Knowledge center

Educational guides for permitting and compliance — by permit type, audience, and workflow. Plain-English, AI-summarized, and continuously updated.

Permit guides

  • Residential Permits

    Step-by-step residential permit help for remodels, additions, ADUs, decks, and detached structures. AI-powered checklists, code lookups, and plan review.

  • Commercial Permits

    AI-assisted commercial permitting for tenant improvements, change-of-use, restaurants, and ground-up construction. Plan review, code mapping, occupancy.

  • Electrical Permits

    AI-guided electrical permits for service upgrades, panel changes, EV chargers, sub-panels, and solar interconnections. NEC mapping included.

  • Mechanical Permits

    Mechanical permits for HVAC equipment, ductwork, gas piping, and ventilation. Permit Junkie ties Manual J/D/S to your jurisdiction's IMC/UMC edition.

  • Plumbing Permits

    Plumbing permits for water-heater replacements, re-pipes, fixture changes, and sewer laterals. Permit Junkie maps your scope to UPC/IPC requirements.

  • Roofing Permits

    Roofing-permit guidance for organizing re-roof, structural-repair, fire-zone, and solar-ready inputs with evidence limits shown.

  • Fence Permits

    Fence-permit guidance for residential and commercial lots, using available height, setback, material, and HOA inputs with source limits shown.

  • Pool Permits

    Swimming-pool permit guidance for organizing barrier, bonding, drainage, and energy-compliance inputs for professional and authority review.

  • Solar Permits

    Solar PV and battery permit guidance for organizing structural, fire-setback, rapid-shutdown, and interconnection document requirements.

  • Sign Permits

    Guidance for organizing wall, monument, blade, and illuminated sign-permit inputs, including available zoning and area-by-frontage evidence.

  • Food Truck Permits

    Food-truck permit guidance for organizing health, fire-suppression, mobile-vendor, commissary, and route-zoning workstreams.

  • Restaurant Permits

    Restaurant permits for new build-outs and tenant improvements: health, building, fire, occupancy, ABC liquor, and grease control.

  • Deck Permits

    Deck-permit guidance for organizing footing, ledger, guardrail, and stair inputs using available IRC R507 and local-amendment evidence.

  • Garage Permits

    Garage-permit guidance for organizing detached, attached, and conversion inputs such as separation, slab, zoning, and ADU considerations.

  • Basement Permits

    Basement-finish permit guidance for organizing egress, ceiling-height, smoke/CO, fire-blocking, and bathroom rough-in inputs.

  • Home Addition Permits

    Home-addition permit guidance for organizing foundation, framing tie-in, roof, bracing, energy, and MEP inputs.

  • Window Permits

    Window-permit guidance for organizing replacement, new-opening, egress, flashing, and energy-rating inputs.

  • Shed Permits

    Assess whether a shed may need a permit using available local size, setback, height, anchoring, electrical, and recorded-development evidence.

  • HVAC Permits

    HVAC permits for furnace, AC, heat pump, and mini-split installs. Permit Junkie ties Manual J/D/S to your jurisdiction's IMC/UMC edition.

Solutions by audience

  • Homeowner Permit Guidance

    Permit guidance for homeowners planning remodels, decks, additions, garages, and other residential projects, with clear requirements and pre-submission review.

  • AI Permit Expeditor

    AI-assisted packet preparation, pre-submit issue review, and project tracking, with connected-authority capabilities clearly identified.

  • Contractor Permit Software

    Permit software for general and trade contractors to organize active jobs, share recorded status, and track inspection tasks.

  • Municipal Permit Software

    Evaluate scoped pilot capabilities for AI-assisted plan review, jurisdiction intelligence, workflows, and a citizen-facing concierge.

  • Enterprise Permit Management

    Enterprise permit management for retail, healthcare, energy, and logistics, with multi-site workflows, role-based access, audit trails, and scoped implementation support.