Permitting handled. Projects moving.
Permit expediting and project coordination for contractors, developers, architects, engineers, and business owners throughout Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia.
Commercial · Residential · Tenant improvement · New construction · Trade permitting
Woman- and minority-owned
Talk with a permit specialist about your project, required approvals, jurisdictional requirements, and expected review process — or send the project over and we start from the plans.
*Based on prior professional permitting experience.
Each one is its own office, its own form set, its own review.
You could learn them. Your project can't wait while you do. You're an expert in your work — ours is the jurisdiction's side of the counter.
Permits
- Building — new construction, fit-outs, renovations, demolition
- Trade — electrical, plumbing, gas, mechanical, fire
- Site — grading, sediment control, right-of-way, street closure
- Use & occupancy — and the inspections between you and it
- Signs — free-standing, building-mounted, electrical
- Corrections & resubmittals — review comments answered, stuck permits taken over
Licenses
- Business licensing — new locations, renewals, changes of use
- Contractor licensing — state boards, county registrations
- Trade licensing — the boards behind every trade you carry
- Health & regulated uses — the reviews that gate opening day
- Renewal calendars — kept, so nothing lapses mid-contract
Time is money. Mistakes are both.
We know the process.
Permitting requirements vary by jurisdiction. Our experience helps us identify the right departments, forms, review paths, and submission requirements before your project enters the queue. We communicate with reviewing agencies, track progress, and keep your team informed from submission through approval.
Reviewed before submission.
We review each permit package against the jurisdiction's current submission requirements before filing — checking forms, signatures, supporting documents, and known requirements to help reduce avoidable delays and resubmittals.
Your plans, locked down.
Floorplans, leases, financials — they go to the county filing that requires them and nowhere else. Access is scoped to the people on your matter, and retention runs on your schedule.
We are not a courier with a filing cabinet. Documents don't pass through us — they get read, checked, corrected, and filed right.
Hand it off. We prepare, file, track, and clear it.
The permitting department you don't have to employ. No platform to learn, no jurisdiction process to decode — a person who does this all day takes ownership of it, and your team stays informed.
Tell us about the project.
We'll identify the project location, scope, permitting status, and target schedule — by phone, or through the project form.
We map the permitting path.
We'll identify the likely permits, licenses, submissions, and jurisdictional requirements involved — and put a written scope and price in front of you.
We manage the process.
DaKa prepares, submits, tracks, and coordinates the permitting process while keeping your team informed.
Local permitting knowledge across the DMV — and ten more states.
Based in Maryland and experienced navigating permitting processes throughout Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia. Every jurisdiction runs its own counter; Maryland's are on file county by county, and the desk carries the counties and cities it serves in Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Minnesota, New York, Massachusetts, and California the same way.
Maryland
24 jurisdictions on file
See coverage →Washington, DC
1 jurisdiction on file
See coverage →Virginia
133 jurisdictions on file
See coverage →Pennsylvania
9 jurisdictions on file
See coverage →Florida
79 jurisdictions on file
See coverage →North Carolina
74 jurisdictions on file
See coverage →South Carolina
34 jurisdictions on file
See coverage →Georgia
65 jurisdictions on file
See coverage →Tennessee
28 jurisdictions on file
See coverage →Minnesota
20 jurisdictions on file
See coverage →New York
18 jurisdictions on file
See coverage →Massachusetts
21 jurisdictions on file
See coverage →California
109 jurisdictions on file
See coverage →Built for the teams that keep projects moving.
Permitting experience built in the field — not learned from a search.
DaKa brings more than seven years of hands-on permitting experience across Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia. Our team has managed hundreds of permit applications annually while coordinating with contractors, design professionals, and local jurisdictions throughout the permitting process.
Kara
Founder and CEO of DaKa, with more than 20 years of industry experience in project coordination, client relations, sales, and business management.
Daniel
Project and Executive Operations Manager at DaKa, with more than seven years of permitting experience across Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, and fifteen years running his own business before that.
Meet the team →Straight answers
Do you handle licenses, or just permits?
Both, as first-class work: building and trade permits on one side; business, contractor, and occupational licensing on the other. Most projects need both, and they run in parallel.
Which areas do you cover?
Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia — and 457 more jurisdictions across Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Minnesota, New York, Massachusetts, and California, among them Pittsburgh, St. Augustine, Tampa Bay, Sumter County and Lady Lake, Asheville, Myrtle Beach, Savannah, Nashville, Knoxville, Minneapolis, Rochester, Watkins Glen, Ithaca, Syracuse, Buffalo, Albany, Boston, Worcester, Riverside, Fremont, San Diego, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, and Sacramento. DaKa is based in Maryland and works it county by county — all twenty-three counties and Baltimore City — and carries the District, Virginia, and the other markets from the same desk.
Can you take over a permit that is already stuck?
Yes. Stalled reviews and rejected submissions get taken over mid-stream: the review comments tracked, the corrections coordinated, the response resubmitted, and the permit followed through to resolution.
What does it cost?
You will have a written scope and price after the first call, before any work starts. The call itself costs nothing.
Do I have to call, or can I send the project over?
Either. Send the project address, scope, and whatever plans you have through the Start a project form and a permit specialist reviews it and comes back with the next permitting steps. If you would rather talk first, call.
Talk to a permit specialist
Ten minutes on your project. You leave knowing the approvals it needs, in what order, and what each review will take. Or send the address, scope, and plans and we start from there.