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Jurisdiction map
Every agency and utility provider with a review claim on your project, and the review path each one triggers.
Permit Risk Review
Know what will delay your site before you commit to it.
The Commun-ET Permit Risk Review is a fixed fee, signed risk memo on a single development site: agencies, utility providers, ranked risks, and a realistic timeline, delivered in forty eight hours.
Commun-ET is a national permitting and utility coordination firm headquartered in Washington, DC, with delivery nationwide. Reviews are prepared and signed by a Commun-ET principal, by a team bringing more than [VERIFY: combined years pending] years of combined experience in permitting and utility coordination.
The problem
Schedules do not die on the construction site.
They come apart in review paths and utility coordination that nobody scoped before the commitment was made. A utility relocation with a nine month lead time. A review track the project did not know it would trigger. An occupancy requirement that resets the schedule.
By the time these surface, the deal is signed and the carrying costs are yours.
The Permit Risk Review surfaces them while you can still act: before close, before the LOI, before the schedule is promised to a client or a lender.
What you receive
A written memorandum of three to five pages, signed.
Prepared and signed by a Commun-ET principal. The structure is fixed so the document reads the same way every time.
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Ranked risk factors
The issues most likely to extend approval, ranked by severity and probability, each with schedule exposure stated in weeks and months rather than adjectives.
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A realistic timeline
Built on current agency review behavior we observe daily, not on published targets.
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Recommended sequencing
What to do first, what to mitigate, and whether a full Site Investigation Report is warranted before you proceed.
Fee schedule
Fixed fees, stated up front.
| Detail | Single Site | Three Sites | Portfolio (10) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fee | $2,500 | $6,000 | $17,500 |
| Per site | $2,500 | $2,000 | $1,750 |
| Turnaround | 48 hours | 5 business days | 10 business days |
| Best for | A site under contract or LOI | Short-list comparison | Pipeline screening for multi-site programs |
Fees are payable in advance. The single site fee is credited in full toward a Commun-ET Site Investigation Report ordered within sixty days of memo delivery.
Reviews are capped at four per week to protect the forty eight hour turnaround.
How it works
Three steps, and none of them are yours to manage.
AI does the pattern recognition. Our people do the judgment. Every severity call, timeline range, and recommendation in the memo is set by a Commun-ET practitioner and signed.
Step One
Complete the intake questionnaire
Twelve questions, about ten minutes, submitted with payment. Partial answers are fine: the gaps are themselves useful signal.
Step Two
The clock starts
The forty eight hour turnaround begins when the intake and payment are both received. Reviews are capped at four per week to protect that turnaround.
Step Three
Your signed memo arrives
Delivered by email as a PDF, with a twenty minute call available to walk through the findings.
Who it is for
Built for the moment before commitment.
- Developers and owners evaluating a parcel or negotiating an LOI
- Brokers who want their client's deal to survive due diligence
- Franchise and multi-site real estate teams screening a pipeline before site committee
- Architects and AE firms pressure testing a feasibility schedule
- Lenders' representatives validating a borrower's pro forma timeline
Why Commun-ET
The front end of our practice, productized.
Commun-ET, LLC is a national, AI-native permitting and utility-coordination firm, governed by human oversight and quality control, and built for exactly this kind of complexity. We run permitting management, utility coordination, and external construction management for commercial and multi-site programs nationwide, from our headquarters in Washington, DC.
That national delivery includes deep day to day presence in covered markets such as the DC, Maryland, and Virginia corridor, where our practitioners work directly with the reviewing agencies and utility providers on live submissions.
The Permit Risk Review applies that same judgment before your commitment instead of after it, and it extends the construction managers, architects, and engineers you already have.
Questions
What clients ask first.
- Does this include a site visit?
- No. The Permit Risk Review is a desk based assessment built from your intake, public records, and our direct working experience with the relevant agencies and utility providers. Where field verification is warranted, the memo says so. That is what our Site Investigation Report is for, and your review fee is credited toward it.
- Is the timeline guaranteed?
- No, and be wary of anyone who guarantees agency behavior. The memo gives a realistic range with the drivers of each bound named, based on current observed review behavior.
- Can I share the memo with my lender, partner, or client?
- The memo is prepared for the named client. Third party reliance requires our written consent. Ask us: it is usually a fast yes.
- Which markets do you cover?
- Delivery is nationwide. Our headquarters is in Washington, DC, and the DC, Maryland, and Virginia corridor is one covered market within that national practice. Send us the address and we will tell you honestly what we can see in that market and where we would need to build the picture with you.
- What do you need from me?
- The twelve question intake. Partial answers are fine, and the gaps often tell us as much as the answers.
Permits approved. Utilities connected. Schedules kept.
Start a review, or email info@commun-et.com with the property address and one sentence on the decision this memo would inform.