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City Comments

90-second expeditor analysis on every letter

Every city comment addressed. Nothing missed. Nobody guessing.

Upload your correction letter and get a full expeditor analysis in 90 seconds: every comment routed to the right discipline, every code citation identified, every response letter drafted and ready to send.

The problem

City comment letters are slow, dense, and expensive to get wrong.

A single missed comment means a full resubmittal cycle and weeks of lost schedule

Multi-agency letters split work across Architecture, Structural, and MEP with no clear routing

Writing responses manually takes a full day per letter, and that cost hits every project

Clients are waiting for answers while your team is still parsing dense technical language

The solution

One upload. Every comment classified, routed, and responded to.

Parses the full correction letter and identifies every comment from every agency

Routes each comment to the responsible discipline: Architect, Structural, or MEP

Generates code-cited responses for every comment, not summaries

Produces ready-to-send discipline letters for Architecture, Structural, and MEP separately

Delivers an expeditor-style overview with priority classification and action plan

Flags external coordination items: agency meetings, approvals, third-party sign-offs

What it actually does

Every feature your close needs. Nothing it does not.

01

Multi-Agency Processing

Building, Fire, Planning, Public Works. One upload processes comments from every agency in the letter simultaneously. No switching between documents, no manual triage, no comments lost in a second attachment.

02

Discipline Letter Generation

Separate response letters for Architecture, Structural, and MEP, each containing only the comments relevant to that discipline. Send directly to your consultants with everything they need and nothing they do not.

03

Code Citation Analysis

Every comment traced back to the applicable code section. IBC, CBC, local amendments. Your team sees exactly what triggered the comment before they write a single word in response.

04

Priority Classification

CRITICAL, HIGH, and MEDIUM. Comments that can stop your permit are surfaced immediately. Your team knows where to start the moment the analysis is done, not after an hour of reading.

05

External Coordination Tracker

Agency meetings, third-party approvals, deferred submittals. Every external coordination item pulled out of the letter and tracked separately so nothing is waiting on someone else without anyone knowing.

06

Expeditor Overview

The analysis your permit expeditor produces manually. Discipline-by-discipline breakdown, responsible parties, timeline implications, resubmittal strategy. Delivered automatically on every single letter.

How it works

Letter in. Full expeditor analysis out. Four steps.

01

Upload the correction letter

Add your drawings if you have them. trussnote processes multi-agency letters from Building, Fire, Planning, and Public Works all at once.

02

Review the expeditor analysis

Every comment classified by discipline and priority. CRITICAL and HIGH items surfaced first. Nothing buried at the bottom of a dense PDF.

03

Send your discipline letters

Architecture, Structural, and MEP letters generated separately and ready to send. Route comments to consultants in one click.

04

Resolve and resubmit

Track external coordination items: agency meetings, deferred submittals, third-party approvals. Nothing falls through the cracks.

Output

What your team receives on every letter

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City Comment Analysis

206 SE 94th Ave, Portland, OR 97216

Permit No. 23-147882 · Building, Fire, Planning

Analysis Ready

11

Total

5

Arch

3

Structural

3

MEP

2

High Priority

Action Report
Architecture Letter
Structural Letter
MEP Letter
HIGH
ArchitectureBuilding Dept · Comment 3

Provide occupant load calculations and egress path diagram. Corridor width at grid line C does not meet minimum requirement per ORS 4-207.4.

Designer Response

Occupant load calculations added to Sheet A1.1. Total occupant load: 42. Corridor at grid C revised to 44" clear width per ORS 4-207.4. See Sheet A2.2 for updated egress diagram.

HIGH
StructuralBuilding Dept · Comment 7

Lateral analysis required for proposed second-story addition. Submit shear wall schedule and hold-down specifications per OSSC Section 2308.

Designer Response

Lateral analysis completed by Structural Engineer of Record. Shear wall schedule and hold-down specs added to Sheet S3.1. See attached structural calculations per OSSC 2308.

Expeditor Overview

11 comments across 3 agencies. 2 HIGH priority items require immediate action before resubmittal. Structural items must be cleared by EOR before Architecture letter is submitted.

CRITICAL

External coordination required: Fire Marshal pre-approval for sprinkler head relocation. Schedule meeting before submitting Fire comment responses. Estimated 1 to 2 week lead time.

Tool consolidation

What your team was doing manually. Now automatic.

Everything you were paying for separately, built into a single workflow your whole team will actually use.

Manual comment parsing and discipline routing
Automatic routing to Architecture, Structural, and MEP
Writing response matrices from scratch
Code-cited responses generated on upload
Separate docs manually assembled per discipline
Discipline letters auto-generated and ready to send
Calendar reminders for agency meetings
Built-in external coordination tracker
Paid permit expeditor reviews per letter
Expeditor-quality analysis on every letter automatically

Who it's for

Built for every discipline on the letter.

Architects

City comment letters go from a full day of work to 90 seconds of review. Route structural and MEP comments directly to your consultants with one click. Focus on the architecture, not the paperwork.

Engineers

Get only your comments, pre-organized and code-cited. No full letter to parse. No architecture noise. Just the items your discipline owns, ready to respond to.

Permit Expediters

Process more letters with less time per project. Every letter gets the same thorough expeditor analysis. Flag the critical items immediately. Know your resubmittal strategy before you finish your coffee.

Get started

Run your first city comment analysis free.

Upload a correction letter. Get a full expeditor analysis in 90 seconds. No credit card required.