Your DOB NOW filing,
typed for you.

DOB NOW: Build is the NYC Department of Buildings' online portal where architects and engineers submit permit applications — the PW1 job filing, PW3 cost affidavit, and TR1 technical report. DOB Desk prepares all of that data once, and its browser extension types it into DOB NOW for you.

Describe the job on DOB Desk — address lookup prefills the building from city records, and your scope of work drives the rest. Click Fill in DOB NOW and the extension types the PW1, Zoning Information, Cost Affidavit, and Technical Report fields, outlining every filled field in green so you verify instead of re-keying. It never submits; you always review and file as yourself.

Under NYC Admin Code §28-112.2, a standard Alteration filing costs $225 for the first $3,000 of construction cost plus $10.30 per $1,000 above that; Alteration-CO and New Building filings use higher schedules ($0.06–$0.45 per square foot for NB). DOB Desk's built-in fee estimator calculates yours from DOB's published schedule.

An Alteration-CO (Alt-1) changes the building's Certificate of Occupancy — use, egress, or occupancy — and carries higher fees and review. A standard Alteration (Alt-2/3) doesn't touch the C of O. DOB Desk derives the right forms, questions, and fee schedule from which one you pick.

When a plan examiner issues objections, most firms lose days decoding what's actually being asked. DOB Desk matches each objection against a growing knowledge base of real NYC resolutions — plain-English meaning plus concrete fix — and the extension can read objections straight off the filing in DOB NOW.

Yes — Plan Check (beta) is an AI pre-review: upload your plan set as a PDF and DOB Desk flags potential NYC Building Code, zoning, and energy-code issues plus likely plan-examiner objections, so you catch them before the examiner does. It reads notes, schedules, and code tables — it's a preparation aid, not a certified plan review, and you remain the professional of record.

DOB Desk's Plan Check (beta) uses AI to pre-review a plan-set PDF against the NYC Building Code, Zoning Resolution, and Energy Conservation Code — flagging potential egress, occupancy, and code-cycle issues and likely plan-exam objections, with the relevant code sections. It speeds your own review; it's not a certified plan review, and the professional of record owns compliance.

Objections come from incomplete or inconsistent filings. DOB Desk heads them off two ways: the Approval Readiness check scores your prep package against real objection causes before you file, and Plan Check reads your plan-set PDF for code and zoning issues a plan examiner would flag. Fewer objections means fewer resubmissions and a faster permit.

It depends on the filing and how clean it is — a filing that clears QA intake and plan examination without objections issues far faster than one that bounces back. DOB Desk is built to shorten that path: correct forms and fees, the Approval Readiness check, and Plan Check reduce the objections and resubmissions that add days or weeks.

A permit expediter typically charges $1,500–3,000 per filing. DOB Desk is built for licensed architects and engineers who self-file: it does the re-keying, fee math, objection decoding, and party coordination for $149/month across unlimited filings — and you remain the applicant of record.

New Building (NB), Alteration (ALT), and Alteration-CO job types, with Structural, Mechanical Systems, Plumbing, Sprinkler, General Construction, Foundation, and Support of Excavation work types — including companion filings that share one prep package. Built for NYC's small-building work: 1-3 family through under-7-story projects.