Our Mission
Make infrastructure permitting faster, more transparent, and less painful for everyone involved — developers, regulators, consultants, and the communities affected by these projects.
The Problem We're Solving
Infrastructure permitting in the United States takes 4–7 years on average. A single transmission line may require approvals from 40+ federal, state, and local agencies. Wind farms navigate NEPA reviews, ESA consultations, FAA coordination, state PUC approvals, and county zoning hearings — all with no unified process, no shared timeline, and no institutional memory.
The result: $2.7 trillion in infrastructure investment sits bottlenecked by a fragmented, analog permitting process that was designed for a different era. Capital is stranded. Projects are cancelled. The clean energy transition stalls. And regulatory agencies are overwhelmed by redundant filings they've seen a hundred times before.
The regulatory map is rebuilt from scratch on every single project. Outside counsel bills $500/hour to answer questions that have been answered a thousand times. Spreadsheets and email replace project management. Deadlines are missed. Money is wasted.
What Olmsted Does
Olmsted is a modern platform purpose-built for infrastructure permitting. We bring developers, advisors, and regulatory workflows into one secure, intelligent workspace.
The platform combines:
- Permitting pathway intelligence — Input your project; Olmsted generates the complete regulatory roadmap based on historical data.
- Document management — A secure, permission-controlled virtual data room for organizing project files by workstream.
- Task & deadline tracking — Built-in workstreams (NEPA, Water Rights, Environmental, etc.) with milestones and assignments.
- External advisor collaboration — Invite consultants and counsel into your project without sharing everything. Control document access at the folder level.
- AI-powered workflows — Generate permit applications, environmental assessments, and agency correspondence from templates and prior filings.
Why the Name?
We named Olmsted after Frederick Law Olmsted, the 19th-century landscape architect who designed Central Park, the US Capitol grounds, and dozens of public parks and university campuses across America. Olmsted believed that well-designed infrastructure improves communities, creates access, and enables human flourishing.
We believe the same about well-designed software for the people who build America's infrastructure.
Our Approach
Olmsted is built by people who understand infrastructure permitting. We work closely with developers, utilities, environmental consultants, and energy law firms to ensure the platform solves real problems in the real workflow.
We are not a document management tool reskinned as permitting software. We are not a generic project management platform. Olmsted is purpose-built for the regulatory complexity, multi-stakeholder coordination, and institutional knowledge required to move infrastructure projects through the permitting gauntlet.