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Deliverables in Your Company’s Format

Every firm has its own way documents should look: the report cover sheet, the RFI form, the calc-package layout, the title block conventions. The Standards folder is how you teach that to Stru once: drop your templates and formatting guides in, and the AI consults them automatically whenever it produces a document for you. What engineers put in it:
  • RFI / RFA templates: so a generated RFI follows your form (see Generate RFIs & RFAs)
  • Report boilerplate and cover sheets: calc packages come out looking issued, not generic
  • Formatting guides and checklists: units conventions, numbering, QA sign-off blocks
  • Representative calculation examples: “make it look like this one”
The Standards folder is marked with a book icon in your file list:
The organization's shared Standards folder with its book icon
Your Standards folder vs. design standards. The Standards folder holds your own reference documents. The Standards section you see when you type @ in the chat is different: that is the built-in design-code library (ACI, ASCE, AISC, and regional codes) provided by Stru. This guide is about your folder; the code library is covered in Mentions & Attachments.

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Where It Comes From

  • Organizations: every organization gets a shared Standards folder under the Organization area automatically. The whole team (and the AI) works from one library. By default every member can edit it; see Sharing & Permissions to tighten that.
  • Your own designation: you can point your conversations at any folder you can edit instead: right-click the folder’s row in Files (on a trackpad: two-finger click, or Control-click) and choose Set as Standards Folder. It gets the book icon, and your choice wins over the organization default. Right-click again to remove the designation and fall back to the org folder.
The pointer is personal: designating a folder only changes which folder your conversations use. The contents of a shared folder are shared as usual: if you all point at the org Standards folder, you’re all working from the same documents.
No: a folder is exactly one type at a time (see Folder Types). Disable reviews on a folder before setting it as your Standards folder.

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How the AI Uses It

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Check the toggle in the chat

Click the + button in the message box. Formatting standards has an on/off toggle (it is on by default) and links straight to the folder in Files.
The + menu in the chat with Upload from computer and the Formatting standards toggle
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Ask for your deliverable

Chat normally: ask the Structural Agent for a report, an RFI, a calc sheet. With the toggle on, the agent has your Standards folder as working reference and follows the formats it finds there.
3

Grow the library from chat

When the agent produces something worth reusing, tell it “save this as a standard” and the document lands in your Standards folder for next time.
Using the same template every time? Put it in the Standards folder once instead of tagging it in every prompt. For a worked example with an RFI template, see Generate RFIs & RFAs.

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Keeping It Healthy

Updates are live edits. Any Editor can change a template in place, and the whole team (and the AI) sees the new version immediately. There is no version history, and deletions are permanent (see the no-undo rules in File Management). Keep an offline copy of anything critical, and tighten who can edit via Sharing & Permissions.
Short and current beats large and stale. A handful of well-chosen templates (report format, RFI form, calc example) outperforms a dump of every document your firm has ever produced. The AI follows what it finds.
Nothing breaks. Organization members fall back to the org Standards folder; individual accounts fall back to none. Your designation resumes automatically if access comes back.
No: deliverables go to your conversation folder or selected project as usual (see Where Does My File End Up?). The Standards folder only changes when you explicitly save a standard.

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Next Steps

Generate RFIs & RFAs

Use a company template from your Standards folderRFI & RFA guide

File Management

Folder types and organizationFile Management guide
Questions? Email support@stru.ai or book a call.