Reviewers focus on judgment
Repeat deviations from the standards manual are found before your design reviewers open the set, so their time goes to decisions only they can make.
Enterprise plan review for hotel brands and franchises
Design review that keeps pace with your pipeline
For Fortune 500 and enterprise hotel brands reviewing franchisee and developer submittals every week. Groundbook checks each set against your brand standards and the local code first, so your reviewers spend their time on judgment calls, not on finding the same deviations again.
- New-build prototypes
- Dual-brand hotels
- Conversions
- PIP renovations
- Extended-stay hotels
- Full-service and resort
First project free. Volume pricing for 500+ projects a year.
Why teams use Groundbook
What your program gains
Every hotel on current standards
Submittals are checked against this year's standards and room prototypes, even when the hotel started design under last year's.
Renovations that stay open
PIP phasing, life safety, and accessible rooms are checked floor by floor before work starts in a hotel full of guests.
AI plan review for hotel brands is a first-pass check of a franchisee's or developer's drawings against each other, the project manual, your brand standards and room prototypes, and the building code that applies at the site. Groundbook returns possible conflicts and missing information with links to the exact sheets, so your design reviewers can spend their time on judgment calls and the developer's architect can resolve the rest before permit. Groundbook has checked drawings for a Fortune 500 hotel brand.
How it gets there
Common checks for hotel brands and franchises
Each row is a place where the documents for one site often disagree. The review compares them and returns each possible conflict with the sheets it came from.
| Area | What is compared | A question a finding raises |
|---|---|---|
| Brand standards conformance | Guestroom, corridor, lobby, and amenity plans against the brand standards manual and room prototypes | Is the standard king room on this set narrower than the minimum room width in the current brand standard? |
| Accessible guestrooms | Room matrix and unit plans against the accessible room count, roll-in shower count, and dispersion the accessibility code requires | Does the room matrix provide the required rooms with roll-in showers, and are accessible rooms spread across the room types offered? |
| Guestroom systems and alarms | Unit plans against PTAC or fan coil schedules, sprinkler heads, smoke alarms, and visible notification appliances | Do the guestrooms with communication features show visible alarm notification on the fire alarm plan? |
| Kitchen, laundry, and back-of-house | Food-service and laundry equipment schedules against hoods, gas, exhaust, makeup air, drains, and circuits | Is there a dryer exhaust route and makeup air for every dryer on the laundry equipment schedule? |
| Pools and amenities | Pool, fitness, and meeting spaces against plumbing, electrical, and the accessibility code | Does the pool show a pool lift or sloped entry, and a second accessible means of entry if its wall length requires one? |
| PIP phasing and existing conditions | Renovation scope, demolition, and phasing plans against existing-condition drawings and life safety for occupied floors | Does the phasing plan keep both exit stairs open on floors that stay occupied during the guestroom renovation? |
Hotel project review checklist · Check sets against your design review checklist
In the program
Where Groundbook fits
Publish the standards once
Upload your brand standards manual, room prototypes, and design review checklist. Every developer submittal is checked against the same references.
Review each submittal
When a franchisee's architect submits a schematic or construction set, run a review. Findings arrive in 20 minutes to 24 hours, each tied to its sheet.
Compare to the prototype room
Overlay a submitted guestroom plan on the prototype room with Smart Overlay to see every change to walls, doors, and fixtures.
Send comments back
Assign findings to the developer's architect, comment, and export a report or marked-up drawings for the design review letter.
From a published review
A review of a 156-page waterfront hotel, restaurant, retail, and dock set against four uploaded 2025 California code volumes returned 132 potential findings across life safety, accessibility, structure, kitchen systems, and energy.
Read the waterfront hotel case studyEnterprise
Built to roll out across a program
The review is the same on every plan. Enterprise changes how you buy it, sign in, connect it, and get help.
Predictable cost at any volume
Volume pricing for programs reviewing 500 or more projects a year, or prepaid credits for up to 15% off. Every review shows its price before you pay.
A fast yes from IT and legal
SSO and MFA, an audit trail, granular access levels, and on-prem or US hosting. Encrypted, never used to train models, and an NDA on request.
Findings where your teams already work
Import from Autodesk Construction Cloud (including Revit sheets), SharePoint, Egnyte, ProjectWise, Box, and more, and send findings into your own systems with the REST API, CLI, or a custom integration.
A team that knows your program
A direct line to our team for onboarding, your review checklists and standards, code sources, and questions about findings.
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Questions, answered
What program teams ask
Can Groundbook review franchisee submittals against our brand standards?
Yes. Upload the standards manual, room prototypes, or your design review checklist as reference files with the developer's set. The review flags where the drawings disagree with them and links each finding to the sheet it came from. Groundbook has checked drawings for a Fortune 500 hotel brand.
Does it work for property improvement plans?
Yes. Upload the PIP, the renovation drawings, and the existing-condition drawings together. The review compares the new work with what is there and with your current standards, and flags phasing, life-safety, and accessibility questions for a hotel that stays open.
How is pricing set for a program with many sites?
Programs reviewing 500 or more projects a year get volume pricing. Smaller programs can buy prepaid credits for up to 15% off. Every review shows its exact price before you pay, and the first project is free.
Does Groundbook replace the architect of record or plan check?
No. Groundbook surfaces possible issues with links to their sources. The architects and engineers of record, your own team, and the authority having jurisdiction remain responsible for every decision.
Where is our project data stored?
On AWS in the United States by default, or on-prem for programs that need it, encrypted at rest and in transit. Project data is never used to train models and is visible only to the people you invite. SSO and MFA, an NDA, and security questionnaires are available on request.
Review every hotel set against the same standards
Tell us how many sites you build or remodel a year and which systems you use. Or try a set yourself: the first project is free.