AI for sign companies, tested on permit packets and site surveys you already closed.

The answer key is in the job folder. A permit packet that went through kept its application, its plans and whatever the plan reviewer marked up. A finished rollout kept its survey reports and the schedule somebody built from them. Your reviewer can set each draft beside that record, which is why these two desk jobs come before anything on the shop floor.

One company, two rulebooks. The International Sign Association's crane FAQ records how OSHA divides this trade: sign manufacturing inside the plant is general industry under 29 CFR 1910, while installing a large sign or a sign pole is construction under 29 CFR 1926. The split runs through the paper as well. The drawing comes from the shop, the survey comes from the field, and a permit needs both to agree.

The license follows the wiring. California's C-45 Sign Contractor classification covers fabricating, installing and erecting electrical signs with their wiring, plus non-electrical signs and modifications to existing ones. Texas has an Electrical Sign Contractor employ a Master Electrician or Master Sign Electrician, whose license can be assigned to only one such contractor unless the master holds a majority stake in the business. A rollout crossing a state line changes who may sign at each stop, so a draft reads the license class each form names and never assumes one.

On-premise is the word these codes turn on. In City of Austin v. Reagan National Advertising in 2022, the Supreme Court held that treating on-premises and off-premises signs differently is not, for that reason alone, content-based, so the distinction stays on the forms. Colorado's transportation department requires its own permit for a sign advertising something not conducted on the property where it stands, and applies state and federal size, lighting and spacing rules within 660 feet of highway right of way. A draft notes which kind each sign is and which agency's form that opens. None of this is legal or zoning advice.

Healthcare customers bring approvals of their own. Under California's AB 1882, a hospital with a general acute care building short of the state's 2030 seismic standards posts a sign in a lobby or waiting area, once the Department of Health Care Access and Information has reviewed its proposed location and content along with a floor plan. The format can't vary, and relocating the sign means a new application. When a customer's rule fixes a location, that location has to square with what your survey found.

The trade already treats this as standing work. The International Sign Association offers its sign company members free one-on-one help with permit problem-solving, navigating local sign and zoning ordinances and finding answers for electrical inspectors. The test doesn't stand in for that advice. It asks whether the assembling and comparing can be drafted first, so your coordinator starts from a list.

One limit covers both jobs. The proof of concept stays out of your job and estimating system and submits nothing to a building department. It never decides that a sign complies with a code or that a wall can carry a load. It reads copies. A person checks every packet and schedule before it goes out, and licensed people make the structural and electrical calls.