What’s new in permitOS™.

Katie White joins the team page, and the experience figure moves with her.

Katie has been with Gold Standard since 2017, starting as a runner and learning the process from the ground up before becoming a Project Manager in 2020. Those nine years were not in our substantiation record until today; adding them takes the documented total to 42, so the site now reads 40+ combined years across the team rather than 30+. This is the rule from the 6 August entry below doing exactly what it is for — the record moves first, then the number on the page. That entry still says 30+, because that is what was true the day it was written, and a changelog you can quietly edit afterwards is not worth reading.

She is also a Notary Public, which is now noted on the Notice of Commencement guide. An NOC has to be sworn before a notary before the county will record it, and that is a step we can usually handle without sending you anywhere.

Two doors on the way in, instead of one.

Two different people sign in here, and until now they were pointed at the same link and left to work out which side of it they were on. The Log In menu in the header now opens onto both: permitOS™ Login for licensed subscribers and their staff, and Client Portal for their clients and project teams — the people who need to see where a permit stands without holding a seat on the platform.

“Upload your plans” now actually reaches the upload.

The button under a PREiQ™ quote opened the contact page but not the file field — that field only appears once permitting services is selected, and the sticky header sat over the top of the form when it did. The button now opens the right part of the form, scrolls clear of the header, and carries your quote, permit type and jurisdiction across with it, so you are not retyping the five answers you just gave.

PREiQ™ now says what it reads your plans against.

A new section on the PREiQ page — Three Layers, Not One — sets out the three things a set is checked against: the Florida Building Code, the jurisdiction’s own ordinances and submittal rules, and eight years of what reviewers in that jurisdiction have actually called out. The distinction is the whole point of the product. Most plan review comments are not code violations; they are local requirements a national code engine was never going to see, because they were never in the code to begin with.

This page.

There was no single place to see what had changed, so things shipped and nobody outside the building knew. This is the record — dated, newest first, plain language. The roadmap still covers what is coming; this covers what has landed.

Price your own PREiQ™ pre-plan review, before you talk to anyone.

The pricing page now carries a calculator that quotes a PREiQ 48-hour pre-plan review from your own answers — project type, scope, sheet count, disciplines beyond architectural, and jurisdiction. Reviews start at $249 and the breakdown is itemised on screen, so nothing about the price arrives as a surprise later. Sets above 200 sheets route to a scoped quote rather than a formula.

Every number on this site now traces back to a record.

We went through every figure we publish and re-published only the ones that survived the check. The permit count is the big one. The site used to carry a five-figure headline number that nothing in our books actually supported, and it has been retired. Read line by line, twelve years of our own invoice history yields 3,776 distinct jurisdiction-issued permit numbers, so the site now says 3,700+ verified permits — rounded down, described as documented rather than obtained, because a few of those numbers are assigned at application. Each one is listed individually in a register we can hand to anyone who asks.

Two others changed with it. Our permitting experience is 30+ combined years across the team, and now says so everywhere instead of reading like the age of the company — Gold Standard was formed in 2014. And clients served is 370+, from a count of distinct customers rather than an estimate. We would rather publish a smaller number we can prove than a larger one we cannot, and if you ever want to see the working behind one of these, ask.

Demo requests and founding-member signups were not reaching us.

Both forms rendered correctly and looked like they submitted, but neither was wired to anything on the other end, so what you sent went nowhere. Both now post properly, confirm on screen when they land, and — if a submission ever does fail — say so plainly and give you a phone number and an email address instead of failing quietly.

If you asked for a demo or signed up as a founding member before this date and never heard back from us, that is why. It was our fault, not disinterest, and we would be glad if you tried again.

You can see who you would be working with.

Permitting is a relationship business, and you should know whose hands your package is in before you hand it over. The team page now names them: Jason Goldstein, who has pulled permits across Orange County, Orlando and Seminole since 2014 and built permitOS after one too many Fridays spent reconciling which submittals were actually moving; Jesyca Goldstein, eight years in Florida permitting, running projects from intake through issuance; and Donn Sharpe, twelve years including a stretch as a zoning supervisor for Orange County — so he has sat on the reviewing side of the desk our clients’ submittals land on.

The review engine is called PREiQ™.

During development the pre-submission plan review engine went by a working title, Smart Review, and that placeholder made it as far as a URL on this site. Its name is PREiQ™. Nothing about how it works changed. Old links still resolve: /smart-review.html redirects permanently to the PREiQ page, so bookmarks and anything we sent you previously will keep working.

Corrected 13 August 2026. The original wording of this entry put a ™ on Smart Review and described the change as a clash with another company's product. Neither was accurate — it was an internal working title. The entry is rewritten rather than deleted, because a changelog you can quietly edit is not worth reading.