The applications, and what council does with them

Planning Watch

Every development application on the register of 138 Ontario municipalities, and every motion council passes about it — matched to the property, followed until it leaves the register.

Land developers · planning consultants · municipal and land-use counsel · industry associations

The question nobody can answer in one place

A planning department publishes its active applications on its own website, in its own format, and takes them down when they are decided. To know what has been filed near a site, or what happened to a competitor's application, somebody checks ten municipal portals by hand every week and keeps their own spreadsheet. The spreadsheet is the product most firms are actually using.

And the decision arrives nine weeks late

Minutes are approved at the following meeting and posted after that. Measured across 943 council meetings, the median gap between a meeting and its minutes being published is 64 days. By the time the decision is readable, the window to respond has closed. That is why this watches the agenda as well as the minutes.

What you get

2,039,139 register itemsacross 138 municipalities — 61% of Ontarians — with 304,971 filed in the last twelve months
Matched to the propertyaddresses are normalised, so a search finds the filing whether the municipality wrote Street, St or ST, and filings on one property group into a single history
Followed until it endsevery item carries when it was first seen and when it left the register. An application disappearing is the fact the velocity question is built on
The council decision attached605,912 motions across 206 councils, 589,799 of them naming who moved it, so a filing links to what council actually resolved about it
The source on every roweach line links to the municipality's own document. Nothing here is a summary of a summary

What it costs

One region

$6,000 a year

One upper tier or one cluster of municipalities. 2 seats.

Every register item and decision in that region
Daily email and a dashboard
Property and street history
Source link on every row

Opens at launch

Ontario

$18,000 a year

All 138 municipalities with a register, and all 206 with decisions. 5 seats.

Everything in One region, province-wide
Saved searches by address, file number, street or ward
Weekly digest for people who do not want daily
Bulk export of your own matched results

Opens at launch

Association

$36,000 a year

For a body whose members build across the province. Unlimited seats.

Everything in Ontario, for every member
A members' view your staff can administer
Quarterly cut of what moved, by municipality
The API, included

Opens at launch

Pricing is set. Accounts open at launch — until then, write and we will talk.

How we compare

Against the two products a buyer in this category is most likely to be using. Everything in the competitor columns is from their own published material, read on 2026-09-28, and linked at the foot of this page. Where we could not establish a capability it says unknown, not no.

	Of Record	Gnowit	Curate (FiscalNote)
Ontario municipalities covered	✓ 269	~ Top 50 across Ontario, BC and Alberta in the municipal tier; 700 claimed in the combined tier	✕ None — United States only
Development register as structured items	✓ 2,039,139 items, matched to property	? Tracks planning notices; no field-level claim published	? Extracts “discussions related to more than 400 topics”
Council decisions with mover and outcome	✓ 589,799 motions name their mover	? Motion detection is published for parliamentary committees, not municipal	? No published claim either way
Member-by-member votes	✓ 736,030 positions, 72 councils	? No published claim	? No published claim
Record before you subscribe	✓ Back to 1960; 143,745 decisions predate 2020	✕ A subscription accumulates forward from the day it starts	✕ A subscription accumulates forward from the day it starts
Source document linked on every row	✓ Always	? Not stated	✓ A snippet links into the source document
Federal and provincial coverage	✕ Municipal only	✓ Federal, provincial and territorial	✓ US federal, state and local
Live meeting transcripts	✕ None	✓ Same-day, 50+ municipalities	? Not stated
Contacts database	✕ None	? Not stated	✓ 168,000 local officials
Published price	✓ $6,000–$36,000 a year	✓ $1,000 a month for the municipal tier	✕ Not published
Customers we can name	✕ None yet	✓ Selling since 2010	✓ Owned by a public company

✓ yes · ~ partly · ✕ no · ? neither confirmed nor denied by any source we could find

Where we lose, and who should not buy this

If every municipality you care about is in the largest fifty, and you want keyword alerts across federal, provincial and municipal in one tool, Gnowit is the better fit and costs less. Say so and we will not chase you.
Radius search — every filing within a distance of a point — is not built. Address, street, municipality and file number are.
We have no customers to refer you to. The first few will get a price that reflects it.

Where the competitor claims come from

Read 28 September 2026. Gnowit pricing · Gnowit municipal monitoring · Gnowit government monitoring · Curate · Curate for local government · FiscalNote 10-K, FY2025 · FiscalNote acquires Curate · Canada's contract disclosure · Council Scorecard · Open Council on voting records

What is always true. The public record stays free at every municipality's own address. What is sold here is notification, shape and reach — never earlier access, and never anything a reader cannot see for themselves.