Sealed-Work Drafting
Every hour drafting is an hour not reviewing.
Fermito is Sealed-Work Drafting for Ontario engineering practice: field notes in, firm-specific drafts of site review reports, field reviews, and sealed opinion letters out, so licensed professionals spend their hours on review and judgment, the part of the work only they can do. Built for structural and building-science firms.
Where the site visit becomes the sealed report.
- Trained on
- 729 field review reports studied
- In production
- Live at Structek
- Scope
- Built for Ontario PE practice
The problem
The drafting tax lands hardest on the most expensive hour.
The work that gets done is the work that gets billed. Sealed documents are the work that gets done late, after hours, by the person whose hours are worth the most. Site Review Reports (also written FRR or Field Review Report) and sealed opinion letters: the document type changes; the late night doesn't.
The transcription tax
After every site visit, the same ninety minutes of typing. Different visit, different observations, same transcription. The part of the job no one billed for and everyone absorbed.
Review hours paid for typing
Licensed engineers bill review hours and spend them retyping their own field notes. The seal is the work only a PE can do. Transcription isn't.
Reviews queue up behind the draft
When the partner is drafting, they aren't reviewing the juniors' reports. The queue lengthens, and the practice risk lives in the queue, not in the draft.
Use cases
The sealed documents Fermito drafts.
One drafting loop, four document shapes engineers hand to contractors and owners every week. Each one drafted from the engineer's voice notes against the drawings on the visit, in the firm's house format, ready for review and seal.
Shoring letters
Sealed contractor-facing letter confirming shoring scope for demolition or renovation work.
See the use caseLoad review letters
Sealed response to a proposed load change: rooftop unit, MRI delivery, safe, snow load, vehicle access.
See the use caseCoring letters
Sealed letter with hole by hole judgment on coring through a slab, each location reviewed against the drawings.
See the use caseSite review reports
Numbered, photo-anchored report a P.Eng writes from a site visit. Also written FRR or Field Review Report.
See the use case
The product
Sealed-Work Drafting, in four surfaces.
One loop, sized for the way an engineer already works: capture in the field, generate the draft, revise with your voice, export in your house format. Same four surfaces across Site Review Reports (also written FRR or Field Review Report) and sealed opinion letters.
Capture
Walk the site and talk. Voice, photos, and extracted documents collect as you work. Dated, timestamped, and attributed to the engineer on the visit.
Learn moreGenerate
Fermito turns the capture into a firm-specific draft: templates, callouts, and standard phrasing pulled from the firm's own library, not a generic report schema.
Learn moreRevise
Voice-edit in plain language or correct inline. Every change is highlighted in diff. Nothing auto-submits. Nothing auto-seals.
Learn moreExport
Word document in the firm's house format - header, footer, signature block, distribution list. Ready for a PE to review and seal.
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See how Fermito thinks - the work between a site visit and a sealed draft.
Inside the product
Where the fact-check lens earns its keep.
Customers
Live on Fermito
Structek
Structural engineering practice in the Greater Toronto Area. Sealed site review reports across active garage repair projects.
“The first draft read like our firm wrote it. I spent ten minutes reviewing instead of ninety minutes retyping.”
- Principal Engineer, Structek Consulting, P.Eng.
Fermito is tuned against Structek’s actual template and report categories: concrete slab repair, waterproofing, and ramp work across GTA parking garage projects.
Read the case studyResponsibility
You sign every report. Fermito drafts the words.
Sealed engineering work is practice of engineering. Field review under OBC 1.2.2.2, with architectural general reviews and reserve fund studies to follow: practice of engineering stays with the practitioner, every time. Every design decision in Fermito enforces that line.
Assistant, not author
Fermito drafts. It does not submit, seal, distribute, or sign anything. The engineer is the author of the report in every sense the profession cares about.
Every change in diff
Edits - voice, keyboard, revision pass - are highlighted and captured in the revision history. The reviewer sees what moved, and so does the practitioner holding the license.
Your client data stays yours
Customer content is never used as training data. Not opt-in, not opt-out, never. Confidential work under PEO practice rules stays confidential.
Pricing
Firms start at $499 / month
One firm, unlimited engineers, unlimited reports. Templates encoded to the firm’s structure at onboarding. No per-seat arithmetic, no usage meters, no surprise invoices. Start with a free fourteen-day pilot.
From the notebook
Practice notes, regulation, and the occasional argument with the industry.
Signed pieces on sealed engineering work, regulatory literacy, and what AI assistance does, and does not, change about the profession.
Regulatory literacy
What every Ontario sealed engineering document has in common
Field reviews, reserve fund studies, condition assessments, Phase I ESAs: they look different on paper. Underneath, they share a seven-part structure that determines whether the document holds up under scrutiny.
ReadWorkflow economics
The real cost of a field review: a time-and-motion breakdown from a twelve-engineer firm
A structural engineering firm in the GTA tracked every hour that goes into a field review report. The numbers explain why senior engineers spend their evenings drafting instead of reviewing.
ReadHow it works
The intelligence behind the draft.
A senior-engineer walk-through of the work Fermito does between a site visit and a sealed draft: input fusion, vision-grounded reading, firm-voice drafting, self-critique, and the attestation gate.
ReadTemplates
Sealed-document templates.
Free Word templates for the sealed narrative documents an Ontario engineering firm produces. Structural FRR is live; other disciplines release as each passes review.
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Book a demo
Thirty minutes with the Fermito team. Sealed-Work Drafting, on a real field note.
Bring one recent field note. The demo ends with a draft report in the firm’s format, ready for review. No slides.