Reduce rework, improve teamwork with industry-built agentic AI
Increase bid and delivery confidence using Engineering Intelligence
Security by Design
Enterprise-Grade Governance
Enterprise-Grade Governance
All data is managed within a secure, closed environment with organisation-level privacy controls and data encryption, ensuring full confidentiality and data protection.
Enterprise-Grade Governance
Enterprise-Grade Governance
Enterprise-Grade Governance
Automatic Engineer operates in accordance with Standards and Regulatory Requirements, Organisation Policies & Procedures, and Project Specification & Technical Requirements.
Engineering Intelligence
Enterprise-Grade Governance
Engineering Intelligence
Automatic Engineer introduces a validation layer called Engineering Intelligence that sits above project tools and data enabling software integration with CAD, CDE, P6, etc.
Institutional Knowledge
Validion™ Validation Engine
Engineering Intelligence
Trained on 25+ years of project delivery data, Automatic Engineer captures and applies institutional knowledge that strengthens the collective intellectual capability of the organisation.
Validion™ Validation Engine
Validion™ Validation Engine
Validion™ Validation Engine
Automatic Engineer is powered by Validion which applies world-first patented technology to automatically validate, verify and assure projects in real-time for engineering approval.
Empowering People
Validion™ Validation Engine
Validion™ Validation Engine
Project teams collaborate in real-time to share insights, learn new skills, and drive solutions in an interactive, cross-discipline environement all supported by agentic AI.
Industry Experienced Leadership
Chris Southgate
Enterprise Global Lead
As former Global Lead, Commercial & Technology Strategy at Microsoft, where I led enterprise transformation initiatives and global technology partnerships for nearly a decade, I am pleased to partner with Downunder Group to support the global expansion of Automatic Engineer.
Automatic Engineer introduces a new category of enterprise engineering intelligence enabling organisations operating in time-critical sectors such as data centres and major infrastructure to materially improve decision velocity, compliance certainty, cost control and delivery confidence.
By embedding structured engineering knowledge into workflows, the platform has the potential to significantly reduce rework, accelerate approvals and enhance commercial outcomes.
Turn requirements and past projects into intelligent decision support
Value engineer with quantative certainty and qualatative reasoning
Frequently Asked Questions
Automatic Engineer™ is an AI-powered platform for engineering projects that sits above project tools and data. It drives Engineering Intelligence that empowers engineers and organisations to optimise, validate and assure complex projects in real-time. It is powered by Validion™ - a purpose-built validation engine, trained on 25 years of global project delivery data.
Automatic Engineer can be used on any engineering project, in any industry. It's strength lies in large volumes of complex technical data, therefore, the more complex a project the better performance and benefit realised. The following industries represent the high value in adopting Engineering Intelligence.
Infrastructure & Transport
Automatic Engineer continuously verifies engineering compliance across tunnels, railways, highways, airports and utilities, helping project owners and contractors maintain assurance across thousands of requirements, designs, and verification activities.
Data Centres & Digital Infrastructure
The platform validates design compliance, safety requirements, and commissioning evidence for hyperscale data centres, ensuring engineering standards are met across rapidly delivered facilities.
Water & Renewables
Automatic Engineer tracks and validates engineering requirements, testing, and certification for renewable energy projects such as wind farms, solar farms, and transmission infrastructure.
Industrial & Major Capital Projects
Large industrial facilities such as refineries, processing plants, and manufacturing facilities benefit from continuous engineering validation and real-time project transparency.
Defence & Highly Regulated Industries
Automatic Engineer provides continuous compliance assurance for highly regulated environments where engineering verification and auditability are critical.
Aerospace & Advanced Manufacturing Similar to the “Digital Thread” used in aerospace, the platform maintains traceability between requirements, engineering models, verification activities, and evidence across complex systems.
Automatic Engineer is designed for professionals of all levels and functions across an engineering organisation including:
- Engineering firms and consultants
- Infrastructure and construction companies
- Project managers and developers
- Government Organisations and Delivery Authorities
- Technical teams handling complex documentation
- ESG and Sustainability teams at all stages of projects
- Commercial and legal teams supporting engineering projects
- Risk, Opportunity and Value Engineering teams at any stage of projects
In short, it is for anyone who needs to understand, validate, and optimise engineering data with more certainty and visibility.
Key capabilities include:
- AI analysis of engineering documents and drawings
- Design compliance and standards checking
- Risk, opportunity, and value engineering insights
- ESG, safety, and sustainability assessment
- Commercial and contractual intelligence
- Project and document control automation
- Modular dashboards across six engineering domains
The platform transforms raw technical information and fragmented engineering process into structured, actionable intelligence. The platform promotes team effort across the project teams, and collaboration across the entire organisation.
The platform is intuitive and utiliises agentic AI with the following general process:
- Employees select projects or upload documents to get started
- Areas of expertise and interest are contained in modules where colleagues collaborate to develop the foundation of project deliverables
- Automatic Engineer provides co-pilot support, organisational reach and projectwide assurance using constraint validation technology
- Inputs and outputs are co-developed and controlled within the project
The process is designed to be fast, secure, and scalable.
Automatic Engineer is used across all phases of a project life-cycle. Organisations use the platform to manage all global projects consistently including by procurment phase, team, documents, and deliverables within the platform which sits above, and can be integrated with, specific project tools. The type of use cases within this structure include:
- Engineering design review and value engineering
- EOI, tender and bid analysis
- Risk and opportunity analysis, identification and implementation
- Compliance with standards and regulations
- ESG, sustainability, carbon and safety reporting
- Commercial and contractual review
- SWOT, win themes, optimisation, cost savings enablers
- Data analysis (past projects) and AI-assisted decision-making
Most AI agents are conversational layers on top of large language models. They generate outputs on what they find, but they do not maintain engineering truth. Automatic Engineer is fundamentally different. It operates as a machine-enforced engineering state engine — maintaining structured project intelligence across time, artefacts, Standards and decisions. The following key differences are outlined.
Design & Purpose
General AI Agents are a one-on-one tool designed to answer a query. Automatic Engineer is an analytical based validation platform that is designed to analyse rather than answer, and a key purpose of the platform is to put people at the heart of the organisation, supported by an intelligence framework that empowers teams and the organisation as a body of people, rather than one-on-one solo work that can result from general AI agents.
Architecture & Operation
AI Agents are prompt-driven and probabilistic. They operate statelessly unless explicitly orchestrated. They have been trained for broad application with a 'force the best answer' directive that can work quite well in general use cases but not for engineering. Automatic Engineer is rule-based and deterministic at state layer, meaning it structures engineering artefacts into a dependency graph, maintains constraint consistency, and performs bounded propagation within pre-determined domains. Without this architecture, an agent can be a liability to an organisation.
Automatic Engineer is not a document management system, it is an engineering platform with validation at its core. Automatic Engineer can connect to SharePoint and other DMS and will read and validate documents as a controlled step before that data is relied upon. Some organisations that connect an internal GPT to their SharePoint miss this critical step.
Automatic Engineer employs a systematic approach to validating data through Validion - its validation engine specifically designed for engineering application ecosystems and block-chain inspired date stamping protocols.
ProjectWise is primarily an advanced CDE (Common Data Environment) and design collaboration system. Automatic Engineer sits above the CDE and manages engineering consistency by ingesting artefacts from CDEs and then applying:
- Cross-domain compliance reconciliation
- Machine-enforced validated state maintenance
- Dependency-based constraint analysis
Automatic Engineer is also fundamentally different in its system architecture which is designed for organisational access (rather than closed project only access) and institutional global learning continuity (rather than isolate and archive organisational project knowledge under a start-stop-start again framework).
Aconex digitised document and communication flow in construction. Automatic Engineer has digitised engineering decision logic. Therefore, complementing each other - Aconex provides much needed administrative certainty, while Automatic Engineer provides much needed technical certainty.
Yes. Request a demonstration of Automatic Engineer to experience engineering intelligence firsthand.
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