For engineering firms

Turn legacy drawings into structured engineering data.

Engineering firms live in the gap between what the owner has and what the project needs. That gap is usually a stack of PDF drawings from multiple previous contractors, across multiple CAD generations, in unknown condition. Armeta closes the gap in days, not months.

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The engineering firm problem

Every project begins with someone else's drawings.

Whether you're the designer of record on a brownfield revamp, the owner's engineer on a refinery modernization, or the domain consultant brought in for a process debottleneck, you start every engagement by reading drawings you didn't draw. The PDF archive you receive from the owner is the inheritance — and it's almost always in worse shape than advertised.

Decoding it is the unbillable overhead that precedes every billable engineering hour. It is also the phase that determines whether your project proposal was accurate, whether your fee will hold, and whether the owner will trust you on the next engagement.

Three engagements

Three engagement types, one extraction engine.

Brownfield revamps and debottlenecking

Today

Every revamp begins with sorting the drawing archive the owner provides. PDF scans of 1990s P&IDs, AutoCAD drawings from the early 2000s, native CAD from the last five years, and as-builts of varying quality. Your engineering team spends the first month of the project doing forensic drawing archaeology instead of design work.

With Armeta

Any drawing in any format becomes structured engineering data. The graph you produce in week one is the baseline your design team builds on for the rest of the engagement. Forensic archaeology becomes automated reconciliation.

Data migration and digitization projects

Today

Engineering firms are frequently engaged specifically to digitize an owner's P&ID archive — converting PDFs into a modern engineering system (SPPID, SmartPlant, AVEVA, etc.). The billable work is the re-drafting, which is slow and error-prone.

With Armeta

The extraction layer does the heavy lift. Your engineering team focuses on what requires judgment — reconciliation, symbol mapping, exception handling — rather than on manual transcription. Projects deliver faster and with higher accuracy.

Owner's engineer and design review work

Today

Owner's engineer scopes often require reviewing the EPC's deliverables against the governing P&IDs. Comparing two versions of a drawing, checking whether the field installation matches the design, validating MTO accuracy — all of these require slow manual reads.

With Armeta

Structured delta between any two revisions. Drawing-traceable evidence for every finding. Owner's engineer reports are defensible, auditable, and delivered on a timeline the owner actually needs.

The economics

The math works the first time you run it.

A simplified calculation for a typical engineering firm engagement:

Direct engineering hours only. Does not include brownfield scope lock-in compression, fee-at-risk protection on fixed-price engagements, owner client retention value, or the strategic upside of delivering the same scope at a competitive fee.

The math

simplified

P&IDs in project scope450

Manual engineering per P&ID16 hrs

Loaded engineering cost$120 / hr

Manual cost to process$864,000

Armeta extraction + validation per P&ID0.5 hrs

Result

Armeta cost to process$27,000

Engineering hours reclaimed6,975

Evidence

Deployed today, where your data lives.

Proof

Live on legacy drawing migration projects today.

Engineering firms currently use Armeta on brownfield revamp and legacy digitization engagements. External validation on the record: first place at CERAWeek 2026 Energy Venture Day, Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization track.

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Deployment

Where your project data already lives.

Cloud, on-premise, or private cloud. Deployed under owner data residency and firewall requirements, per-project access controls. SOC 2 Type II audit in progress, completing H1 2026.

Security and deployment

Your drawings, your data

Start with ten of your own drawings.

See Armeta run on the legacy archive for your next revamp or digitization engagement. A structured report in one engagement — before any procurement conversation.

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