Our Story

Built by someone
who lived inside
permit queues

Lodgely was born from years of firsthand experience watching good projects stall over avoidable compliance issues. We built the tool we always wished existed.

The Problem

Permit delays are expensive.
Most of them are avoidable.

Every Builder, Architect & Draftsperson knows the feeling — a project that should sail through permits gets held up for weeks because of a setback issue that could have been fixed at the design stage. Or a surveyor flags a ResCode non-compliance that no one picked up in three rounds of drawing reviews.

The Victorian building compliance landscape is genuinely complex. Between NCC requirements, ResCode provisions, individual council planning schemes, and a patchwork of overlays, there's a lot to keep across — especially when you're running multiple projects simultaneously.

Traditional compliance checks rely entirely on the professional knowledge of whoever reviews the drawings. That knowledge is valuable. But it doesn't scale, it doesn't catch everything, and it's not fast.

Lodgely is designed to work alongside professionals — catching the issues that are easy to miss under time pressure, so they're resolved before they cost anyone a delay.

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Andrew Bourke
Founder · Architectural Draftsperson

Drew has spent 20 years as an architectural draftsperson, working across high-end custom homes, volume residential, and contract drafting for builders throughout Victoria. In that time he has seen the same avoidable compliance issues stall project after project — and built Lodgely to catch them before they cost anyone a delay.

"I built Lodgely because I wanted a smarter way to catch issues at the drawing stage — not after lodgement. The knowledge exists. It just needed to be made accessible at scale."
What We Stand For

Our principles

01

Built for professionals

Lodgely is designed to complement professional judgment, not replace it. We give experienced people better tools — not a crutch for skipping the fundamentals.

02

Kept current as regulations change

Regulations change. We review updates to the NCC, Building Regulations, and VPP periodically, and update the platform's regulatory content as those changes take effect.

03

Honest about what we are

Lodgely is a powerful pre-lodgement tool — not a substitute for a registered building surveyor. We're transparent about this. A clean Lodgely report is a great start. A registered surveyor's sign-off is still how permits get issued.

04

Your data is yours

Project drawings are sensitive commercial information. We don't sell your data, we store it at rest in Australia, and you can delete a project whenever you want. Some processing happens overseas — our Privacy Policy sets out exactly where and why.

05

Victorian-first

We started here because we know this market. Victorian planning schemes, ResCode, and the local council landscape are where our expertise runs deepest. We'd rather do this market properly than race to cover every state superficially.

06

Feedback-driven

Tell us about a missed issue or a false positive and it shapes what we fix next. Our accuracy improves because practitioners take the time to tell us what they're seeing on real projects.

Roadmap

Where we're going from here

Lodgely's foundation is Victorian residential compliance — and we're building from there in a deliberate, quality-first way.

The goal isn't to be everything to everyone immediately. It's to be genuinely excellent for Victorian builders and designers, then expand from a position of depth rather than breadth.

Our Mission

Make building compliance
faster and fairer for
every project in Australia

The knowledge to build compliantly exists in regulations, planning schemes, and the minds of experienced practitioners. Our job is to make that knowledge accessible, fast, and scalable — for every builder, on every project.

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