Civaptic Debuts with Open Design-Partner Program for Canadian Municipalities

WEST KELOWNA, BC. Civaptic today launched an open design-partner program that lets Canadian municipalities evaluate modern permitting software using their own bylaws, fee schedules, application forms, and procedure guides, not a generic demo dataset. The program is free, requires no procurement process, and is open for registration today. The first cohort webinar runs Wednesday, June 24, 2026 at 10:00 AM PT on Microsoft Teams; registration closes June 22 so that each municipality’s sandbox can be configured in time.

Civaptic LPI, the company’s Licensing, Permitting, and Inspections platform, is in active development. Each design-partner cohort is capped at 20 municipalities, and cohorts run every two months. For each registered municipality, Civaptic configures a dedicated sandbox environment from the municipality’s own publicly available permitting documents. Staff click through their own permit types, their own fee math, and their own review flow.

“We don’t want to show municipalities a polished demo and ask them to imagine it with their data. We want to hand them their data, in their workflow, and ask what’s wrong with it. That’s the only way to build software that actually fits how permitting works in a Canadian municipality, not how a vendor wishes it worked.”

How the program works

1. Reserve a seat. A municipality registers staff for an upcoming webinar at civaptic.com/design-partners.
2. Attend the webinar. A 60-minute live session (including Q&A) demos the latest features and what’s coming next, with direct Q&A with the founder.
3. Get your sandbox. Within approximately two weeks of the webinar, Civaptic configures a sandbox environment seeded with the municipality’s publicly posted bylaws, forms, fee schedules, and procedure guides. A human reviews every AI extraction before the sandbox goes live, and participants are notified when their environment is ready.
4. Use the sandbox. Ongoing sandbox access, refreshed every two months as new features ship.
5. Shape the roadmap. Feedback goes directly to the founder and informs what Civaptic builds next. Participants who choose to go deeper can move into a formal co-design engagement, and eventually into a paid pilot when the platform is ready.

What Civaptic LPI is, and isn’t, today

Civaptic LPI is an AI-assisted licensing, permitting, and inspections platform designed specifically for Canadian municipalities. Eight AI services are embedded across the permit lifecycle, from intake triage and completeness checks to inspection scheduling, with staff retaining final authority on every decision. Every AI recommendation shows its confidence score and its reasoning. The reviewer still makes every call.

The platform is architected around 311 API endpoints, is covered by over 5,000 automated tests, and represents more than 270,000 lines of code under active development. Permitting and inspections modules are the current focus, with licensing scheduled to follow in fall 2026.

Civaptic LPI is not generally available, and no municipality is live on it yet. The design-partner program is the path to the first pilots. Early cohorts will focus on smaller Canadian municipalities, where functional needs are simpler and feedback cycles are fast. Civaptic’s target market is Canadian municipalities of 50,000 to 500,000 residents, with an architecture capable of supporting municipalities up to 5 million. It is positioned as a premium solution.

Built by someone who’s lived it

Civaptic was founded by Jason Matthews, who spent more than a decade building licensing, permitting, and inspections software at enterprise government-technology vendors including CentralSquare, Tempest, MUNIvers, and Citylogix (formerly Streetlogix). The company was incorporated in March 2026, with active product development beginning in November 2025. Civaptic is headquartered in West Kelowna, British Columbia, and is built Canadian-first: data residency in Canadian regions and alignment with the procurement rhythms of Canadian municipalities. French-language support is on the roadmap.