for UK engineering consultancies
AI workflow assessment for UK engineering consultancies - get your senior engineers' time back off the paperwork.
Your checkers are the bottleneck, and everyone in the office already knows it. So the 60 minutes follows the senior hours - bid and tender work, checking calculations and marking up drawings, RFIs and technical queries, CDM duties and the records attached to them, coordinating disciplines that all need each other's information, project reporting. The plan that follows is specified rather than suggested - tool, setup, sequence - and weighted to whatever frees a checker soonest.
The engineering time that goes on paperwork, not engineering.
Your engineers are paid to solve problems. Then a chunk of every week goes on the apparatus around the problem: a bid that wants three years of comparable schemes and a method statement by Tuesday, checking someone else's calculations and marking up someone else's drawings, answering an RFI that has already been answered on another job, and keeping the CDM record in a state that would survive being asked for.
That work is not chargeable the way design time is, and it still comes out of the same week. Worse, it comes out of your most senior people: checking and bidding are the two things you cannot hand to the newest person in the office. Hiring another graduate relieves none of it, which is how a consultancy ends up busy, fully staffed and still short of the hours it needs.
The output here is closer to a specification than a suggestion: fixes ordered by payback, each one costed in setup effort, and the jobs worth leaving alone named as clearly as the jobs worth changing. It is written so you could hand it to whoever runs your systems.
The bid, checking and reporting admin behind every project - and what it is worth fixing.
Nothing on this page claims to know how many hours your consultancy loses, and the sample findings sheet is a shape rather than a forecast. Your discipline mix decides it - a building-services consultancy carries a different load to a civil and structural practice doing more site work. What repeats across the consultancies we assess is a short list: bid and tender work, calculation and drawing checking, RFIs and technical queries, CDM and project records, and the reporting that goes out whether or not there is news.
One live project and one recent bid are enough to build the real picture. We work through both, discipline by discipline, and rank what comes out by hours back against the effort of setting each fix up.
Run your own numbers in the admin cost calculator, or read the full breakdown in where proposal writing time leaks in UK consultancies.
More on that in the admin drain hiding in UK small businesses.
The assessment is £799 - and the senior time it frees is your senior time, on your own projects.
Your six biggest time sinks - and what we do about each one.
We map your whole consultancy in the 60-minute session, then work backwards to the drains worth fixing first. Here is how that lands on the specific admin engineering consultancies feel.
Bids and tender submissions
The pre-qualification questionnaire wanting the same accreditations and project references you supplied last month, the method statement, the programme, and a submission deadline that never moves. We map how a bid gets built in your consultancy and show where drafting can start from your own past submissions rather than a blank template.
Checking calculations and drawings
Somebody senior reads every calculation and marks up every drawing before it leaves, and there is no version of your practice where that stops. We look at what your checkers actually spend the time on and separate the arithmetic, units and consistency work from the engineering judgement, so the first kind can be flagged before a person opens the file.
RFIs and technical queries
The same question from a different contractor on a different job, logged late and answered from memory. Your report shows where the query log can build itself and where a first-pass response can be drafted from answers you have already given. The engineer still issues it.
CDM duties and project records
Designer risk registers, principal designer records, the pre-construction information, and being able to produce any of it the day it is asked for. The designer's duty to eliminate or reduce a risk is engineering work; evidencing that you discharged it is filing. Your report draws that line across your own projects, and only the filing half is ever a candidate for a system.
Multi-discipline coordination
Structural waiting on building services, building services waiting on the architect, and a clash that only surfaces when somebody opens the model. We follow one project's information from discipline to discipline and point out the hand-offs that get chased when they should be tracked.
Project reporting and programme updates
The monthly report to the client, the progress note to the contractor, and the internal update that says the same thing a third way. We sort those reports into what can be drafted from your own project data and what genuinely needs an engineer to write, so your project managers edit rather than assemble.
What this is - and what it isn’t.
The assessment is a diagnostic and a plan. Within two working days of your call you get a passcode-protected report: the AI and automation opportunities we have found for your consultancy, named tools with costs and setup time, step-by-step recipes, a prompt library, an impact-versus-effort ranking, and ROI worked out on your real numbers. It is written in plain English so you can act on it - no technical background needed.
It is guidance, not us doing the work for you. If the report flags something worth building - a bid-drafting assistant, say - the Custom AI Agent Build is a separate product from £949, scoped case by case. If you would rather implement the report’s quick wins yourself with someone beside you, the Implementation Kickstart (£349, 90 minutes) is there for that. The assessment always comes first.
The kind of result we publish.
Real clients, in their own words - the full story, what we found, and the measurable change in their week.
“Knowing something and doing something are completely different things.”
Questions engineering consultancies ask us.
Can AI check a calculation?
We run design software and a document management system. Does this replace them?
We work under client NDAs and some of it is sensitive. Is this safe?
Is £799 worth it for a consultancy our size?
One payment. A written plan,
a video walkthrough, and someone
checking in to make sure it happens.
A diagnostic session, personalised report, video walkthrough, and follow-up support. One payment, no ongoing costs.
Find out where your consultancy's hours actually go.
Book a 60-minute diagnostic. Get a report built around your consultancy within two working days, a video walkthrough, and follow-up support. Money back if it doesn't show at least 5 hours a week worth reclaiming.
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