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Your firm’s past work,
found and cited.

At a consulting firm, the answer usually exists — in a prior deliverable, a calc package, or a standard — buried in a client folder somewhere. knowledgeXpert turns your own reports, calcs, and the codes you work under into a cited, queryable corpus. Ask in plain English, get the answer with the source page. Runs air-gapped on your own hardware.

25% productivity lift — Vista Engineering Every answer cited
Who it’s for

Built for firms that sell what their engineers know.

O&G engineering consultancies — pipeline & integrity, energy projects & construction, refining & process, environmental & automation — where the deliverable is judgment backed by records.

Principals & engineering managers

Own utilization and quality — and spend billable hours answering the same questions from project teams.

Principals · department managers

Pipeline, process & project engineers

Work across clients, codes, and client specs — and need the prior analysis, not a fresh start.

Integrity · process · project engineering

PSM, environmental & compliance leads

Keep PHA revalidations, relief-system documentation, and permit records defensible across every client site.

PSM leads · environmental consultants
The problem, in your words

The firm has done it before. Nobody can find it.

Deliverables, calcs, and vendor data live in per-client folders, personal drives, and the memory of whoever ran the job.

“We already did this on another job.”

The same analysis gets redone because the version from the last project is buried in a client folder. The senior engineer remembers doing it; nobody can produce it.

Engineers lose 3–5 hrs/day hunting for prior work and references.

New hires take months to go billable.

The gap between a new engineer and a useful one is mostly “where things are” and “which standard governs.” That gap is billable hours your seniors spend answering questions.

Up to 70% of firm know-how is tacit and at retirement risk.

“Which requirement governs this call?”

Federal code, client specs, the firm’s own standards — the controlling clause depends on service, jurisdiction, and contract. The answer is real; it is just spread across a shelf of PDFs.

One question can span a dozen regs, specs, and client standards.
How it helps

Apps that put the firm’s memory to work.

knowledgeXpert ships as focused apps built on your own deliverables, calcs, and standards — each one returns a cited answer, not a folder to search.

Prior-Work Q&A

Ask whether the firm has done an analysis before and get the deliverable, the calc, and the reasoning — cited to the exact document.

Regs & Standards Lookup

Resolve a question to the controlling clause — 49 CFR, OSHA 1910, EPA rules, or the standards you load as your own licensed copies — cited next to the client spec it interacts with.

PHA / PSM Record Q&A

Pull prior PHA revalidations, relief-system documentation, and the evidence behind a recommendation, each answer traced to source.

Onboarding Q&A

New engineers ask the corpus instead of interrupting a principal — and get answers that point back to the firm’s own work product.

On the Marketplace

Start stocked with the regs your clients live under.

knowledgeXpert ships with cited public regulatory knowledge on the Marketplace — one shelf that covers every practice area, loaded before a single deliverable comes in.

Title 49 CFR pipeline safety

Parts 190 / 191 / 192 / 193 / 195 — the federal code your pipeline and LNG clients are held to, cited to the controlling clause.

OSHA — Title 29 CFR

5,800+ pages of workplace safety incl. Part 1910 (PSM 1910.119) and 1926 construction — for process-safety and construction practices.

PHMSA & NTSB investigations

5,000+ pages of federal incident and root-cause investigations — whether a failure mode has shown up before, cited to the report.

EPA petroleum standards

Refinery and terminal rules incl. 40 CFR Part 112 (SPCC), 60/61/63/98 — for environmental and compliance practices.

Your firm’s own reports, calcs, and procedures come in alongside — and the industry standards you hold licenses to load as your own documents. An engineer asks whether the firm has seen a problem before and gets the prior deliverable, cited next to the reg.

Proof

Specific numbers, not slogans.

25%
Productivity lift
Measured at Vista Engineering (Dustin Nolen).
100%
Answers cited
Every answer traced to the exact page it came from.
<30
Days to deploy
From first document load to live on your team.
Common questions

Straight answers.

It only sees the documents you control — your deliverables, calcs, and the standards you load — never the open web. It cites every answer to the exact page and clause, and when something is not in your records it says so instead of guessing. Copilot is capable, but it has never read your firm’s project files.
Yes. You can stand up separate knowledge bases per client or per project, so a question against one corpus never pulls from another. Your documents stay in your own tenant and we do not train models on your data.
Yes. For firms whose client agreements do not allow records off-site, knowledgeXpert runs air-gapped on your own hardware — documents never leave the building. SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.
Most teams go from first document load to a live, queryable knowledge base in under 30 days. A scoped pilot on one practice area’s deliverables can be running in days.
See it on your own deliverables

See cited answers running on your firm’s prior work.

Thirty minutes, a slice of your own reports and calcs, and your engineers see the citations before anyone signs anything.