Type your contractor details once. Fill every permit.

One job needs a building permit plus separate plumbing, electrical and mechanical applications, and your company name, license and address go on every one of them. Enter them once here.

Nothing you type here leaves this browser

Permit applications carry your license number, insurance details, your client's home address and their phone number. That is not data to hand to a stranger's server so it can be typed into a box for you.

Everything you enter is held in this tab only and erased the moment you close it. No account, no upload, no database. You can prove it: fill this in, disconnect from the internet, and carry on working.

Off by default. Only turn this on if the computer is yours alone. A shared office machine would keep your license details for the next person.

1 · What you already know

Your company block never changes. The job block changes once per job. Between them they cover most of every permit in the stack.

Or read it off a document you already have

Your license card, a certificate of insurance, or any permit you have already filed. A filled permit is the best source. Those details were checked by a human and accepted by a city.

Drop a license card, insurance certificate or an old permit

PDF, PNG or JPG. Read on your device. A photograph of your license is not something to upload anywhere.

2 · Open the permit form

Download the application from your city’s website and drop it here. Fields are matched to what you entered above. “Contractor Name”, “Company Name” and “Name of Firm” all find the same answer.

Drop a permit application here

Building, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, right-of-way. Any fillable municipal form.

Read on your device. Up to 50 MB.

Why this exists

42 fields per job, 19 of them new

Counted from the City of Jersey Village permit pack: one residential job filing building, plumbing and electrical permits.

11

Company facts

Name, address, phone, email, license number and holder. Identical on every permit you will file for as long as the business exists.

18

Job facts

Project address, owner, class of work, description. Typed once per job, then repeated on each trade permit for it.

13

new

Fixture counts, panel amperage, tonnage. The parts that differ between one permit and the next.

55%

Less typing

The reduction available on a single job, before counting the annual contractor registration that repeats the same block again.

Requirements for your city

What each city asks for on each trade permit, read from its own forms: Plumbing · Electrical · Mechanical (HVAC) · Residential building · Commercial building · Right-of-way construction in Jersey Village. All cities.

Questions

Which cities does this work for?

Any of them. It does not hold a library of city forms. It reads whichever PDF you open and matches its field names to what you have entered. The vocabulary was built from the City of Jersey Village permit pack and then tested against how other municipalities word the same questions: “Name of Business”, “Firm Name”, “Contractor Company” and “Contractor Name” all find the same answer.

It also declines to guess. A field labeled “Engineer License Number” or “Previous Permit Number” is left blank rather than filled with yours. On a legal document a wrong answer costs far more than an empty box.

What if the form is a scan, not a fillable PDF?

Plenty of city forms are. Recognition still reads it, and everything you have entered is laid out as a checklist to copy across, which at least removes the hunting-through-old-permits part. If the city publishes a fillable version, use that one.

Is my license number safe here?

It never leaves the tab. There is no account, no upload and no server that could be breached, because there is no server. Close the tab and it is gone. The one exception is the “keep on this device” option, which is off unless you turn it on.

Will the city accept a form filled this way?

It is the city’s own PDF with its own fields completed, so it is the same document you would have typed by hand. Check it before filing. The city decides what is acceptable, not this tool, and requirements differ between jurisdictions.

What about the insurance certificate and license card?

Those are attachments, not fields, and most cities require the certificate to come directly from your agent. This fills the application; it does not replace the paperwork that has to arrive separately.

Can I keep my details between jobs?

Save the profile to a file and load it back next time. That way nothing is stored anywhere you do not control, and it works across computers. Useful if you file from the office and the truck.