Resources
How the checks actually work.
Working notes from the practice CoLateral is built for: how a calculation or a workflow is put together, what governs it, and where the shortcut stops.
Agentic workflows
What an AI agent can and cannot do with your files
What changes when an AI agent works on the project folder on your own disk instead of a chat window, and the four failure modes that come with it.
Lateral designStorey drift limits in NBC 2020, and what they protect
The 1, 2 and 2.5 percent interstorey drift limits in NBC 2020 4.1.8.13, the RdRo/IE amplification, and why wind drift is a different question.
Snow loadsSnow drift on a lower roof at a step, NBC 2020
How NBC 2020 4.1.6.5 builds the drift surcharge on a lower roof: source area, density, peak Ca(0), drift length, and the two wind cases.
Written by the people building the tools
Each article covers a provision CoLateral implements, including the parts the tool deliberately does not do. If a note here disagrees with the code, the code wins.