Our story / built from the work
Built behind the permit desk.
Permitech began with a residential permit technician handling up to 200 permit lookups a week while only three to five complete submissions could be finished in a day.
Every lookup required stitching together municipal websites, zoning code, GIS, surveys, forms, email, spreadsheets, and reviewer knowledge that usually lived in someone's head.
The build record
Every product decision traces back to the work.
Permitech can be traced from the first repetitive permit-desk question to address-based jurisdiction research, evidence-backed requirements, and the project workflows customers use now.
01 / May 2025
A permit-desk assistant
The first concept was a small assistant for the shed-permit questions Gio was answering at Tuff Shed. The goal was practical: stop repeating the same research and make the answer usable by the next person.
02 / August 2025
An address-first product
The concept became a standalone property and permit application for sheds across Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana, with local rules and address lookup at the center.
03 / September 2025
The data problem became the product
The real product became clear: identify the correct authority, structure the local requirements, preserve official evidence, and turn the result into a workflow another person could actually use and verify.
04 / The break
The Tuff Shed role ended. Permitech continued.
After Permitech was treated as a conflict of interest, Gio's permit-technician role at Tuff Shed ended. He kept building from the firsthand permit operations the job had made impossible to ignore.
05 / 2026
Real projects widened the system
Contractor and homeowner work pushed Permitech beyond lookups into project workspaces, human verification, filing support, corrections, inspections, and permit-desk operations.
Permitech is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Tuff Shed.
The old workflow
The work was scattered everywhere.
Every source had a different format, owner, update cycle, and filing path. Missing one requirement could reset the schedule.
Building department
Zoning code
GIS layers
Plat of survey
Project documents
Health review
Permit filing
Inspections
200
permit lookups in a week
Minutes → weeks
known AHJ vs. first-time research
3-5
complete submissions in a day
Familiar jurisdictions could be answered quickly. An unfamiliar AHJ or complicated project could take days or weeks of calls, code review, GIS research, forms, and cross-department follow-up before the answer was defensible.
Case file / anonymized
One garage permit exposed the property's whole history.
A garage replacement exposed an earlier pool project and private well and septic conditions. A straightforward permit became a months-long effort to understand the property and bring the work onto a compliant path.
She had been handed fragments from different offices. No one had connected them into one clear picture.
01
The project
A homeowner wanted to replace a residential garage.
02
The discovery
An earlier pool project and private well and septic conditions surfaced during review.
03
The impact
The garage permit became connected to property history the applicant did not understand.
04
The process
Health, zoning, site-plan, and compliance questions had to be worked through together.
05
The resolution
Months of coordination brought the property and proposed work onto a compliant path.
06
The lesson
Applicants need context and active help, not another link to a code document.
Public procedure example / Will County
One permit can depend on another department's sign-off.
This public Health Department procedure shows why a site plan may need septic-system locations, separation distances, contractor assistance, site markings, and field verification before zoning or building review can move.
Source artifact shown for process context. It is not the homeowner's private project file and should not be treated as current address-specific guidance.
The lesson
The system was fragmented. The applicant paid the price.
Permitech today
One operating line. Start to close.
Permitech turns the permit technician's workflow into a repeatable system that combines structured data, AI research, official evidence, automation, and human review.
Address
Jurisdiction
Zoning
GIS
Evidence
Packet
Filing
Corrections
Inspections
Closeout
The first proving ground
Sheds and garages became the proving ground for a much larger system.
Those projects were high-volume, repeatable residential workflows where the pain was immediate and the operating knowledge was deep. They gave Permitech the right place to learn, structure, and improve the permit process.
Today the same foundation supports broader residential project types, address-aware research, contractor permit-desk service, filing, corrections, inspections, licenses, insurance, and project closeout.
For residential contractors
Put Permitech on the permit.
Give your team back the hours spent researching, preparing, filing, and chasing permit work.