Inspection reports
The inspection takes an hour. The report takes considerably longer and happens days later, which is the expensive part. By then the notes are cryptic and the photographs need matching to the observations they belong with.
Services / Engineering consultancies
// engineering
AI operations for engineering consultancies.
The billable work is the analysis and the advice. The unbillable work is describing it, and for most firms that has quietly grown larger than anyone planned for.
$ qdp scope --practice engineering
inspection_reports: “field notes to first draft, same day”
scope_and_fee_letters: “standard language, real comparables”
compliance_packs: “assembled continuously, not at closeout”
rfi_register: “captured on arrival, aged and owned”
// scoped to your practice. owned by you.▋
Where the hours go in a consultancy.
Every one of these documents is assembled largely from information the firm already holds, and assembled by hand. That is the whole opportunity.
Scope and fee letters
The template is the easy part. The work is deciding what is in scope, which standards apply, and what the fee should be given how the last three similar jobs actually went. That last number is the one nobody has time to look up.
Compliance and certification packs
Calculations, drawings, certificates, correspondence confirming decisions, evidence that checks were performed. All of it exists, distributed across a file structure, an inbox, and somebody's memory. Assembling it at the end is slow and risky.
RFI and sub-consultant tracking
RFIs arrive by email, need an answer with contractual weight, carry implied deadlines, and are easy to lose in a busy inbox. Meanwhile you are waiting on architectural information and somebody downstream is waiting on you.
What we would build for you.
Every build starts from your workflows rather than a template, so treat these as the shape of the work rather than a menu.
Field notes to first draft
Notes and photographs captured on site, in whatever form is realistic, turned into a structured draft against your report format before the engineer is back at the desk. Observations under the right headings, photographs attached to what they support, recommendations left empty and waiting.
Proposal assembly
Standard scope language by service type, your current exclusions and assumptions, the applicable standards, and comparable past engagements with quoted fee against actual delivered cost. A populated draft and the context to price it properly.
Continuous closeout
Documents tagged as they are produced rather than sorted at the end, so the compliance pack assembles as the project runs. At closeout you review a complete set and investigate a short list of gaps, instead of reconstructing a project from its artefacts.
What we can tell you before you have seen it work.
Our published case study is an architecture practice, not a firm like yours. We would rather say that plainly than dress up a testimonial from an adjacent industry, so here is what stands behind the work instead.
You see the plan before you commit
The assessment produces a written Automation Map: what is worth automating in your firm, in priority order, with an honest recommendation on each. It is free, and it is yours to keep whether or not you go ahead.
The scope is the contract
If your system does not do what we scoped within 30 days of launch, we fix it free or refund you in full. We do not promise business outcomes we cannot control. We promise the system does what we said it would.
You own the code and the IP
Once the project is paid for, everything in it is yours. No per-seat licence and nothing to unwind if you want to take it in-house. You could do that tomorrow. We would just rather you did not have to.
$ qdp start --practice engineering
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