Cover more of the set
Screen plans, schedules, details, specifications, and supporting documents for questions that deserve examiner attention.
Groundbook AI for plans examiners
Review more of every set. Keep every decision yours.
Give public and third-party plan review teams a source-linked first pass across permit drawings, specifications, review checklists, and uploaded code materials—so experienced reviewers can focus on the issues that need professional judgment.
AI-assisted review with traceable evidence—not automated approval.
Trace the evidenceMove from a possible issue to the exact drawing, specification, checklist, or code source.
Apply your standardsUse jurisdiction, firm, discipline, and project-specific review instructions.
Keep reviewers in controlQualified professionals validate every finding and make every determination.
Built for experienced review teams
A broader first pass without lowering the standard of review.
Permit sets contain thousands of connected requirements. Groundbook AI helps examiners investigate more of those relationships while preserving the reviewer’s authority.
Apply the same first pass
Run repeatable review instructions across projects while leaving nuanced interpretation to qualified reviewers.
Start from cited evidence
Give reviewers the relevant sheet, location, and source context behind each finding before they decide what to do.
What Groundbook AI checks
Permit review signals across the complete project set.
Choose the documents and review instructions for each project. Groundbook AI returns structured, source-linked findings for your team to verify.
Permit-set consistency
Compare plans, schedules, sections, details, notes, calculations, and specifications for information that may not align.
Cross-discipline coordination
Follow possible life-safety, accessibility, structural, MEP, fire-protection, energy, and civil issues across related documents.
Uploaded code-source review
Compare project documents with the specific adopted-code excerpts, local amendments, standards, and reference PDFs you provide.
Your review checklists
Apply jurisdiction, firm, discipline, permit-type, completeness, or project-specific checklists across the submission.
Where it fits
Support the reviewer before comments are issued.
Use Groundbook AI to organize a consistent first pass, investigate cross-file relationships, and prepare possible issues for examiner validation. Your existing review process remains the system of record.
Reviewer validation required- Municipal plan reviewGive building-department staff a source-linked screening layer before formal determinations.
- Third-party plan reviewHelp consulting teams apply repeatable internal procedures across a changing project queue.
- Specialty and peer reviewFocus the review on selected disciplines, checklists, or uploaded reference sources.
A reviewer-led workflow
From submission to validated review questions.
Upload the review package
Add permit drawings, specifications, calculations, checklists, and the code or reference material needed for context.
Define the first pass
Select cross-file, checklist, and uploaded code-source checks that match the jurisdiction, scope, and permit type.
Validate every finding
Review the cited evidence, apply professional judgment, and decide whether an item belongs in the official process.
AI-assisted, reviewer-led
Groundbook AI does not approve permits.
Groundbook AI organizes possible issues and their supporting evidence. It does not determine code compliance, exercise delegated authority, stamp or seal documents, or replace the plans examiner, licensed reviewer, or authority having jurisdiction.
- Reviewer validation before any official action
- Evidence linked to each possible finding
- Scope defined by your uploaded sources and instructions
Built for the whole review context
See how adjacent project teams use Groundbook AI.
Questions, answered
What plan review teams ask.
Can Groundbook AI review against building codes?
Groundbook AI can compare project documents with uploaded building-code sources and return cited possible issues for qualified review. Your team determines which provisions apply and makes all compliance decisions.
Can we include local amendments and jurisdiction checklists?
Yes. Upload the relevant amendment, standard, checklist, or review instruction with the project so it can be included as a source in the selected review scope.
Does Groundbook AI replace a plans examiner or licensed third-party reviewer?
No. It supports a source-linked first pass. A qualified reviewer remains responsible for interpretation, completeness, comments, approvals, and every exercise of professional or delegated authority.
Can review teams focus on a particular discipline or permit type?
Yes. The uploaded files and selected instructions define the review scope, whether the team is screening a complete building set or focusing on structural, MEP, life-safety, accessibility, energy, or another area.
See how AI-assisted plan review fits your process.
Walk us through a representative review package, your checklists, and the decisions your reviewers need to keep.