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Deterministic lookups and math. Built as code, not prompts, so it runs near-100% reliable.
Permitting Agent
The Permitting Agent handles the lookups, calculations, forms, and monitoring behind every air, water, and land permit — and routes the judgment calls to your experts with the evidence attached.
Everything tedious, and more.
Every large-load project hires environmental consultants — and most of their hours go to lookups, forms, arithmetic, and deadline tracking. The agent takes that tier on day one, so the hours go to the calls that actually need an expert.
- Emission calculations (PTE)
- State application forms
- Equipment spec extraction
- Unit conversions
- Permit-tier screening
- Regulatory change monitoring
- Multi-permit checklists
- RFI first drafts
- Deadline & obligation tracking
- SWPPP & NOI first drafts
Ohio EPA — Permit-to-install application
Facility ID
Source classification
Emissions table
Populated from one facility model
Every task gets a tier before it gets automated.
We mapped the full permitting workload for large-load sites and tagged every task by how far automation honestly goes. Four tiers, built four different ways.
Grounded agent
Answers from a maintained regulatory database — always cited, always dated.
Agent drafts, human decides
The agent assembles the analysis and precedent. Your consultant makes the call.
Not automatable
Fieldwork, licenses, hearings, discretion. We say so up front.
The math is code.
The model never does arithmetic. Emission-factor math, unit conversions, and threshold checks run as tool calls into tested functions — the same inputs give the same answer, every time.
- AP-42 emission-factor calculations run as code
- Unit conversions across the whole calc chain
- State forms populated from one facility model
Potential to emit — NOx
4 × 2.5 MW diesel generators
AP-42 Ch. 3 NOx factor
Requested operating limit
NOx PTE result
Tool call into tested code — never model math
Current with this month's rules.
The thresholds are stable; the programs around them are not — Ohio, Virginia, and Illinois all changed data-center generator rules within a year. So every answer carries a citation and a verification date, and anything unverifiable renders as needs-review, never as an answer.
- Permit-tier screening: minor, synthetic minor, or Title V
- Rule-change monitoring and alerts across jurisdictions
- Every claim cited, dated, and traceable to its source
Permit-tier screen — Ohio
Synthetic minor pathway available under the general permit for data-center generators.
Verified Jun 28, 2026
Rule change watched — 3 state generator rules updated in the last 12 months
Your experts stay the deciders.
BACT strategy, EIS significance, effluent negotiations — the agent assembles the analysis and precedent, your consultant decides, and your PE signs. Every package leaves the system watermarked DRAFT.
- Judgment calls routed with the evidence attached
- Decisions and corrections recorded, not lost in email
- DRAFT watermark until a licensed human signs off
Human gates
BACT options memo
Awaiting consultant decision
Permit-tier screen
Approved by consultant
Application package v4
DRAFT — in PE sign-off queue
Every decision recorded — filing stays with humans
The boundary, at a glance.
All 46 tasks across 8 permit domains — and how far automation honestly goes on each. 14 stay fully human, by design.
Automate nowGrounded agentAgent drafts, human decidesStays human
Air
Clean Air Act
- Equipment spec extraction
- PTE calculation
- Unit conversions
- Form population
- Permit-tier screening
- Aggregation-risk flags
- Rule-change tracking
- BACT strategy
- Synthetic minor vs. Title V
- AERMOD dispersion modeling
- PE sign-off
- Pre-application meetings
Water
Clean Water Act
- Disturbed-acreage measurement
- NPDES NOI form population
- General-permit screening
- SWPPP first drafts
- Individual NPDES negotiation
- Water-withdrawal strategy
- Wetland delineation (§404)
- Jurisdictional determination
Federal review
NEPA
- Categorical Exclusion screening
- EA boilerplate drafts
- EIS significance judgment
- Public-comment responses
- Scoping process
- §106 & ESA §7 consultations
- Litigation defense
Local
Zoning · noise · land use
- Setback checks
- Ordinance aggregation
- Noise modeling & mitigation
- Commission hearing & vote
- Community relations
Cross-cutting
Every permit type
- Version & status tracking
- Deadline calendars
- RFI first drafts
- All-permit cross-reference
- Parallel vs. serial sequencing
Agency-side
Relationships & discretion
- Pre-application strategy meetings
- Regulatory discretion
- Hearings & testimony
Post-permit
After the approval
- DMR data entry
- Obligation extraction
- Renewal alerts
- Enforcement negotiation
Strategic
Underneath all of it
- Site & sequencing tradeoffs
- Licensed accountability
A calculation, or a lookup against a fact that rarely changes — build it as code, not a prompt.
A fact that shifts by jurisdiction and by month — a grounded agent with a maintained, dated, sourced knowledge base.
A negotiation, a design tradeoff, a strategic call — the agent makes the human faster, never the decision.
Fieldwork, a licensed signature, a hearing, an official's discretion — permanently human, no matter how good the model gets.
One facility model in. A cited draft out.
Accelerating — never replacing — the professional engineer’s review.
Guided intake
A plain-language intake builds one versioned facility model per project. Nothing is asked twice.
Grounded ingestion
Cut sheets, dockets, and agency sources land with page-level provenance on every field.
Versioned rulebase
Factors, rules, forms, and fees stored cited and dated, with change alerts across jurisdictions.
Deterministic engines
PTE, applicability, and strategy scenarios computed by tested code. The model drafts prose, never math.
Human gates
Low-confidence extractions and judgment calls route to your consultant and PE — every decision recorded.
Draft package
Forms, calc workbooks, and memos rendered as watermarked drafts. Filing and signature stay with your team.
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