Leading Innovation. Empowering Engineers. Accelerating Infrastructure Design.
Project Assist, first introduced in 2019, is not a generic chatbot. It is a specialized LLM AI platform built specifically for civil engineering workflows, project data, and design standards using years of Civil Site Design content – now named Quick Start.
Project Assist AI introduces Agents that combine decades of Civil Survey Applications design and automation expertise with modern AI technology to help engineers design faster, maintain standards, reduce rework, and deliver better projects. The core technology is being extended with modern AI Agents trained with civil design expertise.
Civil Survey Applications has Consistently been a Leader:
- CAD productivity tools
- Intelligent civil design automation
- Connected design workflows
- Project Assist
- Project Assist AI agent-based engineering design assistants
Why Generic AI – Chatbots Aren’t Enough – Most:
- Lack engineering context
- Don’t understand project requirements
- Cannot validate design intent
- Cannot provide design advice
- Produce unverified answers
Introducing TEX – the First AI Agent for Project Assist AI
Get Help, Analyse your DWG, Generate Reports
The Saver Principal
TEX has been developed with the following guidlines:
- S — Suggest – Provide recommendations.
- A — Assess -Analyze project conditions.
- V — Verify -Validate against standards and project requirements.
- E — Execute -Perform approved actions.
- R — Review – Provide documentation and traceability.
These principals ensure that designers are always in control of the design.
Project-Aware Intelligence
TEX inspects your drawing and will answer questions and create reports:
- Alignment geometry – do they meet specs?
- Roads – do they comply with local standards?
- Intersections – are curb returns in compliance?
- Report on horizontal alignments.
- Create summary reports for volumes, structures and more
Need a report? TEX creates the report and saves it for future use
Project Assist AI Preview
See TEX, and other Project Assist AI Agents at work in this V27 Pre-release video
Understanding the Difference Between Chatbots and Agents
AI technology is changing rapidly. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude all have their place; all are being updated regularly. As a project manager and designer, it is important that you do not get bogged down in the details. It is equally important that you understand the basic concepts.
The MITmonk explains the difference in this YouTube video entitled:
