FOR ARCHITECTS & DESIGN QA MANAGERS

Ship Cleaner Documents. Protect Your E&O.

AI pre-issue QA catches discipline conflicts, code issues, and consultant drift before drawings hit the GC’s hands — so you’re not the name on the RFI.

Every “designer-caused” change order ends up in your E&O history. Every RFI you respond to during CA is a coordination check that should have happened before IFC. The hardest part of design QC isn’t finding the conflicts — it’s finding them across three consultants’ drawings before issue.

What you’re up against

“Half my CA budget gets eaten by RFIs that should have been caught at design QC.”

Your fee is set assuming a normal CA load. Reality: coordination misses surface as RFIs you have to respond to on someone else’s clock. Industry research from Autodesk & FMI puts roughly half of all rework on coordination and data failures — a problem you’re paid to prevent and paid again to respond to.

“I can’t get structural and MEP on the same page before issue.”

Multi-consultant coordination is fragmented across email threads, shared folders, and the occasional Bluebeam session. A model-coordination meeting clears the headline issues but misses the dimensional and document-QA ones. Those become RFIs in week three of construction.

“Every ‘designer-caused’ change order tag raises my E&O renewal.”

Your carrier prices renewal on claims history. Even non-claim coordination disputes get logged in your loss-prevention narrative. A documented pre-issue QA pass — with an audit trail — is the kind of evidence carriers look for when they’re deciding what to charge you next year.

Here’s what changes

Same-day review on the 2D PDF set after consultants upload.

Run it after the MEP consultant uploads the latest revision and before you issue. No coordination meeting required. No BIM model required. You get a severity-rated conflict report against the actual issue set, not against a generic clash matrix.

Cross-discipline conflict matrix with sheet references.

When one consultant’s drawings contradict another’s, the finding cites the sheets and the specific conflict. Your team verifies, the consultant resolves, you re-run. Three iterations later, the set goes out cleaner than your last project.

Resolved-findings audit trail for QA and E&O conversations.

Every finding is logged, marked as a Good Find or Bad Find by your reviewer, and timestamped. The output is documentation of design QC — useful for your internal QA process, your project files, and your annual carrier conversation.

The numbers

~50%of rework stems from coordination & data failures
Autodesk & FMI 2022
30–50%of RFIs trace back to coordination issues
Industry benchmark
$1,500average cost per field-discovered clash
Catenda & United-BIM
$50K–$500Ktypical rework event per project
Autodesk & FMI 2022

What we review

All design disciplines reviewed in a single pass: Architectural, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Fire Protection, Civil, Landscape, and Interior Design. Same-day report. Severity-rated.

You can’t coordinate your way out of an RFI that’s already in flight. You can stop the next one before it ships.

Issue cleaner documents.

Upload your current set. Get a severity-rated conflict report back the same day — before the GC opens the file.