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Catch Drawing Issues Before You Price Them

Bid documents contain conflicts you cannot see until construction starts. InspectMind AI reviews your full document set at bid stage, returns a prioritized issue list with evidence for every finding, and delivers results same day or next day. One issue found often pays for the check.

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What Bid Documents Hide Before You Price Them

  • 01

    Spec vs Drawing Contradictions Become Field Hits

    Specs say one thing. Drawings say another. Neither catches the conflict until a contractor prices one version and builds the other. Fixing that contradiction on paper, before bid, costs a fraction of what it costs once construction has started and both parties are pointing at documents. These are not academic discrepancies. They lead to million-dollar change orders and inspection failures that delay occupancy and damage relationships with owners who expected a clean project.

  • 02

    Permit Surprises Are Avoidable at Bid Stage

    Issues the city's plan checker will catch are cheaper to find yourself than to receive in a rejection letter after you have already committed a schedule to the project. Running an AI plan check before submittal surfaces the same categories of issues the AHJ will flag, giving your team time to raise them with the design team rather than absorbing them as schedule risk. Permit rejections after bid compress your construction window without adjusting your contract date. That compression rarely comes with compensation.

  • 03

    Estimating Blind to Document Conflicts Means Pricing Risk You Cannot See

    Cost and schedule surprises after award almost always trace back to issues that were findable in the documents at bid. They were not field surprises. They were document surprises that no one looked for before pricing. Constructability review at bid stage surfaces those risk factors so your estimating team can price them in or qualify them out, rather than absorbing them as contingency you did not account for.

Upload Your Bid Documents, Get a Prioritized Issue List

Upload your bid documents, confirm which building codes apply, and get a prioritized issue list with evidence for every finding. Turnaround is same day or next day for a 250-sheet set. Every finding includes a drawing sheet reference and a code citation or document source, so your team can locate and evaluate each issue without hunting through the set. Manual review finds what your team has time to look for. InspectMind checks the full document set against defined criteria, every time, across all disciplines simultaneously. Pattern-based conflicts that span dozens of sheets and never appear on a single sheet review are the issues most likely to surface.

  • Spec and Drawing Coordination

    The Spec and Drawing Coordination checker cross-references what the specification requires against what the drawings show. It catches contradictions before either one governs a decision you have already priced. Findings are tagged to the specific spec section and drawing sheet where the conflict exists, so the design team can resolve them without ambiguity. This is the check most pre-construction teams do not have time to run manually at bid stage, and the one most likely to produce a change order after award if it is skipped.

  • Plan Check Against Code

    The Plan Check checker runs the same review the authority having jurisdiction (AHJ) will run, before the AHJ runs it. Findings are mapped to the applicable code section and the drawing sheet where the gap appears. Issues that would trigger a correction letter from the building department are flagged while you still have time to raise them with the architect. This is the check that prevents permit surprises from compressing your schedule after you have already committed to a start date.

  • Constructability Review

    The Constructability checker surfaces buildability issues and risk factors that your estimating team can act on. Sequence conflicts, missing details, and coordination gaps between structural, mechanical, and architectural intent show up here. Each finding gives your team the option to price the risk in, qualify it out, or raise it with the design team before bid day.

  • Collaboration With Your Architect or Engineer

    After the review runs, share the results directly with your architect or engineer from within InspectMind. They comment on findings, mark issues resolved, and thumbs up or down each item. Export the full list to Excel with links back to every issue for your own tracking. The collaboration layer turns the issue report into a shared working document rather than a one-way delivery.

Review Your Bid Documents Before You Price What Is in Them

Issues that are findable at bid stage are cheaper to find before award than after. Upload your next bid set, get a prioritized issue list with evidence for every finding, and share the results with your design team before you commit to a price.

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“InspectMind caught 47 critical issues on our cold storage project: conflicts that would have cost us millions in field rework. It paid for itself on the first review.”
Aaron BassDirector of Construction, Cold Summit Development

What Pre-Construction Teams Found Before They Priced

These reviews were run on real bid-stage document sets. The issues were findable in the documents. They were found before construction started.

  • Cold Summit Development: Wood vs HDPE Conflicts and Spec Mismatches Caught at Bid

    Aaron Bass, Director of Construction at Cold Summit Development, used InspectMind on a cold storage project and described what came back: "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 that would have required field rework were on the issue list before pricing.

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  • Transportation Infrastructure: 43 Issues Found Across Disciplines Before Bid

    A complex multi-discipline transportation infrastructure project was reviewed before bid and returned 43 issues across the document set. Conflicts of that volume in a multi-discipline set are standard. Finding them before pricing meant the pre-construction team had the information before award, not after.

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

    A K-12 school plan review returned 375 issues in the document set. That volume reflects how much is findable in a large bid set when the full document set is checked systematically rather than reviewed by discipline in isolation. Pre-construction teams on projects of this scale routinely carry contingency that traces back to issues this review would have surfaced before bid.

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Checkers in this workflow

Each review runs on the same engine and returns findings cited to the sheet and code section.

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Questions Pre-Construction Teams Ask

Straight answers before your first check.

How does the architect collaboration workflow work, and can they comment directly on findings?

What does the Excel export include, and can our team track resolution status in it?

Can you actually turn around a 250-sheet set the same day, or is next-day more realistic?

How do we confirm which building codes apply before the review runs?

What is the refund policy if the review does not find meaningful issues?

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