Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation · RFI #32701-26-619

Intelligent Document Processing
for the Division of Water Resources.

AI-powered completeness review for environmental permit applications. Upload an applicant's submittal and receive a regulator-grade findings report — every required field, every supporting document, every Tennessee rule citation — checked in minutes, not hours.

Platform capabilities
Permit types supported
0
Pre-loaded regulatory checks
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Tennessee rule chapters indexed
0+
Extracts every form field
Cites every rule
Cross-doc validation
Supported permit types

Eight DWR permit programs, end-to-end.

Every permit type below ships with a pre-loaded regulatory checklist derived from Tennessee Rules Chapter 0400-40, Chapter 0400-45, the TDEC Design Criteria, and EPA NPDES guidance.

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How it works

From application package to findings report in a single workflow.

Step 1 · Upload

Submit the application package

Drop one or many documents — NOI forms, SWPPPs, engineering reports, site maps, supporting evidence. PDF and image formats supported.

Step 2 · Classify

Identify permit type and documents

Claude classifies the overall permit type and each individual document, so the right regulatory checklist is loaded automatically.

Step 3 · Analyze

Run completeness against TN regulations

Every required field and supporting document is checked against Tennessee Chapter 0400-40 rules and the relevant permit-specific design criteria.

Step 4 · Report

Deliver findings with rule citations

Reviewer-ready report with pass / warn / fail for every requirement, the precise regulatory citation, and the page reference in the source document.

Architecture

Purpose-built for regulator-grade rigor.

Not a wrapper around a generic chatbot. The pipeline is engineered around how DWR completeness reviewers actually work — checklist-driven, citation-supported, and conservative about confidence.

Native PDF understanding

Documents are sent directly to Claude with native PDF support — no brittle OCR pipeline, no third-party parsing layer between the source file and the model.

Two-model architecture

Claude Sonnet handles document classification and field extraction at scale; Claude Opus performs the deep regulatory reasoning required for completeness analysis.

Tennessee rules in pgvector

Rule chapters 0400-40 and 0400-45, TDEC Design Criteria, and EPA NPDES guidance are chunked, embedded with Voyage voyage-3-lite, and stored in Neon Postgres with pgvector for retrieval-augmented reasoning.

Structured checklists per permit type

Each of the 8 supported permit types has a hand-curated checklist of CRITICAL / MAJOR / MINOR requirements with regulatory citations, fed to the model alongside the application data.

Cross-document validation

When multiple documents make up one application, the system checks consistency between them — site acreage, outfall coordinates, signatory identity — and surfaces every mismatch.

Real-time streaming pipeline

Findings stream back to the reviewer as they're generated. There is no wait-then-reveal — every step of parse → classify → extract → analyze → report is visible as it happens.

Built on
Next.js 15·Claude Opus & Sonnet·Voyage voyage-3-lite·Neon Postgres + pgvector·Vercel
About AutoFlowOps

AI automation and intelligent document processing for the public sector.

AutoFlowOps designs and ships production AI systems for government and enterprise clients — with an emphasis on retrieval-augmented architectures, document intelligence, and PostgreSQL-backed data platforms.

Recent portfolio includes AstroPath — a multi-institutional pathology database architected with Johns Hopkins and published in Science — and a series of municipal and state-agency engagements applying the same RAG and IDP patterns to regulatory, procurement, and constituent-services workflows.

For the TDEC team

Submitted in response to RFI #32701-26-619

This live demonstration accompanies our written RFI response. It is intended for hands-on evaluation by DWR staff. Upload a representative application package on the Analyze page to see the system in action, or jump straight to the Sample Report for a pre-generated example.

Findings reference Tennessee Rules Chapter 0400-40 and Chapter 0400-45, and TDEC Design Criteria where applicable. Regulatory determinations remain with DWR reviewers — this system supports first-pass triage, not final action.