Two California studios.
One construction standard.

Two studios cover most urban California. Los Angeles studio: LA County, Orange County, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura. Bay Area studio: San Francisco, San Mateo, Marin, Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara. Projects outside these regions are referred to vetted partner firms.

No travel surcharge inside our published service areas. For projects past Santa Clarita, north of Petaluma, or east of Livermore, we add a small mobilization fee based on actual drive time — disclosed before contract.

Field crews live within 25–40 miles of the active project. We don't run crews from LA to the Bay Area or vice versa — the two studios are operationally independent with their own subs, suppliers, and project managers.

Yes — we publish city-level permit profiles for 19 cities (9 in LA, 10 in the Bay) on the site, and our permit runner has standing relationships at each building department. If your city isn't profiled, we still know it; we just haven't shipped the public page yet.

San Francisco (90–150 day ministerial clock once utility coordination is done), Berkeley (45–90 days but heavy soft-story scrutiny), and Palo Alto (60–120 days when design review applies). Tri-Valley cities and most South Bay cities are 30–60 days.

Long Beach, Burbank, Glendale, and Pasadena are typically the fastest at 30–60 days ministerial. LADBS itself is 45–75 days when the submittal is clean. Beverly Hills and West Hollywood take the longest at 60–120 days.

Yes — we handle Coastal Commission and local LCP review in Venice, Malibu, Manhattan Beach, Half Moon Bay, and Pacifica. Coastal review adds 60–120 days and $8K–$25K in fees. We factor it into the schedule and price upfront.

Yes — both. LA Hillside Ordinance and Bay Area hillside grading are routine for us. Soft-story seismic retrofit (common in SF, Berkeley, Oakland) is often the trigger to add an ADU at the same time — we'll bid them together.