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Developer plan review: QA for 3rd-party engineers

Production homebuilders and developers hire 3rd-party civil engineers, structural engineers, and MEP consultants for every project. AI plan review gives you a systematic QA layer over their work, catching the issues that would otherwise surface as city plan check comments or field rework.

The developer's QA problem

When you're managing 10-50 active projects across multiple subdivisions, you can't personally review every sheet from every consultant. Your internal PE or plan review team does their best, but 150-sheet civil sets across dozens of projects means issues slip through. Those issues become city plan check comments, and every round of comments costs you 2-4 weeks of permitting delay.

  • Quality control at scale

    Review 3rd-party engineers' work across all active projects without adding headcount. AI catches coordination errors, code issues, and missing details.
  • Fewer city comments

    Fix issues before the city sees them. Real example: 507 issues found on a 150-sheet civil set, caught before submission.
  • Consultant accountability

    Track issue counts by consultant over time. Identify which firms produce cleaner documents and which need improvement.
  • Faster permitting

    Fewer plan check comments = fewer rounds of review = faster permits. Every week saved is reduced holding cost on land and loans.

Real example: National homebuilder

A licensed PE at a major national homebuilder ran their 3rd-party civil engineer's Indiana subdivision plans through AI review. The 150-sheet set came back with 507 issues: datum conflicts (NAD83 vs NAVD88), utility separation violations, gravity flow errors, and water main conflicts with storm infrastructure.

Cost: $250. Result: dramatically fewer city plan check comments, weeks saved on permitting for a single subdivision. Across 20+ active subdivisions, the time savings compound significantly.

507
Issues found on one project
$250
Cost of AI review
Weeks
Saved on permitting

Enterprise pricing for high-volume teams

  • Volume discounts

    Reduced per-project rates for 20+ reviews/quarter
  • Unlimited users

    No per-seat fees, whole team can access results
  • Revision checks

    Run updated plans as separate checks with volume options
  • Multi-division

    Consistent QA across all divisions and markets

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QA your engineers' work before the city does

Upload your 3rd-party engineers' plans. AI catches the issues that would become city plan check comments. Results in hours.

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