Permitlify Spring 2026 Update: 38 New Cities, Faster Scoring, and Mobile App Beta

Three months ago we promised a faster scoring pipeline, broader city coverage, and a real mobile app. All three shipped. Here is the rundown of what changed in Permitlify between January and April.

38 new jurisdictions live, 286 total

The biggest news for most customers is geographic. We added 38 new cities and counties this quarter, with the bulk of the expansion in the Southeast and Mountain West. The full list of newly-supported areas is on the Coverage page, but the highlights: all of Maricopa County (Arizona), seven new metros across the Carolinas, Salt Lake City and four surrounding counties, and the City of Atlanta proper (we previously covered Fulton and DeKalb but not city-issued permits).

If your area is not yet covered, the Settings → Request a City form is the fastest path. Customer-requested cities get prioritized and are usually live within 60 days.

Scoring latency: 22 minutes → under 3

The biggest engineering win of the quarter is invisible to most users but quietly improves everyone's morning. We rewrote the scoring pipeline to process incoming permits in parallel batches instead of sequentially. Result: median time from "permit appears in city portal" to "permit is scored and visible in your dashboard" dropped from 22 minutes to under 3.

What this means in practice: by 6:03 AM your dashboard is fully built, not 6:25. You get back 22 minutes of morning. Some of you have been emailing about this for a year. Sorry it took us this long. Done now.

iOS app — open beta this week

The Permitlify mobile app for iOS enters open beta on Friday. It is not a port of the dashboard. It is purpose-built for the field: scan the day's top 10 leads on your way out the door, tap to call directly from a lead row, drop voice notes against any permit, and get push notifications when a high-score lead appears in your territory. Android is queued for Q3.

To join the beta, log into your dashboard and check the announcement bar — there is a TestFlight link at the top.

Early-warning Planning feed (preview)

The most ambitious thing we are working on this year is what we call the Planning feed: zoning hearings, planning-commission decisions, and pre-application meetings — the stuff that happens months before a permit is filed. If a homeowner shows up at a planning hearing in January to talk about a future addition, the permit will probably be filed in March or April. Knowing about the hearing in January gives you a 60-day head start on every other contractor in town.

This is in early preview for Agency-plan customers. It only works in 22 metros today and the data is rougher than our permit feed, but the contractors using it are reporting a measurable lift in pipeline. Email support if you want early access.

Smaller wins worth noting

• HubSpot integration is now native — no Zapier required. Settings → Integrations.
• CSV exports are now streaming — multi-thousand-row exports finish instantly instead of timing out.
• Lead-row deep links — paste a permit URL into Slack/email and it unfurls with a clean preview card.
• Score explanation chips — every lead row now shows the top three score drivers inline (e.g. "high value", "verified phone", "SFR").
• Two new authors on the blog — welcome Jake Rivera (roofing) and Carlos Mejia (HVAC).

What is next

Q3 priorities: Android app, the Planning feed leaving preview, lead-routing rules (auto-assign permits by territory or score), and the long-requested Slack-native integration. As always, the roadmap is shaped by what we hear from customers. The shortest distance between a feature you want and a feature we ship is replying to one of our emails.

Thanks for being on this ride with us.