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Every plan, section and detail cut out of your past drawing sets and catalogued as its own searchable view, so the closest precedent is one search away.
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Your firm has already solved this.
Piramade transforms your historical deliverables into a smart, searchable knowledge base. Your engineers can leverage the entire firm’s experience, in seconds.
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Precedent SearchKSHave we designed inclined RC columns?
Search4 matches across 3 projects · 0.4 s
| No. | Project | Years | Location | Stage | Matches | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1039057 | 12 Clarence Street Twelve-storey commercial building over a three-level basement, with a raking column façade to the podium and a post-tensioned transfer slab at Level 2. | 2019 | Sydney NSW | Construction | Drawing1Calculation1 | 94% |
2 matched files DrawingSTR-220-SK-0112 — Raking Columns, Grid 4–7 Elevation94% Inclined RC columns at 12° from vertical on grids 4 to 7, with the splice detail at Level 3 and the tie-back into the podium transfer slab. CalculationCAL-220-0031 — Inclined Column Design & Buckling Check89% Design of the inclined RC columns to AS 3600: slenderness, buckling, and the combined axial and bending case at the podium. | ||||||
1041210 | 88 George Street Mixed-use tower with an inclined perimeter frame to the lower six levels, delivered to concept design. | 2021 | Sydney NSW | Detailed Design | Report1 | 81% |
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Built by engineers, for engineering firms
Designed for engineering consultancies and the way engineers actually work.
Decades
of engineering knowledge captured per firm
Seconds
to find any precedent, not hours of folder-diving
Zero
file migrations required to get started
The problem
Engineering firms solve the same problems again and again
Firms already own years of high-value engineering knowledge, but it is effectively abandoned.
CalculationsDrawingsReportsSpecificationsBids
Where it hides
- It's buried in hundreds of legacy project folders
- It lives in engineers' heads (and leaves when they do)
- It's siloed across teams and offices
What it costs
- Similar problems solved repeatedly from scratch
- Lost productivity, reduced margin, slower delivery
- Missed opportunities for quality, safety, and carbon improvements
- Team knowledge decay over time
99% of engineering work does not need to start from zero.
PIRAMADE
The first AI-enhanced engineering precedent platform.
Piramade transforms your firm's past deliverables into a dynamic, searchable knowledge asset. This asset continuously becomes more valuable as new projects are delivered.
Simple, automatic, secure
How It Works
From countless project folders to an intelligent database in three steps. Your files never move, and your team works smarter with every past project at their fingertips.
Connect
01Piramade connects securely to your existing project storage. Your files stay in place; no migrations.
Process
02Every project is automatically processed, classified, summarised, and indexed by AI.
Leverage
03Your engineers search, filter, and retrieve precedent across the entire firm in seconds, and click straight through to the original file.
Stay in control
Designed to fit inside your existing systems
No migrationsFiles remain in placeSecurity and permissions respectedNo workflow disruption
Multiple sources → one platform → precedent in seconds
Built for the realities of engineering consulting
Why Engineering Firms Choose Piramade
Put simply: work smarter by using what has already been done.
Leverage AI
Organise your data to harness accelerating AI capabilities, backed by the foundation of your firm's engineering experience.
AI summariesEngineering-aware searchRAG-ready dataset
Increase productivity immediately
Reduce reinvention and duplicated effort across teams.
Preserve institutional knowledge
Retain critical engineering experience before it leaves with staff.
Improve quality and safety
Reuse proven solutions instead of starting from scratch.
Support lower-carbon design
Build on prior optimised solutions instead of re-deriving them.
Trusted client partner
Ensure every engineer can draw on the full depth of the firm's past experience, not just their own.
Unlock new value
Apply knowledge from completed, already-billed projects to new work.
Improved employee experience
Empower engineers and enable them to focus on high-value activities.
And beyond
One knowledge base, many ways to use it
Your experience is the foundation, which powers what comes next.
In development
Report generation
Draft reports grounded in your own past deliverables. Structure, phrasing, and technical content drawn from the reports your firm has already written.
In development
Ask your projects
Ask questions about any historical project in plain language and get answers cited back to the source documents.
Purpose-built
Who It's For
If your firm produces technical deliverables, Piramade will unlock new value.
- Structural and multidisciplinary engineering practices
- Small to medium firms (under 500 employees)
Security
Your data is secure with Piramade
Your data is never used to train AI models.
This is a contractual guarantee from our providers.
Your data is never shared.
Your encryption keys and storage are isolated to your organisation. No other client can access your data, by design.
Your data cannot be modified.
Piramade has read-only access to your files. We can never edit, delete, or alter anything in your source systems.
- Read-only access
- Isolated encryption keys
- Never used for AI training
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