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Engineering & EPC
Twenty years of drawings, finally searchable.
Drawing and specification intelligence, plus simulation compute, for engineering and EPC firms.
- Revision-aware drawing search
- Tender clause extraction
- Burst simulation compute
The starting point
What we hear in the first meeting.
If none of these sound like you, we are probably not the right call yet — and we will say so.
Tender documents are read by hand
Hundreds of pages, scanned for clauses.
Simulation queues set the schedule
Engineers wait while licences idle.
Our approach
The value is in the archive.
Engineering firms rarely need a novel model. They need two decades of drawings to answer a question in seconds instead of a week.
How we work →-
Search drawings and documents.
Titles, revisions, embedded text, metadata.
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Specification extraction.
Clauses and tolerances with the page reference.
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Compute on demand.
Burst capacity so queues stop setting dates.
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IP stays yours.
Your archive trains nobody else's model.
Proof
How we have solved it in Engineering.
Challenge, solution, outcome. Names withheld, numbers not inflated.
EPC contractor
- Challenge
- Finding a 2014 detail took an engineer most of a week.
- Solution
- A revision-aware index across drawings, specifications and correspondence.
- Outcome
- The same question answers in seconds, on the current revision.
Design office
- Challenge
- Tender packs of several hundred pages were read clause by clause.
- Solution
- Clause extraction with a deviation report against the standard position.
- Outcome
- Bid teams reviewed exceptions instead of reading everything.
Analysis group
- Challenge
- Simulation queues, not engineers, set the project dates.
- Solution
- Managed burst compute alongside the existing solver licences.
- Outcome
- Runs started when the engineer was ready, not when the queue cleared.
Teams we work with
Who we build for
Different teams, different first project. The platform underneath is the same.
Design offices
Revision-aware search across CAD and as-builts.
Tendering and estimation
Clause extraction and deviation flagging.
Simulation and analysis
Managed HPC with queueing that fits your team.
Construction technology
AI features for builder and site platforms.
Scope
What we deliver
Four things, in this order. Each one is useful on its own.
Archive audit
What you have, what state it is in, what indexes first.
Design knowledge platform
Search across drawings, specs and correspondence.
Tender intelligence
Clause extraction and a deviation report.
Simulation compute
Dedicated or burst, managed, costed per project.
Engagement
How the engagement runs
No surprises about sequence, and no invoice before there is something to look at.
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Archive audit
What is actually in the file shares
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Index one discipline
Value visible in weeks
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Roll out the index
Access matching project structure
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Run it
Managed indexing, compute and support
Under the hood
What it is built on.
Your existing systems stay. We add the layers that are missing and run them.
Data sources
- Native CAD formats
- Scanned drawings and PDFs
- Specifications and tenders
- Project correspondence
AI layer
- Revision-aware retrieval
- OCR and layout analysis
- Clause and tolerance extraction
- Deviation reporting
Infrastructure
- Managed HPC and burst compute
- Solver licence integration
- Project-scoped access control
- Private cloud or on-premise
Private cloud
Simulation capacity that is there when the engineer is.
Dedicated compute with burst headroom, so solver queues stop setting project dates — and your archive never leaves a boundary you control.
Explore private cloud- Dedicated and burst compute
- Your archive, your boundary
- Project-level cost visibility
- Managed and monitored
What changes
- Seconds
- To find a 2014 detail
- Revision-aware
- Always the current drawing
- On-demand
- Simulation capacity
Worked examples
The write-ups behind this work.
Full situation, architecture and results on each one.
Document automation
Forty thousand scanned documents a month, keyed in by hand
11 → 3 People on data entry
Legacy modernisation
Changing a system nobody was willing to touch
11,400 Cases pinning behaviour
Data migration
Migrating a 14-year-old platform with no data dictionary
7 mo Instead of the quoted 18
Free, no call required
The Engineering AI readiness checklist
The questions we work through before recommending anything — data readiness, hosting constraints, review process and the running cost at year two. Use it with any vendor, including the ones that are not us.
Get the checklist- What state the archive is really in
- Which discipline indexes first
- Whether licences or hardware is the bottleneck
- What burst compute costs per project
Questions
Asked first, every time
Short answers. Longer ones are a conversation.
Our drawings are a mess of folders and naming conventions. Is that a problem?
It is normal, and it is the first thing we assess. A lot of the value comes from the index reconciling inconsistent naming and revision practice, rather than requiring you to clean up first.
Can it read scanned drawings and old PDFs?
Yes, through OCR and layout analysis. Accuracy depends on scan quality, which is why we benchmark against a sample of your worst documents, not your best.
Does our design IP get used to train a model?
No. Everything runs in infrastructure you control, and your content is not used to train any shared model. That is in the contract, not just the architecture.
Can you handle native CAD formats?
We extract metadata, text and where needed geometry from common formats. Which ones matter is settled during the archive audit.
What about simulation licences?
We provide the compute; your existing solver licences apply. Where licence pooling is the bottleneck rather than hardware, we will tell you that instead of selling you more of it.
Vocabulary
Terms worth knowing before the first call.
The words that come up most in Engineering conversations, in plain English.
How long does finding a drawing take today?
If the honest answer is measured in days, that is the project.
- A reply within one working day, from an engineer rather than an account manager.
- An honest read on whether this is worth doing now, or in a year.
- No marketing list. Your details reach the solutions team and stop there.
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