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.