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Name: Plotline Team
Brand: Plotline
Price: 199 CAD
Availability: PreOrder

Plotline keeps one structured, sourced record for each development project in the public record of Metro Vancouver’s municipalities. With Plotline Pro, your own AI agent will be able to search those records, follow their stage changes and read the documents behind them, through an MCP server or a REST API.

The API and MCP server launch with Pro. Join the waitlist for early access and founding-member pricing.

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Launches with Pro. Not live yet.

Access: MCP server, REST API
Specification: OpenAPI
Plan: Pro, CAD 39 a month
Webhooks: On Team; CAD 199 a month, five seats
Rate limits: Fair use; Published at launch

What the feed contains

Everything Plotline reads from the public record, as structured data with its sources attached.

Project records: One record per development project: address, municipality, project type, stage, scale (units, storeys, floor area), the applicant and architect as published, and key dates.
Change events: A dated event each time a document moves a project: a new application, an advance, an approval or a withdrawal. A project changes stage only when a document says it did.

Application

Hearing

Approved

Permit
Documents: Every document on a project, gathered over time rather than just this week’s, as published and linked to where it was published: staff reports, agenda items, public hearing notices, application lists and permit reports.
Sources: Every fact points to the public document it came from. Numbers and names are copied as published. Nothing is rounded or guessed.
Coverage: The public record of Metro Vancouver’s municipalities: council and committee agendas, staff reports, public hearing notices, rezoning and development permit application lists, building permit reports and open data. Issue 1 of the free weekly digest covers Burnaby, Coquitlam, New Westminster, Richmond, Surrey and Vancouver.

How your agent connects

Pro will come with an API key. Your agent will use it with the MCP server if it speaks the Model Context Protocol, or with the REST API if it doesn’t.

Some of the tools the MCP server will expose

search_records: Find projects by place, project type, stage or size.
get_record: Read one project’s full record: its fields, every document and its stage history.
list_changes: See what moved since a given date: new applications, advances, approvals and withdrawals.
watch_area: Set a watchlist for an area, narrowed by project type or size if you like.

REST API: The same records, change events and documents, described by an OpenAPI spec, for scripts, apps and agents without MCP.
Webhooks: On Team, webhooks will tell your own systems about changes as they are recorded, so nothing has to poll.
API keys: Pro includes an API key with MCP access. Team has five seats and higher limits.
Rate limits: Fair use. The limits will be published at launch, and Team’s are higher than Pro’s.

A record, as your agent reads it

This is the made-up project from the example digest on our home page, as an agent would receive it: first the change event, then the full record.

See it in the example digest

Example only. This project is made up.

A change event, from `list_changes`

{  "change": "advanced",  "address": "4100 Example Street",  "municipality": "Burnaby",  "from_stage": "Application",  "to_stage": "Hearing",  "date": "2026-10-05",  "detail": "Public hearing on 27 October",  "source": {    "title": "Council meeting agenda",    "item": "6.2",    "page": 41  }}

The full record, from `get_record`

{  "address": "4100 Example Street",  "municipality": "Burnaby",  "type": "Mixed-use rezoning",  "scale": { "storeys": 22, "units": 248 },  "stage": "Hearing",  "stage_history": [    {      "stage": "Application",      "date": "2026-06-15",      "source": "Rezoning application list"    },    {      "stage": "Hearing",      "date": "2026-10-05",      "source": "Council meeting agenda"    }  ],  "applicant": "Sample Developments Ltd.",  "architect": "Draft Architecture Inc.",  "documents": [    {      "title": "Rezoning application list",      "url": "https://example.org/list"    },    {      "title": "Staff report to council",      "url": "https://example.org/report"    },    {      "title": "Council meeting agenda",      "item": "6.2",      "page": 41,      "url": "https://example.org/agenda"    }  ]}

What it’s good for

Monitor an area

Set a watchlist for the neighbourhoods, project types and sizes you care about, and have your agent tell you each day what moved.

Tools: watch_area, list_changes

Catch projects at rezoning, before tender

Find projects still at application or public hearing, with their scale and the applicant as published, while there is still time to call.

Tools: search_records, get_record

Feed your CRM

Bring new projects, with their applicants and architects as published, into the CRM your team already uses. On Team, webhooks will send each change as it is recorded.

Through the REST API and, on Team, webhooks

Answer questions from the documents

Ask what a staff report says about height, parking or the hearing date. get_record will list every document behind a project, so your agent can open the one that answers it.

Tools: get_record

Launches with Pro

The API and MCP server are not live yet. They launch with Plotline Pro, and nothing is charged today.

Join the waitlist Compare the plans

Pro: CAD 39 a month; For one person and their agents: an API key with MCP access, rate-limited, along with daily records, each project’s full history, watchlists, email alerts and CSV export.
Team: CAD 199 a month; Everything in Pro for five seats, with territories, webhooks, higher API limits and priority support.
Data licence: On request; Bulk feeds, the full history and redistribution rights. Write to [email protected].

Questions

Is the API available now?

Not yet. The API and MCP server launch with Plotline Pro, and nothing is charged today. Join the waitlist for early access and founding-member pricing, locked for 12 months.

Which agents can use it?

Any agent or app that can connect to an MCP server, and any tool that can call a REST API with an API key. The REST API will be described by an OpenAPI spec.

What does Pro add to the free digest?

The free digest shows this week’s record in full. Pro keeps it current every day and gives you each project’s whole history, every document gathered over time, your watchlists, email alerts, CSV export and the API.

What will it cost?

Pro is CAD 39 a month for one person and their agents, with an API key and MCP access. Team is CAD 199 a month for five seats, with webhooks and higher API limits. A data licence is available on request.

What are the rate limits?

Fair use. The limits will be published at launch, and Team’s are higher than Pro’s.

Where does the data come from?

From the public record of Metro Vancouver’s municipalities: council and committee agendas, staff reports, public hearing notices, rezoning and development permit application lists, building permit reports and open data. Every record links to the documents it came from.

Which municipalities are covered?

Issue 1 of the free weekly digest covers Burnaby, Coquitlam, New Westminster, Richmond, Surrey and Vancouver.

Can my agent read the free digest today?

Yes. The weekly digest at digest.plotlinebc.ca is free to read. It shows each project’s record as published that week, with its current stage, the documents linked and the applicant and architect as published, and it has an RSS feed.

Can I get bulk data or redistribute it?

Yes, with a data licence, available on request: bulk feeds, the full history and redistribution rights. Write to [email protected] and tell us what you need.

Is Plotline connected to any municipality?

No. Plotline is independent and is not affiliated with any municipality. It reads the public record each municipality publishes.

How do I get in touch?

Write to [email protected]. For privacy requests, including deleting your details, write to [email protected].