Assessments
We assess how your development review process actually performs.
Not how the manual says it works. What your own permit records, your staff, and the people waiting on you say it does — and what to change first.
How this goes
One engagement, three things that follow from it.
You are buying an assessment. The rest is what happens next, and each stage earns the one after it. Nothing here is a separate purchase.
First
The assessment
We study how your development review process actually performs — your permit records, your staff, your applicants. You get findings with the evidence attached and recommendations in priority order.
Then
Your data stays yours
Everything the engagement touched lives in a Data Vault scoped to your organization — the records, the analysis, the report. Included with every engagement, and free for the first 12 months.
After
The recommendations get run
A report on a shelf changes nothing. If you want it, the same work moves into One(Place) as tasks, procedures, and owners — so the roadmap becomes the work your team is actually doing.
The work
What we assess.
Both are delivered by a person who has run these studies for jurisdictions like yours — with software doing the analytical grind underneath.
Development Review Assessment
How your development review and permitting process actually performs — volume, timelines, phase dwell, and standards compliance.
What we need from you
24+ months of permit records (dates, types, statuses) against the enriched-permit schema.
Organizational Assessment
A structured assessment of how a department or function is organized, resourced, and performing.
What we need from you
Org structure, budget, and process/interview inputs.
Working on something adjacent — a permit benchmark, a staffing model, a GIS question? Ask. If it isn’t work we can do well, we will say so.
Engagements
Three sizes, and the price is on the page.
You should be able to find out what this costs without booking a call. The range moves with scope and with the shape of your data; the number is fixed before we start.
Focused
One question, answered properly
4 – 6 weeks
Scope
A single permit type, or a single department.
- Permit data analysis — volume, timelines, phase dwell, and outcomes
- Findings documented with the evidence behind each one
- Prioritized recommendations you can act on
- A 60-minute readout for staff and leadership
Standard
The whole development review process
8 – 12 weeks
Scope
End-to-end development review, across every permit type.
- Everything in Focused, across the full process
- Staff and stakeholder interviews
- Process mapping — how the work actually moves, not how the manual says it does
- Benchmarking against peer jurisdictions and published standards
- A written assessment report and a presentation-ready readout
Comprehensive
The process and the organization behind it
12 – 16 weeks
Scope
Development review plus the structure, staffing, and standards around it.
- Everything in Standard
- Organizational assessment — structure, staffing, and workload
- Service level standards defined and documented
- A phased implementation roadmap with owners and sequencing
- Council or board presentation
Fixed fee, agreed before we start. Half at signature, the balance at delivery checkpoints.
Free, and genuinely free
Start with an AI use policy for your organization.
Your staff are already using these tools. Most jurisdictions have nothing written down about it. We will draft a one-page AI use policy for your organization and walk your leadership through it in thirty minutes — no fee, no obligation, and no assessment pitch unless you ask for one.
About your data
Engagement data lives in a Data Vault scoped to your organization — encrypted in transit and at rest, US-hosted, visible only to the people you name. Files are rated for data quality when they arrive, so you can see which records the findings actually rest on. You can export everything, at any time, in the format you gave it to us. Included free for 12 months with every engagement.
What it does not do yet: the Vault does not scan uploads for malware and does not clean or normalize your records for you — that work happens on our side, by hand, as part of the engagement. See the trust page for the full picture.
Ten questions, about three minutes.
Tell us how your development review process runs today. We will come back with what we would look at, what it would take, and what it would cost — or with an honest answer that you don’t need us.