Across the licensed professions in building design, our license requirements state (in summary) that we certify that the documents were prepared under our "close supervision."
I think in all states if A and E professionals form a corporation it must be one with PERSONAL liability. Corporate structures that shield the licensees from personal liability are not allowed. In extreme cases we can even be held criminally liable if work performed under our license is negligent. And you can't get away with being clever and not "stamping" the work. I think in all states you can prepare documents for permitting a single family home without a license. However, if you ARE licensed, in most states you're still required to stamp the documents - or even in the most permissive states you are considered to have legally certified the documents if they are produced by an office with a licensed A or E professional.
Our licenses are not about ability, they're about liability. And it's not just the license holder deciding acceptable levels of risk. Even more it's the professional liability insurer for what's commonly called your "Errors and Omissions" policy. I don't use my license at the moment, but when I worked for other licensed architects, often their policy stipulated that to maintain their policy even their employees had to take continuing ed in risk management. I can't imagine any insurer would sign off on this.
How is this different?
What they are not is a probabilistic model that cannot be held accountable for errors. I mean, unless the developers of automep.app want to take legal liability for the performance of their model.
It's pretty common for CAD software (and other software in general) to have an AS/IS license. It's up to the user to detect it and correct any bugs the software may have had.
The commercial vid was not very good IMO - I didn't get a sense of the actual product value-add at all. As an prospective customer, that's what matters to me, not terrible jokes.
seemaze•4mo ago