Know what will getflagged before you file.
Permit Copilot checks your plans and application against jurisdiction-specific requirements to surface missing documents, required clearances, likely plan-check issues, and submission readiness, with the rule and source behind every finding.
Built for applicants preparing permits and the jurisdictions reviewing them.
Permit Copilot provides pre-submission decision support. Final permit determinations remain with the reviewing jurisdiction.
Clean submissions start long before you file.
Permit Copilot checks a building-permit project against jurisdiction-specific requirements to estimate submission readiness, surface likely plan-check issues, and organize every required document and clearance, with the requirement and source behind each one.
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Deterministic. The same inputs always produce the same requirements, findings, and readiness.
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Jurisdiction-configurable rule sets adapt to the agency of record, wherever you file.
What Permit Copilot does
A focused set of rule-driven capabilities that turn a project description into a clear, explainable path to a clean submission.
Try the demoReadiness scoring
See a project's submission-readiness percentage and exactly which required items are still outstanding.
Likely corrections
Surface objective-standard issues and other likely plan-check concerns before formal review, with the requirement and source behind each one.
Document checklists
Required-document checklists generated automatically from jurisdiction rules, tracked to submission.
Clearances
Track the inter-agency clearances a project needs and their status in one place.
Jurisdiction rules
Deterministic, configurable rule sets per jurisdiction. Explainable and auditable, not a black box.
Regulatory change tracking
Stay ahead of code and process changes that affect the projects you already have in flight.
From address to clean submission
A structured, transparent path, so you know what a jurisdiction needs and why at every step.
Describe the project
Enter the address and project details. Permit Copilot resolves the jurisdiction and applicable rules.
Step 1
Review readiness
Get a readiness score, the required-document checklist, needed clearances, and likely corrections.
Step 2
Submit clean
Resolve outstanding items with citations in hand, then file with confidence and fewer round trips.
Step 3
The goal isn't to replace plan check. It's to make the package better before plan check begins.
See where a project stands
One screen turns a project into a readiness score, the documents still outstanding, clearance status, and the issues likely to need attention before formal review, each with its source.
Documents and clearances tracked automatically. Resolve the flagged corrections to reach submission-ready.
Required documents
- Site & plot planComplete
- Structural calculationsComplete
- Title 24 energy compliancePending
- Soils / geotechnical reportPending
Clearances
Likely plan-check issues
Egress width at stair 2 appears below the required minimum.
CBC §1011.2Provide an accessible-route slope detail at the main entry.
CBC §11B-403
Illustrative preview. Figures shown are sample data.
One pre-check. Two better experiences.
For applicants
Submit a better-prepared package.
Contractors, architects, engineers, developers, and permit professionals can understand requirements before filing and work through issues before formal review.
- Submission readiness
- Document checklist
- Required clearances
- Likely corrections
- Sources & citations
- Revision comparison
For jurisdictions
Receive better-prepared submissions.
Building and planning departments can configure their own requirements and workflows while giving reviewers consistent, source-backed decision support.
- Jurisdiction-controlled rules
- Configurable workflows
- Review queue
- Correction lifecycle
- Regulatory sources
- Audit history & APIs
AI where it helps. Rules where they matter.
Permit Copilot combines deterministic jurisdiction rules with AI-assisted document understanding and plain-language guidance. Objective requirements remain reproducible and auditable. AI helps interpret, explain, research, and organize. Jurisdiction staff remain responsible for consequential decisions.
Deterministic rules
Objective requirements, document requirements, routing, thresholds, and readiness inputs can be applied consistently.
Source-backed findings
See the rule, source, version, assumptions, and supporting context behind a finding.
Human oversight
AI assists applicants and reviewers. It does not issue permits or silently make jurisdiction decisions.
Specialized AI agents assist with intake, research, pre-check analysis, corrections, reviewer summaries, and regulatory monitoring within these controls.
Built around the jurisdiction, not a generic checklist.
Permit requirements and review processes vary by agency. Permit Copilot lets each jurisdiction configure its own permit types, objective rules, required documents, clearances, workflows, regulatory sources, notifications, branding, and integrations.
Configure once. Apply consistently across projects.
Designed for California permitting and configurable to each jurisdiction.
“It surfaced the issues a plan checker was likely to flag, with the source behind each one, and generated the document checklist automatically. We worked through them before filing instead of after.”
Readiness, required documents, and clearances came out of the same rule set, so results were consistent and explainable, not a black box.
Permit expediter
Illustrative scenario · pre-submission review
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See what a jurisdiction needs before you file. No setup required. Decision support only, not a substitute for jurisdiction review.