Your AI tracks every place a drawing change needs to land.
It flags every drawing and document a revision touches, and drafts the client progress report from site notes. Self-hosted document control costs a server, not another CAD seat every year.
What your AI would do in Engineering.
Concrete jobs an AI operating system set up around your business could take on, including the ones that catch a problem before it lands on your desk.
01
Reads a drawing revision and flags every place in the project where the change needs to be carried through.
02
Drafts the client progress report from site notes and the project programme.
03
Checks a submittal against the specification and flags what doesn't match before it goes to the client.
04
Watches which revision each trade is working from and flags anyone still on a superseded drawing.
More than
More than 80%.
of engineering and construction survey respondents describe at least 25% of their project data as unusable
What your AI does about it:
It reads a drawing revision and flags every place in the project where the change must be carried through.
Imagine it. Here it is.
See it work.
A short, fictional scenario. Watch the AI handle it end to end.
R 2.70M
Typical annual licence spend
Across 8 common engineering tools
R 2.43M
Recoverable each year
After self-hosted OSS migration
3
Sector pain points we cover
From licensing to compliance to access control
The engineering stack, on the books
Tap a tool. See the open-source swap and the saving.
Bars show what the typical engineering firm spends annually on each licence. The sage portion is what the hosted open-source equivalent costs.
Typical Engineering stack
8 tools · R 2.70M/yr in licences
Replace
Siemens NX
CAD / Engineering · R 1.50M per year
With
FreeCAD
Self-hosted on your infra
Annual savings
R 1.35M
After hosting · approx 90% reduction
Current annual spend
R 2.70M
Estimated OSS hosting
R 270K
Annual savings
R 2.43M
Tap any tool to see the open-source replacement and the per-tool saving
Where engineering time and money leak
What we hear on every engineering discovery call.
Revision changes missed downstream
A drawing revision changes and someone downstream keeps working from the old version. An AI checks every place the change should carry through and flags what's missed.
CAD and BIM per-seat annual licences
R30k to R60k per engineer a year across AutoCAD, Revit and SolidWorks. For a 15-person firm, that's the cost of another engineer.
Document management SaaS
Drawing revisions, transmittals and submittals priced per project or per user. Self-hosted Nextcloud with version control handles the same workflow.
How we handle the engineering edges
The sector-specific things we get right.
Now it's real.
Four things stay true, whatever we build for you.
Your hardware or ours
On your server, on ours, or on a machine in your office running an open model. Your call.
A person approves what matters
Payments, deletions and anything going to a client wait for a yes from you or someone you choose.
Every action logged
You can see what it read, what it did and why, for every task.
Built with POPIA in mind
We set it up the way we set up any system that handles personal information, with the same care our compliance work gets.
Questions people ask
Does the AI change drawings itself?
No, it flags every place a revision should carry through. An engineer makes the actual change.
How does version control protect us in a professional liability dispute?
Git-backed revision history gives cryptographic proof of exactly what changed and when, which matters when liability is questioned.
Can it work alongside our existing AutoCAD or Revit seats?
Yes, we can keep premium CAD seats for the roles that need them and move document control to self-hosted first.
How does this satisfy ECSA or SACAP record-keeping rules?
We configure retention and access controls that meet both professional bodies' requirements on record-keeping and confidentiality.