After twenty-five years on some of the most demanding industrial projects in the Americas, I founded EngMind because I could no longer watch the same kind of preventable engineering failures repeat themselves, drawing after drawing, project after project, year after year.
My career took me across four countries and three continents. Through refinery expansions and petrochemical complexes. Across thermal power plants handling chromium alloy welding and high-pressure steam. Along three thousand six hundred kilometers of cross-country gas transmission pipeline. Through marine construction yards assembling ocean-going vessels to classification society standards. Into LNG facilities navigating regulatory complexity that would challenge the most experienced engineering teams. And into British Columbia's municipal water and gas infrastructure, where public accountability leaves no room for shortcuts.
Across projects collectively valued at more than ten billion dollars, I worked alongside engineering teams responsible for capital assets that will operate for decades. These were assets whose integrity depended on the decisions made on a drawing, weeks or months before steel ever met the field.
And on nearly every project, I encountered the same structural problem.
It was not caused by inadequate engineers. It was not caused by negligent contractors. It was not caused by outdated codes or standards. It was caused by the sheer volume, complexity, and tempo of engineering drawing review, and by what happens to review quality when senior engineers are forced to absorb that volume manually, under deadline pressure, with discipline expertise leaving the workforce faster than it can be replaced.
I watched senior reviewers spend days verifying a single drawing against codes and project specifications, when their attention was needed somewhere else. I watched experienced engineers compromise thoroughness because the review queue was longer than the schedule allowed. I watched drawings ship to fabrication with line spec mismatches, BOM inconsistencies, undersized lines, and missing notes that should never have left the design office. I watched the same avoidable problems repeat. Drawing after drawing. Project after project. Across continents and contractor cultures.
Over time, one conclusion became undeniable. The industry does not lack engineering rigor. It lacks engineering review at industrial scale.
A senior reviewer can reason over a drawing against ASME, API, ISA, IEEE, NFPA, and the project's own specifications. The bottleneck is no longer whether that reasoning is possible. The bottleneck is that we have far more drawings than we have hours, attention, and senior expertise to apply to them. And the consequences of that gap are paid in the field. In rework, in safety incidents, in schedule slippage, in capital lost between paper and steel.
That is why I founded EngMind.
EngMind exists to support engineers, not replace them. Our platform reviews engineering drawings the way a senior reviewer would, anchored in Design Codes, Project Specifications, and traceable evidence. Every finding cites the applicable standard. Every finding includes a cropped drawing reference. Every finding is graded by severity and confidence. And every finding is approved, dismissed, or escalated by a human engineer before it leaves the platform.
What we deliver is not autonomous review. It is engineering review at industrial scale, with senior-engineer rigor, in minutes instead of days. The engineers responsible for project quality can finally spend their time where their expertise actually matters.
If you are responsible for engineering drawings on a project where review velocity, accuracy, and traceability directly affect outcomes you cannot afford to compromise, I invite you to have a conversation with us. Not a sales call. A technical discussion about what your project actually needs.
That is the standard I hold my team to. It is the standard I built EngMind around. And it is the standard I believe the engineers who carry the weight of capital projects every day deserve.
Founder & CEO