https://www.commun-et.com/insights Editorial, product, and field notes from the Commun-ET team on permitting, utilities, and AI in the built environment. en-us Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:14:08 GMT https://www.commun-et.com/insights/how-long-does-a-commercial-building-permit-take https://www.commun-et.com/insights/how-long-does-a-commercial-building-permit-take Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Marcus Hale, Editorial Director Editorial A jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction breakdown of real plan-review timelines for commercial building permits, what drives the variance, and how operators are compressing it. https://www.commun-et.com/insights/multi-jurisdiction-permitting-complete-guide https://www.commun-et.com/insights/multi-jurisdiction-permitting-complete-guide Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Commun-ET Editorial Editorial How to design, staff, and instrument a permitting program that runs across 20+ jurisdictions without losing the schedule or the institutional memory. https://www.commun-et.com/insights/ai-permit-automation-what-works-what-doesnt https://www.commun-et.com/insights/ai-permit-automation-what-works-what-doesnt Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Commun-ET Editorial Editorial An honest accounting of where AI is actually moving the needle in commercial permitting, where it is failing, and how to evaluate vendor claims without getting burned. https://www.commun-et.com/insights/external-pm-playbook-multi-site-rollouts https://www.commun-et.com/insights/external-pm-playbook-multi-site-rollouts Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Marcus Hale, Editorial Director Playbook A field-tested operating model for running 20+ site programs across multiple jurisdictions without burning out your internal team or the schedule. https://www.commun-et.com/insights/utility-coordination-field-guide-2026 https://www.commun-et.com/insights/utility-coordination-field-guide-2026 Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Devon Carr, Field Operations Lead Playbook A practical operating guide for resolving subsurface, joint-trench, and energization risk before it shows up in your construction schedule. https://www.commun-et.com/insights/public-engagement-wins-permit-approvals https://www.commun-et.com/insights/public-engagement-wins-permit-approvals Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sasha Levin, Customer Success Playbook A modern operating model for community engagement that gets projects approved, builds durable trust, and protects the rest of the program from a single hostile hearing. https://www.commun-et.com/insights/the-hidden-tax-of-permitting-delay https://www.commun-et.com/insights/the-hidden-tax-of-permitting-delay Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Marcus Hale, Editorial Director Editorial Every week of permit purgatory costs national operators six figures. Here's the math, and the playbook to recover it. https://www.commun-et.com/insights/inside-the-agent-control-center https://www.commun-et.com/insights/inside-the-agent-control-center Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Priya Raman, Head of Product Product How twelve specialized AI agents collaborate across a single permit lifecycle, and why orchestration beats automation. https://www.commun-et.com/insights/what-detroits-reform-means https://www.commun-et.com/insights/what-detroits-reform-means Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Devon Carr, Field Operations Lead Field Notes A new ordinance changes plan-review economics. We break down the impact on QSR rollouts and fiber buildouts. https://www.commun-et.com/insights/wonder-dmv-multi-jurisdiction-rollout https://www.commun-et.com/insights/wonder-dmv-multi-jurisdiction-rollout Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sasha Levin, Customer Success Case Study How Wonder's novel restaurant format moved through Baltimore, Montgomery County, and Prince George's County permitting on a single-quarter opening cadence. https://www.commun-et.com/insights/utility-coordination-eating-schedules https://www.commun-et.com/insights/utility-coordination-eating-schedules Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Marcus Hale, Editorial Director Editorial Subsurface conflicts now drive more delays than weather. The fix is geospatial intelligence, applied early. https://www.commun-et.com/insights/communet-expands-to-300-jurisdictions https://www.commun-et.com/insights/communet-expands-to-300-jurisdictions Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Commun-ET Newsroom Newsroom Coverage now spans every major US metro, with same-day intelligence on plan-review queues. https://www.commun-et.com/insights/how-to-read-a-dob-queue https://www.commun-et.com/insights/how-to-read-a-dob-queue Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Marcus Hale, Editorial Director Playbook Plan-review queues look like a black box from the outside. They aren't. Here is how to read a Department of Buildings queue well enough to predict your own approval date — and what to do when the queue is working against you. https://www.commun-et.com/insights/utility-coordination-101 https://www.commun-et.com/insights/utility-coordination-101 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Devon Carr, Field Operations Lead Playbook What utility coordination actually is, why it eats more construction schedule than any other discipline, and the operating model that contains the risk before it hits your trench. https://www.commun-et.com/insights/zoning-vs-building-permit-guide https://www.commun-et.com/insights/zoning-vs-building-permit-guide Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Marcus Hale, Editorial Director Editorial Zoning approval and building permits are two separate gates with two separate reviewers, two separate risk profiles, and two separate ways to blow up your schedule. Here is how to sequence them.