About Us

Built by people who actually know permitting.

Alliance Permitting wasn't built by software people who decided construction looked like a profitable vertical. It was built by a permit expediter and entrepreneur who has spent his entire career inside the industry — and who got tired of watching contractors, developers, home builders, and architects lose months on jurisdictional mistakes, rejected submissions, and reviewers no one could ever get on the phone.

Our Story

Two decades inside the permitting pipeline.

Twenty-one years ago, our founder Marshall Chmura started Alliance Permitting from a single Florida office — a permit expediting company built to take the bureaucratic weight off the people actually doing the building. Since then, Alliance Permitting has guided tens of thousands of commercial and residential projects through the full lifecycle of construction, from Design to CO, in jurisdictions across the country.

Two decades sitting between architects, contractors, sub-contractors, tradesmen, suppliers, and building departments showed Marshall something most people in this industry never get the chance to see: how a permit actually moves. Where it stalls. Why a clean submission gets rejected. Which jurisdictions move in days and which ones can swallow a project for months. What a reviewer is really looking for on the third correction notice.

That experience also showed him a problem. Permitting is fragmented. Every city, every county, every state runs its own ruleset, and most of them change without warning. The people doing the work spend a fortune on consultants, runners, and re-submittals because the information they need is scattered across hundreds of disparate systems — most of which don't talk to each other.

Marshall wanted to bring it all together. One platform. Design to CO. Plans, jurisdictions, submittals, corrections, and approvals — handled by a system that finally understands the full picture, backed by people who've actually lived inside the process.

For most of his career, that platform wasn't technically possible. AI changed that.

Today, Alliance Permitting blends the same hands-on permit expediting expertise that built the company with AI-powered automation that catches errors before submission, tracks every jurisdictional change in real time, and keeps your project moving forward without the back-and-forth chaos that used to define the work.

Our Mission

Get contractors, developers, home builders, and architects from “we need a permit” to “permit issued” — faster than anyone else.

Cleaner submittals. Fewer corrections. Real jurisdictional intelligence. No mystery fees, no guesswork, no projects swallowed by a building department for six months. Just a direct path from plan submission to permit issuance — backed by people who've done this for two decades.

What We Believe

Four principles. No exceptions.

01 — Quality

Filed right the first time.

The fastest permit is the one that doesn't get rejected. Every submission is reviewed against the right jurisdictional ruleset before it ever leaves our hands.

AI-driven plan review against live jurisdiction code and submittal requirements
Human expert review on every package — no permit ships without two sets of eyes
Missing-document and formatting checks before the building department sees it
Honest assessment up front if a plan needs revision before filing

02 — Speed

Time on the calendar is money.

Every week a permit sits in review is a week your crews aren't building. We compress every step we can control and stay on top of the ones we can't.

Same-day intake review and submittal preparation on most project types
Active follow-up with reviewers — no application left waiting for a callback
Real-time status tracking so you always know where your permit stands
Up to 70% time saved versus running the process in-house

03 — Fairness

Transparent pricing, no surprises.

No mystery invoicing, no padded fees, no charges for runs we never made. You see what you're paying for and you know what every jurisdiction's actual fees look like.

Up-front quotes with line-item visibility on permit fees and service costs
Jurisdictional fee schedules tracked and verified before you sign off
Flat-rate pricing on standard project types — not surprise hourly bills
Clear timelines so you know what to expect at every stage

04 — Independence

Built for builders of every size.

Most of our clients are contractors, developers, and home builders competing against companies ten times their size. Our job is to give them the same permitting horsepower the big firms have in-house.

Enterprise-grade jurisdictional coverage available to single-project clients
Direct access to your assigned permit consultant — no support-ticket queues
Scales from a single ADU to portfolio-wide commercial rollouts
Built to work alongside your team, not replace your in-house process

The Team

The people behind the platform.

A focused team of permit experts, engineers, designers, and operators based in Green Cove Springs, Florida — working on the platform every day so contractors, developers, home builders, and architects don't have to. We've cleared 2M+ permits and 30B+ square feet across all 50 states.

Founder & CEO

Marshall Chmura

Marshall Chmura has spent his entire adult career inside the construction industry. Twenty-one years ago he founded Alliance Permitting — a nationwide permit expediting company that has guided tens of thousands of commercial and residential projects from Design to CO. From a single Florida office to clients in jurisdictions across the country, Alliance Permitting became one of the trusted names in an industry where speed and accuracy decide everything.

That experience gave Marshall an unusually complete view of how construction actually works. Two decades sitting between architects, contractors, sub-contractors, tradesmen, suppliers, and building departments showed him exactly where projects stall, what every party needs at every stage, and where months get burned on rejected submittals, missed corrections, and jurisdictional rule changes nobody saw coming.

Marshall is also the founder of Alliance Data Solutions, LLC, the parent company that powers the data-and-AI infrastructure behind today's Alliance Permitting platform, and TigerLeads.AI, the AI-powered project intelligence platform connecting contractors, sub-contractors, tradesmen, and suppliers to verified, high-intent opportunities. Alliance Permitting is the customer-facing side of that vision — the same hands-on permit expediting work the company has done for two decades, now amplified by AI-driven plan review, real-time jurisdictional tracking, and the kind of submission accuracy that used to take a senior expediter years of trial and error to develop.

He's also a licensed Florida real estate professional, giving him an additional vantage point on the property, development, and investment activity that drives construction demand. He still sets the long-term direction of the company — and he's still the person most likely to answer the phone when a long-time client calls.

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Founder

Elaina Chmura

Elaina co-founded Alliance Permitting alongside Marshall and leads the company's brand, customer experience, and operational culture. She owns the end-to-end experience contractors, developers, home builders, and architects have with the company — from first inquiry and project intake through every status update and final permit issuance. Her focus is making sure the people behind the platform stay reachable, the messaging matches the work, and every client feels the same level of attention regardless of project size. She also helps shape the partnership and growth strategy connecting Alliance Permitting, Alliance Data Solutions, and TigerLeads.AI under one cohesive vision.

Web Development

Weston Senetore

Weston leads web development at Alliance Permitting, owning the customer-facing platform that contractors, developers, home builders, and architects interact with every day. He builds and maintains the public site, the project intake flow, the in-app permit tracking dashboard, and the document-submission interfaces — ensuring the experience is fast, reliable, and intuitive across desktop and mobile, in any jurisdiction. His work is the layer that turns the data and AI infrastructure built by the engineering team into the polished, production-grade product clients see when they kick off a new project, upload plans, and watch a permit move from filing to issuance.

Executive Assistant

Elaine Fredrich

Elaine has been with Alliance Permitting Services for 12 years, making her one of the longest-tenured members of the company and a key part of how it actually runs day to day. As Executive Assistant to Elaina Chmura, she supports the operational rhythm that keeps client communication, project scheduling, and internal coordination moving across hundreds of active permits in any given week. After more than a decade inside the company, Elaine has the kind of institutional memory that doesn't come from a manual — she knows every long-standing client by name, every recurring jurisdictional quirk, and exactly where every loose thread sits on every active project. Much of why clients who started with Alliance years ago are still with us today comes back to the consistency and personal attention she brings to every interaction.

12+ Years at Alliance Permitting

Operations Manager

Sydney Cox

Sydney leads day-to-day operations at Alliance Permitting, keeping the moving parts of a busy permit expediting business in sync. She coordinates internal workflow across the permit consulting team, manages scheduling and resource allocation across active filings, and handles the operational logistics — from vendor coordination and process improvement to internal reporting and team logistics — that turn a fast-paced office into a productive one. Sydney is the person who makes sure the company runs on time and that the steady, consistent experience the team intends to deliver actually shows up across every project, every jurisdiction, every day.

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