AI SystemsConstruction · GovTech· 2025

An AI permit & compliance assistant for local builders

A vertical AI tool that turns dense municipal permit and zoning rules into clear, fast answers for contractors and homeowners.

The challenge

Permit and zoning rules are scattered across PDFs, municipal sites, and tribal knowledge. For a contractor, a wrong assumption means a rejected application and weeks of delay. The goal: make a specific city's rules instantly answerable, and make the tool discoverable by the people searching for those exact questions.

What we built

A vertical AI assistant grounded in a city's real permit, zoning, and code documents, plus the programmatic SEO surface to get found.

  • Grounded, city-specific answers. Retrieval over the actual municipal source documents, so guidance reflects the rules that apply, with citations.
  • Practical tools. Permit-type guides, zoning lookups, and neighborhood pages that answer the questions builders actually ask.
  • Engineered for discovery. Programmatic local pages, per city, per permit type, with correct schema, so the tool ranks where demand lives.

The result

The assistant launched for Oklahoma City with a growing, SEO-optimized local footprint, and the architecture scales to new cities by adding their data. It is the full Sanaf AI Solutions stack in one project: a grounded AI system, custom software, and growth engineering working together.

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