Engineering Firms

Your firm's knowledge.
Available in seconds.

Private AI infrastructure for consulting engineering: project memory, standards lookup, and proposal acceleration on your premises.

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The leak

Your engineers spend billable hours searching for what the firm already knows.

Senior staff hunt through shared drives, email threads, and retired colleagues' memories to find prior calculations, spec interpretations, and project decisions.

The cost of searching
10 engineers x 5 hrs/week x $250/hr loaded
$650,000/year

Of billable capacity spent on document archaeology instead of engineering.

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What we do

We ingest your reports, drawings, and standards into a private knowledge base your team can query in plain language.

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Use Case / Project Memory

Every past project becomes instantly searchable.

Decades of proposals, drawing registers, RFI responses, and lessons-learned docs ingested into your private knowledge base.

The question

"How did we detail the pile cap on the 2023 riverfront job and why?"

An engineer asks in plain language. The system finds the relevant section, drawing, and decision rationale in seconds.

The answer

Grounded in your documents

Every answer cites the source: the file name, page, and paragraph. Your experts verify instead of trusting blindly.

The result

Decisions without the hunt

Similar project decisions surface in context. Your engineers engineer instead of searching.

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Use Case / Standards

Firm-specific interpretations of code, answered with citations.

Your standards, client specs, and precedent decisions become a queryable authority. Not a chatbot's guess. Your own firm's judgment.

01

Code questions

"What is our standard detail for seismic bracing in heritage structures?" Returns your precedents, not a generic explanation.

02

Client spec library

Recurring client requirements and exceptions captured and surfaced. New staff learn the firm's history without the apprenticeship.

03

Precedent, not paraphrase

Answers include the specific document, revision, and decision context. Liability lives in specifics; so do our answers.

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Use Case / Proposals

Draft new proposals from the ones that won.

Past winning proposals, rate structures, and technical approach sections become the foundation for new bids. Human reviews every word.

01

Retrieve, do not invent

The system assembles relevant sections from prior work. Similar scope, similar team, similar technical challenges.

02

Reviewed workflow

Every output holds for human approval. Engineers own the technical content. The AI handles the archaeology.

03

Competitive speed

Proposals that once took days to draft now take hours. Turnaround becomes a bidding advantage.

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Use Case / Knowledge Continuity

Capture expertise before it walks out the door.

Structured interview programs turn a departing principal's decades of judgment into a queryable asset for the remaining team.

The program

Expertise interviews

Structured sessions with departing senior staff. Their reasoning, heuristics, and institutional memory captured as searchable knowledge.

The outcome

Continuity, not replacement

Junior engineers ask the system questions they would have asked the principal. The firm retains what experience taught.

Add-on: expertise interview program at $2,000 CAD per person.

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Why sovereign AI

Your data stays where the law and your clients require.

Client IP, sealed drawings, and confidential bid data never leave your perimeter. Sovereign deployment is a contractual selling point with your own clients.

01

On your infrastructure

Run on hardware in your facility, a dedicated node, or a private cloud boundary you own. Your data never sits in a shared pool.

02

Single-tenant isolation

Your environment is isolated by design. Knowledge from [FIRM NAME] is never mixed with another firm.

03

Provable to auditors

Full audit trail of every question, answer, and export. Compliance is demonstrable, not promised.

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How we deploy

From kickoff to live system.

Six to eight weeks to deploy the sovereign stack, ingest your documents, and build the first reviewed workflow tools.

01 / Build

Private knowledge base

Document ingestion, indexing, and testing with your own reports and drawings. Your team begins querying before go-live.

02 / Operate

Managed service

Ongoing monitoring, ingestion of new projects, compliance reporting, and expansion as your needs grow.

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Engagement

Two tiers. No discovery fees.

Prices in Canadian dollars. Final scope set during kickoff, not a paid discovery phase.

Standard · Single Office

Starting at $25,000 CAD

+ $10,000 CAD / month

Sovereign deployment for firms up to approximately 100 staff. Single office, one knowledge base, your first reviewed workflow tools. You own the environment.

Enterprise · Multi-Site

$200,000 CAD

+ $20,000 CAD / month

Large or multi-office deployment: dedicated capacity, expanded scope, and priority delivery across practice groups and regions.

Add-ons: additional department $15,000 · legacy data digitization $5,000/TB · custom integration $250/hour.

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The commitments

What we promise with your data.

01

It stays yours

Your documents remain in your isolated environment. On request they are removed, exported, or transferred without penalty.

02

It is never used against you

No mixing with other clients. Nothing derived from [FIRM NAME] data is used to improve another firm's system.

03

It is provable

74% correct retrieval-grounded vs ~5-10% without, 0% fabrication on trap questions in our measured test set. Every answer cites its source.

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Oction Labs

Let us show [FIRM NAME] your own documents answering your own questions.

Brandon Gill
Founder
brandon@octionagency.com
Shamir Cheema
CRO
shamir@octionagency.com
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