Maple Street SolarLos Angeles
Approved12 min ago
Centralized permitting for home services
One place to run permitting.
Automate permit monitoring today. Track every status change in one place.
Get Started Free Monitoring available now · 30-day free trial
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Message Us to Join our Pilot!47 active
6 approved this week
Canyon Panel UpgradeOrange County
Corrections48 min ago
Mission EV ChargerSan Diego
In reviewCurrent
One view across supported AHJs
Updates your team can act on
Built around real contractor workflows
Permit monitoring · available now
Permit updates on autopilot. No more time wasted.
Connect the supported government portals your team already uses. InstaPermit keeps checking them in the background and brings every status change into one workspace.
- Active permits found across connected portals
- Approvals, corrections, and review changes surfaced
- One current view for the whole team
47 active
6 approved this week
Maple Street SolarLos Angeles
Approved12 min ago
Canyon Panel UpgradeOrange County
Corrections48 min ago
Mission EV ChargerSan Diego
In reviewCurrent
The cost of manual tracking
Portal checking creates operating drag you can measure.
The recurring work is easy to underestimate until you count the portals, the labor, and the time between a government update and your team finding it.
$15K+
Average annual cost of manual permit tracking for a 20-permit operation, including labor and the revenue impact of delayed approvals.
4.2 days
Average time between a correction notice being issued and a contractor discovering it when checking portals manually.
30 sec
Typical time to set up InstaPermit and see active permits.
135+
California AHJ portals monitored automatically by InstaPermit.
Based on documented InstaPermit customer operations and internal analysis. Individual results vary by operating volume, market, and workflow.
Permit Submission · active pilot
We are building the workflow after “ready to submit.”
Our current pilot is helping solar and electrical contractors turn job information and permit documents into a review-ready package with less repetitive administrative work.
- Organize project data and supporting documents
- Review the package before anything is submitted
- Build alongside operators who run permitting every day
New permit packageOak Avenue panel upgrade
PilotProject and AHJ matchedProject details organized for review
Permit package
Load calculation.pdf
Site plan.pdf
Next stepHuman review before submission
How it works
Simple one-time setup. Permit monitoring on autopilot — so you can focus on real work.
A typical setup takes about 30 seconds. Create your account, connect supported AHJs once, and let current statuses and alerts collect in one place.
Set up your team.
Start a monitoring workspace without changing how your company submits permits.
Connect each supported portal once.
InstaPermit finds active permits and keeps monitoring the portals in the background.
After setup, status changes and alerts appear together for your team.
See the complete workflowFrom contractor operations
What teams get back when portal checking stops being a daily routine.
These operators used InstaPermit to replace recurring portal checks with one current monitoring view.
“I had two people spending probably 10 hours a week just checking portals and updating spreadsheets. With InstaPermit that’s completely gone. That time went back to actual work.”
“A correction came in on a Friday and we didn’t catch it until Tuesday. That was a week of delay on a $28K job. With InstaPermit that doesn’t happen — I see it the same day.”
“We cover Orange County and the IE — 12 different portals I was checking manually every morning. The day I set up InstaPermit was the last morning I ever had to do that.”
Customer names are abbreviated for privacy. Individual results vary.
One platform, two product tracks
Solve today’s visibility problem. Help shape tomorrow’s submission workflow.
Available now
Permit monitoring
Automated tracking and alerts across supported government portals.
Start 30-day trialActive pilot
Permit Submission
A centralized workflow for preparing, reviewing, and ultimately submitting permit packages.
Apply for the pilotCurrent monitoring coverage
One monitoring experience across the markets you work in.
Explore supported California markets. Coverage is based on portal support—not a generic city list—and continues to expand.
View all coverageFrom the field and back office
Useful permitting ideas, written for operators.
Founder notes, workflow breakdowns, and permit resources grounded in the work contractors actually do.
The best electrical contractors I know obsess over the boring stuff
Why repeatable permitting systems—not office heroics—give growing electrical contractors more room to scale.
Permit monitoring vs. spreadsheets: where the handoffs break
A practical look at the status gaps that appear when growing teams manage permits across portals and spreadsheets.
A working glossary of California permit statuses
Plain-language definitions for the approval, correction, suspension, and review states contractor teams see most often.
Common questions
What is available now—and what comes next.
InstaPermit automatically monitors active permits across supported government portals, centralizes current statuses, and alerts your team when something changes.
Permit Submission is in active development and pilot testing with solar and electrical contractors. Monitoring, tracking, and alerts are available today.
New monitoring accounts receive a 30-day trial. It is a time-limited trial, not a free-forever plan.
No. For monitoring, you continue submitting permits through the government portals you already use. Connect supported AHJs once and InstaPermit keeps checking them in the background.
Move permitting forward
Put permit monitoring in the background.
Start a 30-day monitoring trial today, or talk with us about the Permit Submission pilot.