Resilience Planning & Design LLC

What Resilience Planning & Design LLC does

Resilience Planning & Design LLC is a privately held professional planning and design consultancy founded in 2003 by Dr. Steven Whitman, AICP, and headquartered in Plymouth, New Hampshire. The firm partners with municipalities, state agencies, developers, property owners, and non-profit organizations across the Northeast United States (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, Pennsylvania, and Vermont) to deliver integrated community planning, open space and conservation planning, land use policy and regulatory development, climate action planning, downtown master planning, GIS mapping and analysis, community engagement and visioning, and site-level master planning. Service delivery relies on a four-person leadership team combining professional planners, an ecological designer, a conservation/GIS professional, and environmental policy expertise, supported by the firm's proprietary "Whole Systems Planning" methodology that emphasizes multi-functional, grassroots-driven solutions with co-benefits across natural resources, the built environment, and social capital.

The firm's technology foundation is GIS-based spatial analysis and data visualization, used to support strategic conservation planning, landscape analysis, and community planning communication. There is no disclosed software product, mobile application, API, or AI/ML capability; the firm is a pure project-based consulting practice rather than a productized technology business. Marketing is conducted through a professional website, a LinkedIn company page, individual team member LinkedIn profiles, and grassroots board-level engagement with regional civic organizations (Mill City Park, Plymouth Area Community Garden, Standing Trees, Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative). Customer acquisition is relationship-driven, with no paid advertising, intermediary channels, or partnerships disclosed.

The business operates as a New Hampshire LLC under founder control, with no institutional investment, no funding rounds, no subsidiaries, no patents, no awards, and no disclosed revenue or pricing. Compensation comes from project-based professional services fees paid by clients on a quote/engagement basis. The firm has scaled geographically from its New Hampshire base to a multi-state Northeast footprint but has remained a small, boutique team of four professionals.

Name

Resilience Planning & Design LLC

Legal name

Resilience Planning & Design LLC

Website

https://resilienceplanning.net

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Resilience Planning & Design LLC is a Plymouth, NH-based boutique planning consultancy founded in 2003 that delivers integrated community, conservation, and land-use planning services to municipalities, state agencies, developers, and non-profits across the Northeast US.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Urban Planning Consulting

NAICS

Landscape Architectural Services (54132), Other Specialized Design Services (54149)

akta.pro primary industry

Urban Planning & Master Planning (BPAHAKAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Regional & Land Use Planning (BPAHAKAE), Landscape Architecture & Site Design (BPAHAKAC), Community Engagement & Participatory Planning (BPAHAKAO)

Keywords

• Community planning services
• Municipal master planning
• Conservation planning consulting
• Land use policy development
• GIS mapping analysis

Headquarters

HQ city

Plymouth

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Revenue model

1. Professional Planning and Consulting Services: Project-based consulting fees for facilitating and managing planning projects with municipalities, state agencies, developers, property owners, and non-profit organizations. Services include comprehensive master planning, open space planning, land use policy development, community engagement facilitation, and GIS mapping and analysis.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Resilience Planning & Design is a collaborative professional planning firm that facilitates and manages planning, design, and public outreach projects for municipalities, state agencies, developers, property owners, and non-profit organizations across the Northeast US. The firm delivers comprehensive master planning, open space and conservation planning, land use policy and regulation development, GIS mapping and analysis, community engagement and visioning, and site-level master planning. Its approach emphasizes a whole-systems lens, data-driven analysis, and grassroots bottom-up decision making to help communities address climate change, habitat fragmentation, housing affordability, and poorly planned development.

Product overview

Resilience Planning & Design LLC is a collaborative planning firm offering a unified suite of professional planning and consulting services. The core offerings include Comprehensive + Master Planning, Open Space/Conservation/Recreation Planning, Land Use Policy + Regulations, and Other Subject Area Planning (including Climate Action Plans and Downtown Master Plans). These services are supported by specialized capabilities in GIS Mapping and Analysis, Community Engagement and Visioning, and Site Level Master Planning. The firm works with municipalities, state agencies, non-profits, developers, and property owners across the Northeast U.S.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Comprehensive + Master Planning

Quantifiable outcome

• Projects completed across multiple states including NH, MA, ME, PA, VT
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers16 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Sasaki Associates: Sasaki is a planning, landscape architecture, and urban design firm with deep Northeast roots that delivers comprehensive master planning, open space, and resilience planning for municipalities and institutions. It is a larger, broader incumbent competing for many of the same high-end planning commissions.
• LandDesign: LandDesign is a multi-office planning, landscape architecture, and urban design firm that provides comprehensive planning, open space, and community engagement services to municipalities and developers. It is a larger incumbent competitor with overlapping service offerings.
• VHB (Vanasse Hangen Brustlin): VHB is a large New England-based engineering, planning, and design firm that competes for the same municipal comprehensive planning, open space, and land use policy RFPs as Resilience Planning & Design across the Northeast. Its broader service portfolio and larger bench make it a broader incumbent competing for many of the same municipal clients.

Direct peers

• BSC Group: BSC Group is a Boston-area planning, engineering, and landscape architecture firm providing comprehensive planning, community development, and open space planning services to municipalities across the Northeast. Its multidisciplinary structure closely parallels Resilience Planning & Design's blend of planning and ecological design.
• Weston & Sampson: Weston & Sampson is a New England-based engineering, planning, and environmental services firm that delivers comprehensive master planning, open space, and community development work to municipal clients. It is a directly comparable planning-led competitor in the same geography.
• Tighe & Bond: Tighe & Bond is a Northeast-focused engineering and planning consultancy providing land use, community planning, and environmental services to municipalities. It serves a similar set of towns and state agencies across the same region as Resilience Planning & Design.
• Fuss & O'Neill: Fuss & O'Neill is a Northeast-based planning, engineering, and environmental services firm that competes with Resilience Planning & Design for municipal master planning, open space, and conservation planning engagements. Its multi-state Northeast footprint and blend of planning and engineering mirrors the firm's go-to-market.
• HR&A Advisors: HR&A Advisors is a planning and economic development consultancy advising cities, states, and nonprofits on comprehensive planning, resilience, and community development strategies. It is comparable in advisory-only model and municipal/nonprofit client base, though generally serving larger engagements.
• Howard Stein Hudson: Howard Stein Hudson is a Boston-based transportation and urban planning consulting firm that competes for municipal and regional planning engagements in the Northeast. It is comparable in size and service mix to Resilience Planning & Design, particularly for community and land use planning work.
• Halvorson Tighe & Bond Studio (CWB Architects): WBRC Architects (formerly WBRC) and similar mid-size Northeast planning-led design firms deliver comprehensive planning, master planning, and community design services to New England municipalities. They are comparable mid-size peers with similar client types and project scopes.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/13056431

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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