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Plan Intelligence Review is a practical pre-build analysis of your building plan — buildability, cost drivers, layout, ventilation, and the right questions to ask your architect and contractor — written for Ghanaian property owners, diaspora homeowners, and small developers.
A written, structured second-look at your building plan, produced by RafterEdge before you break ground. It reads your drawing the way an experienced builder, a careful owner, and a small developer would each read it — then puts those views into one report you can act on or take to your professionals.
It is not a stamp of approval. It is not a substitute for your architect or engineer. It is the report we wish every owner had on their desk the day before they signed a build contract.
An estimate tells you the cost. A review tells you whether the plan is worth building in the first place.
Most cost overruns start in the plan, not on the site. Catching them on paper costs nothing; catching them at lintel level costs everything.
You'll be talking to architects, engineers, and contractors with different incentives. A second-look report gives you the language and the questions.
If you're building from abroad, you can't see what's missing on the plan. The review is the eye on the ground you don't have yet.
Small layout changes — moving a door, rotating a kitchen, adding a single window — are free during design and very expensive during construction.
Seven sections, written in plain English, with specific observations tied to your actual plan.
Wall layouts that make sense on a Ghanaian site, span lengths your local labour and rebar can handle, foundation choices for your soil type, and details that will or won't survive contact with real bricklayers.
Where the plan is quietly expensive: long unsupported spans, complex roof geometry, oversized openings, finishes that are pricier than equivalents. We flag what's adding GHS and what you can swap or simplify without losing the design intent.
How the home actually flows — kitchen-to-dining, master suite isolation, guest paths, line-of-sight from the entrance. Door swings, dead corridors, awkward column positions, and where furniture won't fit.
Cross-flow ventilation in our climate, west-facing afternoon heat in Accra and Tema, single-aspect rooms, undersized openings, and where you'll be running an AC you didn't have to.
Where the plan asks more of your contractor than they can probably deliver — multi-pitch roofs, curved walls, structural cantilevers, thin slabs, anything that needs an engineer's hand-holding on site.
A short, targeted list of questions for your architect, structural engineer, and contractor — phrased so a non-technical owner can ask them confidently and get a useful answer back.
If you're building to rent, sell, or grow into: rentability of the unit mix, resale appeal, phasing strategy if cash flow is tight, room to expand later (vertical, rear, side), and whether the plan locks you out of common upgrades.
PDF, JPG, PNG, or HEIC. Architectural drawings, sketches, even a clear photo of a printed plan. Up to 25MB.
RafterEdge extracts rooms, sizes, openings, finishes, and structural features. The same engine that powers our cost estimator.
We add a layered review across all seven areas — buildability, cost, layout, ventilation, complexity, owner questions, and investor angles.
Delivered in your dashboard within minutes. Downloadable PDF you can share with your architect, contractor, or family.
The kind of thing a real Plan Intelligence Review report will flag for your project.
Your plan shows a 6m unsupported span over the lounge with no visible column. In Ghana that needs either a steel I-beam (≈ GHS 8,000–14,000 plus install) or two intermediate columns (cheaper, but they sit in the room). Question for your engineer: which option, and what's the price difference?
Cross-ventilation needs openings on opposite walls. As drawn, three bedrooms will rely on AC year-round. Adding a high-level louvre on the corridor wall costs little during construction and almost nothing in running cost — almost impossible to retrofit later.
Cooking smells, washing-up noise, and morning kitchen activity will travel directly into the master suite. Two low-cost fixes: rotate the kitchen 90° (likely changes plumbing run), or swap the master and second bedroom positions on the plan.
The current foundation and column layout cannot carry a second storey without retrofit. If the long-term intent includes upward growth, your engineer should design the foundation for two storeys now (≈ 8–12% extra on substructure cost) — far cheaper than underpinning later.
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One-off purchase, 24-month access for your project. Includes the cost estimator, AI plan analysis, Plan Intelligence Review, PDF budget reports, and Construction Ledger. No subscription.
Important — what this report is not
Plan Intelligence Review is a practical second-look produced by RafterEdge to help owners think more clearly before construction begins. It does not replace licensed architects, structural engineers, surveyors, quantity surveyors, code officials, or permitting authorities.
RafterEdge does not certify structural safety, building code compliance, fire compliance, drainage compliance, or permit approval. Final architectural, structural, and regulatory decisions remain the responsibility of the licensed professionals on your project. Always confirm with your architect, engineer, and the relevant Ghanaian authority before you build.
