The product-development platform for engineering firms
An engineered quote in hours is only the first step. Requirements, per-discipline design, tender and patent drafting, delivery tracking, controlled documents and invoicing — the whole engineering project in one system, where the AI drafts and engineers sign.
Client request — text, voice or drawings
Hours
from request to a first engineered quote — not weeks
7 AI drafting tools
tenders, patents, concept 3D, diagrams, decks — each filed as a draft for sign-off
3 signatures
prepared, reviewed, approved — enforced before a document leaves
Quote → paid
PO, invoice and payment on the same record as the quote they came from
End to end
The quote is where it starts. Everything after it — the design, the tender, the delivery, the documents, the invoice — runs on the same record, so nothing is retyped and nothing is lost between tools.
01 · Win the work
Request
Text, voice, drawings or a scan — the AI works through ten scoping topics
Client Q&A
One link; the client answers on a phone and attaches photos
Requirements §2
Customer needs → functional and non-functional requirements, each traceable
Design §3
Nine design disciplines, drafted from your approved past work
Quote
Rate card × BOM, with the AI share priced in the open
Tender response
Clause by clause; what cannot be supported stays “to confirm”
02 · Deliver the work
Delivery board
Milestones, Gantt and variance against the frozen quote
Design outputs
Each owned by a named engineer, packed into one delivery ZIP
Design review
eTAR checklists with a finding and photos per item
AI drafting
Report decks, diagrams, concept 3D and patent disclosures
03 · Stand behind it
Controlled documents
One number, three signatures, frozen on release
Quality system
Company procedures in the same register, under the same rules
Customers
Duplicates proposed and merged by a person; projects re-filed safely
Invoice → paid
Quote → PO → invoice → paid, with a tracked download link
The data loop ·What delivery actually took flows back into estimating — every finished project makes the next quote sharper.
Win the work
Five gated stages, each built on the signed-off stage before it — the way an ISO 9001 design review is supposed to work, minus the paperwork.
Intake
Your client (or your sales team) types, talks or uploads drawings on a public request page. Scans, stamped copies and phone photos are read too. The assistant tracks ten scoping topics as they get answered — goal, users, hardware, integrations, compliance, timeline, budget — and returns scope, timeframe and a budget range with the breakdown behind it.
Client Q&A
The questions only the client can answer — a nameplate photo, a yes or no on a scope boundary — go out as one unguessable link. They answer on a phone with no account, attach photos to the question they belong to, and you are emailed. An accepted answer flows straight into §2, and questions a document already asks can be imported from it.
Requirements §2
The brief and the answers become confirmed customer needs, and those derive numbered functional and non-functional requirements, each linked back to the need it serves. Every AI revision arrives as a diff you accept or reject line by line — and each review reads only its direct upstream, so nothing drifts back to a superseded brief.
Design §3
Nine design disciplines — systems, industrial design, mechanical, test facility, electrical & electronics (PCB included), firmware, software, AI/data and integration. Ingendia detects the ones this project needs and drafts each, grounded in your own approved past work, ready for the discipline lead to refine and approve.
Quote
The work breakdown prices itself from your rate card and BOM — in the client’s currency, with the AI share of each task shown explicitly, and travel, testing, site, training and IP costed on their own lines. Freeze it into a versioned quotation, then export the proposal PDF, the §2+§3 engineering report and the priced workbook, each built for the audience allowed to see it.
Deliver the work
The frozen quote becomes the baseline delivery is held to — milestone by milestone, hour by hour — and every design output has a name against it.
Milestones, a draggable Gantt and hour-level variance against what was quoted — so a slip shows up this week, not at the final invoice.
The deliverables list is generated from the §3 design and hung on tasks and milestones; the engineer on the task attaches the real file.
Everything due is packed into one ZIP — and every file the system generated has to be looked at and confirmed by a person before it goes in.
Each project’s task and milestone state is stored every week, so progress has a recorded past to compare against — a history that cannot be back-filled later.
AI-augmented delivery
Every task carries an AI share beside the human hours, so the quote shows the AI margin honestly instead of hiding it.
Each task splits into a human residual and an AI-automated share, tuned per discipline.
Pass part of the saving to the client as a visible discount, or keep the bill unchanged. One switch, off by default.
The automation share is not a guess: it is re-tuned per discipline from what delivery actually took.
Design Hub
Seven drafting tools turn a tender, a client’s sketch or the design you already delivered into real documents. Every one of them lands as a draft in the controlled register — it counts only once someone else has reviewed it and someone with authority has released it.
Upload the tender and its clauses are split out verbatim, with their printed numbering. The AI answers each with a compliance level, the deviation and its evidence; disqualifying ★ / ▲ clauses are flagged mechanically. A clause it cannot support stays “to confirm” — never a promise made on your behalf.
Tender PDF · scans OCR’d → Compliance matrix
A client’s sketch or photo becomes a rotatable massing model in one offline file. A block with no dimension source is not built.
Sketch / photo → Rotatable 3D model
A Word disclosure in the house format; patent numbers and URLs stripped from the background, applicant and inventor left for a person.
Design + material → Disclosure .docx
Architecture, workflow, sequence and state diagrams, rendered on the server to a self-contained SVG. A figure of disconnected boxes is sent back to be redrawn.
Description / design → Controlled SVG figure
The AI drafts the report narrative for the occasion; six fact slides — requirements, acceptance, schedule, roadmap, risks, past work — come straight from the record.
§2 / §3 / schedule → Project report deck
Seven fixed chapters drafted from this project’s own §3, each paragraph citing its source or marked “to verify”, plus a table of every clause no chapter covers.
Tender + this project’s §3 → Technical response draft
Drafted from §2: scope, findings, information gaps, design issues, blockers and the questions only the client can answer — published as one link they fill in.
§2 analysis → Review pack + answer link
eTAR design reviews (symbols & footprints, schematics, PCB, RF/EMC, manufacturability, cables), the NPD deliverables list, file templates and cable sizing to AS/NZS 3008.1.1.
Your design → Review record
The drafting tools are in beta. Each can run on its own AI engine, and all of them read PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and scanned copies.
Stand behind it · Document control
Every project document — and every company procedure — lives in one register under its own permanent number. Content changes, the number does not. Nothing reaches a client until someone other than the author has reviewed it and someone with the authority has released it.
Three people, written into the released file
Prepared
the author of this version
Reviewed
anyone but the author
Approved
authority to release, and neither of the other two
Start from a branded template and the document is numbered before a word is written — cover, number and client already filled in. Edit, then upload the next version under the same number: the reference in last week’s email still resolves.
You cannot review your own document, you cannot approve what you reviewed, and the file cannot change while it sits under approval. Every refusal says which rule stopped you.
Approval writes the three sign-off names into the file itself and freezes that revision. Uploading again starts the next revision as a draft — the released copy stays exactly what was signed.
Open a Word, Excel or PowerPoint document in Office for the web and save it straight back as the next version. Colleagues without a Microsoft account get a link that works too.
Your own quality manual, policies and procedures use the same register, the same numbering and the same three signatures — so the QMS stops being a folder nobody opens.
Every formal document renders into your organisation’s own masters — title page and control sheet included — and a client edition never carries a figure the client is not meant to see.
Proposal
Client brief — scope and a price range, no line costs
Engineering report §2 + §3
Execution workbook — milestones, tasks, Gantt
Priced workbook, per audience
Project report deck
Customers & billing
An invoice hangs off the customer, next to the quote it came from. Quote, purchase order, invoice, payment — one chain, on one record, instead of a second system whose only job is putting a number on a PDF.
Payment arrives by bank transfer and is recorded by a person.
Each instalment on the quote becomes an invoice. A commercial revision — a discount, a dropped line, new terms — does not send §2 and §3 back for signature.
The number is allocated per organisation per year; the amounts, both parties and the bank account are captured at issue — edit the customer later and the client’s copy does not change.
The email is the invoice, with the PDF and an unguessable download link; the client’s first click is recorded.
A customer, a line template and an interval. Each period is issued once and sent — a paused account does not wake up to six invoices.
The same company typed two ways is proposed for merging and a person confirms it. A customer that still has projects cannot be deleted, and a project can be re-filed under the right one.
One billing entity per organisation, with a default bank account per currency and its own tax ID, prefix and payment terms.
The data loop
Most firms quote from gut feel and never look back. Ingendia closes the loop: what you quoted is compared with what delivery actually took — automatically, per discipline, per project.
The accuracy dashboard tracks estimate variance across every delivered project — so you see exactly where quotes run hot or cold.
Delivery actuals tune the per-discipline estimating model. The system learns your team’s real velocity, not an industry average.
New designs retrieve from your library of signed-off past projects — every draft starts from what your engineers already approved.
Everything in it
Win the work, deliver it, stand behind it — the discipline of a quality system with the speed of AI. Items marked beta are live and still being refined.
Clients type, talk or upload drawings — scans and phone photos included. Ten scoping topics, then scope, timeframe and a budget range on the spot.
One unguessable link. The client answers on a phone with no account, attaches photos per question, and one click carries an answer into §2.
Customer needs derive numbered functional and non-functional requirements; AI revisions arrive as was / now, and upstream change flags what depends on it.
Systems, industrial design, mechanical, test facility, electrical & electronics, firmware, software, AI/data and integration — drafted from approved past work.
The work breakdown prices itself from rate card, grade and BOM; travel, testing, site, training and IP each get their own line on the quote.
Clause-by-clause compliance with disqualifying clauses flagged mechanically, and a technical response drawn from this project’s §3.
Client, reviewer and internal editions. Cost and margin exist only in the internal one — absent from the file, not a hidden column.
Milestones, a draggable Gantt and hour-level variance, all measured against the frozen quote.
Each task splits into human and AI shares, calibrated per discipline from actuals; passing the saving on is one switch.
Generated from §3, each item owned by a task and a person; one click packs the ZIP, generated files reviewed first.
Symbols & footprints, schematics, PCB, RF/EMC, manufacturability and cable checklists — finding, notes and photos per item.
The project deck is built from §2, §3 and the schedule; the AI writes the narrative, the fact slides come from the record.
Architecture and workflow diagrams as self-contained SVG; a client’s sketch becomes a rotatable massing model.
My tasks, my deliverables, documents waiting on my signature — the work you owe is a list, not an email you missed.
A permanent number per document; prepared ≠ reviewed ≠ approved is enforced, and release writes the three names into the file.
Proposal PDF, client brief PDF, the §2+§3 Word report, the execution workbook and the priced workbook — in your own brand masters.
A Word disclosure in the house format, with patent numbers and URLs stripped from the background and the applicant left for a person.
Open a controlled Word, Excel or PowerPoint file in real Office, co-author it, and save back as the next version under the same number.
Quality manual, policies and procedures under the same numbers and signatures — read in one language or side by side in two.
Quote → PO → invoice → paid; instalments become invoices, the email carries a tracked link, subscriptions issue themselves.
Duplicates are proposed and a person merges them; a customer with projects cannot be deleted, and projects re-file cleanly.
Several organisations on one platform, each with its own brand, document masters, rate card and roles, each seeing only its own data.
A PM runs their own projects and an org admin runs the organisation — the pages you can see are the access you have.
UI and documents in English and 中文 with the output language pinned per project; live in Australia and China, quoting in AUD · CNY · USD.
Intake, design and each Design Hub tool can be pinned to its own model; leave one blank and it follows the design engine.
A full per-project audit trail for quality audits, and a manual page behind every screen.
Type it, say it, or drop in a drawing — the intake takes minutes, and the analysis starts immediately.
