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Who it is for

Everyone waiting on the same counter.

Permitting is not one job. The designer needs to know the set is clean, the arborist needs the protection zone to hold, the builder needs a date they can commit to, and the city needs the file to be complete when it arrives. PermitX is the same read, serving four different people.

ResidentialCommercialIndustrial
One municipal intake window Now serving 01 11 ahead of your set
Intake Ten business days each
  1. 03 An interior alteration Interior designers
  2. 06 A tree protection plan Arborists
  3. 09 A house addition Builders and designers
  4. 12 Your set Whoever you are
Four jobs with nothing in common, one window, and the same ten business days each, which is the review period Ontario prescribes for a house. What PermitX changes is not the length of that line. It is whether you have to join it twice. Twelve deep is drawn to show one intake queue, not a measured depth.
  1. 01
    A municipal building in stone with a clock tower, seen from the street below.

    Municipalities and building departments

    Your reviewers should open a complete set, not a puzzle.

    Most of what lands in a municipal intake queue fails on the same handful of items. PermitX catches those before the file reaches your staff.

    Cities
    • Three of the checks
    • Setbacks and lot coverage
    • Exits and travel distance
    • Missing dimension strings
  2. 02
    A finished retail floor, a wide aisle running between clothing racks and mannequins with a washrooms sign and an arrow hung overhead.

    Interior design and millwork studios

    You design the space. The code should not be the part that stops you.

    Interior alterations trip on egress, occupant load, barrier-free clearances and fixture counts. PermitX reads your set and names the clause.

    Interior designers
    • Three of the checks
    • Occupant load
    • Corridor and aisle widths
    • Barrier free clearances
  3. 03
    A residential street under a closed canopy of mature trees.

    Arborists and tree preservation consultants

    Tree protection is a permit too, and it is the one nobody automated.

    Protection zones, injury and removal applications, replanting ratios and ravine boundaries are bylaw work. PermitX reads them the same way it reads a zoning setback.

    Arborists
    • Three of the checks
    • Protection zone radius
    • Removal and injury thresholds
    • Ravine boundaries
  4. 04
    A house under construction with its timber framing exposed and scaffolding against the front wall.

    Builders, design build firms and developers

    Every resubmission is a month of carrying cost you already paid for.

    Upload the set, get a severity ranked list of what will fail, fix it once, and submit a package that clears first pass.

    Builders and designers
    • Three of the checks
    • The zoning envelope
    • Exiting and occupancy
    • Contradictions between sheets

What they have in common

One read, four uses.

The underlying work is identical every time. PermitX reads the drawing set, measures what can be measured, tests it against the Ontario Building Code and the municipal bylaw, and returns findings ranked by severity and cited to the clause. What changes between audiences is which findings matter most on a given day.

Interior alterationNew buildAddition or extensionDemolition

What it is not for

  • Projects outside Ontario, for today. The code and the bylaws are the product and we only claim the ones we have read, so the rest of Canada and the United States arrive as they are read rather than the week they are announced.
  • Structural or mechanical engineering review. PermitX checks compliance against code and bylaw text, and it is not a stamp.
  • A substitute for your reviewer, your engineer or your architect. It is the pass that happens before they get involved.

Find the audience that sounds like your week.

Each page goes into the specific findings that discipline gets returned on, and what PermitX checks on their behalf.

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