Shared Services
Learn how you can work with PermitAI and what we can do for you
PermitAI provides a shared services stack that supports permitting processes and streamlines compliance for industry partners. PermitAI’s modular, reusable services are designed to solve recurring technical and data challenges across the energy sector, infrastructure development, and environmental review. Drawing on long-standing Pacific Northwest National Laboratory expertise, PermitAI offers standardized data access, document generation tools, comment-processing workflows, and environmental data integrations that organizations can incorporate directly into their systems.
What Are Shared Services?
Shared services are reusable, modular solutions that perform common technical tasks, helping developers avoid reinventing the wheel across applications. PermitAI delivers these as application programming interfaces (APIs), model context protocols (MCPs), and intelligent agents, enabling easy integration and fast deployment within industry workflows.
Service Catalog at a Glance
| Service | Type | Core Capability | Maturity | Private/Public Release |
NEPATEC/ SearchNEPA | Agents/ API | Search curated NEPA projects, documents, and metadata | Production | Private |
CommentNEPA | Agents/API | Extract, cluster, and respond to public comments | Production | Private |
WriteNEPA | Agents/API | Automate environmental impact statements (EIS) generation and review | Production/Beta | Private |
EngageNEPA | Agents/API | Browse federal environmental notices and engagement opportunities | Production/Beta | Private |
NEPA-Bench | Python Library/Dataset | Access expert-built benchmarks from real federal documents and the evaluation software used to establish these benchmarks | Beta (Research-Oriented) | Public |
NEPATEC Metadata Extraction Library | Python Library | Extract machine-readable metadata and geospatial context from millions of documents and image maps | Beta (Research-Oriented) | Public (To Be Released) |
NEPA-MCP Library | Python Library | Access 20+ federal environmental data APIs in one unified library | Beta (Research-Oriented) | Public (To Be Released) |
Open-Source and Extensible
PermitAI provides open‑source, publicly available tools for download and research, as well as private services offered exclusively through established partnership agreements. Industry partners can leverage these pipelines to build custom solutions, analyze outcomes, and drive innovation beyond NEPA.
Get Started
Industry technology providers are invited to collaborate with PermitAI’s domain experts. Whether accelerating a specific technology area or integrating infrastructure solutions, partners benefit from PermitAI’s deep expertise in nuclear licensing, hydropower, ecological risk assessment, power generation, grid interconnection, and more.
Contact Us
For more information about our shared services, contact permitai@pnnl.gov.