Fact sheet
Product
Noetic reads a submitted site plan against the actual local code and returns the issues a municipal reviewer would catch, with citations to the specific code sections. In independent validation with the City of Austin across 10 review disciplines, Noetic identified 83% of the same issues.
Speed
- City of Austin completeness check (city baseline): 4–6 weeks
- Noetic completeness check: 15–30 minutes
- Full City of Austin site plan review (city baseline): 12–18 months, 6–9 cycles of comments and resubmittals
- Noetic full review: hours
How it works
The engine has read and structured Austin’s entire regulatory corpus: 27 codes, 265 review guide files across 12 disciplines, 23 incentive programs, and 13 approval pathways. It was trained on 200,000 categorized review comments extracted from 30,000 historic City of Austin site plan PDFs. Each discipline has a review guidebook that encodes what reviewers actually look for — not a rephrasing of the code, but the operational rules that come out of years of reviews.
When a civil engineering firm uploads a site plan, the system parses the drawings and reports, runs each discipline check, and produces a list of findings with the exact code section, the location on the plan, and a citation to the underlying regulation. An engineer reviews the findings and decides what to fix before submission. Noetic does the research; the engineer keeps the judgment.
What ships today
The same engine packages into three customer-facing products:
- Site Plan Review — pre-submission compliance review for civil engineering firms. Used by Pape-Dawson, Dunaway, and other national civil engineering firms.
- Site Intelligence Reports — pre-acquisition regulatory analysis for developers, investors, and brokers.
- Regulatory Automation — AI review and triage for municipal departments. The product behind the City of Austin pilot.
What it doesn’t do
- Noetic doesn’t replace a city reviewer or a civil engineer. It runs the repetitive parts of the analysis and surfaces the findings for a human to review.
- Noetic isn’t a permit expediter. It doesn’t shepherd plans through city hall, lobby reviewers, or call in political favors.
- Noetic isn’t a generic AI overlay. Austin’s code is read and structured, not retrieved from a vector store with no grounding. The system points at specific code sections because it has read them.