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Sheet 01 · Built For Owners, Not The Build Team
A construction document review for owners — also called an owner's representative drawing review, or a third-party construction document review — is an independent check of your issued set run by reviewers with no stake in the design and no stake in the build. Your architect's QC protects design intent. Your GC's coordination review protects their price. Neither one is scoped to sit on your side of the table and hunt for what's about to cost you money.
$50K Exposure Guarantee · No Minimum Construction Value · 48-Hour Turnaround
Where The Gap Actually Is
This isn't a story about a negligent architect or a careless GC. Both are doing exactly what they're scoped and paid to do — it's just that neither scope is "protect the owner's budget specifically." That's a distinct job, and on most projects, nobody is actually holding it.
Architect's QC
Scoped to check the set against design intent — does it match what the design team meant to draw.
GC's Coordination Review
Scoped to price the work accurately and keep trades from colliding once the set hits the field.
Owner's Rep Drawing Review
Scoped to one thing: your cost exposure and schedule risk, in writing, before anything is priced or built.
What Gets Checked, On Your Behalf
Your issued set is read once, in full, by reviewers who've drawn these sets themselves — not a keyword search, not a single-discipline pass. Four things get checked on every third-party construction document review:
SUBMITTAL CROSS-CHECKS
Specified equipment and finishes checked against what's actually drawn and scheduled — the swaps that turn into change orders.
SPEC-TO-DRAWING ALIGNMENT
Written spec sections read against the sheets they're paired with — not assumed to match because a set was reviewed once already.
CODE COMPLIANCE
Fire ratings, egress, and life-safety call-outs checked for consistency sheet to sheet, before a plan check finds it later.
MEP COORDINATION
Structural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing sheets cross-read for the routing and clearance conflicts that stop work in the field.
The output is a written findings report — every conflict located by sheet and detail, severity-ranked (High/Med/Low), with an estimated dollar exposure and schedule impact on each — plus a live walkthrough meeting, delivered to you first. See the full four-step process on the homepage, or the complete step-by-step procedure and turnaround detail on what happens during a construction document audit.
Where This Sits
vs. Architect QC
DESIGN INTENT VS. YOUR INTEREST
This review runs alongside your architect's QC, not against it — you keep both, since neither one is scoped to protect your budget specifically. What owner-side QA/QC actually means →
vs. GC Coordination Review
PRICING THE WORK VS. FLAGGING YOUR RISK
Your GC's coordination review is scoped to pricing the work accurately. This one is scoped to put your exposure in writing, for you, before it's priced or built. What this means for your GC →
vs. BIM Clash Detection
GEOMETRY VS. THE ISSUED PAPER
Clash detection catches modeled elements overlapping in 3D. This review reads the issued set itself — specs, notes, and sheet-to-sheet conflicts a coordinated model never surfaces. Full comparison →
Preempt Global also gets compared against clash-list and checklist software directly: see vs. RediCheck, vs. LightTable AI, and vs. CHECKSET.
Why This Matters To You
the cost of skipping it, across the industry
A clash caught in a construction document review costs one redline and five minutes — and it's your budget either way. The same conflict caught in the field averages $18,400 and a 12-day schedule slip, billed to the project you're paying for. If your set has multiple trades sharing tight coordination — any project size, no minimum construction value — that's the gap a review run for you alone is built to close.
The Guarantee
If a construction document review doesn't surface at least $50,000 in documented cost exposure on your project, you don't pay for it — no partial credit, no fine print, on every pricing tier. On a set of this size and complexity, there's always something to find, which is why it's put in writing and handed to you first.
See Full Pricing Tiers →Before You Ask
An owner's representative drawing review — also called a third-party construction document review — is an independent, owner-paid check of the issued drawing set, run by reviewers with no stake in the design or the build. It's ordered directly by the owner or the owner's rep and reports to no one else.
Because neither one is scoped to work for you alone. The architect's QC checks the set against design intent, not against your budget. The GC's coordination review is scoped to price the work accurately, not to flag risk in writing before it's priced. Both are real and necessary. Neither is paid by you, or answers to you, the way a third-party construction document review is.
It's structural, not personal — nobody on the design or build side is being negligent. The architect is paid to deliver design intent. The GC is paid to price and build what's drawn. Neither is paid to sit on the owner's side of the table and hunt for what could cost the owner money before it's built. That's the entire scope of this review.
The owner, or the owner's rep, pays for it — and the findings report goes to the owner first. Nothing is shared until an NDA is signed, and the drawing set is deleted on completion. Full breakdown of the NDA and confidentiality process →
As soon as there's an issued set — pre-bid, at IFC, or at any bulletin, addendum, or RFI-driven revision after. Earlier catches more before pricing locks in, but there's no point in the process where it's too late to run one against the current issued set.
Any set with multiple trades sharing tight coordination — office, manufacturing, warehouse and distribution, healthcare, higher-ed, data centers, multifamily residential, and other complex, multi-discipline builds. There's no minimum construction value; the deciding factor is coordination complexity, not project size.
Sheet 01 of 01 — Last Call
Book a 30-minute demo. Nothing's shared until the NDA is signed, and nothing's billed unless we find something worth the fee.
See the full pitch, pricing, and process on the Preempt Global homepage.
