Filed by Ace
Sidewalk sheds
Standard and engineered sheds, DOB NOW filing, Local Law 48 renewals, amendments and removal letters.
DOB filings · Building intelligence
Any drawing, any DOB filing — and the data that tells you what a building needs.
Ace draws and files sidewalk sheds, scaffold, facade, structural and every other DOB NOW work type across the five boroughs, with inspections, special inspections and protection plans to match. The same public records we file against now run a dashboard: violations the morning they land, permits before they lapse, and a scored report on any address in the city.
Free account: one watched address, three tracked permits, the site score. Pro from $36/month. Filing clients get everything included.
111,067sidewalk shed permits on record
54,773supported scaffold permits
21DOB NOW work types, all filed and all watched
Nightlyrefresh for every building you watch
Two ways to work with Ace
Hire us to draw and file, or use the dashboard yourself
Filing clients
Drawings, filings, renewals, inspections and plans, done for you
Sheds and scaffold are our trade; structural, facade, fences and protection plans go out under our engineer of record; anything else — new buildings, MEP, signs, solar — we place with a partner firm and you follow every step in the same portal. Your account also includes the full Intelligence dashboard.
Dashboard subscribers
Watch your buildings and research any address, on your own
Contractors, owners, managing agents and project managers register in a minute and get the same tools we use to scope a job: nightly alerts across every filing type, permit expirations, the pre-filing report and site score, contractor profiles, and the lead feeds as they launch. Free to start, one plan to upgrade.
What we file
Every DOB NOW work type, plus the inspections and plans around them
Core trades are drawn and filed in-house. Partner work is placed with a firm we vouch for and tracked here, so you never chase two offices.
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Supported (pipe) scaffold
Pipe scaffold over 40 ft, staged on sheds with loads-imposed letters, tie-in and anchor pull-test coordination.
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Suspended scaffold & rigging
C-hook, outrigger and parapet-clamp rigging plans for facade work and window replacement.
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Construction fences
Site perimeter fence filings and the DOT sidewalk closures that go with them.
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Facade restoration & FISP
Local Law 11 repair filings, unsafe-condition remediation, and the shed and scaffold sets they need.
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Structural
Structural alteration drawings and filings with our engineer of record.
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Inspections & special inspections
Periodic shed and scaffold inspections, photographed condition inspections, and TR1 special inspections through our licensed inspectors.
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Tenant & neighbor protection plans
Tenant Protection Plans (LL 154), adjoining-property protection plans (BC 3309) and site safety plans.
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New buildings & alterations
Full architectural and MEP sets through partner firms, filed and tracked here.
Filed through a Partner
Mechanical, plumbing, sprinkler, standpipe, boiler
MEP drawings and permits through partner firms; you follow every step in the same portal.
Filed through a Partner
Signs, solar, antennas, curb cuts, green roofs and anything else
If it needs a drawing and a DOB or DOT filing, we file it or place it with a partner and track it for you.
Intelligence dashboard
16 tools built on the city’s own records
16 are live today; the rest are advertised here so you can tell us which to build next. Everything runs inside the dashboard, where it is cheap to keep current — the public site stays fast.
Monitor
Know the day something changes on a building you care about.
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Address watchlist & alerts
New violations, ECB summonses, complaints, stop work orders and permits of any type at your buildings, flagged the next morning.
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Permit expiration tracker
Any DOB NOW, BIS, After-Hours Variance or DOT permit, with 30/14/7/1-day warnings before it lapses.
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Local law deadline calendar
FISP, LL152 gas, LL84/97 energy, LL126 parking, elevator and boiler deadlines derived per building, with calendar reminders.
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DOT embargo checker
The Holiday Construction Embargo, UN General Assembly week and other DOT special-event windows checked against every address you list.
Research
Answer the questions a filing depends on before you price it.
Free
Pre-filing address report & site score
Open violations, landmark and POPS status, frontage, adjoining lots, DOT permits, embargoes — scored 0–100.
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Contractor profiles & ranking
Permits per year, work-type mix, median permit term, typical job cost and a reliability grade for any licensed contractor.
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Violation resolution guide
What a violation code means, the typical OATH penalty, and exactly how it gets cured.
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Live shed & scaffold map
Every active sidewalk shed and supported scaffold in the city, coloured by age, with the permit holder a tap away.
Find work
Public permit data, turned into a pipeline.
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Site Safety Manager job feed
New filings that will need an SSM or SSC — and therefore sheds, scaffold and fencing — before anyone has pulled them.
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FISP cycle radar
Buildings over six stories counted by facade sub-cycle deadline and last status — the shed demand of the next 12 months.
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Competitor activity tracker
Follow up to 25 contractors by DOB license or business name: new permits, first-time addresses, jobs another contractor took over, and permits about to lapse.
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Owner name lookup
Search an owner by first and last name and list every property their name appears on.
Run the job
The paperwork a site has to keep, kept in one place.
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Site compliance binder & document generator
Permits, drawings, inspections and uploaded logs per site, with the required-document checklist for each filing type.
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SST card & worker roster
Card numbers, classes and expiries per site; flags expired cards and sites with no supervisor-level card, with the rule cited.
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Neighbor notification generator
The BC 3309 and shed-over-adjoining-lot notices mail-merged from the tax map and HPD registrations, plus a Tenant Protection Plan cover letter.
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Client filing status page
Add your filings, statuses and expected dates, then share a clean link or export an image for the client.
How it works
One nightly pass over the city’s data, only for the buildings you care about
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Add an address or a permit number
We resolve it to the building identifiers every DOB dataset is keyed on and take a baseline.
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Every night we diff the records
DOB violations, ECB/OATH summonses, DOB Safety, complaints, DOB NOW permits of every work type, AHVs and DOT permits are re-read for your buildings only.
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You get the alert, with the next step
Each alert names the record, says what it means, and lets you hand the filing to Ace in one tap.
Pricing
Free to start. One plan to upgrade.
Free
$0 forever
- 1 watched address with nightly alerts
- 3 tracked permits with expiry warnings
- Site score and blockers for any address
- DOT embargo check on your address
Pro
$36 /month + tax
or $300/year — save $132
- Up to 250 watched addresses
- Unlimited tracked permits, all types
- Full pre-filing address report
- Contractor profiles and ranking
- Lead feeds, maps and trackers as they launch
- Exports and status pages
Filing clients
Included with any filing
- Everything in Pro for your whole team
- Every filing, in-house or partner, in one timeline
- Proposals, documents and inspection reports
- Project-manager logins scoped per project
Prices in US dollars. New York sales tax is added at checkout. Cancel any time from the billing page.
Start a filing
Fastest by phone
Have the address, the height and the frontage to hand and we can scope it on the call.
Or start watching
Your first address is free
Register, add the building, and the first alert arrives the next morning if anything moved.
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