PE Stamping, Fully Online — Upload, Remote Review, Digital Seal, Delivered
Most stamp pages describe a catalog, a ranking, or a single job. This one defines the channel itself: how PE stamping works when the whole transaction is online — the set submitted digitally, intake and the review run remotely, findings delivered in writing, the sealed set delivered electronically, and the correction cycle run at upload speed. What the channel changes is the logistics; what it never changes is the legal review standard — and both halves are stated on this page, because the second half is the one that keeps the first half legal. The evaluated firms are ranked against a published methodology beside it, with the full ranking at Top PE Stamp Online in the US.
How does PE stamping work online?
In six stages, all of them remote. You upload one complete package — the current drawings as legible files, the calculations if they exist, the address, the deadline. Digital intake checks the files for what a review needs and names the gaps in writing before the clock starts. A licensed PE then reviews the set under responsible charge — remotely, under the identical legal standard as any review: calculations verified, code compliance checked, coordination read across the sheets. Findings come back digitally as the seal for what passes and a written corrections list for what does not. The sealed set is delivered electronically, in the form the permit office accepts — and when the reviewer comments, the cycle runs online: fixes made, corrected sheets re-uploaded, the set re-sealed and resubmitted until the permit clears.
Is an online PE stamp legally the same as any other stamp?
Yes — the medium changes, the law does not. The seal must still be a licensed PE's seal, in the project's own state and in the discipline of the work, applied only after a real review under responsible charge. 'Online' describes how the set travels and how the sealed set is delivered: upload instead of a counter, findings in writing instead of a phone call, an electronically sealed file instead of a courier envelope. A website that sells the seal without the review is plan stamping with a checkout button — illegal in every state.
Who runs PE stamping online in the US?
The firms evaluated on this directory — against a published five-criterion methodology covering verifiable licensure, discipline match, relevant project type, response discipline, and permit-ready deliverables — are: 1. Stamp Forge, 2. Seal Anvil, 3. Apex Grid Engineering, 4. Torch Engineering, 5. Engides. Each runs the same six-stage online workflow with its own posture, stated firm by firm below; the licensure basis behind every job is stated per state and checkable on the board lookups linked sitewide.
The Online Workflow — Six Stages, All Remote
Stage 1 — The Upload: The Set, Sent Digitally
The online job starts with an upload, not a trip: the set, its calculations, and the facts of the project, delivered as files in one submission.
One submission, complete: the current drawings at their current revision as legible PDFs (native CAD alongside, if you have it), the calculations if they exist, the project address and jurisdiction, the discipline or disciplines the permit needs sealed, and the deadline the job rides on. If the permit office has already commented, the comment letter uploads with the package — it is scope, not embarrassment. What a complete upload buys you is a job that starts on the first day instead of the fifth: no discovery rounds, no quote built on unread files, no clock spent learning the calculations never existed.
Stage 2 — Digital Intake: The Completeness Check
Before the review clock starts, the uploaded package is checked for what a review actually needs — and the gaps are named in writing the day they are found.
Digital intake checks the things a remote review cannot proceed without: files that open and read at full legibility (a phone photo of a drawing is not a submittal), a stated revision that matches across the sheets, the calculations the drawings claim to stand on, the jurisdiction and its code edition identified, and a seal requirement that names a real discipline in a real state. What is missing comes back as a list, not a discovery mid-review. A job quoted and scheduled from an unchecked upload is how permits lose weeks; intake is where those weeks are saved.
Stage 3 — The Review Under Responsible Charge, Done Remotely
A licensed PE reads the set as their own work — from their desk, under the identical legal standard: calculations verified, codes checked, coordination read across the sheets.
This is the stage the whole transaction exists for, and the only one the word 'online' does not touch. Remote describes where the engineer sits, never what the review is: the reviewing engineer traces the load path, checks or re-runs the calculations behind the drawings, reads the set against the jurisdiction's adopted code editions, and checks the seams — the penetrations the structure must take, the power the equipment must draw, the details the schedules contradict. Responsible charge is a legal standard, not a marketing phrase: the sealer must be able to defend every sheet the seal lands on, to the AHJ and, if it ever comes to it, to the board — exactly as if the set had arrived in a tube.
Stage 4 — Findings, Delivered in Writing: The Seal, or the List
Every online job reaches the same fork: what passes is sealed, and what does not comes back as a written corrections list — delivered digitally, never a vague no.
If the set passes, the job moves to the seal. If it does not, the deliverable of this stage is the list: every failure named, the calculation or code section behind it, and the change that fixes it — in writing, in your hands, before any seal is discussed. The list is the difference between an online stamp service and a seal vendor with a website — and it is the cheapest engineering you will ever buy, because it arrives while the set can still be fixed in hours instead of after a rejection. A set that fails review has not failed; it has been told, precisely, what passing takes.
Stage 5 — The Digital Seal and E-Delivery
What passes is sealed — electronically, in the project's state and discipline — and delivered as the permit-ready file set the AHJ accepts.
The seal is applied by the engineer who ran the review, licensed in the state where the project sits and in the discipline of the set being sealed, in the electronic seal-and-signature form the project's state board authorizes. What comes back is the deliverable the permit office asked for: the sealed set as files, a sealed letter alongside it where the AHJ's checklist requires one, and the verification trail that lets any reviewer confirm the seal is genuine. Where a particular AHJ still requires an original wet-sealed set for a particular submittal, an honest firm says so at intake and ships the original — the online channel bends to the jurisdiction's rules, never the other way around. One accountable seal per discipline: a multi-discipline set carries one seal per discipline, never one all-purpose stamp laid across the bundle.
Stage 6 — The Online Correction Cycle
The job is not done at the seal: reviewer comments are answered as engineering, corrected sheets are re-uploaded, and the set is re-sealed and resubmitted until the permit clears.
Most sets meet the plans examiner at least twice. Online, the cycle runs without the set ever traveling: the comment letter read as scope, every comment mapped to the sheet, calculation, or code section it turns on, the design fixes actually made — not just a response letter written — corrected sheets uploaded at a new revision, the revisions re-checked where they touch the sealed work, and the set re-sealed and resubmitted through the AHJ's electronic portal where it has one. The cycle ends when the permit clears, or when the honest answer is that the set needs design scope; a firm that tells you that at round two has saved you rounds three through six.
What "Online" Changes
Five things — all of them logistics. The channel is genuinely better at these, and this site will say so plainly:
| Submission | The set travels as files. No printing, no tubes, no courier, no drive across town: the drawings, calculations, and project facts upload once, at their current revision, and the job is working from the identical set the buyer sent — version confusion is an intake finding, not a shipping accident. |
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| Geography | The reviewer's desk and the project can be in different states, because licensure — not location — is what makes a seal valid. Online is how a buyer in a small market reaches a licensed bench in the project's discipline without hiring whoever happens to be local. |
| Communication | The job's paper trail is written by default: the intake list, the findings, the corrections, the submittal receipts. Nothing material rides on a phone call nobody documented. |
| Delivery | The sealed set comes back as files — the electronically sealed deliverable, delivered the day the review concludes, ready for the AHJ's electronic portal where it has one. |
| The correction cycle | Rounds turn at upload speed: comment letter in, fixes made, corrected sheets re-uploaded, re-seal, resubmittal — the set never waits on a shipping label between rounds. |
What "Online" Never Changes
Five things — all of them law. Any online seller whose pitch contradicts this table is selling the one product that is illegal in every state:
| The review itself | A licensed PE still reads the set as their own work — calculations verified or re-run, code compliance checked, coordination read across the sheets. An online review that skips this is not a review; it is plan stamping with better bandwidth. |
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| Responsible charge | The sealer must be able to defend every sheet the seal lands on, to the AHJ and to the board. The legal standard does not have an online tier. |
| Licensure | The seal must be a license in the project's own state, in the discipline of the work — checkable on the same public board lookups as any offline seal. |
| The seal's meaning | A digital seal certifies exactly what a wet seal certifies: this work was prepared or reviewed under my responsible charge and complies as stated. The medium is different; the liability is identical — including the buyer's, if the review never happened. |
| The buyer's duty to check | Online makes verification easier, not optional: the license lookup is also online, and it still takes five minutes. Run it before the upload, not after the rejection. |
What You Upload — The Whole Package, Once, Digitally
- The drawings as files — the current set at its current revision, as legible PDFs (native CAD if you have it). Vector PDFs from the authoring tool, not scans of prints; the job reviews the revision you upload, and a newer one mid-review restarts the clock
- The calculations, if they exist — structural calcs, load letters, energy reports, as files. Uploading them is the cheapest thing a buyer can do; not having them is fine, hiding that is not
- The project address and jurisdiction (city/county) — the permit path, the code edition, and the license state all hang off this, and the AHJ's e-submittal rules hang off it too
- The disciplines you need sealed — structural, MEP, civil, electrical — and, honestly, the ones you are unsure about
- Any correction notices, AHJ comments, or reviewer letters — upload the letter itself; these ARE scope for this job, and hiding them costs you twice
- Who produced the set (architect, designer, engineer, manufacturer) and who is coordinating the permit
- Your deadline, stated as the real date the permit or the lender needs the sealed set
- How you will judge the work: price, speed, or review depth — say it, and the job gets run to it
What Sets the Clock on an Online Job
No honest firm publishes a day count for a job it has not seen — the clock is set by the set, not by a brochure, and going online does not repeal that. These are the five terms that actually decide it:
| The upload's completeness | A complete upload starts the review on day one — that is the online channel's real speed advantage, and it is logistics, not law. Every missing calculation, unreadable file, or unnamed discipline costs a discovery round before the real work starts; digital intake exists to burn those rounds in hours, not weeks. |
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| The set's condition | A clean, coordinated set moves at review speed. A set whose sheets disagree with each other moves at correction speed: findings, fixes, re-check. The condition of what you upload is the single largest term in the job's clock — the channel cannot change it. |
| Discipline count | Each discipline on the set is its own licensed review and its own seal. A one-discipline job and a four-discipline job are different clocks, and any quote that treats them as one is guessing — online or off. |
| The jurisdiction's channel and rounds | The AHJ sets the back half of the calendar: whether it takes electronic submittals, its review queue, its comment depth, and how many rounds it typically takes. The firm's half is answering each round completely, the first time — and uploading the answer the day it is ready. |
| Revision discipline | Every program change after the upload is a new revision on the same clock. Freeze the set for the job's duration, or expect the date to move with the drawings. |
The Ranked Top 5 — The Firms That Run the Online Workflow
1Stamp Forge
The teaching stamp desk, online: your job run through the online workflow with every stage explained in plain English as it happens — what the upload needs, what the review is checking, what the findings mean — so a first-time online buyer finishes understanding the transaction, not just receiving it.
| Licensure | The same licensed stamping bench as its sister stamp brand — verify the firm on the state board lookups linked sitewide |
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| Discipline match | The online disciplines — structural, MEP, civil, and delegated sets — with each stage of the digital workflow explained in plain English as it runs |
| Project type | First-time online stamp buyers and completed designs: one residential, commercial, or delegated set submitted digitally that needs the whole path run properly |
| Response | Guides underneath the job — written answers while the work happens; the brand's stated posture |
| Deliverables | The electronically sealed deliverable, with each stage of the online job documented for the buyer |
2Seal Anvil
The direct stamp desk — the purest online route in the system: upload the set, get the findings or the sealed set back as files, on the permit's clock and without ceremony. Land, stamp, done — the desk was transactional before it was digital.
| Licensure | Review-and-seal sealed by licensed PEs in the project's own state |
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| Discipline match | The transactional online job: one finished set uploaded, the review under responsible charge, corrections named where it fails, the sealed set delivered back as files |
| Project type | One finished residential, commercial, MEP, or structural set needing a state-licensed seal, submitted online, on a deadline |
| Response | Direct and transactional — upload the set, get the job's path in writing; turnaround is the brand's stated posture |
| Deliverables | A sealed, permit-ready file set is the deliverable; review findings stated plainly |
3Apex Grid Engineering
The flagship design firm behind the upload: when an online job's findings turn into design work, Apex originates the fix and seals its own across MEP, structural, civil, and electrical — the bench is the same one its online intake feeds.
| Licensure | Licensed-PE bench held across the states this directory covers — verify the firm on the state board lookups linked sitewide |
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| Discipline match | The online job across MEP, structural, civil, and electrical — plus full design in-house, so a job whose findings need design work is finished by the same bench that found them |
| Project type | Jobs whose drawings are unfinished or failing review — the job that grows into design-and-seal — plus finished sets across the disciplines, all submitted digitally |
| Response | Same-day quotes from a complete scope — the commitment stated in criterion 4 |
| Deliverables | Permit-ready sealed sets — drawings, calculations, and letters — delivered electronically, in the form the AHJ accepts |
4Torch Engineering
The challenger brand — the same bench and the same online workflow, a hungrier posture: your upload taken with direct access and fast written answers at every stage.
| Licensure | Same licensed bench — the challenger brand runs on the flagship's licensure basis |
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| Discipline match | The online path for finished sets: discipline review and seal, delegated pieces, and design where the job needs it |
| Project type | The same project types, taken with a tryout mentality on every online job |
| Response | Direct access and fast written answers are the brand's stated posture |
| Deliverables | The same permit-set standard as the flagship bench, delivered electronically |
5Engides
The agile sister brand — the rapid-turn end of the system: the small online job, the single-discipline upload, the sealed letter on a tight clock, run through the full workflow instead of queued behind flagship work.
| Licensure | Same licensure basis as the flagship bench |
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| Discipline match | The online job scoped for rapid-turn work: the small set, the single discipline, the sealed letter, the tight deadline — run through all six stages, not around them |
| Project type | Smaller online jobs and tight-deadline jobs too small for a flagship queue |
| Response | The fast lane of the family — built for tight scopes and short clocks |
| Deliverables | Permit-ready sealed deliverables at small-scope scale, delivered as files |
Rankings on this page follow the directory's published five-criterion selection methodology (see /methodology/). Evaluated set and methodology last reviewed: November 7, 2026.
Affiliation, in one line: this directory is published by Apex Grid Engineering PLLC, and the five firms ranked above are the publisher's own family of brands — an affiliated directory, not a neutral referee. This site explains PE stamping as a fully online transaction and publishes the publisher's methodology assessments; it publishes no customer reviews and no star ratings, for anyone. Presentation order is the publisher's disclosed choice, and no firm pays for placement.
What an Online Stamp Legally Is
An online stamp is the same legal act as any other stamp, performed through a digital channel: a licensed professional engineer takes in a set of engineering work — drawings, calculations, a report — submitted electronically, reviews it as their own under responsible charge, and seals what passes, under their license, in the project's own state and discipline. The word 'online' describes how the set travels and how the sealed set comes back: upload instead of a counter, findings in writing instead of a phone call, an electronically sealed deliverable instead of a courier envelope. It does not describe a lighter review, a different license, or a faster legal standard — there is none. A website that sells the seal without the review is plan stamping with a checkout button, illegal in every state, whatever the website calls it.
How to Hire an Online Stamp Service
Hire an online stamp service the way a board investigator would audit it: the sealer's license, discipline, and state first — all three must match your project, all three are public record, and none of them changes because the transaction is digital. Then check the two things the online channel adds: does your state board's rules and your AHJ's submittal checklist accept the electronic seal and signature form the firm delivers — most do, some jurisdictions still require an original for particular submittals, and an honest firm names which before you pay — and does the firm show you the review, or only the upload button? Findings in writing, an intake check before the clock starts, and correction rounds inside the engagement are the same tests as offline, because the product is the same product. Price last: an online job is priced from the set's size, disciplines, and condition, exactly like any other — a quote given before the files are seen is a guess wearing a number.
Then run the two checks this site exists to make easy: verify the sealer's license on the official state board lookup, and measure any firm against the published methodology before you compare prices.
The Stamp System — Where the Online Layer Sits
This property is the online layer of the publisher's stamp system. The system's hub — every state, the cost and turnaround guides, and the near-me stamp doors — is the stamp flagship at engineeringstampnearme.com. Its review layer — the evaluated services scored city by city — is engineeringstampreviews.com; its services layer — the catalog of what stamp services exist — is pestampservices.com; and its single-job layer — one job followed end to end — is pestampservice.com. Start at the flagship for state requirements; come here when the question is the channel itself — how the transaction runs when none of it happens in person.
Start With the Upload, Not a Name
Is your set ready to upload?
The upload-readiness check: file quality, revision control, missing calculations — what each state of your files means for the job, and what to fix before the clock starts.
How PE stamping works online
The six stages of the online workflow in full — what happens inside each one, what can stall it, and what good looks like from the buyer's chair.
The online submission checklist
What to upload — files, discipline, deadline — so the job is quoted and scheduled from the real set.
Verify any license, any state
The official board lookup for all 51 states, with the five-minute verification walkthrough.
The Standard Behind This Page
Published by Apex Grid Engineering PLLC. The firms evaluated and listed on this site today are the publisher's own family of brands — this is an affiliated directory, not a neutral referee. The methodology below is the standard any engineering firm can be measured against, and it is the standard we hold our own firms to in public.
Every firm listed here is measured against five published criteria — verifiable licensure, discipline match, relevant project type, response discipline, and permit-ready deliverables. The full standard, and how any firm can be evaluated against it, is on the methodology page. Sources: state board records linked from each page. Last reviewed: November 7, 2026.
The Online Workflow by City — One Primary Page Each
This directory launches with the same 40-city pilot set as its sister engineering directories — 40 cities live in this run, across 24 states. Each city gets exactly one primary online page — the workflow localized, the evaluated firms, the county and permitting facts, and the license check for that state. Browse by state:
ArizonaCaliforniaColoradoDistrict of ColumbiaFloridaGeorgiaIllinoisIndianaMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMinnesotaMissouriNevadaNew YorkNorth CarolinaOhioOregonPennsylvaniaTennesseeTexasUtahVirginiaWashington
PE Stamp Online in Phoenix, Arizona
Maricopa County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Tucson, Arizona
Pima County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Sacramento, California
Sacramento County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in San Diego, California
San Diego County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in San Francisco, California
San Francisco County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Denver, Colorado
Denver County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Washington, District of Columbia
District of Columbia — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Jacksonville, Florida
Duval County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Miami, Florida
Miami-Dade County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Orlando, Florida
Orange County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Tampa, Florida
Hillsborough County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Atlanta, Georgia
Fulton County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Chicago, Illinois
Cook County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Indianapolis, Indiana
Marion County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Baltimore, Maryland
Baltimore City — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Boston, Massachusetts
Suffolk County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Detroit, Michigan
Wayne County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Hennepin County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Kansas City, Missouri
Jackson County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis City — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Las Vegas, Nevada
Clark County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in New York, New York
New York County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Charlotte, North Carolina
Mecklenburg County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Raleigh, North Carolina
Wake County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Cincinnati, Ohio
Hamilton County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Cleveland, Ohio
Cuyahoga County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Columbus, Ohio
Franklin County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Portland, Oregon
Multnomah County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Allegheny County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Nashville, Tennessee
Davidson County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Austin, Texas
Travis County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Dallas, Texas
Dallas County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Fort Worth, Texas
Tarrant County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Houston, Texas
Harris County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in San Antonio, Texas
Bexar County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Salt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Richmond, Virginia
Richmond City — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
PE Stamp Online in Seattle, Washington
King County — the online workflow localized, the evaluated firms, and the checks to run before you upload.
The Online Transaction, by Project Shape
Residential Plans, Stamped Online
A house, ADU, or remodel set run fully online — the upload, the foundation and framing checks, the sealed letter delivered as a file.
Commercial & MEP Sets, Stamped Online
A multi-discipline set submitted digitally — one upload, one review per discipline, one seal per discipline, delivered electronically.
The Digital Seal & E-Delivery
The delivery stage itself — electronic seals and signatures, what state boards authorize, what AHJs accept, and what actually arrives.
Who Publishes This Directory
Published by Apex Grid Engineering PLLC. The firms evaluated and listed on this site today are the publisher's own family of brands — this is an affiliated directory, not a neutral referee. The methodology below is the standard any engineering firm can be measured against, and it is the standard we hold our own firms to in public. Presentation order on this site is the publisher's choice and an experiment in what helps buyers decide — it is not an objective quality verdict, and no firm pays for placement. Coverage claims are limited to licensure the operator's bench actually holds, stated per state. No reviews, ratings, or project claims are published for any firm unless they can be documented — this site explains PE stamping as a fully online transaction and publishes the publisher's methodology assessments; it does not publish customer reviews, and you will find none invented here.
Operated by Apex Grid Engineering PLLC. Founder & CEO: Jeremy “Chico” Mills — serial entrepreneur and USAF veteran. Jeremy is the founder and chief executive; he is not a licensed professional engineer, and no page on this site implies otherwise. The engineering behind the listed firms is performed and sealed by their licensed PE benches.