Use case · Urban planning · 2 min read

A city's permit pipeline, end to end

Permit filings scatter across departments, formats, and timelines. Djeed restructures them into one typed pipeline — every permit a record, geo-tagged and status-tracked, so the planning office sees bottlenecks instead of reconstructing them later.

Where the pipeline breaks

A permit moves between intake, review, public notice, decision, and archive — usually across several departments and several file formats. Spreadsheets capture some of it, PDFs hold the rest, and queue dashboards rarely match the underlying record. By the time someone asks where a filing actually is, the answer takes longer to assemble than the next step would.

Djeed reads the open record the city already produces and structures it into one pipeline. Every permit is a typed record with a status, a parcel, a filing date, and the source paragraph it came from.

What the planning office gets back

A live view of the pipeline that matches the underlying record. Bottlenecks become visible as they form. Any decision traces to its filing. The same view supports neighbourhood-level reporting without rebuilding it each quarter.

  • · Typed permit records with status, parcel, filing date, and source
  • · Geo-tagging to administrative units, parcel-level where the record allows
  • · Bottlenecks and stuck filings surfaced as they form
  • · Every figure traceable back to its source paragraph

How it works

  1. 1

    Connect the inputs

    Connectors pull from the permit intake, departmental review records, public notices, and the open record around them.

  2. 2

    Djeed restructures the pipeline

    Each filing becomes a typed record with a status, parcel, dates, and source. Records are deduplicated across the systems that hold them.

  3. 3

    The planning office works the live view

    A live pipeline view, drill-through to source, and the same records reused for neighbourhood-level reporting.

What you connect

  • · Permit intake systems — filings as they are received
  • · Departmental review records — status changes and approvals
  • · Public notices and decisions — the published record
  • · Parcel and zoning references — to ground each filing in place

Common questions

Does Djeed replace the permit system?

No. Djeed reads the records the existing systems already produce and restructures them into one pipeline view. The systems of record keep operating; Djeed makes the picture across them legible.

How current is the pipeline view?

It refreshes continuously from the connected inputs. Status changes, new filings, and decisions arrive in the view shortly after they reach the underlying system.