The city as a shared table

The mandate
to imagine.

CoPlanAI turns a community’s imagination into documented evidence of what people can agree to want — a defensible public mandate, not pretty AI pictures.

Aleksanterinkatu · Helsinki
more trees, keep the caféspace to gather
✎ Aleksanterinkatu, Helsinki · Jun 2023
Citizen · participant

Give us shade and somewhere to sit — then I’d bring the kids on a Saturday.

Every number carries a place, a date, and a named partner. See the ledger →

Coplanning

Collaborative AI planning.

Stakeholders, institutions and AI agents each bring something different. Coplanning is the overlap where all three meet — one system that co-creates, tests and governs what a place becomes.

Interactive diagram. Use Tab to move between the three roles, their overlaps and the centre; the description panel updates for each.

02 What CoPlanAI is

The collaborative planning platform for cities — and the citizens reshaping their future.

In a workshop — on-site, online, in a classroom or a museum — participants transform real photos of a real place, then choose between AI-generated options. It runs in four forms of collaboration, and the output is always a mandate: documented, traceable, and defensible in a public meeting.

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A mandate is not a picture.  It is the written answer to “what did the public actually agree to want?” — with the dissent kept in.

03 How it works

One platform, two interfaces: the planning studio and the public square.

For city design offices

The planning studio

Planning teams co-plan internally — configuring agents, curating sites and shaping the session, before anything goes public. Departments across the institution use the same studio for design charrettes and policy evaluations.

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For residents & the public

The public square

Citizens and stakeholders take part in person or online — on mobile, laptop or iPad. On a tablet they can transform scenarios by drawing straight on the image.

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CoPlanAI participant tablet
Draw straight on the site — on a tablet or kiosk.
Trusted across the public realm

We work with cities, universities, innovation offices, institutions & consultants.

More than 90 documented engagements in 25+ countries. A selection of the organisations we’ve worked with and for.

92 engagements · 28 countries · since 2021

Universities
Aarhus University
Tampere University
University of Twente
University of Turku
Luleå University of Technology
HafenCity University Hamburg
Newcastle University
TalTech — Tallinn University of Technology
University of Milan
Kyiv School of Economics
Cities
City of Helsinki
City of Tallinn
City of Vienna
City of Munich
Dubai Municipality
Comune di Bologna
City of Vantaa
Nusantara Capital City
City of Zürich
City of Lahti
City of Jyväskylä
City of Kaarina
Institutions
UNDP — UN Development Programme
GIZ
ICLEI Europe
Architects’ Council of Europe
CityLAB Berlin
European Commission
Urban Innovation Vienna
Estonian Museum of Natural History
Forum Virium Helsinki
The Prime Minister’s Office, UAE — MBRCGI
Republic of Estonia — Ministry of Climate
CIVINET Greece–Cyprus
National Innovation Centre for Ageing
Private sector
Sweco
Bolt
Sitowise
Cloudberry
YPO
Humankind
Group NAO
Futuria Consulting

Signals

The latest, from the field

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04 Configured, not generic

Presets and customisations.

Six layers you can configure — most of which no other platform offers at all.

01 Agent customisation

Agent customisation

02 UX / UI customisation

UX / UI customisation

03 Workshop-workflow customisation

Workshop-workflow customisation

04 Web questionnaire — the loop, online

Web questionnaire   the loop, online

05 Agent-based impact evaluator

Agent-based impact evaluator

06 Automatic reporting → a mandate

Mandate of recordCPL·2023·HEL·014
Community agreement78%
Recorded dissentkept in
Provenancelogged
M. Virtanen · city planner, signed Export PDF →
05 The mandate, shown

A record you can take into the room.

This is what “mandate” means, made concrete: a documented output with quantified agreement, recorded dissent, full provenance, and a professional sign-off — exportable as a report you can cite.

AI can imagine anything. Only a community can give it a mandate.
● quantified agreement✎ recorded dissent↓ exportableprofessionals hold the gate
Documented mandateHelsinki Summer Streets
● recorded
Community agreement92%
would support a car-light summer streetn = 1,204
Recorded dissentkept in the record
Evening lighting on the north side42 flagged
Delivery-vehicle access, 07:00–10:0031 flagged
Provenance
Participants1,204logged & de-duplicated
Workshop sessions6on-site + online + kiosk
WindowMay–Jun 2023timestamped
Method notepublishedv1.2 · reproducible
HK
signed off
City planning lead · professional gate
Funded innovation actions

The method is built in the open, with public research.

New layers arrive through EU-funded innovation actions and university partnerships — not behind closed doors. The programmes behind the platform:

CORESPACESCo-designed urban realm & dynamic space management for climate-neutral cities.
Horizon Europe
ProgrammeEU Cities Mission · GA 101239095
Timeline2026–2029
EU budget€16.4M
ConsortiumCERTH (GR) + ~45 partners
Our roleGenerative co-design & AI evaluation across nine Living Labs
CORDIS record →
Deep Carbon ShiftAlliance for deep-tech education towards decarbonised cities.
Erasmus+
ProgrammeAlliances for Innovation
Timeline2025–2028
Budget
ConsortiumIAAC Barcelona + ~11 partners
Our roleDeep-tech decarbonisation curriculum & tooling
deepcarbonshift.com →
StreetRevivalRevitalising public spaces through co-design of place-based street furniture.
New European Bauhaus
ProgrammeHorizon Europe · NEB · 101308872
Timeline2026 · 27 months
Budget
Pilot citiesMurcia · Helsinki · Bologna · Nicosia
Our roleCo-creation & generative-AI design across the pilots
About the NEB call →
ACE — Architects for Innovative ResearchChild-specific participatory AI — from commentators to placemakers.
Creative Europe
ProgrammeArchitects’ Council of Europe
Timeline2023–2024
GranteeUrbanistAI · 1 of 3 selected
Our roleParticipatory-AI UX for ages 6–14; piloted in schools
ACE report →
University of Twente pilotCo-designing climate-sensitive blue & green space with vulnerable residents.
University pilot
LeadUT · Dr. Carmen Anthonj (ITC)
Timeline2024–2026
Study siteEnschede (NL)
Our roleAI-assisted co-design methods & peer-reviewed outputs
UT research record →
Bring a warrant, not a wish

Bring a defensible mandate to your next decision.

Start with a conversation. We’ll show you the method, the record it produces, and the places it has already held up.