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• How much does a permit set cost — what's your starting price?+

  Most permit sets start around $3,500. The fee is fixed and quoted to your specific scope — a smaller project like an ADU or a tenant improvement sits near the starting figure, while a full custom home or a multifamily building is higher. About 80% of our work is a single fixed price agreed before you sign; we only fall back to an hourly arrangement — quoted in writing before we start — when the scope is genuinely undefined (early feasibility or code research). Stamps, city permit fees, and specialty consultants are itemized separately so the all-in number is never a surprise.

• Why not use a cheaper drafter on Upwork or overseas?+

  Some are excellent. The risk isn't the drawing quality — it's the back-end. When the AHJ requests a correction at 4pm on a Wednesday, the offshore drafter is asleep and your construction calendar is held up two weeks. When your GC asks "what's the framing detail at the gable end," they need an answer in the next hour, not the next morning. Our fixed fee bundles the corrections, the GC follow-ups, the AHJ resubmittal, the schedule slippage you don't have to absorb. If your project is small and the schedule is loose, offshore is genuinely cost-effective. For anything on a contract calendar, it isn't.

• Can I just have my GC's in-house drafter do it?+

  If they have one in-house, that's often the right answer — they're embedded in the project and know the trades. The cases where firms hire us instead of using a GC's drafter: (1) the GC is bidding the project and needs an unbiased drawing set, (2) the GC's drafter is overloaded, (3) the AHJ has rejected the GC's sets before and the project needs a clean third-party submittal. None of those are "the GC's drafter is bad" — they're scheduling and bias issues.

• What does a typical revision cycle cost?+

  Nothing extra — two rounds of revisions before CD freeze are bundled into the fixed fee, and AHJ corrections after submittal are bundled too. The only revision that's billed extra is substantive scope change after CD freeze (you decide to add a second floor, change the cuisine for a restaurant TI, etc.). Those are quoted transparently before the work starts.

• How does fixed-fee compare to hourly?+

  For projects where the scope is well-defined (TI, ADU, custom home from a clear program brief, multifamily from a sketch), fixed fee is usually 30–40% less expensive than hourly because there's no incentive for the drafter to take longer. For projects that genuinely need exploration (a renovation where the as-builts are wrong, a heritage building where we're negotiating with planning every week), hourly is more honest. We default to fixed fee and switch to hourly only when the scope demands it — and we tell you upfront.

• What if my permit gets rejected after we pay you?+

  Plan-check corrections are bundled — we respond at no extra fee. If the AHJ rejects the package for a substantive reason that was in our scope to catch (we missed a code requirement, mis-specified a detail), we revise at no extra fee until it passes. The only AHJ rejections we don't cover for free are those triggered by client decisions made after CD freeze (you changed something) or by AHJ scope expansion (the reviewer asks for a new structural calc that wasn't required at submittal). Those get quoted transparently.

• Can I pay in installments?+

  Yes — typical schedule is 30% on contract sign, 40% at construction-docs milestone, 30% at permit issuance. For larger multifamily / commercial projects we sometimes structure four payments around schematic / DD / CD / issuance. Card, ACH, or check; we don't accept crypto.

• What's NOT included in the fixed fee?+

  Stamps (architect or engineer, when required), specialty consultant fees (geotech, civil, landscape, low-voltage), permit fees themselves (paid to the AHJ, not us), as-built measurement (itemized), and 3D renderings beyond what we produce for the architectural set (we partner with a renderer when needed). Every itemized cost is named on the quote — no surprises at invoice time.