place.link

A shared operating environment for systems change

Share your perspective, build your partnerships.

Placelink is a partnerships environment that integrates strategy, risk, and impact within a single system. It provides partners with a shared, evidence-based view of complex systems, enabling aligned decision-making, coordinated delivery and measurable outcomes.

See the benefits
Map of partners across AustraliaMap of Australia with partner points from the Top End to Tasmania, joined by lines of shared evidence. Partners in the Top End, the Wheatbelt, the Central Highlands and New England each share evidence that meets at one place on the east coast.

  • Driver

    Population in Greater Darwin grew 1.7% in the year to June 2025.

    Government agency · Top End

  • Pressure

    Fertiliser prices for growers rose more than 100% from 2021 to 2022.

    Industry body · Central Highlands

  • State

    Nearly one in four regional households faced severe food insecurity in 2026.

    Community organisation · New England

  • Response

    Our council is funding a local food hub.

    Local government · Wheatbelt

Every partner adds what they know in their own words. place.link places it on the map and in context, so the whole system comes into view.

Use cases

One platform for the work that shapes places.

Strategy mapping, risk and scenario planning, and impact assessment, in one shared model.

  • Risk and resilience planning

    Identify critical risks, test responses and prepare partners before disruption hits.

  • Investment attraction and funding bids

    Build the evidence case for investment and grant rounds from data partners already hold.

  • Workforce and skills planning

    Match regional skills needs to industry demand, training providers and programs.

  • Monitoring, evaluation and reporting

    Track indicators against shared outcomes and report with confidence to ministers, boards and funders.

  • Infrastructure and service planning

    See where assets, services and investment line up with the needs of each place.

Benefits

From risk to results, together.

Understand risk in context

I'm a council that wants to see how floods flow through to local jobs.

Example cascade

  1. PressureFloods and extreme rainfall
  2. StateA major processing plant goes offline
  3. ImpactRegional supply and local jobs at risk

Features

Built in layers, from live data to shared decisions.

  1. 1

    Real-time data feeds and IoT integration

    Live feeds from public data, sensors and partner systems keep the picture current.

  2. 2

    Graph-native data model

    Actors, places, investments and evidence are held as connected objects, so every relationship carries meaning.

  3. 3

    AI driven data analytics

    AI sorts, normalises and connects what partners share, and surfaces patterns across the system.

  4. 4

    Geospatial mapping and place-based data layers

    Every element is anchored to a place, with layers for regions, catchments, assets and services.

  5. 5

    Collaborative workspaces with role-based access

    Partners plan and work together in shared spaces, and each sees only what they are invited to see.