Turn dense permits into a tracked compliance plan.
Biologists and engineers lose hours decoding government permits, then hand-manage every directive across the team. CRANE extracts each condition, assigns phase, owner, and deadline, and turns it into one traceable tracker.
Opens a real sample project — no signup, no key.
The problem
A permit isn’t one rule — it’s dozens of buried ones.
A single Army Corps 404 or CDFW 1602 can carry 40+ mitigation measures — survey windows, monitoring frequencies, reporting deadlines, revegetation ratios. Today teams decode them by hand and track them in spreadsheets that drift out of date.
Hours of decoding
Re-reading a 60-page permit, copying each condition into a spreadsheet, and re-checking it every time the schedule shifts.
Lost traceability
No link between a task and the permit condition it came from — or who owns it, what phase it’s in, and whether it’s done.
Missed deadlines
One overlooked survey window or reporting deadline can stop work and put the entire project at risk.
How it works
From PDF to tracked plan in four steps.
Extract
Upload the permit PDF. CRANE pulls every mitigation measure and condition — verbatim, locked to the source text.
Enrich
AI tags each measure with a plain-English summary, build phase, category, responsible party, and timing language.
Schedule
It reads the permit’s milestone events and computes each condition’s real due date — before or after each event.
Track
A filterable dashboard with status, urgency, and owners — and a trail back to the exact permit condition.
What your team gets
Decode it once. Track it with confidence.
Hours back
Go from a dense permit to a structured, assignable task list in minutes instead of days.
Full traceability
Every task links to the exact condition, permit, and milestone it came from — audit-ready.
Never miss a deadline
Milestone-aware due dates and urgency badges surface what’s overdue, due soon, and upcoming.
Built for the team
Clear owners and phases, inline status, and CSV / Linear export so everyone works from one source.
Locked-down workplace?
Run it fully offline — one file, nothing installed.
If your company blocks file uploads and app installs, download the offline edition: a single HTML file you open in the browser you already have. No install, no admin rights, no app store. Your permit is never uploaded — the only network call is the AI request, sent straight from your browser to your AI provider with your own key.
Download offline edition.zip · ~750 KBUnzip → double-click crane-offline.html → done. Bring your own Anthropic or OpenAI key.
No upload, ever
PDFs are read locally in your browser — or just paste the permit text. The file never leaves your machine.
Nothing to install
It’s one HTML file. No .exe, no installer, no Microsoft Store, no IT ticket — it runs in the browser you already have.
Your key, direct to the AI
The API call goes browser → Anthropic / OpenAI directly. Nothing routes through our servers, and your key stays in your browser.
See it on a real permit.
The demo opens on a sample bridge-replacement project — two permits, 14 tracked conditions, live deadlines. Bring your own AI key to run it on your own permit.
Open the live demo