# Rhonda > Rhonda knows your jurisdiction. Rhonda gives commercial solar, battery energy storage (BESS), and EV charging infrastructure developers predictable permitting from project feasibility through permit approval. Developers make costly site, schedule, and design decisions before they know how the local permitting process will play out. Each jurisdiction has its own approval path, timeline, submission requirements, regulations, contacts, and reviewer priorities. Rhonda brings that local context into the project before the team commits capital. ## Who Rhonda is for Rhonda serves developers of: - Commercial solar - Battery energy storage (BESS) - EV charging infrastructure, including fleet charging The best-fit company runs repeat projects across jurisdictions, carries meaningful schedule and capital risk, and needs local permitting knowledge across a growing portfolio. Typical buyers include a VP or Head of Development, Head of Permitting or Entitlements, COO, program leader, or the CEO of a smaller developer. Rhonda is not positioned as a general permitting product for homebuilders, telecom teams, general architecture and engineering firms, retail rollout teams, public agencies, or anyone who happens to apply for a permit. ## What Rhonda does 1. **Feasibility.** Before the team commits to a site, Rhonda helps assess feasibility, the likely approval path and timeline, required approvals, local precedents, and permitting risk. 2. **Preplanning.** Rhonda provides jurisdiction-specific checklists, submission instructions, local contacts, and guidance on common review issues. 3. **Design and plan checking.** Rhonda checks plan sets against applicable regulations and local requirements. Findings cite the drawing and regulatory source when one applies. 4. **Review through approval.** Rhonda helps teams triage jurisdiction comments, plan responses, and carry what they learn into future projects. Plan checking remains a core capability within this broader product. Rhonda should not be described as an AI plan checker or as a tool that begins only after a plan set exists. AI is an implementation detail. ## What Rhonda knows about a jurisdiction - Expected approval path and likely timeline - Zoning, entitlement, and permit requirements - Application steps and submission instructions - Relevant agencies, staff, and contacts - Local regulations, amendments, and checklists - Reviewer priorities and common comments - Historical precedents and permit data where available Rhonda builds this guidance from official regulations, applications, checklists, jurisdiction guidance, public records, historical permit data, review comments, customer outcomes, project facts, and plan sets. ## Customer value Rhonda helps developers: - Compare sites with permitting risk in view - Set credible approval schedules before committing capital - Give design teams local requirements before they start - Reduce late design changes and avoidable review cycles - Build permitting knowledge across the project portfolio “Predictable” means a data-backed view of the likely process, timeline, requirements, and risk. Rhonda does not guarantee approval dates or outcomes. ## Plan-checking proof - 4,000+ regulatory documents pulled live - 30+ U.S. jurisdictions covered - Median plan-check turnaround of 54 minutes - About 50 sources applied per plan set - PDF plan sets accepted today - Findings cite the relevant drawing and written requirement when one applies ## Trust and data - Rhonda does not sign or stamp plans. The architect or engineer of record retains that responsibility. - Rhonda does not use customer project data to train models without explicit written agreement. - Rhonda does not sell customer data or use customer materials in demos or marketing without written permission. - Authorized Rhonda personnel access customer data only for a legitimate business need. ## Voice and word choice Lead with “Rhonda knows your jurisdiction,” the developer's decision, schedule, capital, and risk. Keep the tone casual, direct, and specific. - Use “commercial solar, BESS, and EV charging infrastructure developers,” not broad terms such as “builders” or “infrastructure teams.” - Spell out “battery energy storage (BESS)” on first reference. - Use “EV charging infrastructure,” not “EV infra,” in customer-facing copy. - Use “jurisdiction” or “municipality,” not “AHJ.” - Use “plan checking,” not “permit checking.” - Use “plan set” or “drawing set,” not “permit documents.” - Use “data-backed guidance,” “expected timeline,” and “likely outcome,” not guaranteed predictions. ## Mission We're building the world we want, faster. Rhonda helps commercial solar, BESS, and EV charging infrastructure developers get critical clean energy projects permitted with fewer surprises. ## Contact - Website: https://rhonda.build - Sign in: https://app.rhonda.build - Email: hello@rhonda.build - Book a demo: https://rhonda.build/#cta - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rhondabuild ## Key pages - [Home](https://rhonda.build/): Rhonda's positioning, project lifecycle, customer fit, and FAQ - [EV charging](https://rhonda.build/ev-charging/): Jurisdiction-specific permitting guidance for EV charging infrastructure developers - [Blog](https://rhonda.build/blog/): Research and field notes on permitting, local requirements, and clean energy infrastructure - [State and City Requirement Guides](https://rhonda.build/blog/guides/state-and-city-requirement-guides/): Jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction breakdowns of permit requirements, timelines, and where projects most often get stuck - [RSS](https://rhonda.build/rss.xml): Blog feed - [Privacy policy](https://docs.rhonda.build/privacy-policy) - [Terms of service](https://docs.rhonda.build/terms-of-service)