Elevator violations drafted into the repair proposal, each cited item with its cure date.

A state inspector's report on a hotel's traction cars comes back citing worn interlocks on car 2, a machine room with no working ventilation, water in the pit and an expired five-year tag on car 3. Your mechanic adds notes from a site visit: which interlocks, which parts, how many hours, whether the car comes down. Someone in your service office then turns all of that into a proposal the building's manager can sign in time.

In the proof of concept, AI reads the same reports and notes and drafts the proposal: each cited code item on its own line, the unit in the inspector's numbering and yours, what the repair needs, what the customer has to do, and the cure date with the rule behind it. No proposal reaches a customer and no live record is touched. Your service manager sets each draft beside the one your office actually sent.

The cure date depends on who wrote the report. In New York City, defects from a Category 1 test or a periodic inspection must be corrected within 90 days of the inspection that found them, the Affirmation of Correction goes in within 14 days of the correction, and Failure to Correct violations follow at 104 days. Florida's statute exposes an owner to a fine if a state correction order isn't met within 90 days of issuing, and the order can call for a reinspection. In Fairfax County, Virginia, the inspection report itself serves as the Notice of Correction, with re-inspection in 30 to 40 days. The draft prints the date your reviewer's rule produces and names that rule, so a wrong starting day is easy to catch.

A signed proposal can be the paper the owner relies on. Texas wants one of three things with the report, within 30 days of the inspection: a company letter for each piece of equipment confirming correction, a letter saying the violations are under contract for correction, or a delay or waiver application on form ELE205N. Those letters carry the ELBI number, decal numbers, the violations, the dates, contact details for owner and contractor, and the owner's signature. A violation marked REPEAT has to be fixed right away and verified in writing by the inspector before a certificate issues. One state's rule, Mississippi's, allows 30 calendar days, or work under contract and finished by the next inspection due date, or an approved waiver or delay. So the draft sets out the identifiers those letters need and puts any repeat at the top.

Citations arrive in codes, and the codes don't travel. Miami-Dade's inspection form uses five-character codes based on Florida's, whose first character names the equipment: E electric, H hydraulic, S escalator, M moving walk, O other. One condition can have several rows, some citing ASME A17.1 sections from its 1996 and 2000 editions, another the existing-equipment code, A17.3, and O999n simply means see the notes. The instructions posted for New York City's ELV3 report, dated August 2015, build a defect from three lists: a part such as 21 Interlocks, a condition such as N By-passed or H Worn, and a suggested remedy such as 11 Replace or 17 Re-inspection Required. The draft keeps the inspector's code on each line beside a plain description of the work, and never rewrites a citation into another section.

Part of the cure may not be yours to do. Maryland's tips for building owners and general contractors, written for final and alteration inspections, show how much sits in the building rather than the hoistway: a sump pump rated at 3,000 gallons per hour for each hoistway, no sprinkler lines or heads over elevator equipment, a self-closing, self-locking machine room door, permanent lighting, and cooling and heating to code. Miami-Dade gives machine room ventilation and the pit's sump hole codes of their own. The draft splits each report into work for your mechanics and items the customer must arrange with its own trades, because a proposal silent on those leaves a violation open after your crew has gone.

Units go by several names, and your reviewer will start there. Texas identifies equipment by ELBI number and decal, Washington by state conveyance number, New York City by device number, while your mechanic writes car 3 or the freight. The draft carries both. Your service manager will check first: cited items dropped from the proposal, the wrong unit on a line, a repair broader than the mechanic's notes support, building items quoted as yours, repeat violations not flagged, and cure dates counted from the wrong day. Rules here are summaries of public pages read in November 2026, not legal or engineering advice.

With your service manager's yes, the same job runs for about 30 days on reports as they arrive.

A person approves every proposal before a building manager or owner sees it. Each line shows the citation, the unit, the repair and the cure date, and anything the draft couldn't settle comes flagged with the reason.

Before you sign, you see one fixed price for the live job. Whatever follows gets its own price, and monthly support starts once a job is live.