Engineering intelligence for design & construction offices

It stops you sending
something wrong.
And it proves you were right.

The workspace reads your contract, specifications, drawings and years of correspondence — then checks what you are about to issue against them, and keeps the record that protects you when the answer is slow. Registers, drawings, workflows and claims around it, on infrastructure you own. Built inside the delivery of a mega-project, not in a demo lab.

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72,000+
Ask your archive
documents indexed on one live project — every answer cites its exact page
40
Engineering calculators
pumps to gensets to lifts — the formula printed with every result
5,300
Sign-offs, proven
EDL rows moving through real chains — 14 engineers in parallel, reconciled
100%
Yours
your hardware, one workspace price — no per-seat cloud, no data leaving
EN+AR
Reads everything
scanned letters and stamped drawings, searchable in both languages
The dashboard

engineering-workspace — your project's front page

iThe check that runs before anything leaves

Your own documents already know
what is wrong with that letter.

An RFI, a letter, a submittal cover, a claim notice. Paste it in and the workspace retrieves the clauses it relies on — the whole section, not the sentence somebody remembered — and answers six questions before the Engineer gets the chance to.

01

Do the clauses say what you claim?

Every specification section, drawing and code the draft leans on is retrieved and read. A quotation that does not survive its own source is found here, not in the response.

02

Is there a clause that contradicts you?

The one nobody thinks to look for: a requirement elsewhere in the same section that forbids exactly what you are proposing. A draft claiming compliance while breaching an unmentioned clause is worse than one that asks openly.

03

Is that the edition your contract binds?

A standing register of every code the contract binds, at which edition, against which edition is actually on your shelf. A section number taken from a later edition is a rejection that looks like a technicality and costs a full cycle.

04

Are you deviating without saying so?

Undeclared deviations are what turn a technical discussion into a credibility problem. Declared ones get approved. The check names each one and drafts the sentence that declares it.

05

Have you made a claim one example destroys?

"No longer available anywhere" invites a reviewer to spend ten minutes disproving you, and then to read the rest of your submission with suspicion. It is replaced with what was surveyed, when, and by whom.

06

Is there a required response date?

Without one, a six-week silence leaves no position worth arguing. The check refuses to call a draft ready until it says when an answer is needed and what that answer protects.

Your draft
RFI · letter · submittal cover
claim notice · method statement
➤
Read against your own archive
clauses retrieved and read whole —
editions, conflicts, acceptable makers,
and what this Engineer ruled before
➤
Hold · revise · send
with the clause that contradicts you
quoted, and where it sits
See everything the check reads →
iiOne workspace, not seven apps

Everything the office does. Choose a pillar — see it real.

These are actual screens, not mock-ups. Every pillar has its own deep-dive page with more screenshots and detail.

Dashboard
Your radar

Dashboard

A project-health score you can interrogate, an AI morning brief, and one “Needs attention” list ranked across registers, workflows, reviews and mail.

Every overdue thing in the project, one ranked list
KPI tiles with real day-by-day sparklines
Click any row — you land on the item itself
Explore Dashboard in depth →
Design Workflow
The EDL, alive

Design Workflow

Deliverables move through real sign-off chains — originate, check, approve, DC, issue — with working-day deadlines, escalation, response codes and as-builts.

Proven at 5,300 rows and 14 engineers acting in parallel
Batch approvals, delegation for leave, automatic escalation
Consultant response codes close the loop — C/D reopen the chain themselves
Explore Design Workflow in depth →
Registers
The approval clock

Registers

RFIs, submittals, shop drawings, risks — one consistent grid that imports your existing exports, follows a live Excel log if you keep one, and shows who is holding what, oldest first.

Import the Aconex export you already have — columns map themselves
Excel and PDF out, chase packs in one press
Feeds the claims ledger automatically
Explore Registers in depth →
Claims
Evidence on autopilot

Claims

Every day a submittal sits beyond its contractual review allowance is recorded as entitlement evidence — and the monthly exhibit is one press away.

Held-vs-allowed clocks on every open item
Notice deadlines tracked — never miss a 28-day clause
Word evidence pack with dates and references
Explore Claims in depth →
Before the pour
The date that cannot move

Before the pour

The concrete pouring plan is the one date on a construction site that will not wait. This holds every pour against the shop drawings and submittals that must be approved before it — and tells you the number of days you asked to be told early, while there is still time to do something.

You set the warning: flag me N days before the pour
It matches by location and by trade, and always shows its reasoning
Confirm or dismiss a link by hand and your decision outranks the matcher — and survives the next import
Explore Before the pour in depth →
Search & Ask
Page-cited answers

Search & Ask

Ask across every indexed document — specifications, drawings, letters, even scans — and get answers that cite the exact page.

Semantic + keyword search with reranking, on your own server
Arabic and English, scanned documents included
⌘K palette from anywhere in the app
Explore Search & Ask in depth →
Mail & Follow-ups
Nothing slips

Mail & Follow-ups

Your sent mail becomes tracked promises: replies detected automatically, chasers drafted, working days counted on your weekend. Attachments open in place, whole threads read back with a summary on demand, and handwritten meeting notes come back as numbered briefs.

Meeting prep packs assembled from mail, calendar and registers
Reads and drafts only — it never sends anything itself
Connect YOUR account; sign-in happens at microsoft.com
Explore Mail & Follow-ups in depth →
Studios
Drawings in the browser

Studios

Mark up PDF drawings — clouds, callouts, stamps, RFI-linked comments — open DWG/DXF directly, and compare two revisions with every change highlighted.

A real review, live: cloud, callouts and a FOR REVIEW stamp on the sheet
Open from the project, OneDrive, mail attachments or your PC
Exports look exactly as you drew them
Explore Studios in depth →
Calculators
40 verified tools

Calculators

Forty engineering calculators — hydraulics, HVAC (fifteen of them), electrical, fire, drainage, plumbing, vertical transport — each showing its formula and its assumptions with the result.

Pump power to genset sizing to lift traffic — in the workspace, not a spreadsheet
Every result carries the formula it used
The Assistant uses the same calculators in documents
Explore Calculators in depth →
Assistant & AI
Grounded, honest

Assistant & AI

A project-grounded assistant that searches your evidence, calculates with verified formulas and writes deliverables on your letterhead — with per-user AI accounts, badged and billed honestly.

Cites (document, p.X) — or says ⟨TBC⟩, never invents
Keeps your company template's cover, footer and contents
Each user brings their own AI key; local features never need one
Explore Assistant & AI in depth →
Platform
The operating system

Platform

Programme, variations, AI document reviews, multi-project workspaces, client portal, security, backups, automations — the frame that makes the pillars one product.

Roles, 2FA, audit trail, signed updates, encrypted secrets
Hourly automations chase so people don't have to
Teaches itself: tour, manual, living demo project
Explore Platform in depth →
iiiNinety seconds, one project morning

Watch it work.

No slides, no narrator, nothing staged — the real product moving through a real morning: the dashboard, a question to the archive, the deliverable list, a workflow chain, the claims ledger, a drawing marked up, a calculation, the follow-ups.

00:03 the dashboard 00:14 ask the archive 00:24 the deliverable list 00:35 a workflow chain 00:46 the claims ledger 00:56 PDF studio 01:07 calculators 01:17 follow-ups
ivThe walkthrough library

Eleven short films. The whole product.

Every film is the real application moving on the living demo project — no slides, no mock-ups. Start with the full walkthrough, then pick the part of your day you want back.

4:27 · WATCHEngineering Workspace, the full walkthrough in 5 minutes
2:48 · WATCHThe outbound check that reads your specification before the Engineer does
1:53 · WATCHThe concrete date will not wait for your shop drawings
2:05 · WATCHThe knowledge base that actually reads your project
1:31 · WATCH600 drawings, real approval chains, zero spreadsheet wars
1:36 · WATCHRegisters that work for you, not the other way round
1:14 · WATCHThe claims file that wrote itself while you worked
0:59 · WATCHSnags you can speak, paper checked against the wall
1:12 · WATCHThe small tools that carry your working day
1:52 · WATCHAcross projects, and a client portal you control
1:19 · WATCHWhere your data lives: your server, your record
Films play right here · visit the channel for the full playlist.
vWhat this means for your company

Six commitments. One workspace.

Not features for a brochure — outcomes a delivery director signs their name against.

01

Control the design workflow — and the process itself

Design, review and approval chains with named owners and working-day clocks — and the process monitored end to end, so a defect in the flow (a step sat on, a chain skipped, a code unrecorded) is seen and fixed, never suffered silently.

02

One complete workspace. Productive engineers.

Drawings, registers, mail, calculators, search and AI in one place, one login, one record. The hours your engineers lose switching, exporting and re-finding come back as engineering.

03

Track the scope. Eliminate scope creep.

The scope of work tracked item by item, every variation registered the day it appears, and consultant comments screened automatically for hidden scope — creep is caught while it is still a sentence, not a cost.

04

Discover claims — with proper citations

The claims ledger builds entitlement evidence from the registers you already keep: held-vs-allowed clocks, notice windows, excess days — and every exhibit cites its documents, dates and references.

05

The speed of indexing, the power of AI

72,000+ documents indexed locally answer in seconds with the page cited — and AI composes, drafts and reviews on top of that evidence. Intelligence with receipts, at zero cost per question.

06

The complete platform

Schedule control, variations, email, calendar, notifications and a client portal your company fully controls — with registers, drawings, workflows and claims — one platform on your own hardware. No module gaps, no second subscription.

viThe part nobody else explains

Your documents already know the answers.
Indexing is how you ask them.

Most engineering offices sit on tens of thousands of PDFs, drawings and letters that only answer when someone remembers where to look. The workspace reads them all — once — and turns them into a knowledge base that answers in seconds, with the page number to prove it.

Your folders
specs · drawings · letters
scans · registers · minutes
➜
The EW intelligence engine
reads, OCRs (English + Arabic),
understands and indexes — on your machine
➜
Cited answers
“…as clause 4.3.2 requires —
(Spec 22 60 00, p.41)”

What that looks like in real work

One question — “what duty should the booster pump set be procured for?” — and the workspace lines up the specification clause, the clarification that questioned it, the drawing that carries the answer and the Engineer's response. Four documents, four page numbers, three seconds.

No per-question cost — the engine runs on your own server
Scans and Arabic letters are read, not skipped
New arrivals index themselves from watched folders
Explore Search & Ask in depth →
Search results with page citations
viiSay it plainly

This is not a document platform.
Put it beside one and see.

Measured against the per-user construction cloud — the platform an office is usually offered. It manages documents well. It does not read them, check them, predict with them or defend you with them. That difference is the product.

Engineering Workspace The construction cloud
Design & engineering intelligenceThe reason it exists — nothing in the market does these.
Checks what you are about to SEND against the specification it cites
Finds the clause elsewhere in the same section that contradicts your proposal reads the whole section
Predicts how the Engineer will answer, from their own prior rulings
What else a proposed change obliges — approved submittals, sheets, prior rulings
Standing register: which code editions the contract binds vs what is on the shelf
Requirements inside one specification that cannot both be satisfied, found automatically
“Has the Engineer ruled on this before?” answered from your own correspondence keyword search only
Ask the whole project archive — answers cite the exact page, engine runs locally no per-question cost their cloud AI, extra cost
40 verified engineering calculators inside the workspace
Design & construction managementThe office run end to end — with the clocks that make people move.
Design sign-off chains with codes A–D, delegation, batch actions, escalation generic review steps
Shop drawings held against the POURING PLAN — flagged the days early you choose you set how many days early
How long this project actually takes to answer, measured from your own record reports, not entitlement
Scope tracked, variations registered — scope creep caught early with comment screening change logs only
Registers feeding a claims entitlement ledger automatically logs, no entitlement clocks
A site photograph checked against the APPROVED SUBMITTAL, not a generic checklist checklist inspections
Speak a snag on site and it files itself as the right kind of record on-device, no AI account typed forms
Head-office view across every job: turnaround, return reasons, repeat conflicts dashboards, not causes
A read-only client progress portal — every element switchable by YOUR company server-enforced fixed dashboards
One record, one priceEverything above shares one project record on hardware you own — documentation control included as the supporting cast, not the product.
Outlook integrated: replies detected, chasers drafted, working-day clocks notifications only
Drawing studios built in — PDF markup, DWG/DXF opening, revision compare included viewer-grade
Arabic letters and scanned documents readable and searchable
Schedule, variations, email, calendar and notifications — one platform separate modules, separate prices
Runs on your hardware — your documents never live in someone's cloud one workspace price per user / month
An individual engineer can buy it for their own desk $39 a month enterprise contract
Teaches itself: guided tour, manual, living demo project

= partly, with effort or extra cost. This is about integration, not disrespect: here the intelligence, the registers, the mail, the calculators and the studios share one project record on one server you own — that is the feature a per-user cloud cannot add.

Proven in delivery

It was proven before it was sold.

Written inside the delivery of a live mega-project and used every working day since — the numbers at the top of this page are measurements, not marketing. The full story, and what it means for your data, is one page long.
Read the proof →
viiiYour data never leaves home

Security the way an engineering office needs it.

On your infrastructureDocuments, index and database stay on your own machines, reached through an encrypted tunnel.
Sign-in, alwaysNo anonymous access, rate-limited logins, two-factor enforced for administrators of a shared workspace.
Roles that mean somethingAdmin, engineer, viewer — and client accounts that see a progress portal only, showing exactly what your company chose to share.
Project-pinned accountsTrial and demo users are locked to a demo project. Your live projects do not exist for them.
Encrypted per-user secretsMail sign-ins and AI keys are stored encrypted per person — nobody sees anyone else's.
An audit trail that remembersLogins, changes, approvals, escalations — who did what is built in, not bolted on.
ixAsked before installing

Plain answers first.

What is EngSpace, in one sentence?EngSpace, the Engineering Workspace, is a project intelligence platform for engineering and construction offices: it reads your contract, specifications, drawings and correspondence, checks what you are about to issue against them, and keeps registers, sign-off workflows, claims evidence, drawing studios and a client portal around that one record, on a server you own.
Where does my project data live?On your own infrastructure. Documents, the search index and the database stay on the machine your company operates; the engine reads, OCRs and answers locally. Remote access is off until you switch it on; while it is on it runs through an encrypted tunnel and sign-in is always required. Nothing is stored in a vendor cloud.
What does it cost?Two ways in. One engineer on one project pays $39 a month (or $390 a year) and gets every feature. A company pays one annual price for the workspace with unlimited engineers and projects. There is no per-seat bill, no per-module unlock, and no charge for the calculators or the studios. AI tasks run on your own AI key, so there is no per-question fee to us. The full picture is on the pricing page, and the free 14-day evaluation that begins at first launch needs no key and no request.
Does it read Arabic documents?Yes. Scanned Arabic letters and stamped drawings are OCRed and become searchable alongside English, and the interface itself ships with a full Arabic right-to-left option.
How does the AI stay honest?Every answer must cite its source, document and page. When the evidence is not there, the assistant writes TBC instead of inventing, and a checker pass tries to prove drafts wrong before you see them. Search, registers, workflows and calculators are deterministic local features that need no AI account at all.
How should I test it?Install it — the 14-day evaluation starts by itself, on your own machine, so you can point it at the real project without anything leaving your computer — and try to break it: ask questions where two clauses conflict, where the wrong code edition is cited, or where a previous Engineer response changed the interpretation. Catching those is the whole point of the outbound check.
What does the install need from my machine?A 64-bit machine with 8 GB of memory (16 GB is comfortable) and room on an SSD for your documents plus about 15% for the index. The installer carries everything else — runtime, search models, Arabic-English OCR — and the first run benchmarks your computer and tells you what it can comfortably carry. The details are on the requirements page.
xNo training course required

It teaches itself.

First sign-in opens a one-minute guided tour that walks the real navigation, role-aware. Behind it: a full manual, exact how-to hints on every settings card, and a living demo project to practise on safely.

See the assistant & AI accounts →
The first-login guided tour
Two ways in. One engineer, or the whole office.
$39 a month for one person on one project · an annual licence with unlimited engineers for a company. No per-seat cloud bill, no per-module unlock, nothing extra for the calculators or the studios.
For one engineer

Personal

You, your project, your machine
$39per month
≈ SAR 146 · or $390 a year — two months free · cancel any month

The whole workspace for one person on one project. Not a cut-down edition: the same specification reading, the same outbound check, the same studios and calculators the company plan gets.

One engineer, one project — every feature in the product
Before you send, Before the pour, registers, claims, studios, 40 calculators
Your documents stay on your own machine · nothing is uploaded to us
AI features run on your own AI key, so you control that cost separately
Cancel any month · your files were never ours to hold
Ask for the personal plan
Or install it first — the free 14-day evaluation needs no key.

Company

A team, a floor, a project office
Annual licence
One price for the workspace · unlimited engineers on it

No per-seat bill and no per-module unlock. Everything the personal plan has, plus the parts a company needs: many projects, roles, the client portal, the cross-project view and the administration around them.

Unlimited engineers — adding the fourteenth costs nothing
Many projects, roles and permissions, audit trail, signed updates
Client progress portal · you choose what each client sees
Across-projects intelligence: who answers, what repeats, what to fix
Runs on your server or your office machine · your data never leaves it
Talk about a company licence
Pricing conversations start after you have seen it on your own project.

How paying works today. Ask for the plan you want and a person answers — there is no card form on this site yet. Once we have agreed, you receive an invoice and then an activation code. One licence covers one computer: type the code in Settings and that machine is licensed. Moving to another computer is yours to do — Release this computer, then activate there. The licence renews itself quietly in the background and keeps working for weeks with no internet at all; nothing is ever switched off remotely mid-project, and an expired licence winds down to read-only on its own with every document still readable and exportable.

See both plans side by side →

xiFree 14-day evaluation · full product · your machine

Install it and begin — free for 14 days.

Nothing to request and nobody to wait for: download it, install it, and the 14-day evaluation starts by itself the first time it opens. The workspace runs entirely on your computer — your documents are indexed and searched there and never leave it — so you can judge it on the real project, not a sanitised one.

14 days, the full product — every pillar, no cut-down demo build, no storage limits
Everything in one installer — search models and Arabic-English OCR included; the first run tells you what your computer can comfortably carry
The clock starts at first launch, and when it ends nothing is deleted — the workspace turns read-only until a licence is activated
Want AI tasks too? Paste your own AI key inside the app — you control the cost
Then try to break it: two clauses that conflict, a wrong code edition, a reversed ruling — that catch is the product
Download and install →

Rather look before installing? The walkthrough films run a realistic demo project from the first index to the sign-off. · Watch them → · What your machine needs →

Already installed? Engineering Workspace opens on your own computer and keeps itself current — the newest build is always on the download page.

Ready to buy, or want to ask first?
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You do not need this to try the app — install it and the 14-day evaluation starts by itself. Send this when you want a licence: it comes straight to us, and we use what you send only to answer. No spam, ever.