You're an expert in your work. So are we. Ours is the permit counter.
Codes cycle, checklists change editions, review queues move at speeds nobody publishes. That's the terrain we work, across Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia — so you don't learn it on your project's time.
Fluency you can hear on the first call.
Ask about a tenant fit-out in Montgomery County and you'll hear about WSSC before you knew to ask. A restaurant in Baltimore City — the answer starts with which agency owns which half of your approvals. A warehouse two counties over — the first question is whose checklist, because Maryland is home rule and no two counties read a plan set the same way.
That's the difference between a firm that files forms and a firm that works counters. Jurisdiction by jurisdiction, form set by form set, reviewer by reviewer.
And when a package needs a conversation instead of another email, we know which department to call and what to ask. The reviewing agencies hear from us directly, and you hear what they said the same day.
Reviewed before submission.
Every submission is reviewed before the jurisdiction ever sees it: the right forms, in the current edition, at the right scale, with the right signatures, against the jurisdiction's own submission requirements. Then it gets filed, tracked, and carried through — comments come back through us with a correction plan attached.
Mistakes are the expensive part of permitting. A rejected package doesn't just come back — it goes to the back of the line. The review is cheaper than the line.
Fast is the posture: the package moves the day it's complete, and comments get turned while the review slot is still open. Time is the thing you're actually buying back.
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. DaKa LLC is a woman- and minority-owned business.
Kara
Kara is the Founder and CEO of DaKa LLC, a permit expediting company that helps contractors, developers, and project teams navigate the permitting process. With more than 20 years of industry experience and a strong background in project coordination, client relations, sales, and business management, Kara leads DaKa across Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia.
Daniel
Daniel is the Project and Executive Operations Manager at DaKa LLC, where he carries client files from preparation through approval. With more than seven years of permitting experience at the counters of Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, Daniel has prepared, filed, and tracked more than 400 permit applications a year and carried each one through review. Before that, he spent fifteen years owning and operating his own business, managing crews, clients, and project schedules.
Get projects moving. Build relationships that last.
Anthony
Anthony is the Systems Architect at DaKa LLC. With more than 20 years of business development experience across regulated industries, where documentation, access, and records retention carry strict requirements, Anthony has advised organizations on digital presence and sales and marketing infrastructure, including a year-long resident consultancy with the senior leadership team of the largest single-site real estate developer in the world. At DaKa, he builds and maintains the systems that support the firm's permitting work.
Your plans are your business.
Floorplans, leases, financials, drawings — the paper a project generates is the paper a business runs on. It goes to the jurisdiction that requires it and nowhere else. Access is scoped to the people on your matter, and documents are kept on your retention schedule — then let go.
This is not a portal subscription you learn to operate. It's a firm you call.
Straight answers
Why not have someone in the office handle the permits?
They can — on their fourth or fifth try. Jurisdictions publish forms, not judgment: which reviewer reads what, which checklist edition is current, what triggers a resubmittal. That judgment is bought at the counter — the team's seven-plus years of it, four hundred-plus permits a year — and a resubmittal sends your project to the back of the line. That trade is the whole business case.
How do you keep our documents secure?
Access is scoped per matter — the people on your project, nobody else. Documents go to the jurisdiction that requires them and nowhere else, and they are kept on your retention schedule, then let go.
Do we lose visibility when we hand it off?
No. Every matter carries a live status — what is filed, what is in review, what the county asked for, what we need from you — and you hear about movement when it happens.
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.