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Permitify

Winter 2025 · Active

AI co-pilot for building plan review and building code compliance

Founded: 2025

Team size: 2

About

City building departments are understaffed and overworked. Meanwhile, builders lobby to remove power from building departments. Because building departments are usually the only profitable/self-sustaining branch of a local government, this is problematic. Permitify allows city build-plan reviewers to 10x their productivity covering the labor shortage, reducing the time required to issue a building permit, and allowing the city government's only profitable branch to stay intact.

Founders

  • Adam ChandlerFounder

    Adam is the co-founder and CEO of Permitify. Before founding Permitify, I built and scaled a permit-expediting company with my co-founder, Alexander. Within the first month, we scaled from $0 to $40k ARR, serving clients across six states. While working to scale the business, we encountered the problems that we now solve with Permitify.

  • Alexander DensleyFounder

    Founder and CTO of Permitify. I was introduced to the residential construction space through my family. My father, brother, and uncle all work in residential construction as either full-time contractors or developers. While in school for CS, I built custom construction software for builders in utah. After this Adam and I started a permit expediting company. We worked with builders across 6 states, growing to over 40K in ARR. This business led us to discover the need for Permitify.