How JobDrafter Builds Estimates, Executive Assessments, and Permit-Ready Packets

JobDrafter supports focused workflows for solo operators, tradespeople, contractors, small offices, and Realtors while preserving one shared authority and estimating doctrine.

Product Focus

For ordinary Jobs, JobDrafter turns a quick customer conversation into an estimate, branded bid, materials and labor output, and permit-ready documentation where supported. For Realtor assessments, it answers focused client questions about contemplated property projects through a separate question-isolated report domain. Both paths reuse appropriate estimating, evidence, trade, code, fire, and AHJ intelligence without treating the assessment as a contractor Job.

Two product paths, one authority core

The product domains remain separate so permit readiness cannot leak into an executive assessment, while confirmed facts and source provenance can be reused safely.

Ordinary Job Workflow

Builds contractor and trade outputs through technical readiness, relationship validation, estimating, diagrams, proposals, and permit-ready packet generation.

Primary outputs:
  • Estimate, materials, and labor
  • Technical readiness and diagrams
  • Proposal and permit-ready packet

Realtor Assessment Workflow

Resolves shared property context once, analyzes each client question independently, and produces one cohesive executive report without contaminating ordinary Job state.

Primary outputs:
  • Direct answer and exact estimate when supported
  • Trades, AHJ, permit, code, and verification context
  • Immutable PDF/email report and explicit Job promotion

Realtor Assessment Pipeline

Several bounded questions may share property facts, but facts, assumptions, evidence, authority, and estimates remain isolated at the question level.

Property + Client Questions
Question Isolation
Evidence + Provenance
Trade + AHJ + Code Context
Versioned Exact Estimate
Immutable Executive Report
PDF / Email / Explicit Job Promotion

Ordinary Job / Permit Pipeline

This path applies to contractor and trade Jobs. Engines run only when they are relevant to the selected trade and contemplated work.

Input Scope
PrePlanning Engine
Scope Normalization
Compliance Engine
AHJ Intelligence
Code Adoption
Submission Rules (AHJ)
Estimator Engine
Bill of Materials
Load Calculation
Support Diagram Output
Inspection Intelligence
Snapshot Output

Preparation

PrePlanning Engine

Expands the submitted work scope into an executable preflight plan.

Outputs:
  • Scope checkpoints
  • Required upstream data flags
  • Preflight assumptions log

Scope Normalization

Converts variable user language into structured scope tokens used by downstream engines.

Outputs:
  • Normalized task labels
  • Trade-specific scope tokens
  • Ambiguity flags

Evidence + Provenance

Preserves where a fact came from and whether it is suitable for technical, estimating, or client-facing use.

Outputs:
  • Confirmed and image-derived fact records
  • Authority and conflict state
  • Question- or Job-scoped evidence links

Compliance + Authority

Only source-backed authority may reach ready output. When verified local coverage is incomplete, JobDrafter preserves an explicit insufficient local coverage state; it never treats silence as no requirement. Fire and other conditional amendments apply only after every expressed predicate is satisfied.

Compliance Engine

Evaluates normalized scope against applicable code logic and internal rulesets.

Outputs:
  • Compliance checks
  • Required corrections
  • Code references

Technical Validation + Readiness

Validates primitive values and trade-specific engineering relationships before technical outputs are treated as ready.

Outputs:
  • Invalid-value and relationship findings
  • Concrete user or automatic system actions
  • READY or BLOCKED technical state

AHJ Intelligence

Applies jurisdiction-specific authority logic on top of base compliance behavior.

Outputs:
  • Authority profile
  • Local procedural flags
  • Submission dependencies

Code Adoption

Determines which code editions and local amendments control the job.

Outputs:
  • Adopted code set
  • Amendment references
  • Edition precedence map

Submission Rules

Builds jurisdiction-aware documentation requirements for permit-ready packets where supported.

Outputs:
  • Required forms list
  • Document checklist
  • Submission sequence

Output + Execution

Estimator Engine

Generates structured labor and cost outputs while honoring the applicable labor basis, Preferred Materials, and user commercial authority.

Outputs:
  • Line-item estimate
  • Labor allocations
  • Cost summary

Bill of Materials

Derives the material list required to execute the approved scope.

Outputs:
  • Material schedule
  • Quantity totals
  • Procurement flags

Load Calc Engine

Calculates load and capacity values required for system sizing and review.

Outputs:
  • Demand calculations
  • Capacity results
  • Sizing warnings

Diagram Engine

Generates support diagrams and attachment-ready visuals from the validated project model where applicable.

Outputs:
  • Diagram artifacts
  • Panel or system layouts
  • Attachment-ready visuals

Executive Assessment Output

Projects question-isolated analysis into a concise client-readable Realtor report without rerunning an unchanged estimate.

Outputs:
  • Executive answer and exact estimate
  • Materials, labor, AHJ, codes, assumptions, and exclusions
  • Immutable report versions for PDF and email

Inspection + Validation

Inspection Intelligence

Translates project state into inspection-focused checks, risks, and expected review points.

Outputs:
  • Inspection checkpoints
  • Risk flags
  • Validation notes

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