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Powered by KodieKodie reads your plan set against the Florida Building Code and the rules of the jurisdiction you are filing in, then hands back a severity-ranked list of what a plans examiner is likely to write you up for — with the citation behind every item.
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Upload to answer in one sitting — no consultation, no configuration.
Drop in the PDF set and tell us the jurisdiction and scope of work. No account setup call, no onboarding session — the upload is the whole setup.
It works through the set page by page — architectural, structural, MEP, energy forms, the site plan, the notes nobody reads — building a picture of what your submittal actually contains.
Each finding names the sheet it relates to and the rule behind it, cited to an FBC section, statute, F.A.C. rule, or the jurisdiction’s own checklist. You can check every one of them yourself.
One number for how close the set is to submittal-ready, so you can tell at a glance whether this is a quick cleanup or a set that needs to go back to the designer.
A flat list of two hundred issues tells you nothing about where to start. Kodie ranks findings the way a plan reviewer triages them.
Things a plans examiner cannot approve around: a missing required document, a design that conflicts with an adopted code requirement, a product approval that does not cover the pressures on the sheet. Left in, these come back as a rejection or a correction letter.
The set is workable but incomplete — a detail that is referenced and not drawn, a schedule missing a column the reviewer needs, a note that does not match the plan. Fixable in an hour now; a full resubmittal cycle later.
Items that depend on reviewer discretion, local practice, or a decision you may already have made deliberately. Not everything flagged here needs to change — but you should know it is there before someone else points it out.
The point of the ranking is triage. Clear the must-fix items and you have dealt with what would actually stop the permit; the rest is a judgement call about how much polish this set is worth before it goes in.
A submittal fails on any one of these. Checking one without the others is how a set that looks code-compliant still comes back rejected.
The Florida Building Code, 8th Edition — Building, Residential, Existing Building — plus the Energy Conservation and Accessibility volumes that ride alongside it.
And the standards the code adopts by reference rather than restating: NFPA for fire and life safety, the NEC for electrical, ASCE 7 for wind and structural loads. A requirement does not stop applying because it lives in another book.
The code is statewide. The permit is not. County amendments change what the base code asks for, HVHZ requirements change it again along the coast, and every building department has its own submittal rules — sheet order, which forms are current, what a complete product-approval package looks like to them.
Kodie checks your set against the requirements for the jurisdiction you are actually filing in, not a generic Florida average.
A rule that does not apply to your project is noise, and noise is how a review tool becomes something you stop reading.
So Kodie only fires rules for the scopes that are actually present in your set. A plan without a pool does not collect pool findings. A single-storey addition does not get elevator requirements. What comes back is the list for your job.
The disciplines a Florida submittal gets checked against, and what that means in practice.
Occupancy and construction type, height and area, wind design criteria, structural notes and load paths, foundations, framing and connections.
Egress paths and widths, occupant load, fire separations and ratings, alarm and suppression requirements, and the NFPA provisions the code adopts.
Fixture counts, riser and isometric requirements, water heating, ventilation and exhaust, equipment schedules, duct and refrigerant details.
Service and load calculations, panel schedules, grounding and bonding, branch circuits, and NEC requirements as adopted in Florida.
Florida Energy Conservation Code compliance — the energy forms, envelope and insulation values, equipment efficiencies, and whether the submitted calculation matches the plans.
The Florida Accessibility Code: accessible routes, clearances, restroom layouts, parking and signage, and the elements reviewers check first.
The completeness layer — required forms and their current revisions, signatures and seals, Notice of Commencement, product approvals and NOAs, and the documents that jurisdiction expects in the package.
High-Velocity Hurricane Zone requirements in Miami-Dade and Broward: design pressures, impact protection, NOA coverage, and the extra documentation the HVHZ chapters demand.
Rules are cited to Florida Building Code sections, Florida Statutes, the Florida Administrative Code, or the jurisdiction’s own published checklists and forms — not to a model’s recollection of them. If a finding looks wrong to you, the citation is right there to check it against.
Try Kodie on a real plan set for free. Not a sample set, not a recorded walkthrough — your plans, your jurisdiction, real findings. No credit card, no consultation call, no sales conversation before you see what it does. That is deliberate: plenty of plan-review tools ask you to book a demo or pay per review before you find out whether the output is any good on your kind of work, and we would rather you just look.
Pricing is published on the site. What you see is what you pay — no quote request, no seat negotiation. Reviews are included in the monthly subscription rather than billed per plan, so a contractor running five jobs at once is not watching per-plan charges stack up every time a set gets revised and rechecked.
No usage surprises. Every tier’s monthly review count is on the pricing page in plain numbers, so you can work out before you subscribe whether the plan fits how much you actually build.
The fastest way to find out whether Kodie catches things on your work is to give it a set you already know. Upload one and see what comes back.
Kodie is a reference tool, not a permit approval and not a substitute for a licensed design professional. It does not annotate your drawings — findings reference sheets by name. The authority having jurisdiction has discretion we do not control, so always confirm against the adopted Florida Building Code edition and your local building department’s requirements.