Connect with qualified professionals for any drawings, stamps and reports your project may require.
Backed by Milestone Protection; funds are held safely and only released when you approve the work. Manage your entire project in one workspace.
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Permit.ca is a network connecting clients with independent professionals. Each professional is responsible for their own work. Permit.ca does not guarantee municipal approvals.
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Tell us what you're building
Plain English. No jargon, no code books, no idea who you need that's exactly the point.
Compare Quotes
Apples-to-apples pricing. We verify every professional's licence before they can even bid on your project.
Review the Work. Release Payment.
Fund one milestone at a time and review the submitted work before payment moves to the next stage.
Track It to the Finish Line
Drawings, revisions, and city permit status all in one dashboard. No lost emails, no dropped balls.
Whether you know what you need or don’t, we can help.
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A licensed professional can see the risks and pitfalls in your project before they get expensive.
The missing drawing, the code issue, the requirement nobody mentioned.
Find out before you’ve gone down the wrong path, not after.
Before & after
What changes when the scope’s confirmed first
HVAC drawings weren’t in the original quote
Without Permit.ca
Basement suite, Vaughan. Mechanical wasn’t scoped at quoting found at submission, so the file went back in the queue.
Delay
8 weeks
Cost incurred
$9,000
With Permit.ca
Your professional reviews the full scope mechanical included before you ever see a price. Scope reviewed before you quote.
Kitchen exhaust and make-up air calculations missing
Without Permit.ca
Restaurant fit-out. Two rounds of city comments before it cleared.
Delay
4 months
Cost incurred
$32,000
With Permit.ca
Commercial scopes get the same full review upfront — exhaust, make-up air, everything the city will actually check — so it clears in one pass.
No structural detail at the new-to-existing connection
Without Permit.ca
Two-storey addition. Crew was scheduled and had to stand down mid-job — then had to explain why to an unhappy client.
Delay
5 weeks
Cost incurred
$26,000
With Permit.ca
Your structural engineer flags every connection point before your crew is ever booked — so the schedule holds, and nobody has to make that call to the client.
Fire suppression coordination wasn’t in anyone’s scope
Without Permit.ca
Warehouse conversion. Equipment arrived before the permit did.
Delay
11 weeks
Cost incurred
$68,000
With Permit.ca
Fire protection gets named and scoped from day one — so equipment, permits and install dates actually line up.
Grading and servicing plan commissioned too late
Without Permit.ca
Small multiplex. Zoning work started before anyone checked the servicing.
Delay
3 months
Cost incurred
$95,000
With Permit.ca
Servicing and grading get checked against the zoning application before you commit — not three months into carrying costs.
can help prevent avoidable delays, added costs and disputes.
Milestone protection
Deposit just the active milestone into regulated Canadian custody. Your pro gets paid only after you inspect and sign off on the deliverables.
Deposit only the upcoming phase. Never risk your entire budget in advance.
Funds sit with a regulated provider. Untouched by Permit.ca or your pro.
Knowing funds exist, your pro starts drafting—driving speed and compliance.
Inspect drawings. Satisfied? Release funds. Disputed? We step in.
The Permit Workspace
Keep quotes, drawings, revisions, messages, milestones and
permit status tied to one project.
Side-by-side quotes
Spot what one includes and another leaves out.
Messaging and calls
Call from the thread. Calls are recorded and transcribed as part of the project record, with notice before the call starts.
All documents in one place
Drawings, revisions and permits — not buried in email.
Real-time permit status
Submitted, under review, revisions, approved.
Milestone payments
Fund one milestone at a time.
Verified reviews
Only from clients who actually hired and paid.
Scope changes and add-ons
Add a discipline or swap someone without starting over.
One project or forty
Builders and developers run every job on one board.
Something goes wrong?
We step in. Don’t approve the milestone and the money stays where it is while we look at it. If the disagreement is technical whether a drawing is right, whether the scope was met we can bring in an independent licensed professional to review it, because that isn’t a judgement call for a support agent.
The deposit that vanished. The “designer” who turned out not to be registered. The finished work the city made them tear out.
📲 Calls go unanswered.
Three voicemails, two unreturned emails, and an engineer who promised to show up on Tuesday. A month disappears, carrying costs mount, and your file hasn't moved an inch.
🤷 Quotes are vague.
The city demanded stamped plans. Someone told you to call an engineer. Someone else said a BCIN designer—whatever that means. Nobody explains what you actually need to clear City Hall.
😅You don’t know who’s right for the job.
It’s rarely just your call—there’s a spouse, a business partner, or a commercial landlord. Nobody wants to be the person who chose the contractor that stopped answering the phone.
✅ Tell us what you’re building. Compare quotes from professionals whose applicable credentials have been checked.
Architects, engineers, designers, surveyors and permit specialists can apply to the network and quote permit work in their discipline.
No. Permit.ca is a network. We don’t provide engineering, architectural or legal services, and we don’t give design or code advice. The licensed professionals you hire through the platform provide those services, seal their own drawings, and are responsible for their own work. We verify their credentials — we don’t perform or warrant the work itself.
There isn’t one. Professionals pay us, not you. You pay no platform fee on the quote, at checkout, or on any milestone. We take our cut from the professional’s side, and only once a milestone has actually paid out.
We check every licence against the regulator before anyone can quote you, along with insurance and business registration, and we re-check before a project starts. Only professionals who have passed that check can quote on your project.
Client funds are held by regulated Canadian payment service providers registered with the Bank of Canada under the Retail Payment Activities Act, in dedicated safeguarding accounts. Permit.ca does not hold client funds, and your money is never kept in our own accounts. You fund one milestone at a time, then review the submitted work before payment release.
Your money isn't with them. It sits with the payment provider until you approve that milestone — so there's nothing for them to take and disappear with. If you don't approve, nothing moves and our team steps in with the full record of the project. Where the disagreement is technical, we can bring in an independent licensed professional to review it.
That depends on your municipality, and it isn’t something we or your professional control. What we can tell you is where your file actually sits — submitted, under review, revisions, approved — and we won’t give you a date nobody can stand behind.
We’re across Ontario today. Permit rules change at every municipal boundary, so we match you with professionals who know yours. If your city isn’t listed, post anyway — we’ll tell you straight away whether we can cover it.
That’s the normal starting point, and it’s what the Permit Advisor is for. Tell us what you're building and we'll walk you through how the permit process works in your municipality, what the city's own checklist asks for, and which kind of professional usually handles each part. A licensed professional confirms what your project actually needs. It’s free and you’re not obligated to hire.
If you don’t respond within 10 days of work being submitted, and after two reminders, the milestone approves automatically.
We’re across Ontario today. Permit rules change at every municipal boundary, so we match you with professionals who know yours. If your city isn’t listed, post anyway — we’ll tell you straight away whether we can cover it.
No. Permit.ca does not provide engineering, architectural, design or other regulated professional services. Permit.ca is a network that connects clients with independent professionals who provide those services under their own agreements, qualifications and professional responsibilities.
Still got a question? Speak to a Permit Advisor — free, no obligation.
Tell us what you’re building. Compare scope, price and timeline from qualified professionals. Fund one milestone at a time.
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