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Automation & AI integration for engineering consultancies

The firms that automate first will be the ones still standing in five years.

Project Base Point builds custom tools that let structural, civil and mechanical engineering firms produce, check and issue drawings in a fraction of the time. Off-the-shelf tools aren't built around your drawing standards or naming conventions — that's how our service stands out from the rest. With a decade of structural engineering experience behind us, you're not in the hands of an AI chatbot, but a professional in the industry.

Checked 10+ years as an Autodesk technician — AutoCAD & Revit
General notes

The drawing office hasn't changed. Everything around it is about to.

Read in conjunction with your last fee proposal. Any discrepancies to be reported to the engineer immediately.

NOTE 1

Technicians do robot work

Exporting, renaming, sheet setup, rev tracking, issue packaging — hours of skilled time spent on tasks a script does in seconds, on every job, every issue.

NOTE 2

AI is arriving without you

Agentic AI is moving into drawing production and checking. Firms that haven't standardised and automated their workflows won't be able to plug it in when it lands.

NOTE 3

Generic consultants don't fit

IT consultancies don't know what a rev cloud is. Software vendors don't know your deliverables. The gap is someone who has sat in the chair and shipped the drawings.

Scope of works

Four packages. Fixed deliverables. No retainer required to start.

PBP / 01

Automation audit

A free 30-minute call, then a free 2–3 hour workflow workshop over Teams. We map every repetitive workflow, listen to how your office actually works, and follow up within days with a costed report showing exactly what to automate and what it's worth per year.

DELIVERABLE:
Costed automation roadmap
No cost, no obligation
PBP / 02

Custom tooling

Revit add-ins and utilities built to your standards and client naming conventions — batch exporters, issue packagers, revision managers, drawing scanners, QA checkers. Installed, documented, and adopted by your team.

DELIVERABLE:
Installed & documented add-ins
Fixed scope per tool
PBP / 03

AI integration

Practical AI inside real workflows: drawing note QA, spec cross-checking, model auditing, and document intelligence — deployed with guardrails, and only where it beats the manual process.

DELIVERABLE:
Working AI-assisted workflow
Scoped after audit
PBP / 04

Partner retainer

An extension of our service, available once we've delivered your first Build — new tools built at your request, included in the price, plus ongoing support, updates when Revit versions change, and a direct line for your technicians.

DELIVERABLE:
New tools, built on request
Monthly · requires a prior Build
As built

Tools already running in a live drawing office.

Built and battle-tested inside a working structural engineering practice, and built to transfer directly to civil and mechanical drawing offices — not demo-ware.

Export

Multi-convention DWG & PDF exporters

One-click batch export with per-client naming conventions — including major infrastructure clients with strict document standards. Hours per issue reduced to minutes.

Issue management

Latest-revision drawing scanner

Scans years of issued documentation, identifies the current revision of every drawing, and packages a clean set — a task that took an afternoon now takes seconds.

Model hygiene

Clean model exporter

Detaches, purges, strips links and packages issue-ready models with date-stamped naming — repeatable, consistent, and impossible to get wrong.

File management

Batch match & rename utilities

Matches and renames deliverables by drawing number across formats, eliminating one of the most error-prone manual steps before issue.

Issue sequence

How an engagement runs. Entirely online, start to finish.

RevStageDescriptionStatus
P1 Consult Free 30-minute call over Teams. We hear how your drawing office runs and what's slowing your technicians down. FOR COMMENT
P2 Workshop 2–3 hour workflow workshop over Teams. Full workflow mapping, a look at tools we've already built, and time to hear your team's needs and preferences. FOR COMMENT
P3 Propose We go away for 2–3 days to cost it properly, then reconvene over Teams to walk through exactly what we propose to build and why. FOR APPROVAL
C1 Build Once agreed, allow 2–3 weeks build time. Tools built to fixed scope, tested against your live projects and standards. FOR CONSTRUCTION
C2 Demo Final demonstration call — see the tools running against your real drawings before rollout, plus documentation and training. AS BUILT
Schedule of savings

The maths on time you're already paying for.

A conservative worked example. Take just three small repetitive tasks a technician runs a few times a week — the kind every drawing office already has.

BasisBeforeAfter automationSaving
Per task ~10 min ~2 min 8 min
Per technician / week
3 tasks × 3 times/week
90 min 18 min 72 min
Team of 10 / month 60 hours 12 hours 48 hours
Cost / month
@ £50/hr avg. technician rate
£3,000 £600 £2,400
48 hrs given back to the team every month
£2,400 in technician time saved every month
Just 3 tasks modelled in this example — most firms find far more

That's not extra capacity you have to find — it's capacity your technicians already have, currently spent on unskilled repetition instead of the modelling work that actually needs them. Savings scale directly with team size and with how many workflows get automated; this example stops at three.

Engagement

Priced like a subconsultant, not a software vendor.

Free

Consultation

Free · 30 minutes over Teams
  • We listen to your workflows, ideas & problems
  • Walk through how we'd solve them
  • See tools we've already built for others
  • No obligation — just a conversation
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One-off

Build

From £1,499
  • Custom Revit add-ins & utilities
  • Your standards, your conventions
  • Costed roadmap & time-saving estimates
  • Documentation & team training
  • 90-day snagging period included
Scope a build
Subscription

Partner

£299/month
Extension of Build — available once we've delivered your first project
  • New tools built at your request — included
  • Ongoing support & updates
  • Cover beyond the 90-day snagging window
  • Revit version migrations
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For comment

Book a free 30-minute call. Bring your worst workflow.

Tell us the task your technicians complain about most. We'll tell you on the call whether it's automatable, roughly what it would cost, and what it's costing you now.

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ProjectPROJECT BASE POINT LTD
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StatusFOR COMMENT