Architect-led.
Permit sets, drawn to your standards.
Why not just hire someone?
Some months there is more work than your team can draw. Some months there is not enough to keep a new hire busy. Hire for the busy months and you pay through the quiet ones. Turn work down and the client finds someone else.
We scale up when you are busy and stop when you are not. No recruiting, no benefits, no training period, and no difficult conversation when the work dries up.
We work Pacific hours in reverse. You'll often find things further along than you left them.
How do you charge?
Which one applies depends on how clear the scope already is. Either way, we take the set through to submission and handle the corrections that come back.
When the scope is clear, we price the whole thing before we start. You know the number up front, and it does not move.
When the scope is still moving, we work hourly until it settles. Once we both know what the job is, we move to a fixed price for the rest.
For practices with steady volume we also reserve capacity by the month, so the same people stay on your work. Whichever way we start, we begin with a completeness review and carry the set through to submission — we would rather stand behind a whole set than part of one.
What do I actually get?
In some jurisdictions a small project runs past forty sheets; in others it is a fraction of that. Knowing what each one expects is part of the work. Below is how a Seattle set is put together, twenty sheets of which are typical details.
How do you stop sets coming back?
We have read hundreds of them. A few of the items that come back most often are below, and almost none of them are design problems. We have built our standard checks around these, so they get caught before a set leaves us rather than after it reaches the city.
Energy credit worksheet incomplete or credits not totalling
Detail callouts referencing sheets that don't carry the detail
Egress net clear opening not dimensioned
Height datum not defined or calculation not shown
R-values absent from plan notes
Alarm locations and interconnection not indicated
Do you know my jurisdiction?
Average Building Elevation is a weighted average of grade at four points on the footprint rectangle, taken on topography prior to development. On a sloped lot it sits well off the low corner. For a detached ADU pushed to the rear yard, that difference decides whether it fits.
KZC 5.10.045 ↗
A second ADU on the lot is gated on meeting the Green Building Standard, unless it sits inside an existing structure or is income-restricted. The code also allows additional height for a DADU using a green roof or similar features to meet that standard. So the envelope you can draw depends on choices often made after drafting has already started.
Lot coverage, impervious surface and greenscape are measured as distinct metrics, and one of them usually binds before the others do. The detached ADU prohibition was reversed in 2025.
How much of my time does this take?
Sketches, a marked-up survey, a phone call.
Read by someone qualified to interrogate it. We ask once, up front.
Your templates, your sheet conventions, your standards.
Against the project checklist. Every sheet, every time.
Corrections come back to us. We handle the response and resubmittal.
Where something's ambiguous we ask once, before drawing, rather than guessing and correcting later. Most of what this costs you is the brief itself.
Who owns the files, and who carries the risk?
Everything we produce is yours on delivery, including native files. We work under NDA as standard.
You remain architect of record and retain full responsibility for the design. Our name appears nowhere on the set.
Response and resubmittal are part of the engagement, not a change order.
Pick one of these three at the start of the engagement.
Our managed environment. Named team members only, access revoked on rotation.
We work inside your ACC, BIM 360, SharePoint or Dropbox. Nothing stored on our side.
Virtual desktop, no local storage, access logs provided on request.
How do I try this without risk?
Send a live project. We'll produce the permit set to your templates and conventions, at a price agreed before we start.
Review it against your own checklist. If it doesn't meet your standard, you don't pay.
Submit a projectHow do we start?
hello@basramco.comGive us the shape of the project below and we’ll come back with a fixed price. We reply within one business day.