Glenigan alternative

The planning intelligence Glenigan charges £5,000/yr for — without the sales call.

SiteLens gives you every UK planning application, AI-classified by value and category, mapped, and delivered to your inbox. All from £29 a month, self-serve, no contract.

No £3,500+ auto-renewal

Glenigan contracts typically run at £5,000–£10,000 a year on a 12-month auto-renewing agreement. SiteLens starts at £29/month, month-to-month, cancel any time from your account.

No sales team cold-calls

Glenigan gates its product behind a demo. You can’t see the pricing or the interface without talking to an account executive first. SiteLens is self-serve — sign up, explore, upgrade only when it pays for itself.

No year-long contract

Month-to-month billing, cancellation button in the dashboard. If SiteLens isn’t working for your business after 30 days, you’re free to leave.

SiteLens vs Glenigan

Feature-for-feature, based on publicly available information.

FeatureSiteLensGlenigan
Starting price£29/mo£5,000+/yr
Free tier available
Self-serve sign-up
Sales call required
Contract lengthMonthly12 months
UK council coverage340+ councilsFull UK
Daily updates
AI classification (every app)
Interactive map search
CSV export
Email alerts
Phone-researched bid intelligence
Named account manager
Setup timeUnder 2 minutesDays (demo + contract)

When you should still pick Glenigan

We’re not going to pretend SiteLens replaces Glenigan for everyone. Glenigan employs phone researchers who chase leads beyond the public planning register — direct calls to developers, architects and main contractors to confirm project timelines, budgets, and decision-makers. That layer of research is real, and if your business depends on bid intelligence for £10m+ projects in the top-200 main contractor tier, that’s worth the ticket price.

What SiteLens does differently: we take the base layer — every planning application, every council, every day — classify it with AI, and make it searchable and alertable for the 95% of UK construction businesses who can’t justify £5,000 a year on a platform gated behind a sales call. If you’re a subcontractor, regional supplier, specialist trade, or small developer, SiteLens is built for you.

See it before you pay a penny.

Free forever tier. No credit card. No sales call.