# Community Development
Plan Review Tech: Automation vs AI Explained
Most permitting workflows are automated—but plan review is still manual. Learn how agencies are using AI-powered plan review to reduce compliance risk, speed up permit approvals, and scale operations without adding staff.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2026, at 1 p.m. CT (11 a.m. PT | Noon MT | Noon MT | 2 p.m. ET)
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Building departments are under increasing pressure to process more complex permit applications with limited staff, while maintaining compliance, consistency, and turnaround times.
Many agencies have digitized permitting workflows to improve intake, routing, and visibility. But the most time-intensive and risk-prone step, plan review, still relies heavily on manual effort.
This leads to delays, rework, and increased compliance risk.
Understanding the difference between workflow automation and AI-powered plan review is critical to improving how your department operates and scales.
In this webinar, you’ll learn:
- Automation executes. AI interprets plan reviews
- AI enhances workflows—it doesn’t replace them
- “AI-powered” doesn’t always mean true plan review AI
- The future is AI + permitting workflow automation
- Where your current plan review process may be falling short
If your team is managing growing permit volumes, facing review backlogs, or working to improve compliance without increasing staff workload, this session will provide a clear, practical framework for what’s next, and how to get there.
Meet Your Speakers
Siobhan Rivera
Customer Success Manager, CodeComply.AI
Siobhan Rivera is a Customer Success Manager at CodeComply, where she helps clients navigate complex building codes using AI-powered plan review technology. With a background in architecture and experience spanning municipal plan review, construction, and product development, she brings a unique blend of technical expertise and customer insight. Known for her adaptability and problem-solving mindset, Siobhan focuses on building smarter, more efficient systems that improve how the built environment is designed and approved.
Kim Dayton
Solutions Director, Community Development
CivicPlus Solutions Director Kim Dayton works with our Community Development solution. She is passionate about connecting with municipalities to better understand their needs and help solve their most pressing problems. She has a dozen years of experience in Product Management and a level VI certification in Pragmatic Marketing. Kim lives in the Colorado mountains with her husband and four dogs. She loves camping, kayaking, and volunteering as a master gardener.