Permit Budget builds renovation cost estimates from actual permit filing data, trade by trade, market by market. Contractors bid with confidence. Investors underwrite with real numbers.
Launching soon. Waitlist members get their first estimate free and lock founding-member pricing.
Scope in, permit-grounded numbers out. No survey data, no national averages.
Square footage, trade mix, market. Two minutes, and your first estimate needs no signup.
The engine matches your scope to aggregated permit valuations in your market and returns per-trade $/sqft bands, with the permit count behind each number.
See how each trade's permit costs moved over the last 12 months, so you price tomorrow's job, not last year's.
Export a bid-ready PDF for your bid package or underwriting memo, or pull estimates through the API from your own workflow.
Trade-by-trade cost bands from real permit filings. Manhattan, 1,200 sqft gut renovation.
Concept illustration. Figures are fictional. Product in development.
National averages smooth away the differences that make or break a bid. Permit filings are what the work actually cost.
Every estimate starts from aggregated permit valuations in your market: what contractors actually filed, not what a survey guessed. More permits in, sharper estimates out.
Permits in Austin do not price like permits in Brooklyn. Every number is scoped to the market you build or invest in, because that is where the money goes.
Plumbing, electrical, HVAC, framing, finishes: each trade gets its own $/sqft band with the permit count behind it, so you know which numbers are solid and which are thin.
Twelve-month cost movement per trade per market shows where labor and material pressure is pushing bids. Pro plan.
Export a clean, branded cost breakdown for your bid package, capital budget, or underwriting memo. Pro plan.
Pull permit-grounded estimates into your bidding or underwriting workflow programmatically, scope in and breakdown out. Pro plan.
One avoided bad bid covers years of the product. Annual plans are two months free.
Early access members lock founding pricing. The 14-day free trial begins at launch.
Cancel anytime from Settings, then Billing, or by emailing hello@permitbudget.com. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your billing period. Monthly plans are not prorated on cancellation. Annual plans are refundable within the first 30 days.
Those guides publish national averages with ranges so wide they are barely actionable. Permit Budget builds your estimate from actual permit filings in your market, trade by trade, so the number reflects what work really cost where you operate.
Public permit records published by municipal building departments. We aggregate permit valuations by trade and market, normalize them, and keep ingesting new filings so the dataset gets denser and more accurate over time.
Estimates are planning-grade: grounded in real permit filings and blind-tested against actual bid outcomes. Permit valuations can understate true contract cost, which is why we normalize the data and publish our methodology. It is a budgeting tool, not a substitute for a licensed contractor's bid.
Coverage opens market by market, starting where permit records are deepest. Waitlist signups tell us which markets to open next, and founding members get first access when their market goes live.
Yes. The Estimator plan covers 1 market at a time, and you can change it anytime from Settings. Pro covers up to 5 markets, for contractors and investors working across regions.
Pro users can pull estimates programmatically: scope in, cost breakdown out, ready to feed into a bidding or underwriting workflow. API docs ship with the API.
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