Catch Drawing Issues Before the City Does

Field Fixes Cost Multiples of Paper Fixes

Spec-versus-drawing contradictions, constructability issues, and code violations found in the field cost money in ways that are avoidable. Fixing them on paper, before permit, is far cheaper than fixing them once site work or construction has started. The same issue that takes a redline and a day to resolve during design can take a change order, a schedule impact, and a subcontractor dispute to resolve in the field.

Permit Rejections Reset the Schedule Tied to Your Financing

An issue the city's plan checker will flag anyway is cheaper to find and fix yourself before submittal than to receive as a rejection that resets your schedule. Permit delays push your construction start, which puts pressure on your financing timeline and your pro forma assumptions. Running AI plan check before you submit is how you stop the AHJ from finding issues you could have found first.

Your Budget Commitments Rest on Assumptions About Coordination

Committing a budget and schedule to a permit set means committing to assumptions about what is fully coordinated. If those assumptions are wrong, the gap surfaces as cost and schedule risk after the budget is locked. Understanding the real complexity and risk in the documents before you commit protects the numbers your project is built on, and keeps your contingency for genuine unknowns rather than avoidable conflicts.

Constructability Review Before You Commit Budget and Schedule

The Constructability Checker surfaces buildability issues and risk factors before they are locked into your budget and schedule assumptions. Findings include access conflicts, sequencing problems, and details that cannot be built as drawn. Catching these before construction starts means resolving them at design cost rather than change order cost.

Spec and Drawing Coordination Across the Full Set

The Spec and Drawing Coordination Checker catches contradictions between what the specification says and what the drawing shows, before either one governs a field decision. When spec and drawing conflict, the contractor asks an RFI, the design team issues a clarification, and the schedule absorbs the delay. Finding those conflicts before submittal removes them from the field entirely.

Pre-Submittal Plan Check Against the AHJ's Criteria

The Plan Check Checker runs the same review the authority having jurisdiction (AHJ) will run, before the AHJ runs it. Findings are cited to the applicable code section so your team can evaluate each one against local amendments before deciding how to resolve it. Projects that arrive at plan check with fewer issues spend less time in the review queue.

Collaboration Built Into the Results

Share findings directly with your architect or engineer. They can comment on each issue, mark it resolved, and thumbs up or down each finding. Export to Excel with links back to every issue for your own tracking and resolution log.

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Cold Summit Development: Wood vs HDPE Conflicts and Spec Mismatches Caught Early

Aaron Bass, Director of Construction at Cold Summit Development, ran InspectMind on a cold storage project and found 47 issues before construction started. "InspectMind helped us catch real meaningful issues. Using it early in the process is going to absolutely help out in the field. It immediately caught real issues like wood vs HDPE blocking conflicts and specs vs drawings mismatches." Issues found at that stage cost a markup change to resolve, not a change order.

K-12 School Project: 375 Issues Found at Plan Review Stage

On a large public development project, InspectMind identified 375 issues at the plan review stage across a multi-discipline document set. Finding that volume of issues before the documents were locked meant the project team could address coordination gaps, code conflicts, and spec-versus-drawing contradictions before they reached the field or the building department. Projects of this scale carry proportionally higher exposure to permit rejection and field rework when documents are not reviewed before submittal.

Transportation Infrastructure Project: 43 Issues Found Before Submittal

A complex multi-discipline development project yielded 43 issues before submittal, spanning coordination conflicts and code-related findings across the document set. For a project at that scale of complexity, each unresolved issue represents potential permit delay or field-stage rework. Catching 43 issues before the documents reached the AHJ or the contractor gave the project team time to resolve them on their own schedule.