Straight answers
The questions firms actually ask
If yours isn’t here, bring it to a call. We answer plainly or we say “not yet.”
Which AutoCAD versions and products?
SparkFlow runs as a palette inside AutoCAD on Windows desktops. The plug-in is built per AutoCAD release family (2021 to 2024, 2025 to 2026, and 2027), and we name a release as supported only once our Windows lab has certified it.
Does it change my drawing by itself?
Never. A change is drawn only after an engineer accepts its proposal, in the drawing they have open. It runs as one AutoCAD transaction with its own undo group, and an audit entry records who decided.
Where is my data processed and stored?
In Canadian cloud regions, in an environment isolated for your firm under its own encryption key. The model engine runs on Google Cloud in Montréal, and nothing you send is used to train shared models. If a Canadian route is not available, the request stops; it is never sent elsewhere.
Do you hold the code books?
No, your firm does: SparkFlow buys no code or standard and shares none between firms. Your administrator uploads your own licensed copy and signs an authorization naming SparkFlow a user of it on your firm’s behalf, and it is read inside your environment alone. When your licence expires, the book leaves the assistant until the authorization is renewed.
How do my standards get in?
Your administrator loads the firm’s drafting standards, symbol libraries and title block rules from the dashboard, and every proposal is checked against them. When an engineer teaches SparkFlow on a card, the next similar markup is read your firm’s way, and the dashboard shows what it has learned.
Is a code answer a compliance determination?
No. A code answer cites the edition and clause it relies on, and a licensed engineer reviews it before anyone relies on it. When the facts are not on the drawing, the answer says so instead of guessing.
How does rollout work?
Your IT team deploys one installer to every desktop with the tools it already uses. People sign in through your firm’s identity provider as members your administrator registered, and seats are assigned from the dashboard.
Do you train AI models on our drawings?
No. Your drawings, markups, decisions and teachings never train shared or provider models, contractually and technically. “Teach SparkFlow” writes to a private memory that belongs to your firm and leaves with you.
Will it dig through our 2 TB of old projects?
No, and that’s deliberate. SparkFlow never crawls your file server. It reads a drawing only when someone opens it, quietly pre-reads siblings of that project in the background (read-only), and keeps a non-searchable cache to speed up the next open. Old projects stay exactly where they are.
What does it cost?
Pricing depends on how many people will use it and what your rollout looks like, so we don’t publish a rate card. It’s a short conversation with the founder: you tell us about your team, we walk you through the numbers on the call, in writing afterwards. No surprises and no usage overage invoices, ever.
How do we get started?
Request a demo. If it looks like a fit, we run a scoped discovery of your standards and AutoCAD setup, then a controlled pilot on representative drawings before anything confidential is involved.
Ask the rest in person.
Thirty minutes with the founder. Bring your CAD manager and your IT lead.
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