Engineering
Civil site plan sets against agency design standards and submittal checklists: stormwater, erosion control, grading, utilities, encroachments, and whether the sheets agree with each other.
Project Review
Catch it before the agency does.And if you are the agency, catch it on the first pass.
Review Assistants are AI-assisted QC for plan sets, plats, submittals and closeout packages, built on your standards and the agency’s own checklists. They read every sheet, check the set against itself and against the rules it will be judged by, and hand your reviewer a written comment list.
Your staff runs them. Your engineer or surveyor signs off on them.
Two ways to use it
Send us a set
We run the review and send back a written comment list you can hand straight to your designer. No setup and no commitment. It is also the quickest way to see what the assistants find on one of your own projects.
$30 covers a set up to 6 sheets. Every sheet after that is $5.
Agency requirements are checked only for the agencies already in our library. For any other agency, your set gets the General Plan Review: everything that is wrong no matter who reviews it.
Bring it in house
We set the Review Assistants up inside your firm’s own Claude account, so your staff can run a review on any set, any day, without sending it anywhere.
$9,500 installed.
- Built on your CAD standards, title block, notes and details
- Every agency already in our library, plus up to three new ones built for you
- A day on site with your reviewers and designers
- Tuned against your real sets after go-live
- Updates as ordinances and checklists change, on a service plan or as needed
Travel is quoted with the install. Need more than three new agencies? Ask.
General Plan Review · no agency required
Some things are wrong everywhere. A misspelled word. A detail callout that points at nothing. A pipe slope that disagrees between the profile and the table. A plant count that does not match the schedule. The General Plan Review checks civil plans, plats and landscape plans for all of it, without an agency checklist, so it works for any firm in any state from the first day.
Text
Spelling, notes left over from another project, notes that contradict each other, abbreviations nobody defined.
Drafting standards
Legends, leaders, callouts and sheet references that resolve, scales that match, matchlines that agree.
Sheet to sheet
Plan against profile against table against detail, for everything the set contains.
Arithmetic
Slopes, inverts, stations, areas, counts and closure, recomputed instead of trusted.
Add your firm’s standards and it checks those too. Add an agency and the assistants below take over, each one tuned to your firm.
What they review
A project from the first submittal to the day the bond is released.
Survey
Plats and surveys against state standards of practice, the recording jurisdiction’s plat checklist, and ALTA/NSPS requirements: certificates, notes, references, closure and title block.
Landscape
Planting, tree protection and irrigation plans: buffer yards, parking lot landscaping, tree preservation, plant schedules that match the plan. Your local landscape ordinance is loaded as part of the install.
Constructability
Whether the set can be built from as drawn: missing dimensions and elevations, unlabeled slopes, callouts with no detail behind them, and plan against profile against schedule.
Submittals and cut sheets
Shop drawings, precast structure cut sheets and product submittals checked against the plans before anyone approves or orders: sizes, inverts, openings, materials and counts.
Record drawings and closeout
As-builts against the approved plans and against each agency’s closeout checklist: certifications, stormwater as-built data, utility record requirements, and what is still missing from the package.
Agencies in the library today
Every install includes these at no extra charge. Send us a set from one of these jurisdictions and it is checked against that agency’s own requirements.
California
- Humboldt County
- City of Riverside
- City of Temecula
South Carolina
- Horry County
- City of Myrtle Beach
- City of North Myrtle Beach
- Georgetown County
- Charleston County
- City of Charleston
- City of North Charleston
- Town of Mount Pleasant
- Berkeley County
- City of Goose Creek
- City of Hanahan
- Town of Moncks Corner
- Town of James Island
- City of Folly Beach
- City of Isle of Palms
- Town of Sullivan’s Island
- Town of Kiawah Island
- Town of Seabrook Island
- Dorchester County
- Town of Summerville
- Beaufort County
- Town of Bluffton
- Town of Hilton Head Island
- City of Beaufort
- Town of Port Royal
- Town of Yemassee
- Jasper County
- Town of Ridgeland
- City of Hardeeville
- York County
- Town of Fort Mill
- City of Tega Cay
- City of Rock Hill
- Lancaster County
- Greenville County
- City of Greenville
- City of Greer
- City of Simpsonville
- City of Fountain Inn
- City of Travelers Rest
- City of Spartanburg
- Spartanburg County
- Anderson County
- Pickens County
- Grand Strand Water and Sewer Authority
- Charleston Water System
- James Island Public Service District
- Mount Pleasant Waterworks
- Summerville CPW
- Berkeley County Water and Sanitation
- Dorchester County Water and Sewer
- Beaufort-Jasper Water and Sewer Authority
- Hilton Head Public Service District
- York County Utilities
- Lancaster County Water and Sewer District
- Greenville Water
- Greer CPW
- MetroConnects
- Renewable Water Resources (ReWa)
- Spartanburg Water
- Easley Combined Utilities
- SCDES
- SCDOT
North Carolina
- Brunswick County
- Columbus County
- New Hanover County
- City of Wilmington
- Pender County
- Town of Burgaw
- Town of Topsail Beach
- Cape Fear Public Utility Authority
- NCDEQ
- NCDOT
- Wilmington Urban Area MPO
Plus the standards that travel: ALTA/NSPS land title survey requirements, the South Carolina standards of practice for surveying, and North Carolina plat requirements. Coverage varies by discipline, so ask whether your agency is in the library for the review you need, or request it. An agency that is not there yet is built from its published ordinance, design manual and checklists.
Don’t see your agency?
Tell us which county, city, utility or state agency you submit to. Requests go to the front of the queue, and we email you when it is in the library.
Got it.
Your agency request is logged and a person reads it. We will email you when it is in the library.
What a review looks like
- Drop in the set.A PDF plan set, plat or closeout package. Name the agency and the submittal stage.
- The assistant reads every sheet.It checks the set against the agency’s checklist and your firm’s standards, then against itself: plan to profile, schedule to plan, note to detail.
- You get a written review.Findings by sheet, ranked by severity, each one saying what is wrong and what it is measured against, with a marked-up PDF to go with the report.
- Your reviewer decides.A qualified person reads every comment, drops what does not apply, and sends the rest to the designer. Corrections your reviewer confirms become part of the firm’s review history, so the same miss gets caught sooner next time.
Straight answers
Is this AI?
Yes. Review Assistants run on Claude, the AI model from Anthropic. What New Roots builds and maintains is everything that makes it a reviewer for your work instead of a general chatbot: the review method, the agency checklists and ordinances, your firm’s standards, and the report format.
Where do our plans go?
With an in-house install, nowhere new. Your staff run reviews inside your firm’s own Claude account, and New Roots never receives or sees the sets. The account is yours, on a Claude Team or Enterprise plan billed by Anthropic. Anthropic states that by default it does not use inputs or outputs from its commercial products to train its models; read their policy at the source.
When you send us a set to review, we receive that set and handle it under our privacy policy.
Does it replace our reviewer?
No. It is a QC aid. It will miss things, and it will flag things that do not apply. What it does well is the tedious part: reading every sheet, every time, against a long checklist, without getting tired on sheet forty. That leaves your reviewer’s time for judgment.
Which agencies do you cover?
The list above is what is in the library today: coastal South Carolina and southeastern North Carolina, county, municipal, utility and state. An install includes all of them and up to three new agencies built from their published ordinances, design manuals and checklists. No agency on the list? The General Plan Review needs none.
What do we need to get started?
A Claude plan for the staff who will run reviews, your CAD standards and templates, a few recent sets with the agency comments they received, and the list of agencies you submit to.
Not a design firm?
The same first pass, on every submittal
The assistants are built from your own ordinance and checklist. Every submittal gets the same complete first pass, so staff time goes to the judgment calls instead of the missing north arrow. It does not approve or deny anything; your reviewers do.
Know what is missing before the crew does
Run the constructability and submittal reviews on the set you are bidding or building: the missing invert, the detail nobody drew, the schedule that disagrees with the profile. Your questions go to the engineer as one list instead of one RFI at a time.
The review supports your licensed professional of record, who keeps responsible charge. New Roots Development, LLC does not offer professional engineering or land surveying services requiring a seal.