Kinode Sentinel
Every permit. Every renewal. Never a surprise.
A compliance calendar for brick-and-mortar businesses. Enter your ZIP and business type, and Sentinel pre-populates the licenses, permits, and inspection tags you're required to keep current — then alerts you by SMS and email at 60, 30, and 10 days before anything expires, with a direct link to the official renewal portal.
What it does
A restaurant, auto shop, retail store, or dental clinic juggles 10–25 regulatory renewals on completely unrelated cadences: the county food permit that expires December 31, the state liquor license that takes 8–10 weeks to renew, the fire suppression tag that's due every six months, the sales tax certificate on a two-year cycle, the music licenses that renew on their own anniversaries. Nothing alerts you. The county mails a postcard at best — and small-business forums are full of $1,500 surprise fines and 48-hour forced closures caused by a single lapsed certificate.
Sentinel is the calendar that watches all of it. Enter your ZIP and business type, and it composes your requirement list from three layers — federal rules that apply everywhere, your state's licensing, and your county and city's local permits — each item marked verified or auto-researched, with its issuing authority, typical renewal cadence, and official portal link. Enter your permit numbers and expiry dates once, and from then on Sentinel checks every permit daily and alerts you at 60, 30, and 10 days out on every channel you've enabled.
Coverage grows where customers appear: if your county's local layer isn't built yet, you start immediately with federal and state requirements while the local pack is prepared, and you can track any custom permit alongside. Sentinel is informational, not legal advice — every item links to the issuing authority so you can confirm the details that matter.
Capabilities
Your requirements, pre-populated
Pick your county and business type — restaurant, bar, auto shop, retail, dental clinic — and get the checklist of permits you're typically required to hold, composed from federal, state, and local layers.
The 60/30/10 alert ladder
SMS and email at 60, 30, and 10 days before each expiry, and again if anything goes overdue. Alerts fire from our servers, so they arrive even when your computer is off.
Links to the real portal
Every alert and every tracked permit deep-links to the official government renewal page — no hunting through county websites at the deadline.
One compliance calendar
Health permits, liquor licenses, fire suppression tags, grease trap manifests, sign permits, music licensing — every cadence in one red/amber/green board.
Mark renewed, done
One click advances the expiry by the permit's renewal cycle. Upkeep takes seconds, not spreadsheets.
Web now, Windows soon
The web app works everywhere today; a native Windows desktop app that keeps your compliance board pinned to the taskbar is on the way.
How it works
Enter your ZIP and business type
Sentinel resolves your county and composes your requirement checklist from federal, state, and local layers.
Confirm your permits
Uncheck what doesn't apply, add anything custom, and enter permit numbers and current expiry dates — you can fill in stragglers later.
Sentinel watches the calendar
Every permit is checked daily. You get SMS and email at 60, 30, and 10 days before each expiry, and again if anything goes overdue.
Renew and move on
Follow the official portal link in the alert, then click “Mark renewed” — the next expiry is computed from the permit's cycle.
Use cases
Restaurants & bars
Health permit, liquor license, hood suppression tags, grease trap manifests, and music licensing on one board instead of six mental calendars.
Auto shops
Environmental compliance, pressure vessel certificates, and sales tax registration tracked with the same discipline as customer appointments.
Retail stores
Merchant certificates, tobacco and alcohol permits, and sign permits that renew on cycles nobody remembers.
Dental & medical clinics
DEA registrations, state licenses, CSR, X-ray registrations, and CLIA waivers per provider — a lapsed registration halts prescribing.
Multi-hat owners
The office manager who handles compliance on top of three other jobs gets an ambient red/amber/green answer to “are we current?”