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AI plan review workflows

Start with the question your team needs to answer

Choose a review scope around your next project decision. Connect the relevant drawings and references, review what Groundbook found, and bring the evidence to the people responsible for the design.

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Drawing readability review

Drawing readability review is the drafting part of drawing QA/QC: checking that sheet references, equipment tags, schedules, and notes agree across the set. Groundbook flags potential mismatches and links them to the drawings so your team can verify and correct them.

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Floor plan review

Check the layout against the rest of the set. Groundbook reviews floor plans alongside schedules, details, specifications, and consultant drawings to flag potential conflicts with evidence your team can verify.

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Blueprint review

Reading one blueprint is a skill. Reading a set is a different job: the answer to almost any question sits on another sheet, in a schedule, or in the specifications. Groundbook reads the whole set at once, cross-checks the parts that have to agree, and shows you the sheets behind every finding.

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Scanned drawing review

Archive scans, redlined sheets, and hand-drawn plans rarely have a usable text layer. Groundbook reads every sheet as an image, so scanned and hand-drawn sets get the same coordination, consistency, and code-reference checks as a native PDF, with findings your team can verify.

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Shop drawing review

Upload your shop drawings or submittals, together with the design drawings and specifications they need to match. We check dimensions, quantities, materials and connections, then put comments directly on the shop drawings with references to the design requirements.

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Pre-bid document review

A bid depends on a shared understanding of the work. Review the issued bid or tender drawings, specifications, and addenda for conflicting requirements and missing information before those questions turn into pricing assumptions.

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Pre-permit review

Review the drawings, specifications, and supporting references together before a permit submission. Give your team a focused list of potential issues to resolve while the package is still in your hands.

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Building code review

Find potential mismatches between the design documents and the building codes that apply. Groundbook reads the codes and amendments governments publish online, the way a human reviewer does, uses licensed codes only where a license allows it, and shows the affected drawing beside the cited section. Then verify the application with the responsible reviewer.

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Cross-discipline coordination

Review the places where one consultant’s design depends on another’s. Groundbook helps identify conflicting levels, missing openings, inconsistent equipment information, and references that do not carry across the set.

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Constructability review

Look for document gaps that could become a procurement question, a coordination hold, or an RFI. Groundbook helps your preconstruction team find conflicting requirements and missing interfaces while there is still time to ask the designers.

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Drawings vs. specifications

A plan, an equipment schedule, and a specification can describe the same component differently. Review them together to identify potential inconsistencies in materials, performance, quantities, and operating requirements.

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Drawing vs. drawing consistency

Review a single discipline’s plans, sections, schedules, details, and general notes together. Groundbook helps identify tags, ratings, dimensions, and references that are stated differently from one sheet to the next.

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Checklist review

Bring the checklist your firm, owner, lender, or jurisdiction already uses. Groundbook applies each item to the drawings, specifications, and references, then shows where the set answers it, where it does not, and where the answer is unclear.

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Drawings vs. reports

Geotechnical reports, structural calculations, energy compliance forms, acoustic and code analyses, and surveys state criteria the drawings are supposed to follow. Groundbook helps identify where a stated criterion does not appear in, or disagrees with, the sheets that depend on it.

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Drawing version comparison

Available in beta upon request. Understand the differences between drawing issues, then review the schedules, details, and discipline interfaces that depend on the changed requirements.

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See the output

A finding should lead somewhere useful

See every finding from one real review of a drawing set and its specifications, with the drawing and spec excerpts Groundbook cited.

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A hotel door-rating finding beside its highlighted plan and linked drawing and code references in Groundbook.
A door-rating finding from the hotel review, shown beside its drawing and supporting references.Start for free

Questions, answered

FAQs

Which review workflow should I start with?

Start with the decision in front of you. Before a permit submittal, run the pre-permit review. Before pricing, run the pre-bid review. If the worry is two consultants describing the same building differently, start with cross-discipline coordination. If your firm already has a checklist, run that against the set. You can combine scopes in one project; the workflow names describe what the review is looking for, not separate products.

Can I run more than one review scope on the same set?

Yes. A single project can carry several checks at once, and the price is based on the pages you upload rather than the number of scopes selected. Describe the milestone and the interfaces you care about in the review instructions so the findings come back in the order your team will work through them.

What do I need to upload for a workflow to work?

The current drawing set plus the documents it has to agree with for that scope: specifications for a specification review, your checklist for a checklist review, and the geotechnical or other reports for a report review. For a code review, we read the building codes and amendments that governments publish online and detect the codes your drawings cite; we use licensed model codes only where a license allows it, and you can upload a copy you’re licensed to use. The review can only compare what it is given.

How long does a review take?

Typically 20 minutes to 24 hours, depending on project size. Setup takes about five minutes and the exact price is shown before payment.

Do these workflows replace a professional review?

No. Each one produces a first pass with the evidence attached. Deciding which document governs, whether a finding is real, and what the correction should be stays with the responsible architects, engineers, contractors, owners, and authorities having jurisdiction.

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