For the person who checks the set before the PLS signs it

Every sheet double-checked before the PLS signs it.

Send us a set you're about to submit. Your first QC pass is free.

When the office is busy, the check is the first thing to slip. Linework reads each sheet against your firm's checklist, compares the sheets with each other, and clouds what does not agree. You accept or reject every redline.

Your first 20 sheets are free. Redlined PDF back within one business day. No card.

Sheet 2 · title
Sheet 2 · NE corner label
TitleRange 25 East
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Corner labelRange 27 East
1The title puts the plat in Range 25 East. The section corner label on the same sheet says Range 27 East. Flag · found by comparing two places on the sheet
The biggest bottleneck when we are busy like this: the QA/QC on everything tanks.
Survey leader, national engineering firm
What firms do now

Three checks. Each one assumes the one before it happened.

The checklist

"Did you check this?"

A box gets ticked. It records that someone looked. It does not record what they looked for, or what they found.

The peer check

A second tech, same method

At the end of their own day, a peer reads the sheet the same way the drafter did. They catch what the drafter would have caught.

The signing review

The PLS finds the typos

Work reaches the signing surveyor before the self-check happens. The review takes longer, and the license holder does the self-check.

Why errors get through

The error is rarely in one place. It is between two places.

The certificate and the notes. The legal description and the drawing. The overall distance and its segments. Sheet 2 and sheet 4. People check one place at a time. Linework checks the pairs.

Segments along the road, added969.45
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Overall distance, same line969.55
What a slipped check costs
A 10-hour job, checked in order 2.5 h
Peer review1 h
Project lead30 min
Signing PLS1 h

Review targets from a survey leader at a national firm. When the self-check slips, the typos wait for the most expensive reviewer. A missed error costs more again: a resubmittal, or a title company call.

How it works

A self-check that reads the whole set, in the order a checker would.

01

Upload the set

The PDF you are about to submit: a plat, an ALTA, an exhibit, a corner record. Up to seven pages a run.

02

It reads each sheet, then the set

It zooms in to read the labels, runs your checklist row by row, and does the arithmetic in code: closures, areas, segments against overalls. Then it compares the sheets with each other.

03

You decide every redline

Each finding is a cloud on the sheet, with the quoted text, every place it compares, the checklist row and a recommended fix. Accept it, reject it, or set it aside for later. Export the redlines as a PDF.

What you get back

Redlines on the sheet, where a checker would put them.

From one run on a recorded 5-sheet subdivision plat in Florida, with names blurred. The notes are the check's own findings, shortened.

After a month of sets

Peer review looks for judgment calls, not typos.

Your checklist runs the same way on every set, from every drafter. The self-check stops depending on who was busy that week. Peer review and the project lead spend their hour on what needs a surveyor. The PLS reviews a set that was already checked.

The order a survey leader gave us: accurate, then complete, then pretty. Linework does the first two passes of that list on every sheet.

Two real runs

What it found on two real sets.

One-sheet ALTA/NSPS survey
136checklist rows answered
3 minrun time
  • The certificate cites the 2016 standards. The fieldwork was in 2021, after the 2021 standards took effect.
  • The building is 24.6 ft from the south line, inside the 25 ft building line, and no note lists it.
  • A road label reads "ASHPALT".
Recorded 5-sheet subdivision plat, Florida
36findings
4between sheets
11 minrun time
  • An adjoiner's deed book number is one higher on the plat than in the legal description.
  • The graphic scale bar does not match the drawing: distances scaled off the bar come out about 28% long.
  • It also confirmed 11 checks across the set: sheet numbering, match lines, and every line and curve label defined once.
What it checks

Every row of your checklist gets an answer.

A finding, a pass, "can't check from the PDF", or "doesn't apply to this sheet". Nothing is skipped quietly. Excerpts from two real runs:

Cover sheet · Certification
Table A items?Item 16 is certified, and no note reports on it.Finding
Surveyor's license number?Pass
Detail sheet
Bearing/distances clockwise or as called?The east line reads N01°26'06"W. Clockwise, it reads S01°26'06"E.Finding
All symbols and lines match the legend?The drawing uses abbreviations the legend does not define.Finding
Do found monuments match field notes?Needs the field notes.Can't check from the PDF
Across the set
Correct sheet number?Sheets are numbered 1 to 4 of 4, with no gaps.Pass
Match linesSheet 2 to 3 along the main street, and sheet 3 to 4 between two lots, agree.Pass
The details

What it reads, what it does not, and what you get.

Reads
The PDF sheets you upload: plats, ALTA sets, easement exhibits, corner records. Up to seven pages a run.
Checks against
Your firm's QA/QC checklist. We load it for you. Firm names and internal terms stay private.
Time
About 1 to 7 minutes a page, depending on how much is drawn. All pages run at the same time, and findings show as they are found.
Does not
Change your drawing. Read the CAD file or the field notes. Rows that need them are marked "can't check from the PDF".
You get
Clouds on each sheet with the quoted text, the checklist row and a fix. A redlined PDF of the findings you accept, with a list page and a page of the checklist rows to check another way.
Already marked up?
A set with Bluebeam or Acrobat markups is checked with the markups taken off. A finding your reviewer already marked is hidden, and you can show it again.
Against the alternatives

Measure it in hours of licensed review.

The alternative to a self-check is not zero cost. It is the most expensive hour in the firm, spent on typos. A QA/QC run costs minutes of machine time and a few minutes of the checker's judgment for each sheet.

"Page turn"12 h
Peer check1 h
QA/QC run~10 min

The 12-hour "page turn", where everyone goes over the set for errors, is how a survey leader described a full review.

Pricing

Priced by the month. Every revision is free.

A self-check only works if you run it every time. A new revision of a set never uses up sheets. Your first 20 sheets are free.

3 months free on annual

Solo

One surveyor

$99/mo

Billed monthly

20 sheetsa month, revisions free
  • 20 sheets a month
  • Every revision included
  • Redline PDF with to-do list
  • QuickCheck deed plotting
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Small

Firms of 2 to 5

$249/mo

Billed monthly

50 sheetsa month, revisions free
  • 50 sheets a month
  • Everything in Solo
  • Anyone at the firm can check
  • Hide repeat findings across revs
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Most firms

Medium

Firms of 10 to 30

$449/mo

Billed monthly

100 sheetsa month, revisions free
  • 100 sheets a month
  • Everything in Small
  • Several checks at once
  • Extra sheets $7 each
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Enterprise

Larger firms and multiple offices

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Annual contract

Firm-widesized to your volume
  • SSO and priority support
  • Your own checklists by office or state
  • Team view for the PLS
  • Invoice and ACH billing
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Try it on your own work

Get a free QC pass on a set you're about to submit.

Before it goes to peer review, the client or the county, send it to us. We run the check and send back the redlined PDF. If it finds nothing, you submit with one more check behind you.

Software cannot and should never make surveying decisions. Linework flags. Your surveyor decides.

For your principal

How to describe it in one paragraph.

Linework is our self-check. It runs our QA/QC checklist on every sheet before peer review, compares the sheets with each other, and gives us a redlined PDF. The PLS reviews a set that was already checked.

Pairs with Research

Check the set against the record you researched.

With Research, the record is already plotted. QA/QC then compares your final sheets with it: every call, every adjoiner, every recording reference.

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Get your free QC pass.

A plat, an ALTA set, or an exhibit that is about to go out. Attach the PDF and we send back the redlined set within one business day. No call, no card.

The set, as a PDF Up to 18 MB. No PDF handy? Email it to hello@lineworkhq.com.