Engineering firms sit on decades of specifications, RFIs, submittals, calculations and drawings that nobody can search well. Retrieval with a model on Bedrock makes them answerable, with citations. What it is good at, the licensing and client-data questions to settle first, and why the engineer of record stays responsible.
The most valuable early AI system in an engineering firm is usually not design automation. It is search: "how did we detail this connection on the last three hospital projects?", "what did the owner answer on RFI 214?", "which projects used this spec section?". Retrieval-augmented generation over the firm's own documents answers those questions with links to the source.
Finding precedent across past projects: details, specification language, calculation approaches.
Answering questions from RFIs, submittals and meeting minutes, with the document and page cited.
Reading title blocks and drawing lists to index drawing sets by project, discipline and revision.
First drafts of routine documents from the firm's own templates and past examples.
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Start with one document type and one question people ask weekly, such as RFIs.
Index with permissions attached to every chunk, filtered at query time by the user's project access.
Require citations in every answer, and show the source page next to it.
Build an evaluation set of 50 to 100 real questions with known answers and rerun it on every change.
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