Compliance Intelligence · Early Access — First Workflow: Submittal Review

The first pass, automated. The final call, always yours.

The compliance intelligence layer for construction documents — from first submittal to final sign-off. Today, Deck reads the submittal and the spec and flags what doesn't match — so your reviewer never starts from zero. Next: RFIs, inspections, and closeout, feeding the same brain.

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Cost of rework calculator

What's the real cost of manual review on your projects?

Projects per year 8

150

Submittals per project 80

10400

Average review time per submittal 1.5 hrs

30 min4 hrs

Reviewer hourly rate $120

$50 / hr$250 / hr

Estimated rework incidents per year 3

020

Annual review spend

$115K

Hours your team spends reviewing submittals each year

Review hours / year 960 hrs

Review cost $115K

Rework exposure $75K

Total at-risk $190K

Est. savings with Deck ~$156K

Assumes 70% reduction in review time with Deck and full prevention of flagged rework incidents. Actual results vary by project type and reviewer experience.

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Why it matters

The cost of a miss isn't administrative. It's structural.

A submittal review sounds like paperwork. It isn't. It's the last checkpoint before a non-compliant product gets ordered, fabricated, and installed — at which point fixing it means demolition.

Today that review happens manually: one person, two open PDFs, a 900-page specification document they read months ago, and a deadline. No systematic cross-check. No memory across projects.

And the submittal is only the first document in the chain — the same manual eyeballing repeats on RFIs, inspection lists, and closeout packages.

~35%

Submittals rejected on first review

$805

Avg cost per rejected submittal

$31B

Lost yearly to bad information

100s

Submittals per project

Sources: BuildSync (2026); FMI / PlanGrid, "Construction Disconnected" (2018)

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How it works

Verify the AI in three seconds.

Upload the spec once

Deck parses it by CSI section, so every review checks against exactly the right pages of a 900-page manual — not the whole haystack.

Run the review

Findings in minutes, each tagged Compliant, Deviation, Missing, or Open Question — never a silent guess.

Click any finding

Jump to the exact page and highlighted passage in both PDFs at once. Don't take the AI on faith — check it in three seconds.

You make the call

Approve, Revise & Resubmit, or Reject. Always a person. Never the software.

The long game

Building the company brain for your firm.

Submittal review is where we start — the highest-stakes checkpoint in the document chain. But every compliance document on a project tells the same story: a requirement in the spec, a claim in a document, a human who has to judge the match. That's why Deck is built as a layer, not a point tool. RFIs, inspection lists, and closeout packages will run through the same cited, human-verified review — and every review will feed one firm-wide brain: your recurring scope gaps, your most common deviations, the suppliers who keep submitting the wrong standard. Knowledge that today walks out the door with a senior PM will stay — and compound.

One review engine, every document

Submittals today; RFIs, inspections, and closeout next — the same cited findings, the same human decision.

Institutional memory that compounds

Every review will teach the system your firm's patterns, so the knowledge of your best reviewers stays and grows.

Human judgment, always in the loop

The AI surfaces. The reviewer decides. That's not a limitation — it's the architecture.

In development — shaped with our first design partners.

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Proof we ship

Systems already in production.

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Who we are

Built by people who have been on the site.

↳ Pro team of architects & engineers — not theorists.

↳ We've lived programme slips and rework cycles. Our systems are built by people who've felt the cost.

↳ Pilot. Execute. Scale. Production systems that work in the field from day one.

Built to be trusted

Built for real project documents.

Never trained on

Documents go to the AI only to generate that review — never to train any model.

Always cited

Every claim links to an exact page in the source PDF.

Access scoped

Organization- and role-based permissions on every project.

Fully logged

Every upload, review, and status change written to an audit log.

Questions

Fair questions, straight answers.

No — by design. Deck produces findings and citations only. Every status change is a manual action by a licensed reviewer.

Every finding is cited to an exact page, so a reviewer verifies it in seconds instead of trusting it blindly. When Deck can't confirm a match, it flags an Open Question rather than guessing.

No. Documents are sent to the AI strictly to generate the review for that document, and nothing else.

The manual is uploaded once and parsed by CSI section, so each review checks against exactly the relevant section — faster, cheaper, and more accurate than reading the whole document every time. If a revision is issued, upload it as a new revision without losing review history.

Deck works alongside your existing project management platform today. Direct integrations are on the roadmap.