Submittal review for construction
Mutabaqa reads the specification and the submittal, then shows what is evidenced, what does not match and what is missing. Each finding points to the document and page it rests on, or names the rule it comes from.
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C-014Material and product dataDone
Tower B, level 3 reinforcement
Top issues42 pages read · 9 documents found · 24 clauses checked
The conformity certificate expired on 2026-02-28, before the submission date
REG-002Conformity certificate, page 14
Expiry date: 28 February 2026
Elongation of 12 % on the test report, below the minimum of 14 % the report itself states
CON-004Test report, page 9
Elongation (%) 12 min. 14
No bend test report for each bar diameter
REQ-004Specification, clause 5.3.4
Evidence not found in the package
Who it is for
The contractor preparing the package and the consultant reviewing it look for the same thing: evidence for each requirement, in the documents themselves.
Contractors and suppliers
Consultants
How it works
The sections that govern the submittal, or the contract drawings for steel shop drawings, as PDFs. Mutabaqa lists their requirements, each tied to its clause.
Datasheets and certificates, shop drawings, a method statement, test reports or an O&M manual, as separate files or bound into one with numbered tabs. Scanned pages are read too.
The top issues first, then what is evidenced, mismatched, missing or left for engineer review, with a compliance matrix and a fix list, in the browser, Excel and PDF.
Before any text is sent to the AI, Mutabaqa removes the email addresses, phone numbers, signature blocks and names after labels such as “Inspected by” or “HSE Officer” that it recognises. The Excel and PDF reports show how many were removed, never what.
Traced to the page
Open a finding to see the pages it cites, drawn from your own documents, with the quoted lines marked where the page's text is read. A quote that is not on the cited page is discarded.
What it checks
Each technical requirement is judged against the package, the clauses this submittal answers first: documents asked for, then sizes, grades and properties. The report quotes the lines relied on; a quote not on the cited page is discarded.
Where the specification asks for a document, such as a mill test certificate or a compliance statement, Mutabaqa checks that the package holds one.
The expiry date a certificate or licence states is read from the document and checked against the submission date, each one inside a combined file too: one that has lapsed, or lapses within months of it, is raised. A date left as a blank to fill in marks a template no one completed. Certification schemes are not checked.
A test report that prints a limit beside each result is read row by row: a result outside its own limit is raised, with its page. So is a document that contradicts itself, such as a yield strength above the tensile strength it states.
Manufacturer, product, grade and standard are compared across documents, a certificate's scope against the product, and heat numbers are traced to the mill test certificate.
A package submitted as one PDF with numbered tabs is split into its documents, each certificate and licence its own, each read and checked with its own pages. Documents of other projects in it are left aside.
For structural steel, the contract drawings cited on each sheet, their dates and revisions, and the member sizes are compared with the contract drawings uploaded.
Scanned pages are read with OCR, tables row by row, and pages printed sideways turned to be read. A PDF can carry text no reader can see, so each page's text is compared with what the page shows.
The report opens with what is most likely to cost the submittal: a document out of date, values that disagree, evidence missing. Then every finding: its status, its citation or the rule it rests on, a suggested fix where one is needed.
The whole workflow
The check sits where submittals are prepared and reviewed, for the whole team.
Upload a project's specification and contract drawings once. Each submittal of the project picks the sections it is checked against.
The submittals a specification asks for, listed from its own words, each with its section and clause, so none is forgotten.
Upload the consultant's comment sheet with the new revision: each comment is looked for in it, and the report says what the revision shows, what is still shown and what is missing.
Besides the specification, a practice checklist of the points reviewers commonly check: roles, sequence, hazards for each activity, lifting, emergency arrangements, permits and inspections.
A draft statement of compliance, or of deviations, made from the report: each clause with what was found, for your technical office to check and sign.
A company's people share its projects, submittals and monthly pages. Owners invite colleagues and choose who manages the account.
Coverage
Each one is checked clause by clause, with the lines each finding rests on.
Reviewed before purchase, fabrication or installation.
Showing how the work is done, tested and qualified.
Handed over at the end of the work.
A method statement's practice checklist is shown apart from the findings: points reviewers commonly check, not requirements of your specification.
Principles
A check is only useful if its findings can be traced and trusted.
A finding drawn from the documents names the document and page, with the quoted text. A finding that rests on a rule names that rule instead.
A value that cannot be read is reported as Not found. Mutabaqa never fills a gap with a default.
Mutabaqa reports the evidence it finds and does not find. It does not predict the outcome of a consultant's review, and it does not replace the engineer's judgement.
Before any text is read by the AI, email addresses, phone numbers, signature blocks and the names it recognises are removed. Reports count what was removed, never what.
Each company's documents are stored apart from every other company's, and seen only by its own people and, to support them, Mutabaqa's administrator. A company's owners can delete its submittals, and its account, at any time.
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A check uses the pages it reads: the specification, the package and any comment sheet, at least 10 a check. A 40‑page package against a 10‑page specification uses 50.
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