A complete CE workflow, end to end

ClearPath demonstrates all ten minimum functional requirements of the federal permitting technology standard, and leads with the two service delivery standards that matter most here: Workflow Automation and Digital-First Documents.

• AI-assisted screening

  A completeness check and CE catalog match run in seconds against all 2,105 federal Categorical Exclusions. The same engine is configured per process type: demonstrated on Categorical Exclusions, with an NHPA Section 106 review seeded as proof.

  • Field-level completeness findings with severity
  • CE matches with legal citation and confidence
  • Extraordinary-circumstances & GIS screen

• Human-in-the-loop by design

  AI never decides. Every recommendation is reviewed, edited, and approved or overridden by an agency reviewer.

  • Approve / override on every recommendation
  • Confidence and citation on each suggestion
  • Decision authority always rests with the human

• Digital-first determinations

  On approval, ClearPath generates the CE determination as machine-readable JSON and a rendered PDF. Nothing gets retyped.

  • Structured JSON + a print-ready PDF
  • Carries the approved CE and screen results
  • Generated, never hand-assembled

• Append-only administrative record

  Every input, AI suggestion, and human action is written to an immutable event store, so the record and the dashboard never disagree.

  • Immutable case_event timeline
  • Projected completion dates & at-risk flags
  • Days saved vs. a stated manual baseline

• Data-standard native

  Built on the federal NEPA & Permitting Data Standard: its thirteen entities, canonical field names, and provenance on every record.

  • Standard entity names & key fields
  • Provenance on every record
  • Real federal CE data from CE Explorer

• Interoperable by default

  A documented OpenAPI contract exposes the same record any partner agency expects, with provenance intact.

  • OpenAPI endpoint with standard schemas
  • One engine serves FS, BLM, NPS, FWS, and more
  • Configured from data, not redeployed

Why it matters

What it means for your agency

The capabilities above exist to answer five questions any agency should put to a permitting tool: what it saves, who it serves, whether it can deploy, whether it works across agencies, and who stands behind it.

What you save

Turns a weeks-long manual screening memo into a determination in minutes, on the highest-volume federal NEPA action.

Built for the people who use it

Role-aware surfaces for proponents, reviewers, and leadership; Section 508 / WCAG 2.1 AA throughout.

Deployable today

A working, data-standard-native build today, with a documented path to an AWS GovCloud / FedRAMP production architecture.

Works across agencies

The engine runs against any agency's CE set, selected from the catalog and exposed through a standard OpenAPI contract.

Who stands behind it

Built by Nuvitek, a federal-focused firm in case management, workflow automation, and FedRAMP cloud modernization.