Course

AI for Interior Designers and Architectural Consultants

Concept to permit package, with every code item verified in the code text.

IntermediateInterior design

0/88 stops · about 2 hours · final quiz · certificate

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• AI at Work: FoundationsStart from zero and finish with three things you can actually use.

Who this is for

Interior designers, architectural consultants and design-build studios who produce the documentation a project is approved and built from. Every example follows Nadine, a founded an interior design and architectural consulting studio in Los Angeles twenty years ago, doing tenant improvements, retail, medical build-outs, and ground-up residential and remodels.

You will be able to

• Turn a client brief and site notes into a concept narrative and a space plan checklist
• Build the finish and material schedule from the concept and the product catalogues
• Write specification sheets in the studio format with the product data attached
• Run the accessibility and code checklist for the jurisdiction and produce the items to verify
• Assemble the permit submittal checklist and the cover letter, and answer plan-check comments
• Coordinate contractors and consultants with RFIs, minutes and a fee letter

Stops

1. 1 The studio ProjectOne Project that carries the studio standards, the jurisdiction list, the specification format and the two rules that keep numbers and code calls out of the chat. Set once
2. 2 Brief to conceptThe client brief, the site notes and the existing conditions plan in; a concept narrative, a space plan checklist and the questions the client has to answer before anyone draws. Weekly
3. 3 Finish and material scheduleThe concept plus the catalogue PDFs turned into a schedule that runs by room and surface, with a lead time column and a clear line between what Claude read and what the supplier confirms. Weekly
4. 4 Specification sheetsCut sheets and test reports in, a specification sheet out in the studio format, with the substitution note written so a contractor cannot read it as an open door. Daily
5. 5 Accessibility and code checklistA checklist of the accessibility and code items this jurisdiction will look at, pointed at the plan, written as questions Nadine answers in the adopted code text. Weekly
6. 6 The permit packageThe submittal checklist for the jurisdiction, the cover letter that tells the plan checker what they are holding, and the response that closes plan-check comments in one round. Weekly
7. 7 Contractor coordinationRFIs answered in the language of the set, minutes that survive a dispute, a site visit report written from photos, and the change conversation kept away from money. Daily
8. 8 Nadine's weekFee letters and proposals with the numbers left blank, three routines on a timer, the concept deck in Claude Design, and one project taken from brief to permit checklist. Weekly

Final quiz