Built by someone who felt the pain firsthand.
Michael is the founder of Swiftcon Technologies — a construction technology company building intelligent tools for the U.S. building industry. Swiftcon Codecheck is one of the company's flagship products.
Codecheck was born from a simple question: what if you could check any project against any U.S. municipality's actual ordinance text — instantly, with the source cited? What started as a simple tool has grown into a platform covering 505 jurisdictions across 10 states.
Swiftcon Technologies builds software platforms that bring intelligence, automation, and transparency to U.S. construction. Codecheck is the company's compliance intelligence product. Additional platforms are in active development across the construction technology space.
Why Codecheck exists
Every VDC professional who has worked on a permit set knows the moment: you need to know whether an AC condenser can go in the side yard, or whether a proposed building height clears the district maximum — and you have to dig through a 300-page PDF to find out. By the time you have the answer, you've spent 45 minutes on a question that should have taken 30 seconds.
The PDFs are long. The answer is in a table on page 312. The table has footnotes. The footnotes reference other sections. And even after all that, you're still not certain you read the right table for the right district.
"What if the system just showed you the sentence in the ordinance — not a paraphrase, not a summary — the actual sentence, with the section number, and a clear pass or fail?"
That question started Codecheck. Today, 505 jurisdictions are live, covering 6,784 zoning districts across 10 states. The national expansion starts next.
The methodology is rigorous: every field cites the exact ordinance section, every gap is documented honestly rather than silently omitted, and every jurisdiction's depth score is published openly on the Coverage page. Because real compliance requires knowing what you don't know just as much as what you do.
What we believe
These aren't aspirations — they're the design constraints the entire system was built under. Every architectural decision in Codecheck flows from one of these principles.
Citation over summary
A paraphrase is an interpretation, and interpretations can be wrong. Every result includes the exact article, section, and table it came from — because that's what holds up in a plan review meeting.
Honest about gaps
Every jurisdiction publishes a depth score. Every missing category is documented as "not yet sourced," not silently omitted. We'd rather show you what we don't know than hide it behind false completeness.
Speed without sacrifice
A compliance check that takes 45 minutes is one that doesn't happen. Codecheck returns the same answer you'd get after 45 minutes of PDF research — in under 30 seconds.
Built for the field
Designed by someone who does the work. Every field in the checker, every category in the schema maps to a real question a real contractor asks before a real permit submittal.
Open for integration
Compliance checking belongs inside the tools professionals already use. The REST API and Revit add-in exist so the best compliance tool is the one you never have to open a new tab to reach.
Built for national scale
Illinois is the proof of concept. The same extraction methodology that covers 505 jurisdictions works for any municipality in any U.S. state. The architecture was always national.
Grounded in construction research
From academic research to production platform
Codecheck is built on deep domain knowledge across U.S. municipal zoning and building codes.
Codecheck's data schema, extraction methodology, and API architecture represent an original engineering contribution to the U.S. construction industry's efficiency — not a derivative tool, but a purpose-built compliance intelligence system.
Where we've been and where we're going
Westmont, IL — 18/18 full coverage Complete
The reference jurisdiction — all 18 districts, all 18 compliance categories, every field sourced and cited from the actual ordinance PDF. The template all subsequent jurisdictions follow.
Illinois counties — 8 county-level jurisdictions Complete
DuPage (17/18), Cook (16/18), McHenry (16/18), Boone (16/18), Kane (14/18), Will (14/18), Lake, Winnebago, Champaign, McLean, DeKalb — all extracted from official PDFs.
30+ Illinois municipalities Complete
Elgin, Glen Ellyn, Arlington Heights, Bolingbrook, Collinsville, Chicago Heights, Chillicothe, Clarendon Hills, Carlyle, Crete, Gilberts, Brookfield, Calumet City, and more — each with real zoning district structures and local building code amendments.
Depth completion for existing jurisdictions In progress
Closing the remaining category gaps across all existing jurisdictions — ADU rules, extended, loading requirements, landscaping. Targeting 16/18+ for all live jurisdictions.
Address-based jurisdiction lookup Planned
Enter a project address and Codecheck automatically identifies the correct jurisdiction, zoning district, and applicable rules — no manual selection required.
Indiana, Wisconsin, and Midwest expansion Planned
Extending beyond Illinois to serve contractors working across state lines in the greater Chicago metro and the broader Midwest construction market.
National coverage — all 50 states Long-term
Codecheck was architected for national scale from day one. The same methodology that covers 505 jurisdictions works for any municipality in the United States.
Ready to run your first check?
Full multi-jurisdiction compliance checking — free to use, no account required. Every result cites the source ordinance section.