Knowledge-based service providers

AI automation for planning and engineering firms.

Bills of quantities, technical reports, fee invoicing: the planning work is creative, the documentation is not. We automate BoQ analysis, planning text and tenders.

The bottleneck in engineering firms: documentation eats planning time.

Six time-drains every planner knows.

BoQ creation and analysis

A bill of quantities for a mid-sized project quickly runs to several hundred line items. Pulling quantities from drawings, assigning prices, writing item texts: that eats days in which nobody plans.

BoQ draft from BIM in hours

Report structure

Survey, assessment, recommendation: every technical report follows the same structure, yet it gets typed from scratch each time. Building blocks from earlier projects sit somewhere on the drive.

Structure templates with text blocks

Fee-scale invoicing

Delimiting service phases, allocating fees, documenting variations, writing interim invoices: error-prone and time-consuming when it is done by hand.

Fee-scale-compliant reports, automatic

Public tenders

Checking procedures under VgV or UVgO, assembling proof of suitability, drafting bids: every tender brings the same legwork.

Tender parser, VOB-compliant

Project reports to clients

Status reports, site documentation, schedule changes: clients want to be kept informed regularly, and project managers end up writing them late in the evening.

Client updates from project data

BIM data upkeep

Models contain thousands of objects with metadata. Who keeps the attributes consistent? With incomplete data, quantity take-off fails later.

Automatic BIM attribute upkeep

What we automate in engineering firms, concretely.

BoQ generator from CAD/BIM

Quantities are extracted from the BIM model and linked with your item database and historical prices. The result: a BoQ draft the engineer still reviews and adjusts, instead of typing it out entirely.

Report assistant

The AI provides structure templates for typical report types, pulls matching text blocks from earlier projects, and inserts images, measurements and sketches in the right places.

Tender parser

Procurement documents for public tenders are structured: deadlines, suitability criteria, required proofs, special conditions. The AI checks against your reference matrix whether participating is worthwhile.

Fee-scale service-phase reports

Allocation of hours and results to the fee-scale service phases, automatic creation of interim reports and fee invoices in line with the current HOAI.

Client updates

From project progress, schedules, costs and photo documentation, a consistent client report takes shape, weekly or monthly, depending on the contract.

BIM metadata upkeep

The AI checks models for missing or inconsistent attributes, suggests values, and flags spots where a specialist planner should review before the model goes into quantity take-off.

Automatic GAEB export

BoQ content is exported into the relevant GAEB formats (GAEB XML, DA 83/84/86), readable by cost-estimation software on the client and bidder side.

A typical case from an engineering firm.

MEP engineering firm, 14 employees

A mid-sized planning firm for building services engineering, focused on heating and ventilation for commercial buildings. Before the project: creating a BoQ for a mid-sized project took 4-5 working days, pulling quantities from the BIM model, drafting item texts, researching prices, preparing formats for the cost-estimation software.

After the rollout: the AI pulls quantities directly from the BIM model, reconciles them with the firm's tender history, and delivers a structured BoQ draft in just under a day. Ambiguities in the model are flagged explicitly, so the engineer can review the right spots instead of checking the entire BoQ.

75%
less time on BoQs
projects with the same team
fewer claims thanks to more precise BoQs

We connect with your planning tools.

Integration into your existing systems, no parallel worlds alongside AutoCAD and Allplan.

AutoCAD Revit ArchiCAD Allplan California.pro ORCA AVA GAEB Fee-scale software DATEV Microsoft 365 IFC

We do not sell anything we have not built ourselves: our own AI apps in the App Store, a voice agent, and fully automated customer acquisition that we run in production every day.

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Everything from a single source.

Consulting

We analyze your planning and documentation processes together with project management, specialist planning and firm leadership. A concrete list: what pays off, and what comes first.

Development

We build the solution to fit your CAD/BIM systems and cost-estimation tools. Pilot in weeks, not months.

Operations

After go-live we stay on board. Monitoring, adapting to new service profiles, training your team.

How a project runs with us.

01

Process analysis

Two days on site with project management and specialist planning. A clear list of the biggest levers.

02

Pilot project

One concrete use case (e.g. the BoQ generator) live in 4-6 weeks.

03

Integration

Connection to CAD/BIM, cost-estimation software and your item database, via IFC, GAEB or native interfaces.

04

Scaling

Roll out further use cases from your priority list.

Questions from engineering firms.

It delivers a draft and structure to VOB and VgV standards, including a check against the usual formal requirements. The technical and legal review and sign-off stays with the responsible engineer; AI does not change that.
With a well-maintained BIM model, very accurate. Where attributes are missing or inconsistent, the AI explicitly flags the affected line items instead of delivering a seemingly finished draft that triggers claims later on.
Yes, in line with the current HOAI and for all service phases. The allocation of hours, results and fee shares follows your firm's rules; you keep full control over sign-off.
Yes. We work with all common CAD and BIM systems, via IFC as a neutral format or through native interfaces to AutoCAD, Revit, ArchiCAD and Allplan. For cost-estimation tools like California.pro and ORCA AVA we use GAEB.
Every processing step is versioned and logged with an audit trail: which data source, which model, which revision. For public tenders and auditable records, that is decisive.

Let's talk for 30 minutes.

By the end you will know whether AI automation pays off for your engineering firm, and if so, where the best entry point lies.

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