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    Permitting Strategy - the path before the paperwork.

    Senior advisory engagements that map the regulatory path, sequence approvals, and surface schedule risk before a single submittal goes out the door.

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    Service Snapshot
    4-8 wk
    Typical Engagement
    100%
    Principal-Led
    30+
    Jurisdictions Mapped
    Overview

    Strategy first, paperwork second.

    Before a permit gets submitted, the path has to be designed. Our strategy engagements deliver a regulatory roadmap, a sequenced approval calendar, and a quantified risk register your team, or ours, can execute against. We pressure-test assumptions early, when fixes are cheap, so your program enters submittal with the agencies aligned, the dependencies mapped, and a schedule that holds up to lenders, partners, and your board.

    Regulatory roadmap
    Every required approval identified, sequenced, and dependency-mapped against your construction schedule, with named reviewers and statutory clocks called out.
    Risk register
    Probability and impact quantified for every permitting risk, with mitigations, owners, and trigger dates so nothing surfaces as a surprise mid-program.
    Buy or build decision
    An honest recommendation on whether to staff this internally, retain us, or hybridize, backed by a side-by-side cost, speed, and risk comparison you can take straight to leadership.
    Stakeholder map
    Decision-makers, influencers, and known opposition identified across agencies, councils, and community groups so engagement is sequenced deliberately, not reactively.
    Capabilities

    What we do

    Strategy deliverables that de-risk a program before execution begins, grounded in current agency practice, not what the code reads like on paper.

    01

    Jurisdictional analysis

    A deep read of every code, ordinance, and overlay zone affecting your site or corridor, including unwritten agency practice and recent precedent decisions.

    • Deliverable: annotated code & overlay matrix
    • Outcome: fewer mid-review surprises
    02

    Approval sequencing

    A critical-path schedule for permits and approvals tied to your construction milestones, with float, dependencies, and statutory review windows modeled explicitly.

    • Deliverable: sequenced calendar (CSV/Gantt)
    • Outcome: defensible schedule for finance & GC
    03

    Agency pre-meetings

    Confidential pre-application meetings with reviewing agencies to surface concerns early, calibrate scope, and build relationships before formal submittal.

    • Deliverable: meeting notes & reviewer positions
    • Outcome: scope locked before submittal
    04

    Cost & schedule modeling

    Probabilistic timeline and fee modeling so finance can underwrite with confidence, including P50/P90 scenarios and sensitivity to the riskiest approvals.

    • Deliverable: P50/P90 cost & schedule model
    • Outcome: underwriting-ready assumptions
    05

    Entitlement & feasibility memo

    A plain-language read on what's actually permittable on the site, what's contingent, and what would require a code amendment, variance, or political lift to achieve.

    • Deliverable: feasibility memo with go/no-go
    • Outcome: clear basis for invest/exit decision
    Process

    How a strategy engagement runs

    A focused 4-8 week sprint led by a senior principal, structured to give your team a defensible plan and a clear go/no-go at the end.

    Engagement timeline

    What happens week by week

    8-week scale · most engagements finish in 4-8 weeks
    W1
    W2
    W3
    W4
    W5
    W6
    W7
    W8
    • 01 · Kick-off
    • 02 · Discovery
    • 03 · Synthesis
    • 04 · Handover
    Phase 01, Wk 1
    Scope, principal assigned, success criteria locked.
    Phase 02, Wk 2-3
    Jurisdictional reads, agency pre-meetings, benchmarking.
    Phase 03, Wk 4-6
    Roadmap, sequenced calendar, risk register, cost model.
    Phase 04, Wk 7-8
    Executive readout, deliverable, execution recommendation.
    1. 01
      Phase 01

      Kick-off

      Document review, principal assigned, and success criteria agreed in week one, with a working session to align on scope, decision points, and the audience for the final readout.

    2. 02
      Phase 02

      Discovery

      Jurisdictional reads, agency pre-meetings, and peer-project benchmarking, including informal calls with reviewers and a scan of recent comparable approvals in the same jurisdictions.

    3. 03
      Phase 03

      Synthesis

      Roadmap, sequenced calendar, risk register, and cost/schedule model produced and stress-tested internally before draft delivery, with a mid-engagement check-in to confirm direction.

    4. 04
      Phase 04

      Handover

      Executive readout, written deliverable, and a recommended execution model, yours, ours, or hybrid, plus a 30-day follow-up call once your team has lived with the plan.

    FAQ

    Questions we hear most.

    Search the list below, or talk to our team.

    Key points
    • No.
    • Every engagement delivers a written roadmap, a sequenced calendar (CSV/Gantt), and a quantified risk register.
    • The deck is the readout, not the deliverable, and everything is yours to keep, edit, and re-use without restriction.

    Design the path before you pour the paperwork.

    Share your project brief, target start date, and the decision this engagement needs to support. We'll come back within one business day with a fixed-fee scope, named principal, and proposed kick-off date.

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