Engineering-Specific AI Implementation & Consulting
AI that understands engineering.
Most AI consultants have never sealed a drawing. We have. Sterling built the design calculators, CAD automation, permit workflows, and the project-management platform this firm runs on — and we help other civil, MEP, and small engineering firms do the same.
Why us
We didn't read about engineering AI. We shipped it.
Sterling Engineering Consultants runs on software we built ourselves: OSSF design calculators, Civil 3D automation, automated property research, and a full project-management platform with a client portal and billing. That's not a pitch deck — it's our day-to-day.
So when we help your firm implement AI, we start from what actually moves the needle in a practice that has to seal, permit, and stand behind its work — not generic chatbots that don't know a floodplain from a footing.
What we build
AI that fits how engineering work gets done.
Practical, discipline-specific tools and automation — not a science project.
Custom design calculators
Discipline-specific sizing and design tools with your standards, your codes, and a real PE seal block — the way we built our own OSSF designers.
CAD & Civil 3D automation
Automate the repetitive drafting, sheet-set assembly, and plan production that eats billable hours.
Permit & AHJ workflows
Property research, code lookups, and submittal packages assembled in minutes instead of days.
Project & client software
Project management, a client status portal, and invoicing — the same platform we run, tailored to your firm.
Data & document automation
Turn PDFs, spreadsheets, and field data into clean reports, takeoffs, and records — automatically.
Practical advisory
Where AI pays off in an engineering practice, and where it doesn't — from a firm that has actually shipped it.
Proof, not promises
Some of what we've built for ourselves.
We eat our own cooking. These run our firm today.
Design tooling
OSSF design calculators
A suite of on-site sewage design tools — drip, spray, and single-family disposal — that size a system to soil and flow, apply 30 TAC Chapter 285, and generate a sealed-ready report. Built, deployed, and used on real permits.
- Code-aware sizing & equation audits
- Server-side sealed PDF reports
- Save, revisit, and version designs
Firm software
Project management & client portal
A full platform: projects and milestones, a magic-link client portal where customers see exactly where their project stands, a status API for your own website, and online invoicing and payment. The same software we run — and can stand up for your firm.
- Client status portal & API
- Invoicing & online payment
- Automated property research & permitting
How we work with you
From assessment to shipped.
Assess
We learn your workflows and find where AI actually saves hours — and where it doesn't.
Pilot
One high-value tool or automation, built fast, proven on your real work.
Build & deploy
We ship it into your practice — with your standards, codes, and branding.
Support
We maintain and extend it as your firm grows. Engineers who speak your language.
Who it's for
Built for small and mid-size engineering firms.
Civil, MEP, structural, OSSF, surveying-adjacent — firms that do real, sealed engineering work and want the leverage of AI without hiring a software team or trusting a generalist who's never opened a set of plans.
- You keep your standardsEverything is built to your codes, your details, and your seal — not a generic template.
- Engineer to engineerYou work with a licensed PE who has shipped this, not an account manager.
- Start small, scale upProve it on one workflow, then expand across the practice.
Ready to put AI to work in your firm?
Tell us what eats your team's hours. We'll show you what's worth automating — and build it.