South Carolina · Local Government Technology
Intelligence tools for the counties & cities of South Carolina.
Plan review, public communication, and private AI — systems that give your departments senior-level capacity without adding headcount.
Why we exist
Permit volumes keep climbing. Staff counts don't.
Growth across the Carolinas has been good for tax bases and hard on review desks. Incomplete submittals stack up, comment letters take weeks, applicants resubmit the same mistakes, and citizens wait — while every department is asked to do more with the same people.
Carolina Gov IQ builds working software for that exact problem. We come from the other side of the counter — a land development team that submits plans into these same departments every month. We know the checklists, the design manuals, and the comment cycles, because we live them.
Three services, one idea: take the expertise that's already written into your ordinances and standards, and put it to work automatically.
Service 01 · Plan Review
Plan Check IQ — an expert plan checker, on demand.
Plan Check IQ sits behind your permitting portal and reads every submittal the day it arrives — checking plans against your departments' own rules before they ever reach a reviewer's desk. Instead of hiring another reviewer or paying an outside plan-check consultant per submittal, give every department an assistant that already knows the rulebook.
Reads the actual plans
Parses the full submittal package — drawings, plats, drainage calculations, and reports — not just the application form.
Your rules, not generic code
A rulebook per department, per jurisdiction: zoning ordinance, stormwater design manual, fire access standards, and the exact submittal checklists and forms your staff requires.
An intelligence report for staff
Every finding cites the governing section, so your reviewer confirms instead of hunting. The tool recommends — your staff stays the authority on every decision.
Fewer comment cycles for citizens
Integrated into your public site, it flags incomplete submittals at intake, so applicants fix problems before formal review instead of after the first comment letter.
Service 02 · Public Communication
Civic Growth Briefs — public actions, in plain English.
Your board already approves rezonings, projects, and ordinances in public meetings. Civic Growth Briefs turns those official actions into a monthly package of website recaps, newsletter blurbs, social posts, and talking points — all source-linked to the public record.
Built only from official public records
Every figure and action links back to its source document — minutes, agendas, and adopted ordinances. Nothing speculative, nothing editorial.
Ready for the channels you actually use
Each brief arrives formatted for your website, newsletter, and social accounts, with optional setup for content calendars.
Your staff keeps full control
Everything ships as a draft for staff review. Publish as-is, edit, or hold — your office decides what goes out.
The expertise is already written into your ordinances and manuals. We make it enforce itself.
Service 03 · Custom Systems & Private AI
Software built for one customer: your department.
Off-the-shelf government software makes your staff bend to the tool. We build the opposite — purpose-built systems shaped around how your division actually works, with AI that runs on servers you control.
Department-specific tools
Inspection scheduling, records-request tracking, GIS dashboards, work-order systems — scoped to one workflow, delivered in weeks, not fiscal years.
Private-server LLM
A large language model running on hardware you control — in your building or your private cloud. Permits, plans, and citizen records never leave your network.
Trained on your documents
Ordinances, SOPs, council minutes, design manuals. Staff ask questions in plain English and get answers that cite your own sources.
Procurement-friendly
Fixed-scope pilots sized for a department budget, with clear deliverables — easy to evaluate, easy to justify, easy to expand.
How we work
Start small. Prove it on your real records.
Scope a pilot
One department, one workflow, a fixed price. We define success criteria with your staff up front — measured in weeks, not budget cycles.
Build on your record
We configure the system against your actual submittals, minutes, and ordinances. Your reviewers evaluate the output side by side with their own work.
Scale by department
Expand only when your staff sees the value. We handle hosting on-premises or in a private cloud, with training and support for your team.
Get started
Start with one department. Prove it in a month.
Tell us about your jurisdiction and the workflow that hurts the most — plan review backlog, public communication, or a process that still lives in spreadsheets. We'll come back with a scoped pilot, priced for a department budget. No obligation.
Who we serve
County and municipal governments across South Carolina
Based in
Greenville, South Carolina
Response time
A member of our team follows up within two business days