Know you're permit-ready before you submit
The industry's first AI-driven pre-submittal diagnostic: a full plan review, done the way the city will review your plans, before you submit.
The Challenge
Even technically sound plans can stall in review if they're not fully aligned across disciplines or correctly interpreted under local codes.
Architectural, structural, and MEP drawings often contradict—dimensions, loads, or routing don't match.
Impact: Triggers redlines, correction cycles, and weeks of delay.
Fix: Cross-discipline verification ensures alignment before submittal.
Teams misread or inconsistently apply building, energy, or local amendments.
Impact: "Revise and resubmit" notes pile up across multiple cycles.
Fix: Jurisdiction-specific code overlay analysis aligns design intent with local adoption nuances.
Load paths, energy credits, and equipment sizing don't always reconcile across sheets.
Impact: AHJs flag mismatched assumptions or reject sections outright.
Fix: Automated validation cross-checks calculations and specifications for internal consistency.
Each correction cycle adds administrative drag and erodes confidence with reviewers.
Impact: Delays approvals and inflates costs for owners and consultants alike.
Fix: Early detection of conflicts and inconsistencies enables faster, first-pass approvals.
The Solution
The Permit Review Diagnostic gives you a complete plan review, done the way the city will review your plans, before you submit.
What It Does
Analyzes Your Application Package
Ingests architectural, structural, MEP, and civil drawings to understand scope and design intent.
Checks Against Local Code
Compares your submittal to jurisdiction-specific building, fire, and zoning codes—including recent amendments.
Flags What Reviewers Will Ask For
Identifies incomplete calculations and unclear annotations that reviewers will request.
Delivers a Readiness Score
Provides a confidence metric (e.g., "87% ready") so you know exactly how close you are to a clean submission.
The Benefits
Confidence before submission translates to faster approvals and lower costs.
For Developers & Architects
Know your application is clean before it enters the review queue.
Catch issues early, avoiding the back-and-forth that stretches timelines.
Faster approval means less time financing an idle project.
Demonstrate professionalism with error-free submissions.
For Engineers & Consultants
Identify gaps before your client (or the reviewer) does.
Fix issues once, upfront—saving hours of post-submission corrections.
Share the readiness report with your team and clients for full transparency.
Automatically account for the latest local amendments.
For Jurisdictions
Applicants arrive with pre-vetted plans, reducing initial review time.
Plans arrive with code issues already addressed, so reviewers write fewer comments.
Cleaner applications mean reviewers can focus on substantive issues.
Projects break ground sooner, supporting economic growth and housing development.
Why It Matters
The Permit Review Diagnostic transforms guesswork into measurable confidence. By surfacing code issues and cross-sheet inconsistencies before submission, it eliminates the costly surprise of first-round corrections and sets the stage for optimization and approval.
Proactive Compliance = Faster Approvals
Don't wait for reviewer comments to tell you what's missing. Get your readiness score, fix the gaps, and submit with certainty.
what our clients say
Trusted by architects, builders, and permit professionals.
As a builder, I've seen countless builders and jurisdictions struggle with permitting inefficiencies. [Permavia]'s AI-powered solution brings a level of transparency and coordination this industry has needed for years.
Mike Nykreim
NAHB Leadership Council & BAIW Board Member
Permitting teams spend valuable time chasing missing information and resolving code issues. [Permavia] ensures applications are complete and vetted before they reach the reviewer, cutting down on review comments and rework.
Kaveh Aminian
Integrating AI early ensures we catch non-compliance and omissions long before submission, eliminating lost momentum, cost overruns, and wasted effort from unnecessary review cycles.
John Hansen
President, Meydenbauer Group
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Frequently asked questions
What is the Permit Review Diagnostic?
It is a complete pre-submittal plan review that mirrors your jurisdiction's plan-review process once intake is complete, flagging likely code issues and cross-sheet inconsistencies before you submit. Missing forms and documents are checked by the Intake Completeness Check.
What does the diagnostic check for?
It compares your submittal against applicable building, fire, and zoning codes — including recent amendments — and common reviewer feedback patterns, citing the exact code section for each issue.
How is this different from a manual plan check?
It delivers the same kind of review a city performs, but in a fraction of the time and before submission — so you fix issues proactively instead of waiting weeks for a correction notice.
Do I get a readiness score?
Yes. The diagnostic includes an overall Compliance Score (for example, "87% ready") indicating how close your application package is to a clean, first-pass submission.