For building officials

Consistent enforcement across hundreds of permits a year.

Plan reviewers, building officials and inspectors use CodesWise to answer applicant questions, validate plan-review notes, and train new staff against the actual published code text, including the OBC 2024 and provincial overlays. Audit-ready citations on every answer.

What it actually changes

You are reviewing a third-party submission with novel scope, the applicant is citing a clause from the 2015 NBC that no longer reads the same way, and your AHJ's policy memo references a 2020 article that has been renumbered in OBC 2024. You need the canonical text from the right edition, with a page number, in 30 seconds.

Where CodesWise earns its keep

Plan review consistency

Same question, same answer, every reviewer. The system retrieves from the official code, not from any individual reviewer's memory.

Multi-jurisdiction lookups

Ontario Building Code 2024 + NBC 2020 (still enforced in some Atlantic provinces) + NBC 2025 (newly published) all indexed. Pick the edition your municipality enforces.

Applicant-facing transparency

When an applicant disputes a code interpretation, point them to the exact page in the source PDF. The conversation ends there.

Staff training and onboarding

New plan reviewers can ask the system the way they would ask a senior colleague, then verify against the source.