Preparing your permit application

Application Assistant walks you through filling out and submitting your permit application. Upload documents, review what the AI extracted, fill in any gaps, and submit when you're ready. Everything saves automatically — you can close the browser and pick up where you left off. If you came from Know Before You Apply, your property info and project description are already here.

Everything lives in a workbench with five tabs.

The workbench layout

Your application is split across five tabs:

1. Property details — Enter your address and most of this tab fills itself in — zoning, parcel number, site conditions. You just confirm it looks right.

2. Plan details — Information specific to your permit type. If you're building a deck, for example, this is where you describe dimensions, materials, and height above grade.

3. Project details — Contractor, architect, and owner information. Who's doing the work, who designed it, who owns the property.

4. Documents — Everything you need to upload: site plans, structural drawings, photos, and any special reports required by your property's conditions.

5. Final review — A summary of everything across all four tabs, your completeness score, and the submit button.

Each tab has a status indicator showing whether it's complete or how many items are left.

Progress tracking

A completeness score tracks how far along your application is. It's a percentage based on how many required fields and documents you've provided out of the total needed for your permit type.

You'll see this score in two places:

• The completeness card — appears on the workbench showing your current percentage and the top items to address next

• The final review tab — breaks down completeness by section so you can see exactly what's still missing

The score updates in real time as you work.

The overall flow

There's no required order, but most people follow this general pattern:

1. Enter your address and confirm the property details look right

2. Upload your documents — plans, specs, reports, whatever you have

3. Review what the AI filled in — it reads your documents and suggests values for application fields

4. Fill in the gaps — anything the AI couldn't extract, you enter manually

5. Check the final review — look at the summary, fix anything that's flagged

6. Submit when you hit the threshold

You don't have to follow this order strictly. Some people upload documents first and work backward through the details. Others fill in the form fields manually and upload documents last. The completeness score recalculates no matter what order you go in.

Good to know

• You can work on multiple applications at once — each project appears in the left sidebar