Run the AHJ's Review Before They Do

The Issues Were Already in the Set Before You Submitted

Plan check comments rarely reveal surprises. They surface things that were sitting in the document set before it left your office. An inconsistent door schedule, a note carried from a prior project, a code section applied to the wrong occupancy type. Thomas Owens at Owens Design Consultants found that running AI plan check before submittal reduced the pages of city comments that came back, and the ones that did come back were minor.

Large Sets Have More Coordination Surface Area Than Deadline Time

Cross-discipline conflicts and code compliance gaps compound as drawing sets grow. Checking sheet-to-sheet consistency by hand against a submission deadline is possible on a small project, but it is not reliable on a complex one. AI plan check covers the full set systematically, including the pattern-based conflicts that span dozens of sheets and are easy to miss under pressure.

Every Correction Cycle From the AHJ Costs Weeks on Your Schedule

A resubmission does not cost days. It costs weeks, and sometimes months depending on the jurisdiction's review queue. Catching what the plan examiner would catch, before they catch it, is the only way to keep the project on the timeline you committed to your client.

Architectural Checker: Sheet-to-Sheet Conflicts and Code Departures

The Architectural Checker cross-references your floor plans, schedules, details, and notes for conflicts between drawing sheets and flags departures from applicable code requirements. Every finding is tied to the specific sheet and section where the issue appears. Your team can locate and resolve each one without hunting through the set.

Plan Check: The Code Edition and Jurisdiction Review Your AHJ Will Run

The plan check checker runs the specific code edition your jurisdiction has adopted, before your documents reach the building department. Findings are cited against the applicable code section so you can evaluate each one against local amendments and decide how to respond before the examiner sees it.

ADA Compliance Checker: Accessibility Requirements Across the Full Set

The ADA Compliance Checker verifies accessibility requirements across your entire document set, not just the sheets you flagged for review. ADA non-compliance is a common source of plan check rejection and correction letters. Catching these issues internally means resolving them on your schedule rather than responding to a correction notice.

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Owens Design Consultants: ~300 Issues Fixed Before Permit Review

Thomas J. Owens, P.E., P.L.S., Assoc. AIA, ran AI plan check on a church project before city submittal. The firm fixed roughly 300 issues before permit review. When city feedback came back, it arrived in days rather than weeks, and most comments were minor. In Owens' words: "Yes, I would say we got fewer pages of city comments because the AI had already caught a lot of things that would have come back. Most of the comments are small and insignificant. We will easily wrap this up in only a few days."

K-12 School: 375 Issues Found Across a Large Public Project Set

InspectMind reviewed the construction documents for a K-12 school project under the Massachusetts School Building Authority program and returned 375 issues before the AHJ reviewed the set. Finding that volume internally gave the design team the opportunity to resolve conflicts on their own timeline rather than through a formal correction process.

Healthcare Facility: 417 Issues Across a Complex Multi-Discipline Set

A healthcare facility structural review returned 417 issues across a complex project with multiple overlapping disciplines. Healthcare projects carry elevated code and life safety requirements, and the density of coordination across disciplines creates more surface area for conflicts to develop. Catching them before submittal reduces the risk of rejection cycles on a project type with little tolerance for schedule slippage.