What AI can handle in an engineering practice today.
Tasks that follow a similar pattern in every practice, with the time needed before and after automation and the benefit for you.
Tasks we automate
Everyday engineering tasks, with the figures to compare.
Before and at the start of a project
When you are deciding whether a tender is worth pursuing, and when the project gets under way.
Reviewing and preparing tenders
- Reads
- Tender documents, your references and previous bids
- Produces
- Brief assessment with a recommendation and draft submission documents
Your benefit: Bid for three tenders where previously you had time for one.
Project overview
- Reads
- Project folders and schedules
- Produces
- A project status dashboard
Your benefit: Spot a risk while it can still be resolved at low cost.
Design, tendering and contract award
From design reports to the award recommendation. This is where most documentation hours are spent.
Producing reports
- Reads
- Room data, schematics and client requirements
- Produces
- Design reports, preliminary design reports, feasibility studies and functional descriptions in your template as editable DOCX files
Your benefit: Ready for review the same day rather than in two weeks.
Producing specifications and bills of quantities
- Reads
- Design report, functional description, building automation schematics and function list
- Produces
- Specification and bill of quantities with items, quantities and prices
Your benefit: The specification is based on your design, rather than a previous project.
Bid evaluation
- Reads
- Bids and bidders' supporting documents
- Produces
- Technical, arithmetic and commercial comparison, evaluation and award recommendation
Your benefit: Your award recommendation is ready before the bid validity deadline becomes urgent.
Construction and beyond
On site, at handover and whenever previous work needs to be found again.
Meeting minutes and as-built documentation
- Reads
- Your meeting notes and previous minutes
- Produces
- Meeting minutes with tasks, deadlines and responsibilities
Your benefit: Minutes are sent out before the next meeting.
Making project knowledge searchable
- Reads
- Your entire project archive
- Produces
- An answer to your question, with source references
Your benefit: Experience stays in the practice, even when someone leaves.
Where this comes from
We first introduced it in our own engineering practice.
Developed in an engineering practice
A spin-off from MSR-Innovations in Kulmbach. HOAI work stages and review cycles are part of our everyday work.
Approval stays with you
No document leaves your practice until a specialist engineer has reviewed and approved it.
Your filing system stays as it is
No new software or data migration. The assistant reads documents where they are already stored.
Beyond these examples
How to tell whether your process is suitable.
- It follows a similar pattern in every project. The details vary, but the basic approach remains the same.
- The source material is already in your files. You do not have to re-enter or move anything.
- Someone currently writes or checks it manually. Starting again each time, although the task is similar.
If two of the three apply, a conversation is worthwhile
We tailor the assistant to your workflow. Solution design gives you a written recommendation on which process to start with. View solution design.
Further processes that can be implemented in the same way:
Discuss your process.
Tell us which task takes up the most time. In thirty minutes, we can explain whether and how it could be automated.