Photo in, verdict out — checked against your city's actual codes, with citations.
Every active code by city and trade, plus job checklists and permit guidance.
Walkthroughs, sealed plans, and private inspections from verified licensed pros.
Rough-in, stub-out, panel, roof deck — a few photos from your phone.
City, trade, job type. The verdict runs against that city's own amendments.
Green, flagged, or won't pass — every line cites the actual code it checked.
Flags come with fixes — and one tap books a licensed pro to close them out.
Every line links to the exact rule it checked — state base code, the adopted electrical code, or this city's own 2026 amendment. Generic AI guesses; PermitPro cites.
FBC · NEC as adopted · Municipal ordinancesBroward's 31 municipalities each amend the state code their own way. PermitPro keeps a live, year-stamped rulebook per city, per trade — the database nobody else has bothered to build.
31 Broward cities · Dade & Palm Beach nextNo camera sees inside a wall or tests a circuit. Verdicts are readiness pre-checks with a visible "not checked" list — never a certification, and never a green light invented from missing data. The inspector hangs the real green tag; PermitPro gets the work ready for it.
Each flag links to the fix, and to a verified licensed pro: a pre-inspection walkthrough, sealed plans, or a private inspection that can approve on the spot under Florida's Private Provider law.
FS 553.791 · licensed & state-verified prosScreens are illustrative mockups — example checks and layout, not final data.
Great hands, hates paperwork. Snaps every rough-in before calling the city; buys the checklist, permit pack, and plan service.
Can't pull permits today. Gets a lawful path: a real GC of record, matched in-app — plus verdicts that keep the work clean.
Sells walkthroughs and plan reviews through the platform — PermitPro is his storefront, calendar, and payment rail.
Runs a Listing Risk Report before taking a listing: permit history, open permits, unpermitted-work flags. Protects the seller, the buyer, and her license.
"My contractor says it's fine." Snap, check, know — what permits the job really needs, and what "done to code" means in your city, in plain English.
| Service | Who delivers | What it fixes |
|---|---|---|
| Photo verdicts | Scout AI + the city code database | Catches failures while they're still cheap to fix — before the city ever sees them. |
| Code-readiness walkthrough | Inspector / consultant network | A pro's eyes on site before the official visit — one inspection, passed on the spot. |
| Private Provider inspections | Qualified licensed professionals (Florida Statute 553.791) | State law allows private plan review & inspections in lieu of the city — the legitimate engine behind cutting a 6-month job toward 3. |
| Plans, drafted & sealed | Drafting + licensed engineer / architect network | The paperwork GCs hate, done right, signed and sealed where required. |
| GC-of-record matching | Verified licensed GCs | A lawful path for skilled tradespeople to take on permitted work — with genuine contracting and supervision. |
Florida law is unforgiving about unlicensed contracting and license-lending — so PermitPro doesn't go near either. Every service runs through genuinely licensed professionals doing what their license covers: consulting is consulting, private inspections run under the Private Provider statute, plans get real seals, and GCs of record actually contract and supervise. Every pro in the marketplace is verified against state licensing rolls, and photo verdicts are readiness pre-checks — never inspections. That compliance isn't a limitation; it's the pitch: the legal way to do more work, faster. (Attorney review of the services layer and verdict language before launch.)
Ten interviews: GCs, the inspector, three realtors from Lauren's office. A hands-on pilot: real contractors send real photos, and Scout plus the inspector produce verdicts by hand — proving people will pay before automation is built. Pilot cities: Pompano Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood.
PermitPro Check for electrical + plumbing in the three pilot cities (pro-reviewed verdicts), the city-code database for all 31 Broward municipalities × 3 trades, and the job checklist builder.
Verdict automation expands city by city; Permit Navigator (every city's portal, fees, turnaround) and the Listing Risk Report launch — with Lauren's cohort as founding design partners.
Walkthroughs, sealed plans, and the Private Provider network bookable in-app. Then Dade and Palm Beach.
| Already running (CondoFacts) | Reused by PermitPro |
|---|---|
| Interactive property map of South Florida | Same map engine — cities and their rulebooks instead of condos |
| Scout AI with strict "cite it or say you don't know" rules | Same assistant, pointed at code photos and city amendments |
| Public-records pipeline (permits, licensing rolls, county data) | Same pipeline muscle aimed at ordinances & permit portals |
| Realtor & buyer audience | Shared channel — every deal touches agents, contractors, inspections |
National code-lookup tools serve the state model code and stop there. The pain lives in the local amendment layer — 31 cities' worth of ordinances, portals, and quirks that nobody has mapped — and in the gap between reading a code and knowing whether this wall, today, meets it. PermitPro closes both: the hyper-local rulebook plus the camera. And every verdict later confirmed by a real inspection makes the next verdict smarter — a data flywheel no national player can copy.