The Assistant & AI accounts — Engineering Workspace

Grounded, cited, useful

Ask for a letter about delayed approvals and it searches the registers, quotes the record and produces the Word file — on your company template if you name one. Every claim traces to a document and page.

Writes docx/PDF deliverables on your template

Cites (document, p.X) — or says ⟨TBC⟩

Sub-agents research and check before it reports

Your AI account — honest by design

AI tasks are badged in the interface and run on an AI account: each user connects their own, so usage bills to them — never silently to the workspace owner. Without one, AI tasks show a friendly connect card and every local feature keeps working.

Per-user keys, encrypted at rest

The owner chooses if the workspace AI is shared

Local features never need an AI account

It teaches itself

A one-minute guided tour on first sign-in, a full manual with a what's-new digest, exact how-to hints on every settings card, and a living demo project to practise on.

Role-aware tour, replayable from Help

Manual written per role

Demo Tower: the safe classroom

Every capability, declared

The complete list.

What the assistant can actually do — tool by tool.

Evidence

Search & sweepHybrid search plus exhaustive every-mention sweeps across the indexed project.

Read any documentOpens the indexed text of a document, page by page.

Look at the sheetRenders a drawing page and READS it — scanned title blocks, legends, symbols — never guesses.

Lift printed tablesCopies a real grid off a PDF page cell by cell — no retyping, no drifted numbers.

Verify the quoteEvery clause that carries weight is checked verbatim against the source before it is written.

Production

Word/PDF deliverablesReports, letters, summaries — produced as files, not pasted text.

Your letterhead keptName a template and it writes INSIDE it — cover page, headers, footers, page numbers, contents field preserved.

SpreadsheetsAnything you will sort or total is produced as a real spreadsheet.

Calculators in documentsThe same 35 verified calculators, used mid-document with the formula cited.

Live project recordReads registers, workflows and status directly — status comes from the record, never from an old PDF.

Discipline

Researcher + checker sub-agentsWide evidence-gathering, then an adversarial check that tries to prove the draft wrong before you see it.

Never inventsNo source, no claim — it writes ⟨TBC⟩ and says what to check.

Asks when ambiguousWhich template, which revision, which project — it asks instead of guessing.

Attachments & threadsDrop files into the conversation; every thread kept, searchable, resumable.

Personal memory (opt-in)Preferences you choose to save shape future answers — per user.

The AI accounts model

Per-user keysEach person connects their own AI account; usage bills to them, encrypted at rest.

Owner's sharing policyWorkspace AI shared with: owner only / admins / everyone — an explicit setting.

Badged AI tasksEvery AI feature carries an AI badge; no AI account means a friendly connect card, never an error.

Local vs AI, honestSearch, registers, workflows, studios and calculators never need an AI account at all.

Against the field — AI

AI grounded in YOUR archive, answering with page citations, locally

Generic AI bolted on their cloud — your documents leave home

Writes inside your own letterhead template

Exports that lose the cover page and the footer every time

Per-user AI billing, badge-labelled, optional

Platform-wide AI fees whether you use them or not

"The markup suite" is the well-known per-seat PDF application; "the construction cloud" is the big per-user-per-month platform. Both excellent at what they chose — the difference here is one integrated record, on your own server.

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