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Sheet 01 · Built To Catch It Before It's A Claim, Not Critique The Design
Document review services for architects and engineers are an independent, cross-discipline check of the issued set — run alongside your own QA/QC, not instead of it, and not grading it. It's looking for the same kind of cross-discipline conflict that, left in the set, turns into an RFI with your firm's drawing on it, and if it repeats, into the exact exposure your E&O policy exists to cover after the fact.
$50K Exposure Guarantee · No Minimum Construction Value · 48-Hour Turnaround
What This Isn't
This review runs on the issued set looking for one thing: where one discipline's sheet contradicts another's. It doesn't weigh in on design intent, material choices, or the professional judgment behind them — that's your firm's call, and it isn't in scope. The goal is the same one your own QA/QC has: fewer conflicts making it to the field. This is one more set of eyes catching them earlier, not a second opinion on your design.
Not A Design Critique
Design intent, aesthetics, and material choices are entirely yours. This stays on cross-discipline coordination.
Not A Competency Review
Findings are scoped to conflicts in the set, not a scorecard on your firm's process or professional judgment.
Not A Substitute For Your QA/QC
Your firm's own QA/QC still runs. This one runs alongside it, checking every other discipline's drawings at once.
What Gets Caught, Before It's An RFI With Your Name On It
The 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 document review:
SUBMITTAL CROSS-CHECKS
Specified equipment and finishes checked against what's actually drawn and scheduled — before a mismatch turns into a field question.
SPEC-TO-DRAWING ALIGNMENT
Written spec sections read against the sheets they're paired with — not assumed to match because your QA/QC already passed it.
CODE COMPLIANCE
Fire ratings, egress, and life-safety call-outs checked for consistency sheet to sheet, before a plan check flags it back to you.
MEP COORDINATION
Structural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing sheets cross-read for routing and clearance conflicts across every discipline's drawings at once.
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. 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. Your Own QA/QC
YOUR STANDARDS VS. EVERY DISCIPLINE AT ONCE
Your QA/QC checks your set against your own firm's process and standards. This review checks it against every other discipline's drawings at the same time — the cross-check a single-firm pass isn't built to run. What owner-side QA/QC actually means →
vs. E&O Insurance
RECOVERY AFTER THE FACT VS. PREVENTION BEFORE IT
E&O insurance pays out after a design error causes a loss and liability is established — months or years later. This review catches the same conflict while it's still a markup on a drawing. What E&O insurance actually covers →
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 a conflict reaching the field, across the industry
A cross-discipline conflict caught in a document review costs one redline and five minutes. The same conflict caught in the field averages $18,400 and a 12-day schedule slip — and an RFI trail with the design team's drawing attached to it. If your project has multiple trades sharing tight coordination — any size, no minimum construction value — that's the gap this review is built to close while it's still on paper.
The Guarantee
If a document review doesn't surface at least $50,000 in documented cost exposure, no one pays 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 while it's still a markup, not a claim.
See Full Pricing Tiers →Before You Ask
No. It doesn't evaluate design intent, aesthetics, or professional judgment — it reads the issued set for cross-discipline conflicts, checking what one discipline's sheet says against what every other discipline's sheet says. It's not scored against your firm's process; it's scoped narrowly to coordination conflicts.
Because every cross-discipline conflict that reaches the field with the design team's drawing on it becomes a documented RFI — and a pattern of those is exactly what an E&O claim gets built from. Catching the same conflict on paper, before it's built, costs one redline instead.
Your QA/QC checks the set against your own firm's standards and process — real, necessary, and not replaced here. It isn't scoped to cross-check every other discipline's drawings against yours at the same time, which is exactly where cross-discipline conflicts hide. This review adds that specific check, run independently. Why "it passed QA/QC" doesn't mean the set is coordinated →
E&O insurance is a recovery mechanism — it pays out after a design error causes a loss and liability is established, often months or years after the fact. This review is a prevention mechanism — it catches the same kind of conflict while it's still a markup on a drawing, before it becomes a claim. The two solve different problems; this one solves the one insurance can't touch. Full breakdown of what E&O actually covers →
Most often the owner or the owner's rep, since it's an owner-paid review. Design firms increasingly welcome one anyway — a second set of eyes catching a coordination conflict on paper protects the firm's own exposure just as much as the owner's. See the breakdown built for owners →
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.
