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What I understand about you

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You sell one platform to state and local government for permitting, licensing and asset management.

  • 900+ government agencies run on Accela, including more than half of the top U.S. cities and counties.
  • The product covers building permitting, planning and zoning, business and occupational licensing, service requests, fire prevention, environmental health and asset management.
  • 25+ years in GovTech, headquartered in San Ramon, California.

The problem I'd lead with

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Permits that ping-pong between departments.

Agencies still run permitting and licensing on fragmented, manual systems. That shows up as citizen backlogs, slow service and no way to meet modern digital expectations. The sharpest version is a permit stuck in circular review: planning sends it to fire, fire sends it back, and nothing resolves.

I'd lead with it because it's visible in public permit portal workflow data. I can show an agency its own stuck permits instead of describing a problem they've heard about a hundred times.

Accounts and signals I'd go after

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Mid to large government agencies with 50 to 500+ employees, serving 100,000+ residents.

Agencies

  • Municipal building departments
  • County planning agencies
  • State licensing boards
  • Environmental health divisions
  • Cannabis and alcohol regulatory agencies

People I'd write to

  • CIO or IT Director
  • Director of Building & Development Services
  • City Manager
  • County Administrator

Signals that put an agency on the list

  • Commercial permits bouncing between planning and fire 3+ timesPermit portal workflow data
  • Permits stuck in review for more than 60 daysPermit portal workflow data
  • Permits stuck in parallel review across departmentsPermit portal workflow data
  • A forecast jump in permit volume for next quarterCensus Bureau Building Permits Survey

I don't name agencies on this page. The full playbook shows how each signal is pulled, so the list is yours to run.

The message I'd send

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Subject: 5 permits bouncing between planning and fire

Found 5 commercial permits that have gone back and forth between planning and fire 3+ times each in the past 45 days. These ping-pong permits are averaging 31 days stuck with no resolution. Want the permit numbers and the conflicting requirements?

Every number in it comes from the agency's own public permit data. It asks for nothing except a reply.

What to do next

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