Response to RFI
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Donnie reads your project documents and drafts grounded, cited responses, ready for your review and approval.
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RFI #1068Windows · Open
Window W-12: which size?
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- 01 Understand
- 02 Search
- 03 Draft
- 04 Review
✓ Draft ready · 3 sources cited · 1 drawing issue flagged
The problem
1–2 hours
per RFI.
Based on first-hand experience answering RFIs on live construction projects.
An RFI looks like one question. Answering it properly is five jobs.
- 01Find the right drawingThe current revision, not the one on site that was superseded last month.
- 02Check the specificationThe clause, and the standard it calls up.
- 03Search the historyPrevious RFIs, site instructions and consultant advice on the same issue.
- 04Check the commercial riskIs this already in the contract documents, or is it a variation?
- 05Write a defensible answerOne that still holds up if it's questioned months later.
Your numbers
38 hours / month
That's about 12 working weeks a year spent answering RFIs, time that could go back into the project.
How Donnie works
From question to cited draft, in four steps.
01
Understand
Donnie reads the RFI and works out the element, the location and exactly what is being asked. Many RFIs contain more than one question.
No question gets missed. Each one is answered separately.
02
Search
It searches your drawings, specifications, schedules, reports and previous RFIs, using only the current revisions.
Superseded sheets are ignored, and conflicts between them are flagged.
03
Draft
It writes a clear response in your office's tone, and every statement is linked to the source it came from.
If the documents don't answer the question, Donnie says so.
04
Review
You check the draft, open any source in one click, edit, and approve. Open items are routed to the right consultant.
Nothing is issued without your approval.
See Donnie in action
Pick an RFI. Watch Donnie draft the response.
Click the numbered citations to see exactly where each statement comes from. Then approve it.
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Sample project. Steps are shortened for the demo.
Sources cited
Donnie also noticed
The projects, companies, people and drawings in this demo are fictional. Standards and regulations are real and are cited by name only.
Built for trust
An RFI response is a contract document. Donnie treats it like one.
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Grounded in project documents
Donnie answers from your drawings, specifications and correspondence, not from general knowledge.
Not found: No detail for the channel drain outlet in the current hydraulic set. Needs input from the hydraulic engineer.
✓
Cited sources
Every statement links to the drawing number, revision, detail or clause behind it. One click opens the source.
[1] A-630 Rev B, Detail 3 · [2] Spec §07 Waterproofing cl. 4.2
✓
Human approval
Donnie drafts. You decide. Nothing is issued until a qualified person has reviewed it and applied their stamp.
APPROVED · Reviewed by the project architect
The future
RFIs first. Then the rest of the document load.
● Now
RFIs
Grounded, cited draft responses.
Next
Variations
Check claims against the contract documents.
Next
Specifications
Find conflicts and out-of-date references.
Later
Drawings
Cross-check revisions, callouts and schedules.
Later
Defects
Trace each defect to the requirement it breaches.
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