Why Our Senior Engineers Are Not Expensive CAD Operators
At most engineering firms, senior engineers spend a significant portion of their week on drawing cleanup, redline markups, and CAD production tasks that a drafter should be handling. We built MES around a different structure from day one.
How I Built a Civil Engineering Firm That Doesn’t Follow Industry Norms
Modern Engineering Solutions was not built because there was a gap in the market for another civil engineering firm. It was built because the model most firms are running is broken for the people inside it and for the clients depending on it.
The Four Layers Under MES, Top Down
Last month I wrote that AI is architecture, not a feature, and showed you the project at the relational core. Several of you wrote back asking the next question.
What is actually inside the database, and how do the layers connect?
Top down, four of them. The rest of this article walks them in order.
Building AI Infrastructure for an Engineering Firm: The Complete Data Architecture
AI infrastructure for engineering firms requires a connected data layer linking all five core departments, Operations, Accounting, HR, Sales, and Marketing, so information flows automatically without manual handoffs between systems.