About Our Company
Building and fire codes are time-consuming. Errors and omissions are costly.
Otter Stone solves compliance, so architects can focus on what really matters: design.​
Not another consulting firm
Otter Stone brings together human, software, and AI.
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Our Life Safety experts work directly on your projects, ensuring the correct code interpretation.
Behind the scenes, our software automates calculations, while AI optimizes — giving you more thorough, cheaper and faster drawing reviews.
Schematic Design
Rapidly iterate overall building concept
Consider all options when starting your new projects. Otter Stone has codified into software all requirements, tables, and cross-references that affect the basic site plan, floor area ratios, occupancies, etc.
Travel Distances
Identify all non-compliant means of egress
Our path finding algorithm navigates though doors and obstructions to identify and measure common path of egress and exit access routes.
Full fire and life safety
Full review against all of NFPA 1, 10, 101, IBC, IFC
We evaluate all aspects of design development: door and stair placements and width, fire separations, hazmat, extinguishers. We check general congruence across drawings, finding errors and omissions down to the most trivial.
First review is on us!