For engineering consultancies

Your engineers spend more time editing last year's report than doing the engineering.

A desk study, a ground investigation report, a permit application: each one starts as a copy of the last similar job, with the site details changed by hand. We build systems that draft those documents from your project data in your own templates, so the engineer checks instead of writing, and we keep them running.

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You will recognise at least one of these

The report that starts as the last project

The new site is close to one you did in the spring, so the factual report starts as a copy of that one. Site name, grid reference, borehole numbers and dates are changed by hand, and the reviewer's real job becomes spotting what was not changed.

Logs and lab results typed into the appendix

Borehole logs, trial pit records, lab certificates and monitoring readings come back from the driller and the lab as PDFs and spreadsheets. Somebody keys them into the logging software or the report tables, then checks them against the originals.

Site plans that arrive as phone photos

The client sends a scanned drawing, the field team sends a photo of a plan marked up in pen, and someone in the office tidies or redraws it so it can go into the report as a figure.

Chartered time spent on formatting

The people who sign the report are also the people fixing table numbering, headers and the order of the appendices the night before it goes to the client or the regulator.

What we take off the desk

Each of these is built from information your firm already holds. Somebody is retyping it. We stop that, and we keep it running after it is built.

Not sure which one to start with? Send us the thing that eats the most afternoons. We reply within one business day, and within 1-2 business days you have in writing what we would build first and what it would cost.

Report drafts from project data
Desk studies, factual and interpretative reports, permit and licence applications drafted from the project record in your own Word templates, with your headings, tables and numbering. The engineer reads, corrects and signs.
Field and lab data read, not retyped
Borehole logs, lab certificates, monitoring readings and drillers' returns turned into structured data and into the report tables, with anything illegible or out of range flagged for a person.
Site plans cleaned and marked up
Scanned and photographed plans turned into clean PDFs with the borehole positions and annotations your report needs, ready to go in as figures.
Past projects you can search
Earlier reports and site data indexed by location and subject, so what the firm found near a site before is a lookup rather than one person's memory.
A nightly check of the stores
For firms that run rigs or keep monitoring equipment and consumables: an agent that reads your stock database every night and reports what is running low, before a field crew finds out on site.

How the first two weeks go

You tell us which documents eat the week

One conversation, or one email. Which reports, which templates, where the project data lives. Send an anonymised example if you can. We reply within one business day.

We write the scope

A one-page document: which document type gets built first, what it needs access to, what it costs, and the date. Fixed. You decide with a number in hand.

It goes into production

Built against your real templates and data, tested on projects you have already issued, switched on with an engineer reading every draft until you say otherwise.

Every offer has a written scope before any invoice, and a fixed price on that scope. If something we built ever stops, the first to hear about it is us, not your client. The full list of what we charge for is on the pricing page. A written diagnostic of something already broken starts at $500£400€450, credited in full against the repair if you go ahead within 90 days.

Questions we get from engineering firms

Have you built this for a consultancy like ours?+

Yes. For a well drilling and hydrogeology company we built a system that drafts their documents from project data in their own templates, so the engineer checks instead of writing. We also built them a nightly agent that reads their warehouse stock database and reports what is running low, and a tool that turns scanned and photographed site plans into clean, marked-up PDFs. They have since ordered further systems. The full write-up is on our blog as the regulatory document agent case study.

Who signs the report?+

Your engineer, as now. The system produces a draft, and nothing goes to a client or a regulator without a qualified person reading it. Professional responsibility stays exactly where it is today.

Which software and file formats do you work with?+

Word templates, Excel, PDFs, AGS data files and anything with an export or an API, which covers most logging packages, GIS exports and project databases. If a system only has a screen, we start from the files it produces. Tell us the names and we will tell you within a day.

Who holds our project and client data?+

You do. Everything runs in accounts or on servers in your name, under a data processing agreement, and the code is yours. You can revoke our access the day the work is done.

What does it cost?+

Every build has a written scope and a fixed price on that scope before any invoice. Build sprints run from $3,000 to $25,000, care after launch starts at $1,000 a month, and the first 30-minute consultation is free. The full list is on the pricing page, in pounds for UK firms.

Describe the problem. Get a written quote.

Outline the failing system, or the process that should stop being manual. Every enquiry is answered by the engineer who would do the work.

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Within one business day
A reply from the person who would do the work: whether we can help, what it would cost, and what we would do first.
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Then a one-page scope
The price, the date, what is included. Send a log instead and the written diagnostic comes back in two business days.
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What you will not get
Discovery workshops billed by the hour, slide decks, or a handoff to a sales team. If we are not the right fit, we say so and name a better one.

Prefer email? sales@lurtoagency.com