Spray booth permit packages

Permit-ready drawings in hours, not weeks.

Give us the booth and the address. Get back a complete DXF/DWG permit set — plan, sections, airflow schedule, code basis and a submittal checklist written against the codes the jurisdiction has actually adopted.

  • 4 booth types
  • 11 drafting layers
  • 2-3 hrs turnaround

01 — Where the money goes

You sold the booth in a week.
The paperwork took six.

01

Two permit tracks, not one

The building, fire and mechanical permit is only half of it. In California the booth also needs an air district permit for its VOC emissions. Miss the second track, and the first one stalls at the counter.

02

The drafter is the bottleneck

A contract drafter bills $150-200 an hour, and juggling other clients' work means a first draft alone can take 1 to 10 days before an examiner even sees it — then another 1 to 2 weeks once redlines come back, longer with a long correction list. Meanwhile, the order sits, the customer calls, and the deposit ages on your books.

03

Code data goes stale quietly

Adopted editions and local amendments shift every cycle. The spreadsheet that was right last year is what gets you redlined this year — and nobody finds out until the examiner does.

02 — How it works

Three inputs in.
A submittable set out.

1

Describe the booth

Type, dimensions, airflow, filtration, heat. Or pick the make and model and let the spec fill itself in.

2

Name the jurisdiction

We resolve the adopted code editions, local amendments, the air district, and whether a licensed stamp is required — before you pay. Every rule shows its source and the date a person signed for it.

3

Download the package

DXF/DWG on your own layers and title block, plus the checklist the counter will run it against.

What lands in the folder

Every sheet drawn on the eleven standard layers, ready to open in AutoCAD or BricsCAD.

  • M-101 Booth plan with clearances and egress
  • M-102 Longitudinal and transverse sections
  • M-103 Airflow schedule and velocity calculations
  • M-104 Duct routing, make-up air and exhaust stack
  • E-101 Classified area boundaries, Class I Div 1 / Div 2
  • G-001 Code basis, general notes, applied amendments
  • — Submittal checklist, per agency, per track

Before you download

We won't guess your odds.
We'll show you the gaps.

No package can predict what an examiner will do — anyone selling you an approval percentage is making it up. What you get instead is an honest inventory of the set, item by item, before you pay for it.

  • Verified

    Rules carrying a source URL and the date a named reviewer signed for them. Drawn, cited on G-001, and ticked on the checklist.

  • Unknown

    Rules we have not sourced for your jurisdiction yet. They stay unknown — never quietly collapsed to "not required" — and the checklist flags them where the examiner will be looking.

  • Yours to supply

    What no drawing set can produce: the permit application itself, equipment cut sheets, and a licensed stamp where the jurisdiction requires one.

03 — Coverage

Fifty-one states indexed.
Six with the code pulled.

Every state and the District of Columbia has its municipalities and counties enumerated, along with the publisher each one files its code with. Six states have had the adopting sections themselves pulled. One has the local amendments on top of that. This is the honest picture, including the part of it that is still empty.

Research coverage by state California has local amendments transcribed as well as adopting sections. Texas, Florida, Illinois, Georgia and Nevada have adopting sections harvested. The remaining forty-five states and the District of Columbia have their jurisdictions and code publishers indexed only. No state is verified. MA RI CT NJ MD DE DC
Albers equal-area projection. Alaska and Hawai‘i are insets and are not to scale.

All jurisdictions

Hover or tab to a state

Places indexed
22,604
Code publishers found
8,110
Places with adoption evidence
943
Verified against the authority
0
  • 1 Amendments mapped Adopting sections, plus the local amendments that change them.
  • 5 Code evidence gathered Adopting sections read straight from the municipal code.
  • 45 Jurisdictions indexed Places enumerated and the publisher each one uses located.

None of this is verified. A rule counts as verified only once a named reviewer has signed for it against the issuing authority. That is what the green layer on this page is reserved for, and it is why no state on the map is green. Until a jurisdiction is signed off, the app answers unknown for it rather than guessing.

04 — The math

Five projects a month is where
this stops being a tool
and starts being margin.

Today — contract drafting

  • Drafting, ~30 h at $175$5,250
  • Code research and checklist$600
  • One correction cycle$1,400
  • Per permit$7,250

With spraybooth.ai — Studio

  • $750/mo platform ÷ 5 projects$150
  • Project fee$600
  • Code research and checklistincluded
  • Correction cyclesincluded
  • Per permit$750
30 hrs

of drafting handed back on every permit

1,800 hrs

a year at five projects a month — nearly a full drafter-year

3 wks

off every order-to-install cycle

Figures are the arithmetic of the rates above, not a survey. Put in your own hourly rate and permit count and the shape holds: the subscription is cheap next to one drafter, and the schedule is where the real money is.

05 — Pricing

Permit one booth once.
Or subscribe to the pipeline.

DIY

$1,500one-time

A shop owner permitting their own booth, once.

Check my jurisdiction
  • What you get:
  • One complete permit package
  • Stamp requirement checked before checkout
  • Completeness checklist at download
  • Generic jurisdiction notes
  • Correction Guarantee — send us the examiner's comment, get an answer in 48 hours
Most teams

Studio

$600/project + $750/mo

Sales and drafting staff running permits as part of the job.

Start a pilot
  • Everything in DIY, plus:
  • No monthly project cap
  • Your template kit — blocks, title block, layers
  • Full jurisdiction database for your home state, not stock notes
  • Redline workflow with a drafted response-to-comments letter
  • Unlimited watermarked sales previews, never billed as projects
  • 2 drafter seats, add more at $200/mo

Firm

$500/project + $1,500/mo

Higher volume, or more jurisdictions than one person can hold.

Talk to us
  • Everything in Studio, plus:
  • $500 a project — less than Studio from about 8 a month
  • Drafter → engineer approval workflow
  • Unlimited jurisdiction layers in the kit
  • Unlimited archived projects
  • 5 drafter seats, add more at $200/mo

Sales seats are free and unlimited on Studio and up — a preview is watermarked and costs you nothing. You pay for the seats that release drawings.

Crossing state lines

Your quotes shouldn't stop
at the state line.

Most booth builders sell where they've already permitted — not for lack of demand, but because every new city is a fresh unknown. Different adopted editions, different local amendments, a different counter asking for a different stack of paper. Learning all of that one deal at a time costs more than the deal, so the out-of-state lead goes unquoted.

One verified code database changes that arithmetic. Every jurisdiction we cover carries its adopted codes, amendments and agency checklist — sourced, dated, one lookup instead of a week of phone calls. Studio gives you that certainty across your home state. Firm carries it over the line: every jurisdiction in the database, and priority requests when your next deal lands somewhere we haven't mapped yet — so the answer to "can you permit it there?" stops being "let me find out" and starts being "yes."

06 — Straight answers

The questions
every drafting
manager asks.

If yours isn't here, ask it in the form below and you'll get a real answer rather than a demo booking.

What happens when a jurisdiction rule is wrong?

Every rule carries a source URL and the date a human verified it. Nothing becomes a fact in our database because software proposed it — a named reviewer has to accept it, and that acceptance is what stamps the date. We never collapse an uncertain rule to "not required": it stays unknown, and the checklist says so out loud where the examiner will be looking.

The record is public. Every jurisdiction change — what moved, when it was sourced, who signed for it — is published as a changelog you can read before you trust us with a permit, and diff after we tell you something changed.

What exactly is the Correction Guarantee?

Send us the examiner's comment as written — not a summary — and you get an answer within two business days. If the error is in our verified code data, your permit is credited in full and the fix ships to everyone working in that jurisdiction. If it traces to the inputs, the booth dimensions or options you selected, you get a priority redraft at half the DIY price.

The split is stated up front on purpose. "Free if it was our fault" sounds generous and turns every redline into an argument about fault; naming both outcomes in advance means you know which one you're in before you pick up the phone.

Is this an AI that draws?

No. The geometry is deterministic — the same booth and the same jurisdiction produce byte-identical output. A model that improvises linework can't be audited, and a redline has to be reproducible before it can be answered.

To be clear about what that does and doesn't buy you: it means the drawing is repeatable, not that the outcome is. Examiners have discretion and use it. Two counters reading the same code can want different things, and no software changes that. What determinism gets you is the ability to say exactly what changed between the set that was rejected and the set you resubmit.

What if our examiner wants something different?

Then we want to hear about it, and the mechanism is deliberately boring: you send the examiner's actual comment, we source what they were applying, and a named reviewer signs for it. It ships to everyone drawing in that jurisdiction, with the date and the citation attached.

We don't infer a rule from one redline and we don't quietly tune output to a particular reviewer's habits. A preference nobody can cite isn't a code requirement, and treating it as one is how a drawing set becomes wrong everywhere else.

Does it stamp the drawings?

No, and it tells you before you pay whether your jurisdiction and scope need a stamp. Where one is required, you take the set to your engineer of record — the package is built to be reviewed and sealed, not to pretend it already has been.

Which jurisdictions are live?

California first, starting with one Southern California metro under South Coast AQMD, then out across the state. Texas is next. A metro only goes live once the stamp rule is verified, the air district track is modeled, and the checklist covers both tracks.

That's also what lets a manufacturer or distributor say yes to a buyer in a state they've never permitted in — the jurisdiction homework is already done, so quoting a job outside your home territory stops being a gamble.

Can we use our own title block?

On Studio and Firm, yes — your blocks, fonts, title block and layer conventions, so what comes out looks like your drawings and not like a vendor's. Firm includes building the kit from your approved DWGs.

What does a pilot actually cost?

Nothing, and it costs you no process either. Pick three permits you have already pulled and been approved on. Give us the same booth specs and the same jurisdiction, and we generate the set again from scratch. You put our output next to the one that got stamped.

We do it this way because parallel pilots don't survive contact with a sales floor — nobody runs a second process on a live deal with a customer waiting. Against an approved set the question is sharper anyway: does ours match, and does it carry anything yours left for the examiner to catch? You already know the right answer, which makes us easy to mark.

07 — Start

Bring us a permit
you already
got approved.

Send the booth specs and the city from a job that cleared the counter. We'll regenerate the set and you can mark it against the one that got stamped — or you'll get a straight answer about why that jurisdiction isn't ready yet.

  • No card, no contract, no change to how you work
  • An answer inside one business day
  • Your drawings and specs stay yours
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