Inspektr prepares and files your permit, reviews the plans, and performs the inspections. One provider, one project record, one set of statutory deadlines that run from application to certificate of occupancy. Permit packages go out within one business day.
We prepare the package, file it, and work the jurisdiction until the permit issues. If it comes back with comments we read them, fix them, and resubmit without it touching your office.
Then the same firm reviews the plans and performs the inspections, on the same project record, under Florida Statute 553.791. One firm owns the job from application to certificate of occupancy, so there is no gap between vendors for it to sit in.
Documents checked for completeness, jurisdiction forms assembled, Notice of Commencement and product approvals prepared where the project needs them.
Submitted to the correct building department, with the F.S. 553.791(5) private provider notice on the Commission-adopted form.
Inspektr performs the plan review. The jurisdiction reviews forms and documents for completeness only, on a 10 business day clock.
Comments are read, corrections prepared, package resubmitted. Your office does not touch it.
Your tech records a guided walkthrough or joins a live queue. No four-hour window, no crew standing around.
Records to the building official within 4 business days. Certificate of occupancy on a 10 business day statutory clock, 2 days for one and two family dwellings.
The permit line item on a job is small. What it gates is not. A crew cannot start until the permit issues, cannot move on until the inspection passes, and the job cannot be invoiced out until it closes. Every day of permitting latency is a day of crew capacity you paid for and did not sell.
That arithmetic gets worse, not better, as an operation scales. A single-branch contractor absorbs permitting friction through one coordinator who knows the local building department. A contractor running six branches across four counties is running six different versions of that relationship, with throughput capped by whichever coordinator is out sick.
Crews idle waiting on inspection windows are the largest recoverable capacity in most trade operations. Removing the scheduled county window and the four-hour wait converts that directly into additional completions per crew per week, with no hiring.
Final invoicing usually waits on permit closeout. Open permits aging at 30, 60, 90 days are revenue recognized and not collected. Compressing closeout pulls cash forward across every job simultaneously, which is a balance sheet effect rather than a cost saving.
Entering a new county normally means learning a new building department and hiring someone who already has. One private provider registered statewide removes that as a precondition for expansion.
Open and expired permits are a liability that surfaces at the worst possible moment: a licensing complaint, a property sale, a lender review, a diligence process. Closing them on a statutory clock keeps that ledger clean without a cleanup project.
Multi-market operators inherit as many permitting processes as they have acquisitions. A single provider and a single project record makes performance comparable across branches instead of anecdotal.
Under F.S. 553.791, a permit application the jurisdiction does not act on within the statutory window is deemed approved as a matter of law. A certificate of occupancy request that goes unanswered is automatically granted. Those are rights, not courtesies.
Using a private provider changes what the jurisdiction is permitted to charge you, and the 2026 amendments made this considerably more specific.
Those percentages are floors rather than fixed rates, and they apply to commercial construction projects. Because s. 553.791(2)(d) expressly permits a jurisdiction to reduce further, the reductions our customers actually see run from 25% to 85% depending on the jurisdiction and the mix of services we perform. If an agency fails to apply them, it forfeits the ability to collect any fees for that project. The full provision, including how it differs for non-commercial work, is set out in our guide to the permit fee reduction.
Inspektr prepares and submits permit applications on your behalf, in addition to performing plan review and building code inspections. The permit package is assembled, submitted to the jurisdiction, tracked through issuance, and any rejection is worked and resubmitted by us. Plan review and inspections then run on the same project record under Florida Statute 553.791.
Inspektr submits a complete permit package to the jurisdiction within one business day of receiving the documents needed to file. Time to issuance after that depends on the jurisdiction, but when Inspektr performs the plan review the statutory clock in F.S. 553.791(8)(b) applies: the building official has 10 business days to notice incomplete forms or documents, or 5 business days for a single-trade plans review on a single-family or two-family dwelling, and silence means the permit is deemed approved by operation of law.
Document preparation and completeness check, jurisdiction-specific form assembly, submission to the correct building department portal, the F.S. 553.791(5) private provider notice, tracking through issuance, rejection response and resubmittal, and coordination with the building department on behalf of your office. Notice of Commencement preparation and product approval documentation are handled where a project requires them.
That is usually the point of moving permitting to a provider. Contractors running permit submission in-house typically staff it at roughly one coordinator per branch, and that coordinator's throughput caps how many jobs the branch can start. Moving submission to Inspektr removes the cap without adding the head, and the same coordinator time goes back into dispatch or sales support.
Yes. Inspektr is registered as a private provider across Florida and files into county and municipal building departments statewide. One relationship covers a multi-branch operation rather than a separate permit runner in every market you enter.
Inspektr works the rejection. The comments are read, the correction is prepared, and the package is resubmitted without coming back to your office for handling. Under F.S. 553.791(8)(c) through (e), a first revision receives the remainder of the tolled review period plus 5 business days, and later revisions receive 5 business days each, with the same deemed-approval consequence if the jurisdiction does not respond.
For commercial construction projects, F.S. 553.791(2)(d) requires the local enforcement agency to reduce the permit fee by at least 25 percent of the portion attributable to plan review or inspection services, and by at least 50 percent where a private provider performs all required services. For all projects, F.S. 553.791(2)(b) bars the jurisdiction from charging plan review or inspection fees when a private provider performs them, and bars punitive administrative fees.