Know Where Your Scope Collides — Before You Fabricate.
AI plan review surfaces MEP scope conflicts and trade overlaps in the 2D PDF set — so your fab schedule and your margin don’t take the hit at install.
Every fab job has the same shape: you bid against an issued set, you order long-lead, you build off-site, you ship. When the field hits, anything you didn’t catch in the documents becomes a re-fab event — on your schedule, on your margin, and on the GC’s patience. The job isn’t the conflict. The job is finding it on paper before it shows up in steel.
What you’re up against
The set you bid was supposed to be coordinated. It wasn’t. Your scope walks into a job where another trade’s routing crosses yours and nobody flagged it before bid leveling. Industry research from Autodesk & FMI puts roughly half of all rework on coordination and data failures — a problem you didn’t cause but are about to pay for.
Each re-fab event has a fixed cost in shop hours, shipping, and crew rotation. Industry benchmarks put a typical rework event at $50K–$500K. On a multi-floor MEP scope, you only have to eat a handful of those before the margin goes negative.
Trade-on-trade conflicts hide inside the gap between disciplines — structural penetrations, ceiling space, chase walls. The architect coordinated her drawings. The MEP engineer coordinated his. Neither coordinated the seam where your scope meets the next sub’s. That seam is where margin goes to die.
Here’s what changes
Same-day review of the issued set, before you fabricate.
Upload the latest PDF set. We cross-reference all 9 disciplines (A, S, M, E, P, F, C, L, ID) and flag MEP-vs-architectural, MEP-vs-structural, and MEP-vs-other-MEP conflicts — the ones that don’t surface until you’re hanging hangers.
Severity-rated findings (Critical / High / Medium / Low) with sheet references.
Every conflict cites the sheet, the discipline pair, and the specific issue. Your PM and the GC can act on the report without re-interpreting it. RFI-ready language, not AI hedge.
Re-run before each major fab release.
Addenda happen. Re-check against the latest issued set before you commit to the next long-lead order. The cost of running the review is a rounding error against the cost of one wrong elbow shipped to the wrong floor.
The numbers
Catenda & United-BIM
Autodesk & FMI 2022
Autodesk & FMI 2022
Catenda benchmark
What we review
Every rework day on a fab job is margin you don’t get back. The math compresses fast: one critical conflict caught in the documents typically pays for the review across the entire portfolio.
Fabricate against a clean set.
Upload your plans. Get a severity-rated conflict report back the same day — before you cut steel.