Who it's forIchi for Architects & Engineers
Catch it before they do.
Submit once.
Code questions in under a minute, QA/QC on the full set before it ships, and comment responses drafted per item — the resubmittal loop, shortened from both ends.
The actual problem
Code knowledge is a bottleneck
Many people have questions; a select few have answers. Junior staff wait, seniors get interrupted, consultants bill.
The local amendment trap
You know the state requirement — then the city changed it. Miss one and it's comments, resubmittals, weeks.
Small mistakes, big cycles
A stale title block or missing stamp costs the same round trip as a design error. QA at plan-set scale is hours nobody bills.
What runs on day one
5 min
for code research that took DGA 4–6 hours
170+
FTEs on Ichi at DGA — firm-wide, not a pilot
Firms
on Ichi daily — including David Baker Architects and FORGE
I ask Ichi a code question, it gives me an answer plus shows how it got there, and I verify it — all in less than a minute. Before, it could take hours.
Common questions
The other seats at the table.
Same platform, different job for each seat.
Every seat, one platform
All four seats side by side — pick yours.
Jurisdictions
Intake, completeness and first-pass review — every answer defensible on the record.
Plan Review Consultants
More plans per reviewer, and checkers trained in months, not years.
Contractors & Owners
The local section in hand on site — before a disagreement becomes a delay.
See it on your team's documents.
Bring your own documents if you'd like — or we'll use a sample set. Either way, it's the same platform for both sides of the counter.