Frequently asked questions.
The short answers. For the long ones, and a live review of a real permit, book a demo.
No, and it never will. Permitect surfaces findings and documents them; a licensed reviewer rules on every one: dismiss, correct, or return to sender. The city’s authority stays exactly where it is today.
A jurisdiction’s adopted residential, zoning, and municipal codes, organized into 1,000+ individually checkable rules. Specialist checks read the plan set sheet by sheet, and every finding cites the exact code section and plan sheet.
A complete first pass across a jurisdiction’s codes typically takes under ten minutes.
It asks, it doesn’t guess. Ambiguity becomes a clarification request tied to the exact sheet and code section, so the applicant or reviewer can resolve it quickly.
No. Reviewers can upload any plan set that arrives through the city’s existing process and run the review on the spot. Packets prepared through Permitect just arrive in better shape.
Yes. Once a permit is issued, applicants schedule inspections online under the city’s own cutoff and window rules, the city assigns the inspector, and results — including correction notices that cite the exact code section — reach the applicant the same day. When every required inspection passes, the permit is finaled on the record.
No. Plans, applications, and payments stay where they are today. Cities that adopt Permitect Inspect run inspection scheduling and results in Permitect — and everything exports as open data, so there’s still no lock-in.
We’re currently available in Washington, Minnesota, and Texas, and expanding rapidly to new states. The platform is built to map any jurisdiction’s adopted codes.