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Pre Permit AI is a live AI compliance engine designed to accelerate permitting and housing production in alignment with the City of Seattle's strategic priorities. By transforming complex, manual data validation into an instantaneous, auditable process, we deliver a measurable service improvement that supports the One Seattle vision.
Strategic Priority: Permitting and Housing Production
Strategic Priority: Permitting and Housing Production
The City has formally categorized permitting and housing production as a top-tier priority requiring immediate intervention through AI and process reform
"Building on its 2024-2025 Learning for Impact Phase, Seattle is now moving Al toward targeted implementation aligned with the civic priorities defined by the Mayor, City Council, and departmental leadership. Al will be harnessed to accelerate permitting and housing, improve public safety, enhance the responsiveness of services for Seattle residents, and enable more accessible and plain-language interactions to remove barriers. Pilots with technologies are evaluated through a "Proof of Value" framework that prioritizes City impact, cost, and operational experience over vendor hype and anecdote. " City of Seattle 2025-2026 AI Plan.pdf
The Challenge: Data Fragmentation and Cost of Delay
The Challenge: Data Fragmentation and Cost of Delay
Time to Response
Time to Response
Average 6-month preparation and review cycle.
Cost of Delay
Cost of Delay
Estimated $30,000 in holding costs per project.
Data Complexity
Data Complexity
Manual cross-referencing of fragmented GIS, code, and parcel data.
The need for human reviewers to manually cross-reference fragmented data from disconnected sources (GIS maps, utility portals, municipal code) introduces complexity and delays. The Pre-Permit AI Analyzer addresses this by functioning as an autonomous Trusted Fetcher that provides verifiable evidence packages to architects and city officials.
Watch the Pitch Video
The video above details our "Sprint to Service" Roadmap and the technical architecture of our Auditable AI Pipeline.
The Solution: Governed AI for Verifiable Compliance
The Solution: Governed AI for Verifiable Compliance
The Pre-Permit AI Analyzer is an autonomous Trusted Fetcher that transforms this challenge into a measurable service improvement.
Our system, powered by Gemini 3 for agentic reasoning and Confluent for real-time data streaming, instantly retrieves and verifies parcel data against municipal code. This process generates a digital receipt, an immutable audit trail, that provides architects and city officials with the verifiable proof needed to approve permits faster.
We are not just automating a search; we are establishing a Trusted Data Pipeline designed for Data Excellence and Responsible AI that ensures every insight is fully traceable back to specific log entries for complete governance and transparency.
The Solution: Governed AI for Verifiable Compliance
The Solution: Governed AI for Verifiable Compliance
The Pre-Permit AI Engine replaces the manual struggle of data cross-referencing with an intelligent, automated synthesis engine.
Powered by Gemini 3 for agentic reasoning and Confluent for real-time data streaming, the system instantly retrieves parcel data, verifies it against municipal code, and logs every step to an immutable ledger. This process generates a digital receipt that proves the data is real and provides the verified proof needed to approve permits faster.
The Trusted Data Pipeline: Governance and Traceability
The Trusted Data Pipeline: Governance and Traceability
Our technical architecture is designed for Data Excellence and Responsible AI by creating a trusted bridge between municipal data and advanced analysis.
Data Ingestion: Live data from City of Seattle APIs (Zoning, Parcel, Code) is ingested into Google Cloud Platform.
Auditability: Every action is streamed through Confluent to establish an immutable, real-time run ledger for complete governance and transparency.
Verification: The Gemini 3 API acts as a verification gatekeeper, ensuring address accuracy and synthesizing information into a detailed "Red Pen" Audit. This audit offers specific, actionable suggestions for compliance, with every insight fully traceable back to the Confluent log entries.
The Seattle AI Consortium
The Seattle AI Consortium
The Consortium
The Consortium
The Seattle AI Consortium represents a novel approach to civic innovation, merging immediate technical delivery with long-term workforce development. By uniting the diverse talent pipeline of Ada Developers Academy, the community roots of SBRN non-profits, and the expert mentorship of BlackFox Studios, we are building a sustainable pipeline of skilled, community-minded technologists.
Strategic Acceleration
Strategic Acceleration
Evidence-Based Execution Roadmap: Our roadmap is designed to replace speculative planning with evidence-based execution and controlled scope. We utilize the rigorous deadlines of the Google Hackathon cycle as a build accelerator to generate battle-tested, governable MVPs rather than speculative prototypes. This disciplined approach ensures that when we target the City of Seattle IT Consulting Roster, we do so with a battle-tested, governable MVP that has already survived the scrutiny of major technical competitions, positioning the project as a low-risk, high-impact partner for the City.
Strategic Engagement Model: The Funded Delivery Strategy
Strategic Engagement Model: The Funded Delivery Strategy
Executive Summary: The Funded Delivery Strategy BlackFox Studios is executing a disciplined "Funded Delivery" strategy to deploy traceable pre permit intelligence tools utilizing the 2025 to 2026 Google Hackathon cycle as a rigorous build accelerator to generate battle tested MVPs rather than speculative prototypes. By anchoring our development in the pressure of prize backed competitions totaling $175,000 in potential funding we establish the technical evidence required to qualify for the City of Seattle IT Consulting Roster targeting the $410,000 to $820,000 contracting bands as a natural evolution of our existing trusted vendor relationships within the 4Culture and City Network of Support ecosystems where we already operate at a confirmed rate of $185 per hour. This approach protects our core "Quadruple Constraint" of Time Money Scope and Energy by ensuring every line of code serves multiple stakeholders from architects needing certainty to workforce partners seeking training positioning BFS not just as a participant but as a governable UW CoMotion backed consultancy that moves strictly from proven build to paid pilot without unfunded drift.
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