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This Week in Permitting Tech June 1, 2026: AI Is Driving the Deals, and the Bill Lands on Local Government

This is an AI-flavored edition, because the week's biggest permitting-tech stories are all the same story. CoStar paid $800 million for a development-data platform built on public records. The records boom burying local clerks turns out to be the AI industry feeding itself. And GovWell expanded again, with

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AI in Permitting: Where Is All This Data Coming From?

Everyone in permitting is talking about the value of data. Open datasets, AI-ready records, the dashboard that finally shows the whole pipeline. Almost nobody asks the first question: where the data is coming from? The permits themselves are public records, so that part is free. Turning a county's