AI-Powered Permit Review Software for Government Agencies
Trusted by 30-plus municipalities across the US, Canada, and Australia, Archistar helps government agencies modernize permitting and plan review through AI PreCheck, an AI-powered platform purpose-built for city and county planning and building departments. AI PreCheck uses deterministic, machine-readable rule logic; computer vision; and machine learning/supervised learning—not black-box AI—to evaluate submission completeness and building code/zoning compliance. Every automated determination includes a governing code reference, extracted measured value, regulatory threshold, and a clear pass/fail outcome, with visual evidence tied directly to plan sheets. This ensures accuracy, transparency, and repeatability that regulatory agencies require.
AI PreCheck directly addresses the public sector’s most persistent permitting challenges: growing application volume, staffing shortages, inconsistent submission quality, and applicant frustration with slow turnaround. By flagging issues before formal submission and standardizing the review process, government agencies see faster approvals, higher first-pass submission quality, and reduced back-and-forth between applicants and staff—freeing planners to focus on complex judgment calls rather than repetitive manual checking.
Key solutions within the AI PreCheck platform:
- Completeness Check: Validates that permit submissions contain all required documentation and information before formal intake, reducing rejected or incomplete applications and the staff time spent triaging them.
- Compliance Analysis: Automates zoning and building code compliance review with code-cited, evidence-backed determinations for each requirement checked, while preserving full reviewer authority. The system validates, flags, and supports; it does not issue approvals.
Across both components, the agency remains the system of record at all times, with full override and audit trail capability, preserving statutory accountability while accelerating review timelines.
Compliance certifications:
- ISO/IEC 27001 certified (Information Security Management)
- ISO/IEC 42001 certified (AI Management System)
Archistar was crucial in that it can handle very complex, hierarchical review sets. The planning department was measuring how long it would take, from plan submittal to the actual day that the plan was cleared. It was a 54% reduction in the time it would take to process a plan. Strictly from an Archistar and artificial intelligence perspective, it’s clear that speed is the name of the game. So if any tool allows a planner to review something quicker and more accurately and more consistently across the board, that’s always going to be a plus.