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Active project research
AI Question Answering for Construction Documents

Project teams spend enormous time hunting for information buried across hundreds of drawings, thousands of specification pages, and scattered correspondence. Nomic answers questions directly from the construction document set — with citations — so teams can find what they need in seconds.

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Nomic project research interface showing AI-assisted retrieval of project information from drawings, specifications, and project documents
Ask questions from your construction documents and get cited answers
01 / Document Q&A

Ask questions from your construction documents and get cited answers

Instead of searching through folders or asking colleagues, project team members can ask Nomic questions about the project and get answers grounded in the actual drawings, specifications, and documents — with the source cited so anyone can verify.

  • Ask natural-language questions from indexed project documents
  • Get answers with citations: spec section, sheet number, and page reference
  • Search across drawings and specifications simultaneously
Get new team members up to speed on project documents quickly
02 / Project onboarding

Get new team members up to speed on project documents quickly

Onboarding a new team member onto a complex project in progress takes days of document review and colleague walkthroughs. Nomic lets new team members ask questions directly from the indexed project set so they can find project-specific information without blocking busy colleagues.

  • Answer project-specific questions from the indexed document set
  • Reduce colleague interruptions for basic document lookups
  • Support onboarding at any project phase without starting from scratch
Answer project questions faster during design and construction
03 / Decision support

Answer project questions faster during design and construction

Design and construction decisions often require checking multiple documents simultaneously. Nomic answers multi-document questions with citations so teams can make faster, better-informed decisions without manual research delays.

  • Cross-reference requirements across drawings, specs, and addenda at once
  • Surface relevant project conditions and constraints before decisions are made
  • Keep cited records of the information that supported key decisions
Outcomes

What teams get from this workflow

Faster answers on active projects

Reduce the time project team members spend searching documents to answer questions during design and construction.

Better-informed decisions

Make design and construction decisions with cited project document references rather than recalled information.

Faster project onboarding

Get new team members productive on complex projects faster by giving them direct access to indexed project knowledge.

Questions about this active project research workflow

Answers to common questions about this workflow.

What types of construction documents can Nomic answer questions from?

Nomic can index and answer questions from construction drawings, project specifications, addenda, submittal logs, RFI logs, reports, and correspondence stored in connected project management platforms.

Are answers cited back to specific documents?

Yes. Every answer from Nomic includes citations that reference the specific spec section, drawing sheet, or document that contains the relevant information so team members can verify the source.

Can the full project team use Nomic for document Q&A?

Yes. Nomic supports multiple users on a project so architects, engineers, contractors, and other project participants can query the document set based on their role and the information they need.

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Dave Mackenzie
Dave Mackenzie

Managing Principal Digital

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