Automated Plan Review

Compliance that adapts
to any rule book

SMARTreview APR lets architects and designers run instant pass/fail analysis against any rule book — building codes, municipal standards, or your firm’s own requirements. No waiting weeks, no expensive consultants.

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About SMARTreview

Built by the industry, for the industry

SMARTreview is made up of architects, plans examiners, technical consultants, and university educators. We have united behind the goal of providing software and processes that eliminate bottlenecks within the design and permitting community.

This segment of the industry has been too long dominated by manual processes that have systemic and costly flaws. The SMARTreview Automated Plan Review (APR) applies a rule book — a curated collection of testable rules — against your design data and returns a detailed pass/fail result for every rule in seconds.

Rule books can represent any building code (BCBC 2024, IBC, and others), a municipal standard, or even a firm’s internal design requirements. Rules are maintained by domain experts — and increasingly, drafted with AI assistance — so the library grows as the industry evolves.

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A smarter alternative to traditional review

Traditional Review

Paying engineering consultants to review plans is costly and slow. Reviewing concept models, preliminary designs, and final designs can add tens of thousands of dollars to a project's cost.

  • Technical Consultants — billed at a minimum of $150/hour for conceptual-stage analysis.
  • Preliminary Design Review — basic analysis of project concepts during preliminary design.
  • Final Design Review — full report and correction checklist. Typically takes 15–20 days.

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SMARTreview APR

SMARTreview APR is lightning quick and runs on demand. Upload your design data, select a rule book, and get a per-rule pass/fail report in seconds — no engineering firm, no wait, no guesswork.

  • Instant results against any rule book — building codes or custom standards.
  • No specialist required. Run it yourself, as often as you like.
  • Designed for iterative practice: design a little, test, design a little more.
Why Use SMARTreview APR

Beyond the review cost

Eliminating prohibitive review costs is not the only advantage. Municipalities are overwhelmed with plans riddled with errors, causing costly delay and rework.

By testing your design against the rule book iteratively — instead of waiting until the end of the project — SMARTreview APR dramatically improves the quality of plans submitted for permitting. In our pilot program with the City of Southlake, successful permitting was achieved on the initial submission within 3 hours.

"An estimated 70% of building plans are not building code compliant when submitted to the City of Southlake for the initial plan review."

Paul Ward — Chief Building Official, City of Southlake, Texas

"The plan review timeline is reduced from days to hours when code compliant construction documents are provided at first submittal."

Paul Ward — Chief Building Official, City of Southlake, Texas
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