RFIs and submittals,
with the clause attached.

AI submittal review means checking each product data sheet, shop drawing or sample submission against the relevant specification sections and drawings before it goes to the design team, and AI RFI drafting means preparing each request for information with the clauses and drawing references that bear on it already attached.

On a large project the specification runs to thousands of pages across many sections and revisions, and the submittal log to hundreds of items. A project engineer checking a submittal has to find every clause that applies, including ones in general sections that are easy to forget. A design team answering an RFI often points back to a clause the contractor could not find. Both waste days in a review cycle that the programme cannot spare.

So the system indexes the current specification, drawings and addenda for the project, with revisions tracked, and works inside Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud or Aconex where the logs already live.

We use closed submittals and RFIs from a past project, where the design team’s decision is known. The pre-check is judged on whether it raises the clauses behind every rejection, and the RFI drafting on whether it finds the answers that already existed in the documents. Missed clauses are the measure that matters; an extra flagged clause costs an engineer a moment.

Revisions are the common failure. An answer drawn from a superseded drawing is worse than no answer, so every citation carries its revision, and the index is updated as addenda and new issues arrive in the common data environment. For the design side, a model checked at issue raises fewer questions on site: see BIM quality checks.