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Cutsheet packet for your submittal
Fire submittals need an indexed cutsheet packet — every device's manufacturer cutsheet and listing, verified against current CSFM listings. Two ways to handle it:
Plan Pre-Flight Check — $95
We review your plans before the city does — a 12-point screen with a written Pre-Flight Report in 4 business hours (same-day if it’s in by 2pm PT). Credited in full toward your filing when we file the permit.
First-Pass Warranty — +$149
Correction insurance for your filing. If the city issues corrections on anything our pre-flight cleared, we write the correction response and resubmit — free. It covers our rework, never the city’s decision.
Not covered: the city’s approval, issuance, or timelines (we never promise those), client-caused scope changes, or items the pre-flight flagged.
No drawings? The D/E draws them — from $395
No? No worries — that’s literally what we’re here for. Add permit-ready drafting: the D/E — Designer/Engineer AI — draws your floor plans, site plan, and the layouts your city wants to see, ready for filing in 3 business days. One revision round + one city-corrections round on our drawings included.
Panel migration program
Panel work files as a named platform migration, not a generic swap — each platform has its own compatibility packet, and we file with that packet first try. Migrating 10+ buildings? Portfolio program pricing applies — send us the building list and we quote the program in writing.
Communicator platform
Swap programs are platform-standardized — the filing packet is too. Tell us the platform and we file with the pre-built cutsheet packet for it: communicator cutsheet with its CSFM listing, panel info, and monitoring account details.
Fire Alarm package
Two ways to file your fire alarm permit — pick the package. Both are filed same-day and tracked to decision. City permit fees are separate, paid by you directly to the City.
Detection & notification on this system
Special device classes ride inside the fire alarm permit — flag them here and their cutsheet requirements join the submittal packet, so the reviewer never has to ask.
Sprinkler system variants
These variants ride inside the sprinkler permit — flag them and the alteration gets routed with the right documentation the first time.
Access control & mag-lock intake
From $495 per site — fire and building review handled end to end, plans and cutsheets checked before filing, filed same-day, one corrections round included. The $495 base covers up to 9 controlled doors / openings; larger sites step up by entry count — 10–24 entries $795 · 25–49 entries $1,195 · 50+ entries $1,695 — and your fee panel reprices live as you enter the count. For San Francisco jobs, SFFD fire final-test scheduling and coordination are included in the fee. Additional corrections rounds are $295, quoted in writing before we resubmit. City fees are a pass-through at cost — never marked up.
Files upload with your job files right after payment, in this same order — there’s no separate upload trip. No cutsheet packet yet? The packet build below puts it together for you.
Deficiency program intake
The inspection report is the filing source — attach it with your job files and we pull the repair permits straight from it. One report spawning 3+ permits? Batch pricing applies; we confirm it in writing before filing.
ERCES companions — filed together, inspected together
Refuge and elevator communications are permitted and inspected alongside the ERCES — file them in the same package instead of discovering them at the acceptance test.
Emergency / exit lighting replacements — $125
Replacing dead emergency lights or exit signs during this job? Testing finds them; the replacement is an electrical permit. Add it here and the permit tail rides in this same order instead of being skipped or hand-filed later.
Plan Code Review — $195
Before we file, we review your access control plans against the locking and egress code — sensor release, fail-safe on power loss, push-to-exit placement, release on fire alarm, delayed-egress rules — and flag what a reviewer would correct, while fixing it is still free.
Inspection scheduling
We book your city inspection for you and send you the confirmation — one less thing to chase after the permit lands. We schedule it; the city sets the slot. The fee covers the booking itself: scheduling with the city as your agent, locking the slot, and sending you the written confirmation. Any fee the city charges for the inspection itself is separate, at cost. Priced two ways: $95 on its own, or $49 when added to a permit filing.
Trade-first pricing: choose 1 no-plans trade for $125. Add a second and confirm the $250 Simple Bundle with one tap; it covers up to 4 trades at the same site. A trade is a type of work (electrical, plumbing, mechanical, fire, sign): one permit can cover several trades, and we count trades, not paperwork, so you never pay twice for one permit covering multiple trades. Plan-review work — including structural, fire-rated construction, and change of use — follows the $250-per-permit Complex path.
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Your authorization letter
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- Sign the authorization letter right here — it goes straight to our filing team.
- Upload a clear photo of the contractor’s government-issued photo ID in the next step.
- Send your job files (plans, cut sheets) the same way.
Letter, then ID
Two quick uploads and we file. Nothing moves until both are in.
1 · Your signed letter
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- We check your documentsSame day — if anything’s missing or your license doesn’t verify, we tell you right away. Nothing stalls silently.
- We file your permitSame day, as your authorized agent.
- The city reviewsWe track it daily and handle any corrections for you.
- You get your permitWe email your approved permit and job card.
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Open my seat → · Track this orderWe’ll reach out to book your city inspection once the permit is filed — we schedule it, the city sets the slot. Invoiced separately via QuickBooks.
Got expiring permits or licenses (operational permits, business licenses)? Track renewals free on your dashboard — we draft every reminder before anything expires.
Track my renewals free →Where’s the job?
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Review & pay
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Permit’s in.
Payment confirmed — your water heater permit is in the filing queue. Order .
The one inspection — pass it first time
- Venting — draft hood seated, connector secure
- Seismic straps — two, upper and lower third
- T&P valve — drain line to approved termination
- Shutoff — working cold-water shutoff at the unit
Questions? Give us the quick details.
We’ll reach out to book your city inspection after the permit is filed — we schedule it, the city sets the slot. Invoiced separately via QuickBooks.