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PermitFoundry

Permitting & plan review for local government

Live in 30 to 90 days.
Not twelve to eighteen months.

PermitFoundry is permitting, plan review, and inspections for cities of 25,000 to 150,000 — one platform, configured rather than custom-coded, with the price published on this website.

Every tier, implementation fee, and escalator cap is on the pricing page. No call required.

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Department review

  • BuildingApproved
  • Fire3 corrections
  • ZoningApproved
  • Public WorksNot started
Rev 3Sheet set on file
18 dStatutory time left
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The pattern

The rollout is the risk,
not the software.

Permitting replacements in this market routinely run twelve to eighteen months and cost one to two times the annual license before a single permit is issued. Several large jurisdictions have publicly documented implementations that stalled, restarted, or were abandoned after multi-year effort. The failure is rarely a missing feature — it is scope discovered late, data migration that outlasts the budget, and a plan-review tool bolted on through a connector nobody owns.

12–18
Months to go live, industry norm
1–2×
Implementation cost against annual license
2
Vendors in the average plan-review path

What is actually different

Four claims we would defend in an RFP response.

01

Plan review lives inside the case, not beside it

Markup, versioned resubmittals, sheet overlay and compare, per-department pins, and the consolidated correction letter are all part of the permit record. There is no Bluebeam or Avolve connector between two systems to drift, expire, or lose a comment on the way back.

  • Compare Rev 2 against Rev 3 sheet-for-sheet, with unresolved comments carried forward.
  • One correction letter assembled from every department, in the city's own template.
  • Every comment is attributable to a reviewer, a sheet, and a version.

02

One applicant identity across every jurisdiction

An architect who works in six cities keeps one account, one license record, and one dashboard. Contractors stop re-registering, re-uploading insurance, and re-learning a portal per city — which is why they ask their next city to adopt it.

Genuinely two-sided: the city gets the workflow, the applicant gets continuity.

03

Shot-clock timers your city attorney can rely on

Statutory review deadlines in Florida, California, Georgia, and Texas carry deemed-approved consequences. The clock is durable, pauses correctly the moment the ball is in the applicant's court, resumes on resubmittal, and escalates before a review is at risk.

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04

The price is on the website

Subscription tiers, fixed-price implementation, add-on modules, and the escalator cap are all published. You can build a budget request, or score us against an incumbent, without booking a call.

See published pricing

Two voices, one system.

Staff screens run dense and information-rich. Applicant screens run calm and plain-language, one action at a time. Same platform, same data, deliberately different.

Staff — intake queueDense table, tabular numerals, every deadline visible without a click.
Staff — plan reviewMarkup and comments against a sheet, pinned per department.
Applicant — status timelinePlain language, what happens next, and a visibly paused clock.

What procurement checks

Read the security and compliance posture

Thirty minutes, your permit types, our screens.

Bring one permit type that gives your office trouble. We will walk it through intake, multi-department review, a corrections cycle, and issuance — on the real product, not slides.

Prefer not to talk yet? Take the pricing page to your budget meeting — it is all published.

We reply within one business day. Five fields, no sales sequence.