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The next addition to your team. Built into AutoCAD.

Meet the AI assistant that works alongside your Electrical Engineering team in AutoCAD. Turn markups into recommended drawing changes, investigate potential code issues, and find relevant references without breaking your workflow.

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  • Processed and stored in Canada.
  • Never used to train shared models.
  • Works for your drafters, not instead of them.

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SparkFlowAssistant

Drop a markup PDF here

SparkFlow

Anything SparkFlow should know about this markup?

Kitchen receptacles only. Client wants LP-4 untouched elsewhere.

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Kitchen receptacles only. Client wants LP-4 untouched elsewhere.

SparkFlow

Reading the markup

  • Reading page 1 of 1
  • 3 notes found
  • Matched to E-101 Rev 3
  • Checking 12 validators
SparkFlow

7 proposals from this markup

Bound to E-101 Rev 3

1 of 7 applied

6 applied, 1 taught

  1. Replace the receptacle by the sink with a GFCI receptacle, LP-4-12

    Replace the receptacle by the sink with a GFCI receptacle, LP-4-12

    Standard S-E-09 · 12 validators passed

    Reference shown: OESC Rule 26-700(11) (illustrative)

    Accept Reject Teach

    Applying in AutoCAD

  2. Add a receptacle for the dishwasher, LP-4-16

    Add a receptacle for the dishwasher, LP-4-16

    Standard S-E-09 · 12 validators passed

    Accept Reject Teach

  3. Upsize the feeder breaker for LP-4 from 100 A to 125 AUpsize the feeder breaker for LP-4 to 150 A

    Upsize the feeder breaker for LP-4 from 100 A to 125 AUpsize the feeder breaker for LP-4 to 150 A

    Accept Reject Teach

    Our standard is a 150 A feeder here.

    Send

  4. Relabel the panel schedule after the change

  5. Add an emergency light at the service door

  6. Move the three-way switch out of the door swing

  7. Revise the circuit tags on sheet E-101

SparkFlow

Applied. Undo in one step.

SparkFlow

Remembered for your firm.

The next similar markup is read your firm’s way.

SparkFlow

7 proposals, 6 applied, 1 taught, every one recorded

SparkFlow
Feeder to LP-4 Needs review

The conductor size shown (3 AWG copper) is smaller than the breaker shown (100 A) allows; the readings differ.

Schedule
100 A
Feeder tag
3 AWG Cu

Reference shown: OESC Table 2 (illustrative)

Automated review of the cited items only. Not a code compliance determination. A licensed engineer reviews before reliance.

Does the receptacle within 1.5 m of this sink need GFCI protection?

SparkFlow

Yes. A receptacle within 1.5 m of a sink requires Class A GFCI protection, with the usual exception for one behind a stationary appliance.

OESC Rule 26-700(11) · the edition your firm licensed
Citation
OESC Rule 26-700(11) (illustrative)
Edition
The edition your firm licensed

The rule text opens in your firm’s licensed code book; it is not reproduced here.

When the facts are not on the drawing, the answer says so: “Insufficient facts: the sink’s location is not on this sheet.”

Sample sheet E-101, Unit 4 kitchen and servery: power plan, level 1, revision 3 A synthetic drawing: the power plan of a small commercial unit, about 14 by 9 metres, at 1:50. A dining room with booth seating along the north wall and two long tables along the south, the entrance in the south wall; a servery kitchen on the east with a counter run, a double sink, a dishwasher, a range and a service door; two washrooms and a corridor on the west. Duplex receptacles along the dining room’s walls and counter receptacles in the kitchen; the washrooms’ two and one counter receptacle are GFCI receptacles, each drawn as the circle with its two halves filled either side of a clear slot, and marked GFCI. A switch at each door with a three-way pair for the dining room, two junction boxes, two data outlets, and the exit sign and emergency light at the entrance. Each device is tagged with its circuit on panel LP-4, odd and even: a receptacle’s tag under it, every other device’s beside it, and a tag that would sit on the drawing set clear of it, joined to it by a thin leader with a dot. The home runs are drawn toward the panel. The receptacle on circuit LP-4-12 is the one nearest the sink, not marked GFCI. Panel LP-4 is on the kitchen’s east wall; its feeder from the MDP is tagged 3 AWG CU, and its schedule strip shows a 100 A main breaker. Dimension strings in millimetres along the north and the west, a legend, a key plan, a north arrow, and the title block: sheet E-101, revision 3, project 24-118, scale 1:50. 11 22 33 44 55 66 AA BB CC DD DINING ROOM 101 SERVERY KITCHEN 102 WASHROOM 103 WASHROOM 104 CORRIDOR 105 DW 2700 2650 4150 4500 14000 3450 1500 4050 9000 J J S3 S3 S S S S LP-4-1 LP-4-1 LP-4-1 LP-4-3 LP-4-3 LP-4-9 LP-4-9 GFCI LP-4-5 LP-4-5 GFCI LP-4-12 LP-4-16 GFCI LP-4-10 LP-4-18,20 LP-4-14 LP-4-22 LP-4-24 LP-4-2 LP-4-2 LP-4-6 LP-4-6 LP-4-4 LP-4-8 LP-4-7 EXIT LP-4-7 EM LP-4 3 AWG CU FROM MDP KEY PLAN N GENERAL NOTES 1. RECEPTACLES 450 MM AFF U.N.O. 2. COUNTER RECEPTACLES 1100 MM AFF. 3. GFCI WHERE MARKED. 4. HOME RUNS TO PANEL LP-4. PANEL LP-4 SCHEDULE MAIN BREAKER SUPPLY CIRCUITS 100 A 120/208 V 24 SAMPLE E-101 · SYNTHETIC PROJECT UNIT 4 KITCHEN AND SERVERY POWER PLAN, LEVEL 1 SHEET REV PROJECT SCALE E-101 3 24-118 1:50 ELECTRICAL LEGEND GFCI S S3 J DUPLEX RECEPTACLE GFCI RECEPTACLE SWITCH THREE-WAY SWITCH JUNCTION BOX DATA OUTLET PANEL 1 POWER PLAN, LEVEL 1 SCALE 1:50 LP-4-12 GFCI

  1. 1 of 12

    Your drawing, as always.

    AutoCAD, your sheet, your standards. SparkFlow waits in the dock until you need it.

  2. 2 of 12

    A markup PDF arrives.

    Your reviewer’s redlines, dropped on the palette.

  3. 3 of 12

    Tell it what matters.

    Before it reads a page, SparkFlow asks whether there is anything it should know. Here the engineer adds one line.

  4. 4 of 12

    SparkFlow reads it.

    Each note is read and matched to the sheet you have open, by number, title block, revision and geometry.

  5. 5 of 12

    It proposes, and waits.

    The markup becomes a list of proposals, each with its evidence: the sheet it is bound to, the validators’ result, the reference shown.

  6. 6 of 12

    You decide.

    Then it works, and nothing else can be accepted until it is done.

  7. 7 of 12

    Drawn as one AutoCAD transaction.

    1 of 7 applied. Undo in one step, and an audit entry records who approved what, and when.

  8. 8 of 12

    The next one, ready.

    The first is ticked off the list and the second waits, with its own Accept, Reject and Teach.

  9. 9 of 12

    Teach it your firm’s way.

    One correction, in plain words. The proposal is read again, and the next similar markup is read the same way.

  10. 10 of 12

    Ask it to check a drawing.

    A review reads the sheet against your standards and lists what it found, with the clause beside each finding.

  11. 11 of 12

    Ask it a code question.

    An answer with its reference, from the documents your firm licenses, processed in Canada.

  12. 12 of 12

    Every change, approved by you.

    The rest were decided the same way. Processed and stored in Canada. Never used to train shared models.

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Three things

What SparkFlow does

  1. Apply markup changes, fast.

    Drop a reviewer’s markup on the palette and get the drawn change recommended in your AutoCAD drawing, ready for your accept.

  2. Review a drawing against code.

    Ask it to check a sheet. It lists where the drawing breaks a code rule and suggests the change, with the clause beside it.

  3. Answer questions about the codes.

    Ask about a standard or a code rule in plain words and get the answer with its reference, from the documents your firm licenses.

Why now

Your drafters, with more hours in the day

Consulting runs on work that software can now carry: reading markups, checking a sheet against code, finding the clause. SparkFlow puts that work beside your drafters, so the same team ships more, sooner.

  • An assistant, not a replacement.
  • Every change still approved by an engineer.
  • Built for firms that have not had the time for AI yet.

The palette

It works right beside your drawing

SparkFlow docks like any AutoCAD palette, next to the sheet you have open. Every proposal is checked against your firm’s standards and waits there until you decide.

  • Never edits a drawing on its own.
  • Never sends drawings outside your firm’s environment.
  • Never uses your work to train shared models.
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For IT

Rolled out by IT, run from one dashboard

Your IT team installs it on every desktop with the tools it already uses, and your administrator decides who gets a seat.

  • Sign-in through your identity provider.
  • Usage and activity you can see and export.
  • A help desk your team can reach.
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Security

Built for client files

Your firm gets its own isolated environment in Canada, with its own encryption keys. SparkFlow’s operator sees counts, never your content.

  • No training and no retention by the model.
  • Every decision kept in an audit ledger.
  • A proven wipe when you leave.
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See one of your own sheets drafted.

Bring a marked-up sheet from a real project, under an NDA, and watch SparkFlow work through it on your standards.

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