Builders, design build firms and developers
Every resubmission is a month of carrying cost you already paid for.
You can price materials, labour and financing. You cannot price a comment letter. Permit delay is the one line on a pro forma that is pure guesswork, and it is guesswork about a problem that was visible in the drawings the whole time.
Where the money goes
The fix costs an afternoon. The queue costs a season.
The trade
An afternoon of drafting now, or a season of carrying cost later. That is the entire decision.
By the time a set is filed you have already spent on design, consultants and land holding, and you have committed to a start date that the trades are planning around. The permit is the only remaining dependency and it is the one you have the least control over.
When the comment letter arrives, the actual work in it is usually small. A setback adjusted. An exit re dimensioned. A missing sheet supplied. What costs money is that the corrected set rejoins the intake queue behind everything filed in the intervening weeks, and every day of that is carrying cost, deferred revenue and a trade schedule quietly falling apart.
Design build firms feel it twice, because the delay lands on the same balance sheet that produced the drawings. Nobody outside the company absorbs any of it.
PermitX exists to move that discovery to the cheapest possible moment: before the set leaves your office, while a revision is an afternoon of drafting instead of a month of waiting.
The check, drawn
Nine hundred millimetres of ridge, one season of carrying cost.
Height to peak is measured from established grade, and it is the kind of item that survives every internal review because everyone assumes somebody else checked it. An afternoon in the model, or a month in the queue. It is the same nine hundred millimetres either way.
- Dwelling
- Permitted max
- Corrected
- Grade
A worked example rather than a report, and drawn to its own scale, so the gap shown is the gap claimed. A real finding cites the provision and names the sheet it was read off.
What is waiting
The permit is not the project. It is what the project is waiting for.
Trades booked, financing drawn, a client holding a date. None of that pauses while a set sits in an intake queue for the second time, and none of it was priced with a resubmission in it, because nobody knows in advance whether there will be one.
The failures are repetitive rather than exotic. The zoning envelope. Exiting and occupancy. Contradictions between sheets that nobody caught because no single person on the job reads all of them end to end.
Screen the set, fix the short list, file once. The fix costs an afternoon whether you find it now or the city finds it in six weeks.
What it screens
The whole set, against both the code and the local bylaw.
PermitX handles new builds, additions, interior alterations and demolitions across residential, commercial and industrial project types. It reads the drawings as filed, with no model and no export step.
- Zoning Setbacks on every yard, measured off the plan against the bylaw for that zone
- Zoning Lot coverage, gross floor area, building height and storey count against permitted maximums
- Zoning Parking, driveway width and landscaped open space where the bylaw sets them
- OBC 3.1 / 3.2 Occupancy classification, construction type and spatial separation
- OBC 3.3 / 3.4 Exiting, travel distance, corridor width and door swings
- OBC 3.8 Barrier free requirements, including clearances that were drawn but never dimensioned
- OBC 9 Housing and small buildings, for residential scopes filed under Part 9
- Drawing set Internal contradictions between sheets, and referenced drawings that are not in the package
Every finding on a real report carries the same three things: the clause, the sheet it came from, and a severity. Nothing is a hunch.
What changes on the project
A permit timeline you can defend to a lender.
One trip through the queue
The set that clears first pass is the difference between a start date you hold and a start date you apologise for.
A ranked work list
Critical, major and minor. You know what must change before filing and what can wait, so the pre submission scramble has an order to it.
A record for the file
Export the report as a PDF. It shows what was checked and when, which is useful with lenders, partners and your own design team.
Screen the set before it leaves the office.
PermitX runs inside Quoto Build, the platform your project documents already live on. One login, one project record, no exporting between two tools.