SONARCH LLC

SONARCH is the intelligence infrastructure for architecture, permitting, coordination, and execution: a system that holds a project's decisions, interpretations, and standards as one connected record, from regulation through execution. A building project moves through many hands. An architect interprets a code section, a consultant makes an assumption, a reviewer leaves a comment, a decision gets made about an assembly, and each of these is the reasoning that actually defines the project. Today it lives in people, inboxes, PDFs, and markups, and it is lost at every handoff, which is why teams keep paying to reconstruct what was already known. SONARCH makes that reasoning durable, traceable, and reusable.
The product works through three connected capabilities. Interpretation reads governing code, zoning, parcel, accessibility, and jurisdictional sources against the specific project and answers with the source, section, and passage cited, so a professional can trust and defend the result. Memory attaches every decision, rationale, markup resolution, and consultant clarification to the element, sheet, task, or record where it belongs, turning a scattered trail into a structured, queryable project history. Continuity keeps that context moving across the tools and phases a firm already works in, so it reaches whoever picks up the work next, whether a junior, a senior, a consultant, or a reviewer.
SONARCH is deliberately narrow at the start, beginning where the pain is highest and professional trust is earned first: compliance and jurisdiction intelligence. From there it supports plan review by linking reviewer comments to responses and their rationale, and it works through specifications alongside the decisions and standards that govern them. Around that, it captures a firm's own standards, its documentation conventions, preferred assemblies, and quality patterns, so they stay consistent across staff, consultants, and outsourced production instead of living only in a few senior heads. It connects into the design model and project management, so context flows in and decisions attach back where they matter.
Throughout, SONARCH operates as a supervised system: the professional defines the intent, makes the judgments, and approves the outcomes, while every answer is reviewable and correctable, with uncertainty surfaced honestly when the evidence is thin. It does not replace the architect or the authoring tools; it takes on the searching so professionals spend their time on judgment. As a firm works with it, the record compounds, growing more useful the longer it is in the project and extending from the earliest regulatory questions toward the full arc of the work.
SONARCH is in active use with design partners, with Los Angeles as the first market, chosen for its jurisdictional complexity. It is built and led by Amin Marandi, Founder and CEO, a designer trained at the Southern California Institute of Architecture with roughly a decade of practice across residential, mixed-use, and adaptive-reuse work, who designed and built the product end to end.