Engineering Firms
You know the value is shifting from production to judgment. Build around it.
Your team already uses AI for drafting and analysis. The economics have changed. A full day with your senior team and you leave with 2–3 new offerings for what comes after production hours.
The pressure engineering firms are facing right now.
Production Automation
AI-generated designs and structural calculations are getting good enough that clients question your fees.
Price Competition
Younger firms are using AI to deliver faster at lower cost, winning projects on price.
Value Shift
Your team knows AI changes the business model but nobody has a plan for what to sell differently.
SWAPP reduced manual drafting workload 8x for Israel’s largest engineering firm. Augmenta compresses electrical system design from 6–8 weeks to days. AI rendering tools have cut visualization budgets 60–80%. Younger firms are winning projects on speed and price. Only 27% of AEC professionals use AI for automation, the lowest of any professional services vertical, but 94% of those who do plan to increase usage.
Assessment
See how your firm compares.
8 minutes. You get an assessment showing where your firm has real commercial gaps, how you compare to peers in your vertical, and a report you can take to your next partner meeting.
See Where You StandWhat firms like yours are designing in the Workshop.
Every engagement is different. Your team’s domain expertise shapes the output. These are the kinds of offerings engineering firms leave with, specified and priced. Your team or an implementation partner builds and tests them with named clients.
AI-augmented design review service
Clients or contractors generate initial designs with AI. You provide the expert review, code compliance, and engineering judgment. Fixed-fee per project.
Rapid feasibility analysis
AI-powered site analysis and preliminary design delivered in days. Premium pricing for speed that used to take weeks.
Ongoing building performance monitoring
AI-driven analysis of building systems post-construction. Subscription revenue from existing clients.
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Most firms know they need new AI-driven services. Few know what a finished offering looks like — the brief, the pricing, the delivery model, the first client conversation.
$15,000
Fixed fee. A full day with your senior team. 2–3 new offerings your team or an implementation partner builds and tests.
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