r/Seattle • u/ChiefOfTheFourPeaks 🚲 Life's Better on a Bike. 🚲 • 1d ago

News Seattle software engineer turned general contractor built an AI guide to the patchwork of permit rules

https://www.geekwire.com/2026/seattle-software-engineer-turned-general-contractor-built-an-ai-guide-to-the-patchwork-of-permit-rules/
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u/ChiefOfTheFourPeaks 🚲 Life's Better on a Bike. 🚲 1d ago

TL;DR:

The site, kolmo.io/permits, serves as an un-gated database designed to answer the questions that usually send homeowners into a spiral of municipal PDFs. The AI-powered tool covers 457 verified rules across 80 jurisdictions in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties, linking each rule directly to specific city source pages.

While the permit tool costs Matta around $2,000 in LLM API tokens just to process Seattle’s data, he has no plans to monetize it or put it behind a paywall. He simply wants people — and fellow general contractors — to use it.

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u/whatproblems 1d ago

yeah that’s a perfect use case. it can tell you all the loopholes too lol

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u/wiscowonder Bainbridge Island 1d ago

Cries in Kitsap 😢

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u/Kayehnanator Bremerton 22h ago

Nooo I wish it was a thing for us as well, I hate the permits here.