Building code expertise, and the modern tools to put it to work.

CABOT Codes is a practice run by building officials. Ten years of code knowledge, delivered through technical training, project management and software built for the people who do the reviews — technology applied where it genuinely helps, never where professional judgment belongs.

The CABOT Review Assistant dashboard, showing the four project types a
reviewer can start from: Permit Intake, Accessory Dwelling Unit, Decks,
and Detached Accessory Buildings. — Starting a review in the CABOT Review Assistant.

What we do

Training design and development

Technical training for building officials, written by building officials. CABOT Codes designs the course, authors the material, and hands over content your instructors can teach.

No course is a finished object. Each one builds on what the last one taught: how the material landed in the room, where participants got stuck, what instructors had to work around. That feedback goes into the next design. The intent is never to repeat a course — it is to move the training forward each time.

Project management and consulting

Code and construction projects managed for associations, municipalities and industry bodies — with advice on the work that sits between the code and the people applying it.

CABOT Review Assistant

A review tool for plan examiners working to the Ontario Building Code. Most first submissions come back with deficiencies and the same file returns two or three times — the Review Assistant carries a project across every round until it closes.

Where other permitting products ship an empty comment library for each municipality to fill, ours arrives filled: Ontario Building Code review comments authored by a practicing official and current to OBC 2024. The examiner answers a few questions about the project and receives the comments that apply, already worded and already cited — including Part 11 compliance alternatives with authored letter wording.

The tool surfaces vetted comments. It never writes a deficiency and never invents a Code reference. A building official reads the file, decides what applies, and signs the letter. That is what responsible technology looks like in a regulatory setting: it removes the retyping, not the judgment.

Purpose

Mission

To advance the knowledge, skills and tools available to building officials — through training written by practitioners, projects delivered with rigour, and software that respects professional judgment.

Vision

A construction industry that moves forward because the people who regulate it are equipped to lead: consistent reviews, current knowledge, and technology applied where it genuinely helps.

Contact

For training, project work, or the Review Assistant:

hello@cabotcodes.com