ChkPlan for plan review firms
ChkPlan is site plan review software for third-party and private-provider firms that review plans for jurisdictions. It does the reading and the first draft of every comment against the jurisdiction's own checklist, so your reviewer spends the time on judgment, and the letter that goes out is still your firm's.
What changes for the reviewer
The reviewer still reads the plans and still decides every comment. What changes is the order of work. When the reviewer opens a set, ChkPlan has already read every sheet, given each item on the jurisdiction's checklist a verdict of pass, fail, needs review or not applicable, cross-checked the applicant's completed checklist against the sheets it references, and drafted a comment for every finding. Each finding opens to its evidence: the checklist line, the requirement word for word, the sheet, and the text it was found in, with a proposed fix.
Your judgment, your letter
Recommendations arrive in a review queue. The reviewer approves, changes or rejects each one with the evidence beside it, from the keyboard. Confident recommendations can be approved in bulk; lower-confidence ones are decided one at a time. Approved comments become the comment letter in the order and wording your firm uses, with standard wording from your firm's comment library taking precedence over generated text. Nothing issues without a decision on record, or a reviewer's written override reason stored with the letter.
Into the county system without retyping
Each approved issue is laid out as the fields the county permitting system asks for, with a Copy button on each, and the full set exports as a spreadsheet. Marked-up plans export as one PDF. Resubmissions are back-checked against the prior letter, so the reviewer sees which comments were addressed.
A record you can stand behind
Every verdict and model call is kept in the run record, every reviewer decision and override is written to a hash-chained log, and every issued file is recorded with its SHA-256. If a letter is ever questioned, the firm can show what was found, where, and who decided.
What it covers today
Fairfax County, Virginia site plan first submissions, on the county's July 2025 checklist edition: 224 items. Other checklists and jurisdictions can be added as rulebooks. ChkPlan does completeness review against the checklist. It does not check engineering calculations or substitute for engineering judgment.