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Document Intelligence

AI-powered extraction from plans, specs, and contracts. Search across thousands of pages instantly.

What it does

Construction projects produce mountains of paper — plan sets, special provisions, addenda, construction manuals, agency standards, contractor submittals. Document Intelligence reads them as soon as you upload, runs OCR on scanned PDFs, identifies sections and pay items, and indexes everything for instant search.

A 1,200-page Construction Manual that used to live as a binder in the truck is now a query away. A 600-page Special Provision PDF gets parsed into addressable sections within minutes of upload. The pay-item catalog gets cross-referenced to the Standard Spec sections that govern it.

When you search, you're searching the actual content of every document — not just titles or filenames. And every result links back to the exact page it came from.

Key capabilities

Built for construction professionals — not generic SaaS.

Section-aware chunking

The extractor recognizes section headers in agency documents and chunks on the natural boundaries — Article 303.04 stays whole, not split mid-sentence.

Vision-first extraction for tabular data

For pay-item tables, schedules of quantities, and material certification matrices, the system uses AI-powered vision to read tabular data correctly — not just OCR text that loses column alignment.

Pay-item linkage

Pay items in your SOQ get auto-linked to their governing spec sections. The link is shown as a "Pay Item Atlas" panel right alongside the item — no separate lookup.

Material certification cross-reference

Documentation Guide Appendix tables are extracted and cross-linked. When an inspector picks a pay item, the system shows what evidence-of-material types apply.

Document version tracking

When you upload a revised special provision, the system flags which sections changed, which pay items it affects, and which prior assumptions might now be stale.

Authority detection

Procedures are tagged with their authority — Prescriptive (the spec dictates), RE Discretion (judgment call), or Cross-Reference (defers to another section). Inspectors stop guessing where the line is.

How it works

Documents are run through a multi-stage pipeline: OCR (with vision fallback for tabular pages), section-aware chunking, requirement extraction via Claude with structured output, and indexing into a search-ready format that supports full-text and semantic search.

For agency-wide documents (Standard Specs, Construction Manual, Documentation Guide), extraction happens once and is shared across every project for that agency — no per-project re-indexing cost.

Project-specific documents (special provisions, addenda, contract drawings) extract on upload and stay scoped to that project. Custom mappings — e.g. "this project uses the D1 variant of §303" — can be applied conversationally through ProjectFlow AI.

Ready to put Document Intelligence to work?

Book a demo with our team or start a free trial — see it on your project, not a sandbox.