After wildfires destroyed ~501 city single-family homes, Spokane partnered with Permittable.ai to offer free Intake Completeness AI reviews (~15 minutes) of residential permit packages before official submission; city stresses AI is voluntary/pre-check only while staff retain permitting authority; dedicated rebuild team plus process changes cut approval times from ~4 weeks to ~3–5 days (reported by City of Spokane / KHQ)
Incomplete applications (missing forms, plan sheets, energy calculations) drove back-and-forth during an extraordinary rebuild surge (reported by City of Spokane / KHQ)
AI completeness report in ~15 minutes identifying missing checklist items Reported by KHQ / Permittable COO · Source (khq.com)
Rebuild-related approval times ~4 weeks → ~3–5 days with dedicated team + process changes; Permittable is voluntary pre-screen Reported by City / KHQ · Source (khq.com)
Amgen built Catalyst Copilot in Copilot Studio in ~6 weeks so R&D staff can ask natural-language questions over curated drug-development knowledge (reported by Microsoft / Amgen)
Multi-agent Bedrock system lets plant engineers query IoT data in natural language for bottleneck root cause analysis across 250+ curing presses (reported by Apollo Tyres / AWS)
Bosch Bamberg plant operators use the Shopfloor Agent to diagnose machine errors from stored knowledge and restart production faster (reported by Bosch)
Specialty insurer CFC launched Lane Assist, a live pilot of agentic underwriting in its Cyber team that takes low-complexity submissions from email to quote recommendation in seconds; every recommendation is reviewed and approved by an underwriter before issue (reported by CFC)
Honolulu's Department of Planning and Permitting uses Clariti's CivCheck guided AI plan review to pre-screen residential permit applications for completeness and code compliance before staff review; average time to permit decision fell from 73 to 32.5 days on a small Q1 2026 comparison sample (reported by Clariti / Honolulu DPP)