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PermitChime

Stop checking permit portals.

PermitChime monitors building permits across every jurisdiction your team works in and tells you when reviews, inspections, comments, fees, or statuses change.

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The free plan monitors 3 permits and does not need a card. The permit checker works without an account.

Today

Example

24 monitored permits

Needs attention
2Someone has to act
Progressed
1Moved forward on its own
No change
21Checked, nothing differed

  • EXAMPLE-2026-000418Example City

    Tenant improvement, suite 210

    High importanceElectrical review returned corrections

    Corrections Required (the authority reports this as "CORRECTIONS REQD")Verified 2 hours ago Example City publishes updates once a day.

  • EXAMPLE-2026-000392Example County

    Retail shell, phase 2

    Critical importancePlaced on hold pending a zoning condition

    On Hold (the authority reports this as "On Hold - Zoning")Verified 2 hours ago Example County publishes updates once a day.

  • EXAMPLE-2026-000377Example City

    Restaurant remodel

    High importanceStatus moved from Ready to Issue to Issued

    Issued (the authority reports this as "Permit Issued")Verified 2 hours ago Example City publishes updates once a day.

Every authority in this example publishes updates once a day. PermitChime states when it last verified a record and how often the authority publishes, and never presents a reading as live.

Illustrative example, rendered with the same components the product uses. The permit numbers, projects and authorities above are placeholders — not a customer account, not real permit records, and not a statement of which jurisdictions PermitChime covers.

The problem

Your permits shouldn’t live in 12 different portals.

One project can touch three authorities, each running different software, using different words for the same status, and expecting a different permit number format. None of them will tell you when something moves.

Portals do not notify

Government permit systems are lookup tools. There is no watch list, no subscribe button, and no email when a plan review comes back with comments.

Every city is different

A permitting portal in one city, a published dataset in the next, a mapping service in the third. Same job, three logins, three layouts, three vocabularies.

You find out late

A correction request that sits unseen for four days is four days of schedule. Often the client is the one who notices first, which is the worst way to find out.

What you get

Know what needs attention today.

Every monitored permit lands in one of three buckets. The third one is by far the biggest, and it is silent on purpose.

Needs attention

Corrections required, on hold, expired, canceled, a failed inspection, a reviewer comment. Anything where a person has to do something next.

Progressed

A review cleared, an inspection passed, the status moved forward, the permit issued. Good news, collected in one place instead of discovered by accident.

Everything else

Checked, identical to last time, nothing written and nothing sent. Silence is a feature: it is what makes the alerts worth reading.

Change alerts

Get told what changed, not that something might have.

PermitChime keeps a normalized copy of each permit and compares it to the next reading. Identical readings produce nothing at all. Different ones produce the specific field, the previous value and the new one.

  • Important changes go out immediately

    Corrections, holds, denials, expirations and issuance are emailed as soon as PermitChime reads them. Routine movement is not, because an alert for everything is an alert for nothing.

  • Everything else waits for one daily brief

    One email each morning with the day’s attention items and progress, in your timezone, at the hour you choose.

  • A broken source never becomes a false alarm

    If a portal suddenly returns a permit with all of its reviews missing, that is a parsing problem, not news. PermitChime holds the last state it genuinely verified, flags the source, and tells you plainly that it cannot verify right now.

  • Email alerts start on the paid plans

    Instant alerts and the daily brief are included from Solo up. On Free, changes are recorded and shown on your dashboard and activity feed — PermitChime does not email you.

Multi-jurisdiction

One workflow, regardless of the city.

Every supported authority is mapped onto a single permit schema and a single status vocabulary, so forty permits across six jurisdictions sort, filter and read as one list.

One status vocabulary

Fifteen normalized statuses across every jurisdiction. The authority’s own wording is kept on the record, so you can always see exactly what the city said.

Never a guess

When a source status has no clear equivalent, PermitChime shows it as Unknown and keeps the raw text. Fabricated certainty is worse than an honest gap.

We hide what we cannot see

If an authority does not publish fees, there is no fees tab on that permit. Not an empty one, not a “coming soon” — nothing.

How it works

Three steps, then it runs.

  1. Step 1: Add a permit by its number

    Choose the jurisdiction and paste the permit number. PermitChime reads the record from the authority and shows you exactly what it found before you commit to monitoring it.

  2. Step 2: PermitChime checks it on a schedule

    Automatically, throughout the day, at a cadence set by your plan and floored by how often that authority actually publishes. We do not poll a daily dataset every hour.

  3. Step 3: You hear about it when it changes

    Important changes by email straight away, everything else in one morning brief, and nothing at all on the days a permit sits still.

Coverage

We list a jurisdiction only when we can actually read it.

PermitChime supports a jurisdiction only when we can read a single permit by its number, reliably and within that authority’s terms. That is a deliberately short list rather than a long one.

Jurisdictions
8
With plan reviews
3
With inspections
3

Each jurisdiction page states exactly which categories of data we can see there, how often the authority publishes, and what we cannot see. Where a source does not expose fees or inspections, PermitChime does not show an empty tab for them — it shows nothing.

See supported jurisdictionsRequest a jurisdiction

  • CA

    • Sacramento, CASource updates continuously
    • San Francisco, CASource publishes updates once a day

  • MD

    • Montgomery County, MDSource publishes updates once a day

  • NC

    • Raleigh, NCSource publishes updates once a day

  • NY

    • New York, NYSource publishes updates once a day

  • TX

    • Austin, TXSource publishes updates once a day

  • VA

    • Norfolk, VASource publishes updates once a day

  • WA

    • Seattle, WASource publishes updates once a day

Pricing

Priced on actively monitored permits.

Plans start at $49 a month. Archiving a permit keeps its history and frees the slot, so you only pay for what you are actually watching.

Free

Try monitoring on a few permits.

$0forever

3 actively monitored permits

Archiving a permit keeps its history and frees the slot. Only permits with monitoring switched on count.

Team seats
1
Checked
a few times a day (about every 6 hours)

Never more often than the authority itself publishes — several sources publish once a day, and each jurisdiction’s real cadence is listed on its coverage page.

  • 3 monitored permits
  • Checked a few times a day
  • Changes on your dashboard and activity feed
  • Public permit checker
  • 30 days of change history
Start free

Solo

For an independent expediter or a small shop.

$49per month

25 actively monitored permits

Archiving a permit keeps its history and frees the slot. Only permits with monitoring switched on count.

Team seats
2
Checked
about every 2 hours

Never more often than the authority itself publishes — several sources publish once a day, and each jurisdiction’s real cadence is listed on its coverage page.

  • 25 monitored permits
  • More frequent monitoring
  • Instant alerts on important changes
  • Daily permit brief
  • Full change history
  • Projects
  • Client status pages you can send to an owner
Start Solo

Team

Recommended

For firms running projects across several jurisdictions.

$149per month

100 actively monitored permits

Archiving a permit keeps its history and frees the slot. Only permits with monitoring switched on count.

Team seats
10
Checked
about every hour

Never more often than the authority itself publishes — several sources publish once a day, and each jurisdiction’s real cadence is listed on its coverage page.

  • 100 monitored permits
  • 10 seats with owner, admin, member and viewer roles
  • Checked about every hour
  • CSV import
  • Priority jurisdiction requests
  • CSV export
Start Team

Agency

For expediters and multi-location operators managing large portfolios.

$349per month

500 actively monitored permits

Archiving a permit keeps its history and frees the slot. Only permits with monitoring switched on count.

Team seats
50
Checked
about every hour

Never more often than the authority itself publishes — several sources publish once a day, and each jurisdiction’s real cadence is listed on its coverage page.

  • 500 monitored permits
  • 50 seats with owner, admin, member and viewer roles
  • Everything in Team
  • 20 manual refreshes per permit each hour
  • Your logo and colours on client status pages
  • CSV import and export
  • Priority jurisdiction requests
Start Agency

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Questions

Straight answers.

Is this real-time?

No, and we will not say it is. Most public permit sources publish on a fixed schedule — several of the ones we support publish once a day. PermitChime checks throughout the day and always shows two separate facts on a permit: when we last successfully verified it, and how often that authority publishes. Your alternative is opening every portal each morning, which is not real-time either.

Which jurisdictions do you support?

The current list is on the coverage page, generated from the same configuration the monitoring system runs on, so it cannot list a city we do not actually support. If yours is missing you can request it.

Does PermitChime file permits or talk to the city for me?

No. PermitChime reads public records and tells you what changed. It does not submit applications, pay fees, schedule inspections, or contact anyone on your behalf, and it does not give legal, code, or engineering advice.

Is PermitChime affiliated with a permitting authority?

PermitChime is not a government agency and is not affiliated with any permitting authority. The issuing authority remains the authoritative source for every permit record.

What counts against my plan limit?

Only permits with monitoring switched on. Archive a permit and you keep every change PermitChime has already recorded for it, monitoring stops, and the slot is freed. The Free plan covers 3 actively monitored permits.

Is there an AI deciding what changed?

No. Change detection is a deterministic comparison of normalized records — the same input always produces the same result, and no language model is consulted about whether something changed. That property is the product.

Start with one permit.

Add a permit you are already watching and see whether PermitChime tells you before the portal does. The free plan monitors 3 permits.

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