What problem does it solve?
City building departments face high volumes of ADU plan submissions, with manual review processes causing delays for contractors and bottlenecks for understaffed plan checkers. Repeated correction cycles for non-compliant plans add weeks to permit timelines and increase costs for all parties.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Automated Sheet-by-Sheet Plan Review: Reviews every sheet of an ADU plan binder against California state ADU law, building code, and city-specific municipal requirements to flag missing elements, incorrect citations, and compliance gaps.
- Confidence-Flagged Draft Corrections Letter: Generates a professional, code-grounded draft corrections letter with clear confidence ratings, so plan checkers can quickly validate findings and send actionable feedback to contractors.
- Flexible City Compliance Routing: Automatically uses pre-onboarded city-specific rule sets for supported jurisdictions, or runs live web research for cities without dedicated skill support, covering both state and local requirements.
- Use Case: A city plan checker uploads a contractor's ADU plan binder and city name, and receives a ready-to-review draft corrections letter in 6–10 minutes instead of hours of manual cross-referencing.
Quick Start
Use the adu-plan-review skill to generate a draft corrections letter by uploading an ADU plan binder PDF and providing the target city name for compliance checking.
