Design Intelligence
Find the change order while it’s still a redline.
Proactive AI that reads your drawings, models, and specs — and surfaces what’ll bite you in the field.
The most expensive mistakes in construction are made before anyone breaks ground. Centauri reads your full drawing set, BIM model, and specifications together, cross-checks them, and marks up the issues most likely to become RFIs and change orders — while they’re still cheap to fix. It runs in your own cloud, so the drawings never leave the building.
Every problem you catch in pre-con costs a fraction of the same problem in the field.
~70%
of rework traces to design and engineering errors
FMI / CII syntheses
~5%
of project cost lost to field rework (range 2–20%)
CII
~800 RFIs
per project, ~$1,080 each — mostly design–field misalignment
Navigant
Read the whole set, cross-check it, and surface what matters
Centauri’s AI agents review drawings the way a great pre-con lead would — but across every sheet, model element, and spec section at once, and without the sensitive files ever leaving your environment.
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Read everything
Ingest the 2D drawing set (PDF), the BIM model, and the specifications as one connected picture.
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Cross-check
Compare a drawing against the spec that governs it and the model it came from, so conflicts between them surface instead of hiding.
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Surface & mark up
Flag constructability issues, likely RFIs, clashes, code conflicts, and quantity gaps — called out directly on the drawing, with a human in the loop.
Catch what costs money
The issues most likely to become RFIs and change orders — marked up on the drawing.
Constructability, flagged. Details that can’t be built as drawn, missing dimensions, and access or sequencing conflicts, surfaced before they reach the field.
RFI-risk prediction. Centauri highlights the spots most likely to generate an RFI — the ambiguity a foreman would have called about at 6 a.m.
Marked up where you read it. Findings appear as callouts on the drawing sheet itself, not buried in a report — the same at-a-glance clarity as a redline.
Human in the loop. Every flag is a prompt for your reviewer, with the source drawing, spec section, and model element attached — so you catch the detail, not a confident guess.
➜ The conflict is already in the documents. The only question is whether you find it now, or the field finds it for you.
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Findings
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Constructability — beam/duct conflict at grid C4; insufficient clearance
📐 A-341 rev C · 🧊 Model: Beam B-204
Confirm
Dismiss
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RFI-risk — dimension missing, Detail 4/A-501
📐 A-501 · 🧊 Model: —
Confirm
Dismiss
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Spec conflict — drawing calls Type X, spec 09 21 16 requires Type C
📄 Spec 09 21 16 · 📐 A-341 rev C
Confirm
Dismiss
Centauri reviewed 214 sheets · flagged 11 RFI-risks · 3 spec conflicts.
11 open findings · 3 high · linked to 27 sheets
CLASH
Grid C4 · Level 2
Beam B-204 conflicts with 24-inch duct run at grid C4
📐 A-341 rev C · 🧊 Beam B-204
SPEC
Detail 4 / A-501
Drawing calls Type X; governing spec requires Type C
📄 Spec 09 21 16 · 📐 A-341 rev C
Coordination & compliance
Clashes and code conflicts, found by cross-reading the set.
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Clash & coordination: where the model and drawings disagree, or trades collide, surfaced with the elements involved.
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Code & spec compliance: drawings checked against the governing specification and applicable code requirements, with the conflicting reference cited.
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Drawing-to-spec-to-model consistency: the three sources reconciled, so a revision in one that wasn’t carried to the others gets caught.
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Every finding traceable: each flag links back to the exact sheet, spec section, and model element — defensible in the next coordination meeting.
Takeoff & reliability
Quantities from the drawings — and a system you can actually trust.
Quantity takeoff
Extract counts and quantities from the drawings and model into a structured takeoff, with each figure traceable to where it came from.
Model cross-check
Reconcile quantities and elements between the 2D set and the BIM model, so the two don’t quietly disagree.
Proven on your own work
Centauri’s checks are measured on your own past projects, so you know where it’s reliable and where a person should make the call — reliability you can see, not a promise.
In your own cloud
Drawings and models are processed in your own environment; nothing sensitive leaves.
Quantity takeoff
Item
Count
Unit
Sheet
Doors — Type A
48
ea
A-201
CMU wall
1,120
m²
A-341
Concrete — slab
312
m³
S-102
1,240 items extracted · traceable
Check accuracy on your past projects
Clash
96%
Spec-conflict
91%
Takeoff
98%
Measured on your data
Works with the tools you already run.
Autodesk
Bluebeam
Procore
Runs in your cloud. Reads the design tools you already use.
Centauri deploys into your own cloud and reads from the design tools you already run — the drawings, models, and specs stay in your environment, which is exactly why estimators and VDC teams can use it on the files they can’t put through a consumer tool.
DESIGN IN
Design in
2D drawings (PDF), BIM models (Autodesk/Revit/IFC), specifications, Bluebeam markups.
CENTAURI IN THE MIDDLE
Centauri in the middle
Reads, cross-checks, and flags — proactively, with a human in the loop.
FINDINGS OUT
Findings out
Marked-up sheets, findings list, and takeoff, traceable to source.
Runs in your own cloud
Works with the AI models you trust
Proven on your own projects
No drawings leave your environment
Connectors to Autodesk, Bluebeam, Procore
Full audit trail
Ready to find the conflicts before the field does?
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