permitOS™ vs. Spreadsheets
The Tool Most Teams Actually Use Today — And Where It Starts to Break Down
Most contractors, developers, and permit expediters manage their permit tracking in a spreadsheet, because it's free, familiar, and flexible. It works fine — right up until the portfolio grows past what one person can hold in their head, or a missed follow-up costs a project real time.
permitOS™ is built specifically for permit tracking, by a team with 20+ years of hands-on permitting experience — not a general-purpose tool repurposed for the job.
To be fair to the spreadsheet.
- –No cost, no new tool to learn
- –Fully customizable to however you already think about your projects
- –Fine for a small number of permits tracked by one person
The parts of the job a spreadsheet was never built for.
- –No automatic reminders when a reviewer comment needs a response
- –No shared, real-time view for a team working the same permits
- –No built-in check for missing documents or common submission errors before you submit
- –Manual, error-prone updates as permits move through review — easy for a status to go stale
- –No jurisdiction-specific guidance built in — that knowledge lives in someone's head, not the tool
Built specifically for permit tracking, not adapted from something else.
PREiQ™
AI-assisted review that helps catch missing documents and common issues before you submit — built from 20+ years of real submissions.
Team Collaboration
A shared, real-time view of every permit's status, so your whole team is working from the same information.
Jurisdiction Intelligence
Jurisdiction-specific knowledge built into the platform, not locked in one person's experience.
Automatic Tracking
Status updates and follow-ups that don't depend on someone remembering to update a cell.
Try It Yourself
See the Difference on Your Own Permits
Every new permitOS™ account starts with $2.00 of PREiQ™ credit, free — enough to run a real submission through it and see what it catches.
See PricingCommon questions.
Is permitOS™ harder to set up than a spreadsheet?
It's built to be straightforward — most teams are tracking their first permit within minutes of signing up, and you can start with a free account and $2.00 of PREiQ™ credit before committing to anything.
Can I still export or view my permit data outside permitOS™?
Reach out to our team about your specific reporting needs — we're glad to walk through what's available.
Does permitOS™ replace the need for a permit expediter?
Not necessarily — some teams use permitOS™ to manage permitting in-house, others use Gold Standard's expediting team to handle it entirely, and many do both depending on the project. See Florida Permit Expediting for that side of what we offer.