Let’s make plans.™Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering. Permit drawings, stamped.
Every commercial space in America has to get through permits and inspections. Restaurants, bars, office suites, churches, all of them.
They all need drawings, and for most projects those drawings need a licensed engineer’s stamp. We have it.
To engineering firms, projects like yours are “small.” To you, they’re everything. The big firms chase big-budget work, where profit is easy. On projects like yours, they’re simply not interested.
Everybody needs the engineering. Almost no firm wants to provide it.
We took the market nobody wants and built the system that scales it.
Limited.
The big firm takes it reluctantly, hoping your next project is bigger. Slow quote, and their best engineers are already spoken for.
The solo practitioner is often excellent. They just can’t scale: one person deep and booked for six weeks.
The up-and-comer loves your project at first, but it’s a stepping stone. When bigger work lands, you’re old news.
Anyone can draw you a set of plans. Getting them through permitting is a different job.
Most permit sets must be sealed by a licensed engineer. That’s exactly what we have.
That’s where we come in.
We’re here on purpose, and we’re staying.
The big firm has the horsepower but not the interest. The solo has the interest but not the horsepower. We’re the blend of both, and we want your project.
Clients don’t want fancier calcs. They want a real quote in seconds, and answers during construction in hours, not weeks.
We call it real-time engineering.
This isn’t another piece of software. It’s an operating model.
A tech company can build the app, but it can’t offer the service. An engineering firm can offer the service, but it can’t build the app.
We do both.
We’ve been building our own technology since 2021.
The chaos around every project: emails, meetings, RFIs, submittals, change orders. One system keeps it all linked, and moving, nearly around the clock.
What’s left for the engineer is judgment, delivered in minutes.
The platform keeps every answer linked to its evidence: the email, the walkthrough, the cut sheet, the invoice.
Two weeks, or it’s free.
Qualifying projects get stamped MEP drawings in two weeks, or the engineering is free. That’s how confident we are in the system.
Two weeks I’ve been waiting. Framing’s up, sheetrock’s next.
The engineers take two weeks to answer a stupid question, and their drawings were wrong in the first place.
My plumber’s about to walk off site.
Every contractor, on every delayed job
Reminder: construction loan interest due this week: $14,200.
Heads up: first month’s rent starts next month, open or not.
You don’t just need the answer. You need it now, in writing, from someone willing to sign it.
The engineer needs time to answer safely. The job needs an answer today.
PermitZIP closed that gap. Ten years in this market, never leaving it, building the systems that answer with quality, fast. Book the hour, leave with an endorsed answer. Real-time engineering.
A firm focused on perfecting the craft for small commercial projects, for 10+ years.
PermitZIP was born when our founder, moonlighting on the “small” projects no firm wanted, saw the gap: everybody needs this engineering, almost nobody wants to provide it. A few months in, we quit the comfortable AE jobs and went all in.
Scaling it required a tech stack we owned. So we added the software team and built the operating layer in-house.
Hundreds of projects and millions of square feet later, we never left this market. And we’re just getting started.
“When the going got tough, PZ stuck by us to make sure our plans were approved. We would retain PZ again in a heartbeat and highly recommend them.”
“We absolutely love working with PermitZIP for electrical design. Their speed in delivering engineered plans is impressive, and they incorporate our input to keep the project within budget. PermitZIP has become an invaluable resource we rely on regularly.”
“The PermitZIP team is efficient, thorough, and fair. They bring value to the table every time.”
“The PermitZIP team is very responsive and knowledgeable in the MEP design process and throughout the construction period. Cannot recommend them enough!”
“Their team demonstrated outstanding professionalism and were incredibly responsive. The quality of their work was top notch, with innovative solutions that improved our project’s efficiency. If you’re looking for excellence in MEP engineering, look no further.”
“Great experience working with PermitZIP. A+ customer service — they made the process seamless and were very quick. We didn’t know where to turn, and we’re so thankful we were referred here to get our permit finalized.”
Quote in seconds, self-served
Call within 24 hours, deposit paid
Production with transparent milestones
Stamped drawings in about four weeks
Still hasn’t returned the quote.
Not theoretical. We use it every day.
A national network of small, locally led MEP firms: two engineers, production support, and AI, on one shared infrastructure.
Growing organically, or acquiring as owners retire.
Are you a licensed PE in mechanical or electrical who wants to run your own PermitZIP office? We bring the systems and the infrastructure. You do what you love best: engineering, not paperwork.
Reach outReal-time engineering for the projects that are most of the built world.
Real prices, self-served, out in the open. No phone call required.
Let’s make plans.™
Are we a good fit?
More than 8 in 10 commercial buildings in America are 20,000 square feet or smaller.
Most of the built world really is projects like yours. That’s our whole market.
Source: US EIA, Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey, 2018
We’ll send your stamped MEP drawings in two weeks, or it’s free. Contact team@permitzip.com to find out if your project qualifies.
Some of our favorite projects
