Build the file for the work that carries a seal.
A sealed drawing is a professional opinion with a name on it, and the cover behind it is priced on specifics: the discipline, the project mix, the biggest job, the years already behind you. This asks exactly those, one question per screen, and shows you the whole file before anything leaves.
Review it the way you would review a drawing set. Correct what needs correcting, then move it to the form and choose how the reply arrives.
What a complete architects and engineers file includes.
Professional cover for design firms is priced on the questions below, and a file that answers them all gets a real quote on the first pass.
The discipline, precisely
Structural, civil, geotechnical, mechanical, architectural – each carries its own claim history and its own rate. A multi-discipline firm gets rated on the mix.
The project mix
Single-family, commercial, industrial, infrastructure – and how much touches multi-family residential, which BC insurers ask about earlier than anything else.
The seal and the site
Whether the firm seals drawings or reports, and whether it does field reviews during construction. Opinion, and presence, are two different exposures.
The sizes that matter
The biggest project by construction value, and the year’s fees. The dispute names the biggest job. The premium is priced from the fees.
Whose agreement governs
The firm’s own terms, the client’s contract, or nothing written. Each one decides in advance how a disagreement plays out.
The subconsultants
Another firm’s opinion can land on your seal. Whether they carry their own cover, confirmed, belongs in the file.
The years already worked
Whether cover ran continuously, lapsed, or never existed. Claims arrive years after drawings are sealed, and whether the policy reaches back starts here.
The record, told first
Claims, reported circumstances, any decline or cancellation. All workable when they arrive from you, and all worse when they arrive from a database.
Project-specific cover, general liability, cyber, directors – what stands beside the professional cover is what the quote comes back showing, priced line by line.
Read by the desk that knows what a seal costs.
Design-firm files go to the commercial desk and get read whole, not skimmed. The reply arrives the next business day, and usually the same day – email, phone, or a time to come in, chosen by you on the form.