Case Study · 01

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Building permits, made searchable · Live

PermitData.net

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The brief

A search engine for the permit record.

Every building permit in the United States is a public record — and almost none of them are easy to find. Each city, county, and state runs its own portal, in its own format, behind its own login or PDF download. The data is technically open, practically inaccessible.

PermitData.net was built to fix that. A single search bar, an opinionated dataset, and an interface that treats the user like an adult who has a job to get back to.

What it does

Fragmented data, one search box.

Unified search

Permit records from disparate municipal sources, normalized into one interface — searchable by address, owner, contractor, work type, or date.

Plain-English records

Permit descriptions written in municipal shorthand get rewritten into language a non-specialist can read at a glance.

Built for the day-to-day user

Contractors, real-estate professionals, suppliers, and journalists — the people who actually pull permit data — get a tool that respects their time.

How it was built

Lean stack, opinionated.

No framework-of-the-month. The site is built on a deliberately small toolkit — fast on a phone, edge-cached worldwide, with a backend designed to ingest new municipal data sources without rewriting the front end every time.

The same discipline we'd apply to any client project: ship something that loads instantly, reads cleanly, and ages well.

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