Practical insights on permitting, BACT analysis, NSR applicability, periodic reporting, and how AI is changing the way compliance work gets done.
Today we are launching AirComply, the first AI platform purpose-built for air quality permitting and compliance. It reads permits the way senior reviewers do, tracks every obligation, and drafts the documents your program runs on. Here is what we built and why.
AI you cannot verify is a liability with good grammar. The four architectural rules that make AirComply output checkable: citations on everything, live regulatory retrieval, calculations in code, and a human signature on all of it.
A facility manages one permit deeply. A consultant manages twenty across clients. An agency reviews a queue against precedent. Three different jobs, three purpose-shaped workspaces on one engine.
A Title V permit can run 50 pages. Breaking it down manually takes a senior consultant 30 to 40 hours. Here is what that really costs, and what changes when AI does the reading.
Best Available Control Technology analysis is required for every PSD permit. The top-down methodology has five steps and specific documentation requirements. Here is how to work through it correctly.
Is the source major, and does the project cause a significant emissions increase? How potential-to-emit, thresholds, and netting determine whether New Source Review applies.
Three instruments structure every Title V year, and one of them carries a personal signature under penalty. What each requires and what changes when reports assemble from tracked data.
The line between major and minor source is not always obvious. Here is how potential-to-emit determines which permit category applies and what the difference means for your compliance obligations.
Renewals reconcile five years of compliance history, regulation changes, and updated inventories at once. Filed on time, they also keep you operating. The process, and how a living register changes it.
AI is best at the mechanical layer: extraction, cross-referencing, calculation staging, document assembly. Professional judgment stays human. An honest map of the boundary.
Manual deconstruction costs $6,000 to $9,000 per permit at market rates. The task-by-task math, what AI actually compresses, and the judgment work that stays human.
Single-person dependency, silent formula errors, no citation trail, version confusion, and nothing watching the watcher. Five costs that surface at audits and departures.
Every condition, limit, and deadline extracted and cited in minutes instead of a 40-hour manual read. What deconstruction produces and why citations make it reviewable.
Purpose-built AI for air quality permitting and compliance.