60-70% of RFIs Are Preventable

Your Plans Have Issues. You Just Don't Know Where Yet.

The average commercial project generates 796 RFIs. Exoplans analyzes your drawings and specs to find coordination conflicts, scope gaps, and inconsistencies—before they surface on-site.

Join 500+ AEC professionals catching issues before construction

THE RFI REALITY

Coordination is Broken

When gaps slip through into construction, architects get the blame—even when the problem started in coordination. The industry has normalized a process that doesn't work.

critical
796

RFIs Per Project

The industry average across 1,362 projects studied. Each one represents a coordination failure that could have been caught earlier.

high
$860K

RFI Cost Impact

Total RFI-related costs per project including delays, rework, and administrative overhead. Money that comes out of someone's margin.

high
10+

Days to Respond

Average RFI response time. Meanwhile, crews sit idle or proceed without answers—compounding the problem.

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1 in 4

Never Answered

Nearly 25% of RFIs receive no response at all. Issues get 'figured out in the field'—usually not the way you intended.

Sources: Navigant Construction Forum • Procore Industry Data • InspectMind Research

WHAT PROFESSIONALS ARE SAYING

This Is the Reality

Real voices from project managers, contractors, and architects dealing with coordination failures every day.

Incomplete plans are killing schedule, budgets and quality. The change orders are getting out of hand because of all of it.
Project Manager
r/ConstructionManagers
Design teams leave gaps. Subcontractors review, coordinate, design, then RFI for approval. We're subsidizing design fees with our time.
General Contractor
Industry Forum
Firms big and small do not coordinate drawings anymore. It's really frustrating to get a set of plans and need to stop the whole process.
Estimator
r/Architects
Industry Shift

The RFI Dumptruck Is Coming

For years, contractors have been doing design teams' coordination work—reviewing plans, finding gaps, filing RFIs for problems that should have been caught before documents shipped.

They're tired of subsidizing design fees with their time.

Now they're arming themselves. AI-powered plan analysis is being adopted across construction. Every coordination gap will be found. Every incomplete detail will be documented. Every conflict will become an RFI.

AI Adoption is Accelerating
27%of AEC firms now use AI
94%are increasing usage

The question isn't whether these issues will be found.

It's whether you find them first.

Source: Bluebeam/ASCE Survey 2025

AUTOMATED COORDINATION REVIEW

Find Issues Before They Find You

Exoplans cross-references your drawings, specs, and schedules to surface coordination gaps—the kind that become expensive field problems.

Coordination Issue Detected#CON-2024-0023
SCOPE GAP
Issue Type

Missing fire-rated wall assembly at corridor transition

Disciplines Affected
ArchitectureMechanicalElectrical
Analysis

A-101 shows 1-hour rated corridor at gridline C, but partition schedule (A-501) omits rating for wall type P-3 at this location. Mechanical drawings show ductwork penetrating this wall without fire damper callouts. Per IBC 2021 714.4, dampers required.

Recommended Action

1. Update partition schedule to specify 1-hour rating for P-3 at corridor
2. Coordinate with MEP to add fire damper details at penetrations
3. Verify door schedule for compliant fire-rated hardware

70%

Of RFIs are preventable

100+

Sheets analyzed in minutes

Cross

Discipline coordination

AI-POWERED PLAN ANALYSIS

Catch It Before Construction

AI that reads drawings like an experienced reviewer—finding what humans miss across hundreds of sheets.

Cross-Discipline Coordination

Automatically compare architectural, structural, and MEP drawings to surface conflicts. No more hoping someone catches the duct-beam collision.

Issue Documentation

Each issue comes with sheet references, code citations, and suggested resolutions—ready for team review or consultant coordination.

Spec-to-Drawing Validation

Cross-reference specifications against drawing callouts. Catch mismatched materials, missing schedules, and incomplete details.

Protect Your Reputation

Every issue caught before bid is a change order avoided, a schedule delay prevented, and blame deflected. Exoplans helps you deliver cleaner documents and fewer field surprises.

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FEWER POST-BID RFIS

Stop Discovering Issues In the Field

Join the architects who are catching coordination problems before they become contractor RFIs and field change orders.

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