About myLot: our team & story

We work with state governments and councils to accelerate the Australian planning system to meet the demands of housing, climate and infrastructure. Hear our story and meet our team.

myLot began with a simple belief: planning should be simpler, for everyone.

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Instead of being a bottleneck with increasing calls to reduce red tape, we believed planning could be made much simpler by applying the latest AI technology to it.

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Working with our early council partners, we co-developed myLot’s planning enquiries service...

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...reducing the admin burden on planning teams, improving customer experience and helping residents get answers faster.

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Next, we built a rapid assessment platform to power planning teams in a way that technology hasn’t before.

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From our first pilot in 2022 to serving councils across Australia, our mission is the same – making our regulatory environment a positive enabling force for our future.

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Our People

Meet the myLot team

We’re technologists, planners and customer experience professionals, based throughout Australia. Here’s some of our team.

Olivia Rhye and a longer
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder
An experienced leader and versatile innovator, Tim has 20+ years experience leading consulting and technology companies.

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Tim Golsby-Smith
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder
An experienced leader and versatile innovator, Tim has 20+ years experience leading consulting and technology companies.
Eyad Alama
Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder
Eyad is an innovative tech leader known for simplifying complexity, proven over 15 years building technology for top tier global businesses.
Alex Cheek
Chief Experience Officer, Co-Founder
With 20 years experience leading design teams for blue chip multinational organisations, Alex is a human-centred design expert.
Marc Cornell
Planning and Customer Success Lead
With over 20 years of local government experience across planning, development services, and major projects, Marc is dedicated to delivering practical solutions that benefit planners and communities.
Pat Kennedy
Planning Specialist
Previously a statutory planner in regional Victoria, Pat brings an eye for detail, legislative precision and desire to make planning advice accessible to everyone.
Elliot Platt
Planning Specialist
Elliot has over 10 years’ experience in planning across private consulting and local government, working on a diverse range of industrial, retail, residential and mixed-use developments across Queensland. She brings a practical and collaborative approach to navigating complex planning and approvals.
Alina Radbone
Sales and Account Director
Alina has more than 30 years' experience working with Local Government organisations and technology, delivering solutions with the right outcome for Councils in Australia and NZ.
Andrew Kolin
Prompt Engineer
With a background in business consulting and AI implementation, Andrew advances the reasoning capabilities of myLot’s planning assistant.
Jeff Zhang
Prompt Engineer
Jeff is a Prompt Engineer and a former solicitor, leveraging his legal background to design multi-agent AI systems that transform complex planning regulations into intuitive permit and document solutions for local councils.
Peter Wilkinson
Lead Software Engineer
With more than 20 years’ experience in web, GIS architecture and development, Peter helps ensure our technology’s reliability and scalability.
Our philosophy

Making planning work for people

Planning takes skill and judgement to balance growth with protecting what communities value. At mylot, we believe AI can help the industry strike that balance – simplifying the rules, freeing up time and giving planners clarity to deliver prosperity today while safeguarding the future for generations to come.

Clarity

myLot lifts planners out of the paperwork and gives them a clear view of the whole project.

Efficiency

By removing repetitive tasks, planners can work smarter and spend time where it counts.

Impact

With more time and focus, planners can tackle the big issues – housing, climate and building thriving communities.

Working with government, technology & industry partners

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See how myLot will help your council planning team and join our roll-out program across Australia.