Building code expertise powered by modern software.
CABOT Codes was founded by a building official looking to advance the industry through smarter technology. Ten years of code knowledge, delivered through technical training, project management and software built for the people who do the reviews. Technology is applied where it genuinely helps, never where professional judgment belongs.
Purpose
Mission
To advance the knowledge, skills and tools available to building officials, through training written by practitioners, projects delivered with rigour, and software that respects professional judgment.
Vision
A construction industry that moves forward because the people who regulate it are equipped to lead: consistent reviews, current knowledge, and technology applied where it genuinely helps.
CABOT Review Assistant
A review tool for plan examiners using the Ontario Building Code. Writing deficiencies is the slow part of a review: finding the right Code reference, wording it so it holds up, and doing it again when the file comes back two or three times. Review Assistant provides you with code-referenced review comments for the project in front of you, and carries them across every round until the file closes.
Choose from our growing list of searchable deficiency comments, save your favourites, edit wording for a particular review, and suggest new comments to expand the library.
A building official reads the file, decides what applies, and signs the letter. That is what responsible technology looks like in a regulatory setting: it removes the retyping, not the judgment.
What is in the library
- 150+
- Code-referenced review comments, authored and current to OBC 2024
- 25
- Part 11 compliance alternatives, across 18 comments, each with authored letter wording
- 5
- Project types: ADU, Deck, Detached Accessory, House, Permit Intake Expanding to cover all residential project types, including additions and renovations.
How a file moves
- First submission The examiner answers a few questions. The comments that apply come back worded and cited.
- Letter issued The round locks as the permanent record of what was sent.
- Resubmission The same file returns carrying what is still open, not a fresh letter.
- Closed Every round stays on the file as the history of the review.
Training design and development
Technical training for building officials, written by building officials. CABOT Codes designs the course, authors the material, and hands over content your instructors can teach.
That work is done in collaboration with provincial and national associations, including the Ontario Building Officials Association and the Alliance of Canadian Building Officials’ Associations, and has been delivered to hundreds of building officials across the country.
No course is a finished object. Each one builds on what the last one taught: how the material landed in the room, where participants got stuck, what instructors had to work around. That feedback goes into the next design. The intent is never to repeat a course. It is to move the training forward each time.
Training developed
- 7
- Courses authored
- ~120
- Hours of training developed: in person, online and self-led
Topics include
- Energy Efficiency
- Accessibility
- Alternative Solutions
Project management and consulting
Experience in managing budgets in excess of $2 million and project teams of consultants and subject-matter experts. The work has built relationships across the industry: professional associations, utilities, government, and home builder associations.
Contact
For training, project work, or the Review Assistant: