Plan review is the bottleneck the public actually feels. Ichi does the first pass — reading the submitted set against your adopted code and local amendments, then drafting structured comments with the section behind each one already attached.
What the reviewer gets
First-pass plan review
Classify occupancy and construction type from the plan set
Extract project data table and sheet index
Check height, area and story limits against adopted tables
Check local amendments for the jurisdiction
Draft comments, one per finding, with citations
Reviewer approves, edits or rejects each comment
Why the answers hold up
Findings are grounded in licensed code books and the amendments your jurisdiction actually adopted. For example, a sprinkler finding on an R-3 addition resolves against the local amendment rather than the model code:
Where it stands
Roughly a quarter of the work is automatable today, on a path to as much as 90% over the next one to three years as more jurisdictions come online and their interpretations feed back into the system.