Trim and door packages from the door schedule, by house or by unit, graded against jobs you quoted.

On a production house the door schedule may be a small table on the floor plan. On an apartment building it is a sheet of its own: a number for every opening, with type, size, frame, fire rating and hardware set, plus a hardware section that spells out each set. The estimator turns it into lines: slabs or prehung units by size and hand, casing for both faces of each opening, base by the room, stops, closet shelving and rods, stair parts, and the hardware your shop machines for or ships loose.

For the test, AI reads copies of the same schedules and plan pages and drafts the package: each opening as a line with its door number, size, hand, jamb, rating and set, the trim counted by room and unit type, and a list of every opening it couldn't settle, with the sheet and the question. Nothing is priced, quoted or sent. Your reviewer compares the draft with the package your team quoted and with what the job turned out to need.

Two ways to name one door's hand. Allegion, the lock maker, tells buyers to stand on the outside, or secure side, of the door, read the hinge side, and call a door that swings toward them reverse bevel: LH, RH, LHR or RHR. Fine Homebuilding's guide to ordering doors, from Taunton's Renovation, reads it facing a door that swings toward you: if the knob meets your right hand first, it's a right-handed door. On a door that swings toward its secure side, the first rule can say LHR where the second says right-handed. The draft writes every hand in the convention your door shop orders in, which the success criteria fix first, and lists any opening where the schedule's mark and the plan's swing disagree.

A rated opening is a labeled assembly. The 2021 International Building Code has opening protectives installed under NFPA 80, the Standard for Fire Doors and Other Opening Protectives, now in its 2025 edition. The code's Table 716.1(2) pairs a one-hour corridor wall with a one-third-hour door, and other one-hour fire partitions with a three-quarter-hour door. Section 716.2.6.1 has fire doors latch and close on their own, and 716.2.9.1 puts the label on at the factory or wherever the door is fabricated and assembled. Even a door viewer has a rule: 716.2.2.1 lets a 20-minute corridor door take one through a hole no wider than an inch, behind glass at least a quarter inch thick. The draft carries the rating each schedule gives, lists every rated opening with no closer in its set, and never assigns a rating.

The hardware set is a contract term. Florida International University's door hardware section has schedules laid out in the vertical format of DHI's Sequence and Format for the Hardware Schedule, writes each hardware group for a single door or a pair, and says door numbers and hardware groups are not to be changed. It names finish 630 (US32D), with 626 (US26D) allowed. BHMA numbers a finish from 600 up only when at least three manufacturers make it, and leaves 001 to 599 to single makers. Its grades run 1 to 3, grade 1 highest, and its residential deadbolt standard, A156.40, covers hardware generally used in single-family homes and multifamily dwellings. The draft keeps the schedule's door number and set on each opening, writes finishes as the numbers your item file uses, and lists any set the hardware section never defines.

Thickness decides the core, the blocking and the hinges. Texas State University's standard for flush wood doors calls for five-ply doors at least 1-3/4 inches thick, says hollow core doors are not acceptable, wants fire-rated mineral core doors with solid edges or blocking at hinge, lockset and closer, and has the hardware submittal approved before any door is ordered. Fine Homebuilding gives two 3-1/2 inch hinges to a hollow-core interior door up to 1-3/8 inches thick, and at least three 4-inch hinges to any 1-3/4 inch solid door. Its sizes are written width first, so 2868 is 2 feet 8 inches by 6 feet 8 inches. The draft lists any opening whose thickness, core and hinge count don't agree, and holds machining lines until the hardware is settled.

Trim follows the frame and the addendum. A finish carpentry section Yolo County Housing posted for one of its apartment projects, marked Addendum 01 of April 15, 2026, calls for 9/16 by 2-1/4 inch finger-jointed pine casing, pre-primed, and a door stop that isn't required at rabbeted frames. Closet rods are 1-1/4 inch pine on supports no more than 32 inches apart, and stair handrails 1-1/2 inch on supports no more than 36 apart. The draft counts casing by opening and face, base by room less its openings, leaves stop off rabbeted frames, and marks every line an addendum changed. Your reviewer, usually the millwork estimator or door shop manager, watches hands, thickness, rated openings, hinge counts, finish numbers and unit types counted twice.

When your reviewer says yes against the success criteria, the same job runs on incoming door and hardware schedules for about 30 days.

Your estimator signs off on each package before it is priced, and every quote that goes out is still your team's to send.

Its price is fixed before you sign, and any next job is priced separately.