Stop permit delays before they slow your jobs
See which permits, inspections, or failed corrections are blocking your jobs before they cost you a crew day.
For New England electrical, solar, HVAC, plumbing, and remodeling shops that pull permits in more than one town.
You probably have software for jobs, scheduling, and billing. But permit and inspection follow-up still lives in your inbox, town portals, callbacks, and your head. That's where jobs stall.
Is this a fit for your shop?
Trade Permit Works is for shops that pull enough permits to feel the pain, but not enough to hire a full permit team.
Good Fit
- Electrical and solar contractors with recurring permits, inspections, and waiting on the utility to connect power
- HVAC and plumbing contractors with high permit volume and tight scheduling pressure
- General remodelers and small builders dealing with multi-department approvals
- Owners and office managers who are the ones chasing every permit by hand
Not a Good Fit
- Solo operators with rare permit work
- Large enterprise companies with dedicated permit teams
- Contractors looking for third-party permit filing or expediting
What we are building
We're building Trade Permit Works so permit and inspection follow-up stops falling through the cracks between your job software and the town hall.
Your job software already handles jobs, dispatch, and invoices. But permit and inspection steps fall in between — spread across town portals, PDFs, voicemails, inspector callbacks, and sticky notes. That's where delays start.
The directory, calculator, spreadsheet, and permit blocker review are free and built to help your team today.
Five questions that keep permitted jobs moving
Good permit tracking does more than show status. It tells you the next move before the schedule slips.
For every permitted job, your team should be able to answer:
- Permit Status: Is the permit prepared, submitted, or waiting on town hall?
- Inspection Status: Is the job ready, scheduled, or correction-pending?
- Current Blocker: What's stopping the next step — waiting on the utility, a homeowner signature, or a callback from the inspector?
- Owner: Who in your shop has the next action?
- Follow-Up Date: When should your team next contact the town or customer?
Practical tools you can use right now
Start with the problem in front of you
Start with whichever of these is useful right now. Each one is free and built to take a real task off your plate today.
Find town permit requirements
Look up any town's permit office, forms, portal links, and inspection steps — and see how recently we checked — without starting from Google every time.
See what delays are costing your shop
See what idle crews, repeat trips, office follow-up, failed inspections, and late payments really cost you — in dollars.
Compare towns in one spreadsheet
Download one spreadsheet so your team can compare notice windows, inspection hours, and portal links side by side.
Get a second look at stuck permit work
If active permits are already slowing jobs or extending your collection cycle, request a permit blocker review and show us where the workflow is breaking.
Not a permit expeditor. Not a generic project management tool.
Permit expediters file paperwork for you. Project management tools track the whole job. Neither one shows your own team a clear view of every permit step and follow-up.
Trade Permit Works fills the gap between them: the day-to-day permit and inspection tracking inside a working shop.
- The Expediter Route: Someone else files the paperwork, but you still lose track of inspection windows and callbacks from the utility.
- The PM Software Route: Permit tasks get buried under schedules and material lists.
- The Trade Permit Works Route: Clear next actions, dedicated blocker tracking, and town-specific guidance.
Frequently asked questions
Is Trade Permit Works only for electrical and solar contractors?
Electrical and solar fit best right now because they deal with the most permits, inspections, and waiting on the utility to connect power. The same workflow problems also affect plumbing, HVAC, remodeling, and other trades working across multiple towns.
What happens in a Permit Blocker Review?
We look at how your team currently tracks active permit and inspection work, then identify unclear ownership, missed next actions, and weak handoffs that may be causing delays. The review is founder-led and focused on how your shop works now — not a generic checklist.
Do you file permits for us?
No. Trade Permit Works is not an expediting agency. The goal is to help your in-house team manage permit and inspection workflow with more clarity and less chasing.
These tools are free — what are you actually building?
The town directory, calculator, spreadsheet, and blocker review are live and free to use today. They're also how we learn how shops really handle permit and inspection work, which is what we're building the paid permit-tracking tool around. Useful tools should earn trust on their own first.
If your shop handles permits across multiple towns, we would like to hear how that process actually works today.
Tell us where permit work gets stuck, what your team is tracking manually, and which handoffs create the most friction.