Private AI for engineers and architects in Sydney

Engineering and architecture practices keep specifications, reports, tenders and contracts that clients expect to stay confidential. A local AI that runs on a computer in your office lets your team ask questions of those documents without sending them to a cloud AI service.

What engineers and architects use it for

• Finding a requirement across specifications, consultant reports and meeting minutes, and seeing which document it came from.
• Summarising a long tender document, report or contract in a few bullet points.
• Searching your own standards, procedures, checklists and past project notes.
• Drafting a first version of a site report, an RFI response or an email from your own templates, for a team member to review.

Why keeping it in the office matters

Client designs, pricing and project details are often commercially sensitive, and contracts often include confidentiality terms. Check yours before putting project documents into any cloud AI service.

With one of our computers, your documents and your team's questions stay on a computer in your office. The one exception is web search, which is off unless you switch it on, and then only the words being searched go out, never your documents.

• Every person has their own login.
• You can keep separate document sets for each project or team, so people only see what they should.
• Administrators can review chat history, so it is fair to tell your staff.

What it will not do

It works with text documents such as PDF, Word and Excel files and slides. It does not read drawing or CAD files, and scanned pages or images may not be readable. It is not engineering or design advice, and it does not replace professional judgement. Like any AI tool it can get things wrong or misread a document, so check important answers against the source. Each answer shows which documents it used, which makes that check quicker.

Before you use any AI tool on project work, check what your contracts, professional body and insurer expect. Keeping files in the office is a good start, but it does not by itself meet your obligations.

Sized for a small practice

We size each build to the number of people who will use it at once and test it with several people asking questions together before handover. See our builds for the options. To compare the cost with per-person AI subscriptions, use the cost calculator, or try it on one of your own documents. We are based in Sydney and set up on the North Shore and in the CBD.

Read more: Is your AI provider training on your documents?, What is a private AI box? and What to ask before you buy.

Other offices we help: law firms, accountants, medical practices, financial advisers and mortgage brokers and conveyancers and real estate agents.