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Your permit review
clock doesn't pause.
It restarts.

Every drawing that complies with the OBC but conflicts with a municipal by-law triggers rejection, full resubmission, and a statutory timeline that resets from zero. PermitComp is the daily dashboard that tracks every permit across every city, flags compliance gaps before you file, and alerts you before deadlines reset.

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DEADLINES
Toronto
Apr 28ACTIVE
Oakville
Apr 24OVERDUE
Burlington
May 12ACTIVE
Mississauga
Apr 18EXPIRED
One dashboard. Zero portal hopping.

Coverage

TORONTOMISSISSAUGABRAMPTONOAKVILLEBURLINGTONHAMILTONWATERLOOOTTAWA
The Problem

The OBC is table stakes.
By-law variation is where rejections live.

Markham isn't Toronto. Each municipality interprets and extends the Code differently — through zoning amendments, fire route overlays, parking minimums, and site plan conditions. Your engineers know the Code. The municipality's variation is what rejects your drawings.

You find out after resubmission. Every cycle resets statutory review periods, burns drafting and engineering hours, and cascades delays into trades, financing, and occupancy.

And when you're managing 8–15 active projects across multiple cities, "Where's my permit?" becomes a full-time job — chasing status updates, logging into different portals, explaining delays to developer clients. 30–40% of your week on coordination, not design.

March 2026 — Bill 185 regulations now require professional engineering certification for complete planning applications. More complexity means more coordination. More chances for a missed requirement to reset the clock.

Resubmission cycles

Per cycle: draft hours, engineering review time, resubmission fees, and carrying costs on a project that isn't advancing. Most professionals put the floor well above $3,000.

Statutory deadline resets

A rejected permit doesn't just add a delay. It restarts the review clock from zero. Miss Toronto's 20-day window and you don't push back a week — you restart.

6 portals, 6 rule sets

Toronto uses CKAN. Mississauga uses Accela. Brampton uses CivicPlus. Each portal needs a separate login. Each has different submission checklists.

Bill 185 complexity

New March 2026 regulations require professional engineering certification for complete applications. Another dependency to track, another requirement to miss.

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GTA Municipalities

Coverage map

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Active Tracking

Real-time status

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Portals Unified

One screen

OBC+

Code & By-law

Cross-referenced

The Solution

Track permits. Flag gaps. One dashboard.

Coordinate

The daily dashboard

Real-time permit status

Every active permit across every municipality. One screen, not six portals.

Statutory deadline tracking

Know when review windows close before they reset. Not after.

"Where's my permit?" — answered

Stop chasing status via email and phone. The answer is on your dashboard every morning.

Priority digest alerts

Daily email of what changed overnight — new statuses, approaching deadlines, resubmissions required. No portal checking needed.

RFI coordination

Track requests for information per permit. Know what the municipality asked for and when it's due — in the same place as the permit status.

Inspections & punch-list

Schedule tracking, inspection results, and punch-list items linked to the permits they belong to. One less spreadsheet.

Comply

The pre-submission check

Upload your drawings. Catch by-law conflicts before the municipality does.

The Cross-Reference Engine

How the compliance check works

PermitComp cross-references your project data against the Ontario Building Code and current municipal by-laws. The OBC is a living document — amendments are issued regularly. PermitComp tracks the version in force for each municipality at the time of analysis.

Input: "Fire safety plan omitted"
CROSS-REFERENCING OBC 3.2.4
Flag: Missing Fire Safety Plan. Required for all Part 3 buildings.
Coverage

17 GTA municipalities

Not every city has a public API. We tell you which ones do.

toronto

Toronto

Auto-sync (CKAN)

Real-time permit status and deadline tracking via CKAN Datastore API.

clarington

Clarington

Partial (ArcGIS)

Some data available via ArcGIS Open Data. Manual review for remaining fields.

oshawa

Oshawa

Portal offline

No public portal detected. Tracking available upon request.

whitby

Whitby

Portal offline

No public portal detected. Tracking available upon request.

ajax

Ajax

Portal offline

No public portal detected. Tracking available upon request.

pickering

Pickering

Portal offline

No public portal detected. Tracking available upon request.

durham

Durham Region

Portal offline

No public portal detected. Tracking available upon request.

mississauga

Mississauga

Manual tracking

Status tracked by our team. No public API available.

brampton

Brampton

Portal offline

No public portal detected. Tracking available upon request.

markham

Markham

Portal offline

No public portal detected. Tracking available upon request.

vaughan

Vaughan

Portal offline

No public portal detected. Tracking available upon request.

oakville

Oakville

Manual tracking

Status tracked by our team. No public API available.

burlington

Burlington

Manual tracking

Status tracked by our team. No public API available.

hamilton

Hamilton

Portal offline

No public portal detected. Tracking available upon request.

waterloo

Waterloo

Partial (ArcGIS)

Some data available via ArcGIS REST. Manual review for remaining fields.

london

London

Portal offline

No public portal detected. Tracking available upon request.

ottawa

Ottawa

Manual tracking

Status tracked by our team. No public API available.

Who It's For

Built for the professionals who risk the stamp

Architects

Catch violations in drawings, not at the counter. Ensure every submission is complete before you sign.

General Contractors

Track all subs, all deadlines, all inspections. Know whose permit is holding up the job.

Developers

Portfolio view across all projects. See which sites are at risk of statutory deadline breach.

Permit Expediters

Missing submission detection by municipality. Know what's required before you file.

Engineers

Structural, HVAC, and electrical compliance checks. OBC section references with every flag.

Liability

Where responsibility lives

PermitComp flags potential gaps. You decide what to submit.

You remain the professional of record

Our output is a review, not a certification.

Building officials retain full discretionary authority

No tool overrides the CBO's judgment.

False negatives are possible

If we miss something, liability doesn't transfer to us.

One input among many

Never your only input.

Our terms of service, data retention policy, and hosting jurisdiction details are published on our Legal page. Canadian-hosted. No training on uploaded drawings without explicit opt-in. Drawings deleted after processing unless you choose to retain them.

Common Questions

FAQ

The OBC sets the floor. Municipal by-laws add site-specific requirements on top. Both matter. They interact. A compliant drawing under the Code can still fail on a by-law condition.

You're still responsible. PermitComp is a supplement, not a substitute for professional judgment. See the Liability section above.

Yes. Each municipality is cross-referenced separately. Markham isn't Toronto.

Checking six different portals every morning isn't coordination — it's survival mode. PermitComp puts every permit's status in one screen so you can stop chasing and start deciding.

The OBC is a living document. PermitComp tracks the version in force for each municipality at the time of analysis. Amendments are incorporated as they're published.

You shouldn't trust it blindly. Evaluate the output against your own judgment. That's exactly what it's designed for.

Transparency

Where we stand today

Built

  • Cross-reference engine covering OBC + municipal by-laws for five Ontario municipalities
  • Every flag mapped to the specific Code section or by-law clause it cites
  • Real-time permit status tracking across tracked municipalities
  • Statutory deadline monitoring
  • Designed by professionals who learned from their own rejections

Not yet

  • A large corpus of processed permit sets (dozens, not thousands)
  • Published cycle-reduction statistics
  • Testimonials with full attribution
  • Municipal-side integration (architect-side first, municipalities later)

We'll publish every number when we've earned it. Until then, you'll know exactly what you're working with.

Pricing

Free During Beta

Full access. No credit card. Your stamp, your judgment, our flags.

Beta Access

FREE

Early-Access Firms
Permit document analysis
OBC compliance flagging
Statutory deadline tracking
Municipal coverage
Missing submission detection
Compliance cross-reference engine
Permit coordination dashboard
Team collaboration
After beta

Paid plans will be introduced after stable data coverage across 12+ municipalities. Beta users keep free access to core features. Expected pricing range: $1,500–$2,500/month per firm — annual billing. At 10+ hours saved per permit cycle, the ROI is immediate.

One missed by-law clause
can restart a review cycle.

PermitComp cross-references your drawings against the OBC and your municipality's specific requirements — one dashboard for every city, every deadline.

Free beta. Five municipalities. Your stamp, your judgment, our flags.

No Credit Card
Bank-Level Encryption
Statutory Deadline Tracking