-1946 houses on the front lots and creating a rear lot for a later dwelling.
Done
Stage one desktop assessment, a concept plan with lot areas and frontages, and a written pre-lodgement enquiry to Ipswich City Council with a twelve-item agenda tied to the scheme provisions (lot size, hatchet-lot outcomes, flood evacuation area, mining influence, character area).
Where it stands
Council answered in writing within two business days: the realignment is code assessable, it named the benchmarks and overlay codes the application must address, and confirmed the geotechnical and flood-level work required. The application is being prepared. No approval has been granted yet, and the report says which provisions are performance-based.
Homeowner report, interstate

A residential lot, Moonee Ponds (Melbourne)

Asked
The owner wanted to know every scenario the lot supports before deciding whether to develop or sell.
Done
A site possibilities report from the Victorian planning scheme and overlays in force at the parcel, with the pathway for each scenario and a statement of what could not be determined from the sources held.
Where it stands
Delivered by email on 28 September 2026. The owner is deciding; nothing has been lodged.

Questions about who we are?

Write to hello@casaintelligence.com.au or call 0417 029 036. A founder answers.