Planstandard

Engineering Docs QA

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00Research-driven AI for AEC teams

AI that understands engineering drawings.

Planstandard helps AEC teams review engineering drawings, ask practical QA questions, and improve documentation before issues affect schedules, budgets, and teams.

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Drawing QA loop

Input

DWG/DXF + CTB/STB

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Method

Spatial reasoning

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Output

Revision layer

01The platform

Engineering documentation, understood.

Upload a DWG or DXF drawing, with optional plot style tables (CTB/STB). Our AI analyzes geometry, annotations, and structure to find issues, explain findings, and answer questions.

Live workflow

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Upload drawing

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Add plot styles

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Ask questions

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Improve drawings

02Built for documentation QA

Verify the signals that are easy to miss.

The platform helps engineering teams catch the document-level quality issues that are hard to find manually and easy to lose in daily routines.

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Drawing completeness

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Missing annotations

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Documentation consistency

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Metadata quality

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Cross-reference integrity

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Standards compliance

Scope, stated plainly

Not architectural design review

Not structural analysis

Not professional consulting

Just documentation QA — done properly.

03Planstandard vs. general AI

Built for drawings, not chat.

Reads CAD files, reasons over geometry and layers, and runs a documentation QA workflow — not an open-ended chat general agent.

Planstandard

Reads DWG/DXF and CTB/STB directly

Spatial reasoning over geometry, layers, and annotations

Retrieval from your standards and project docs

Private workspace built for engineering review

Predictable cost, built for efficient drawing QA

General agent

Needs screenshots, PDFs, or copied text

No structured understanding of CAD drawings

Generic knowledge, no project context

Consumer terms and free-form chat

Token cost grows with every prompt and retry

General questions → open-ended chat. Drawing questions → Planstandard.

04Beyond traditional CAD validation

Grounded engineering intelligence.

Answers are grounded in drawing context, engineering knowledge, and project documentation — not model memory alone.

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Spatial reasoning over CAD geometry

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Fine-tuned engineering language models

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Knowledge retrieval from standards and project documentation

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AI agents capable of explaining every finding

05Research driven

Spatial AI, made practical.

Engineering drawings are complex symbolic documents. Planstandard turns that complexity into a practical QA workflow teams can use today.

Why it matters

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Reduce human QA effort and time

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Accelerate cross-functional coordination

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Catch expensive issues before construction

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Systemize engineering review workflows

06Insights

Notes from the work

Short posts about how to get more out of Planstandard.

2025-09-24

Upload a drawing and the first thing most people ask is: "Summarize this drawing." The system answers politely — and the answer is almost always useless.

Simple questions are a trap. They cost you a token and give back information you already have: it's a floor plan, it has dimensions, there are some annotations. That is not QA. That is reading the title block out loud.

Planstandard is built for reasoning: cross-referencing sheets against schedules, checking standards, finding contradictions, tracing revisions. But that only happens if you force it to work.

Compare these two prompts:

"What is this drawing?" → "It is a second floor plan."

"Do all revision clouds on sheet A-102 have matching entries in the revision schedule, and do the cloud numbers match the sequence in the title block?" → A list of missing entries, mismatched numbers, and the exact locations to check.

The second question is harder to type, but it saves you the hour you would have spent scrolling and comparing manually.

So don't treat the system like a search box. Treat it like a QA engineer you just handed the drawing set. Ask it to compare, verify, trace, and challenge assumptions. The harder the question, the more useful the answer.

Upload your next drawing and ask something you'd normally need an hour to check by hand.

07Custom models & workflow design

Need a system built around your standards?

Planstandard can be adapted to your drawing sets, review criteria, and internal QA process. If the basic workflow fits, we can help build custom models, retrieval workflows, and deployment options around your organization’s standards.

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Adapt review prompts and checks to your drawing standards

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Build retrieval workflows from your specifications and project documentation

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Configure models for recurring drawing types and QA patterns

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Support private deployment paths when your data or infrastructure requires it

Use the live workspace to validate the workflow, then extend it with custom models and deployment options built around your standards.

Start with the workspace
08Experience basic features

Start with a real drawing and practical questions.

Upload an engineering drawing in the workspace, ask targeted questions, and compare the assistant's answers with your own expert judgement.

09Try for free

Experience Planstandard today.

Create a free account, open the workspace, and test Planstandard with your own engineering material. Start with a drawing QA question, then evaluate the response against your own judgement.

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Open the workspace

Create a free account · private chat workspace

Open the workspace
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Start chatting

Use your own engineering material

Attach a drawing or describe what you want to review, then use the response as a starting point for your own expert evaluation.

The chat workspace is private: accounts are created directly in the workspace, and drawings shared in chat are used only for evaluation purposes.