Customer stories
Cities of tomorrow,
built faster.
Municipalities, fire departments and construction teams use Ichi every day to streamline permitting, accelerate plan review, and settle their hardest code questions. The numbers below are theirs, not ours.
The only AI platform trusted on both sides of the counter — jurisdictions, reviewers & the teams that build
Being able to ask a question and have it recite a bunch of sections you weren't even aware existed — that's huge.
Eric Schneiderjohn
VP, Supervising Plan Review Engineer · West Coast Code Consultants
One of the things Ichi is going to do is bring design professionals, applicants like us, and jurisdiction plan reviewers closer together.
Mike Wells
Principal · Stratus Real Estate Developers
Case studies
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Long-form conversations with the people who rolled Ichi out — what they were stuck on, what changed, and what it was worth.
Architecture Firm
DGA: hours of code research and documentation, down to 5 minutes
DGA — a 170+ person architecture firm — rolled Ichi out firm-wide. Code research and documentation that took 4–6 hours takes 5 minutes, with cited, defensible answers architects share directly with clients and jurisdictions.
4–6 hrs → 5 min
Mark Davis
Principal, DGA
Architecture Firm
FORGE Stopped Waiting on Code Experts. Now Every Architect Is One.
Ichi helps FORGE's architects answer code questions in under a minute, reducing reliance on senior staff and outside consultants while cutting resubmittals and improving margins.
Under a minute
Nicole Roman
Project Architect, FORGE
On film
Learn how AI is already changing construction for the better.
Short conversations with building officials, plan reviewers, fire marshals and developers running Ichi in production.
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Donald Zhao
Plan Review Engineer
Navigating Today's Code Complexity
Donald Zhao of West Coast Code Consultants on cutting plan review time by 50%, training new plan checkers in months rather than years, and improving inspector communication in the field.
Watch the storyEric Schneiderjohn
VP, Supervising Plan Review Engineer
Code Accuracy, AI Trust, Training the Next Gen
Eric Schneiderjohn, VP and Supervising Plan Review Engineer at West Coast Code Consultants, on how Ichi accelerates training for new plan checkers, simplifies code searches, and helps teams trust AI for everyday compliance tasks.
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Gage Schlice
Fire Marshal
Fire Prevention at Scale: the Future of AI
Fire Marshal Gage Schlice on handling complex code cycles, giving instant answers in developer meetings, and saving hours of research time every week.
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Mike Loew
Chief Building Official
Faster Housing Approvals
Mike Loew on how San Luis Obispo slashed email response times from 2 hours to 15 minutes, streamlined staff workload, and sped up research across 40,000+ building codes.
Watch the storyMike Wells
Principal
AI in the Developer's Toolkit
Mike Wells, Principal at Stratus Real Estate Developers, on cutting through code conflicts and delays — resolving disputes instantly, aligning agencies, and moving projects forward faster.
Learn how Ichi solves your organization's hardest compliance problems.
Trusted by jurisdictions, professional reviewers and design teams across the U.S. Bring a plan set and we'll run it live.