PermityPermityRoofer mode
Roofer mode turns Permity’s map into the way in, on iPhone and iPad. Instead of typing an address, you tap the house in front of you. Permity shows you its address and a street view, tells you if you have already pulled its report, and puts the price of a new lookup on the button before you press it.
The Permity app is not on the App Store yet. Book a demo to see roofer mode working. Your account is the same on the web and in the app: one allowance, and one list of reports.
Who it is for
Working a street after a storm, a canvass or a referral.
Who want the permit record for a house they can see but do not have an address for yet.
How it works
Open Permity and tap the map icon. On iPad, the map is already on screen. Tap Roofer mode at the top of the map. The first time, allow location so the map can show where you are. Houses you have looked up recently show as dots.
Use the location button, pan the map, or type a town or address into “Go to a town or address”. Searching only moves the map. It never runs a lookup.
Satellite shows the roofs from above, so you can pick out the house in front of you.
A card opens with the house’s address and, where available, a street view. The address is a best match from the map and can be off by a number or two, so check it, and tap it to fix it. The Look up button shows the price before you press it, for example “Look up · 1 of 412 lookups”. If the address matches more than one property, you pick the right one in the card.
If you have looked this house up on this device, the card says “Report on file”. Tap “Open report · free”. No lookup is used.
If you or someone on your account ran this property in the last 30 days, Permity stops and asks before anything is charged. “Open the one I have” is free. “Run it again” shows its price on the button.
The report opens: when the house was built, permit coverage for the area, any flags, the four trades (roofing, HVAC, electrical and plumbing) and every permit behind them. Share it as a PDF or copy a summary into your notes.
Why it helps
Tap the roof and the address fills itself in. You can edit it if the house number is off.
The street view and the editable address sit above the button, so you can confirm the house by eye first.
The Look up button tells you what it uses and how many lookups you have left. A house you have already looked up on this device shows “Open report · free”.
Flags describe what the record shows, such as “No roofing permit on record since 2009”, never a judgement about the house. Absence of a permit is not absence of work, and where a town’s permit records are incomplete, the report says so.
Say “Look up this house in Permity” and Siri reads you the cost and waits for your yes. Asking Siri to show a place, or about a house you have already looked up, is free.
What it costs
Opening a report you already have is free. Running it again is charged.
A lookup uses one of your monthly lookups first, and one credit only once the monthly allowance is used up. An address that cannot be found, or one that matches several properties, may count as half a lookup. Permity tells you when it does. See pricing for plans, the monthly allowance and credits.
Good to know
Book a demo and we will show you roofer mode, or create an account and start with a house you know.