Meet Sid

The Autonomous
Engineer

Sid is built for design engineers. Trained on every drawing, calculation, and report your firm has produced, Sid is able to aid in building design, number crunching, written work, and information retrieval.

Sidian AI – Evening, James
Trusted By
Trusted by CPE Structural, Nahl Engineers, TTC, Waddell Engineering, and Ostan
$720B

Annual Rework Cost

Engineers across the industry lose nearly a trillion dollars a year recreating work that already exists inside their own firms.

~40%

Inaccurate Estimates

Project estimates are off by nearly 40% because past productivity, timelines, and project patterns are never accessible when scoping new work.

20%

Retrieving Documents

One in five working hours is spent hunting down drawings, reports, and files scattered across disconnected systems.

5+

Tools Per Project

The average project runs across more than five software tools. None of them share data with each other.

The Problem

Engineers Spend 30% of Their Time Repeating Work

After working as designers at 10+ engineering firms across North America and then consulting to solve the unique bottlenecks at these companies for nearly a year, we found the root cause. Critical knowledge is buried across disconnected tools and engineers are manually filling the gap every single time. We train our agents on your data so you can engineer the extravagant while we automate the algorithmic.

The Solution

Meet Sid
Your Company Brain

We autonomously crawl through your past projects to extract key information into a knowledge base. We also have a local agent which can grab files from your desktop on demand. This enables fast onboarding and optimized storage, while ensuring everything is accessible.

Collect the knowledge that lives in each individual's head, and turn it into a perfect memory for your team. Harness your data so you can worry about the critical thinking, and leave memorizing all of your past work and best practices to Sid.

Sid interface – Search, Compare, Write, Build
Why Sidian

Built for Engineering

Leverage past works, integrate with existing tools, and autonomously build new projects. Onboarding takes one week.

Instant Onboarding
1k+

Files Ingested / Day

The Sid file crawler grabs all past projects while you sleep. Your entire project archive is structured and searchable before your team notices the change.

Immediate Impact
90%+

Response Accuracy

Sidian's proprietary knowledge graph indexes engineering data the way engineers actually think, by project, discipline, and decision.

Deep Understanding
10k+

Relations / Project

Every Project makes Sid smarter. With more data Sid learns your preferences and gets smarter outputting better responses as per your requirements.

How It Works

Our Workflow

01

Build the Company Brain

Sid's file crawler runs autonomously overnight ingesting drawings, codes, models, and reports from years of past projects. We process critical documents based on experience and discussions with our clients to ensure our system weight files appropriately.

Build the Company Brain – file ingestion
02

Connect Your Existing Tools

Sid connects to your existing software through a local desktop agent. Your team keeps their workflow and Sid makes it smarter.

Revit SAP2000 ETABS AutoCAD Bluebeam Excel
Connect your existing tools – Revit, AutoCAD, Excel, SAP2000, ETABS
03

Search Instantly

Ask questions in plain language or upload a screenshot. Sid searches your entire project history and surfaces the right answer with full source references.

Search Instantly – Sid chat finding a barndo project
04

Build Autonomously

Once trained on your firm's best practices, Sid fills out reports, runs calculations, and builds preliminary models with human approval at every key step. Sid is the ultimate tool to make your team more productive.

Build Autonomously – 3D model with measurements
05

Track Project Health

Sid learns patterns from your data, and when projects are not going as planned, alerts you and proposes solutions.

Track Project Health – Target Missed alert with graph
Plans

Our Pricing

Free
Sid Trials

A look inside Sid. Internal docs, building codes, and BIM files are gated behind your license but this gives you a feel for the platform.

  • Upload Up To 50 Technical Drawings
  • Receive 3 Licenses for Testing
  • 7 Day Trial
  • Experience our proprietary pipeline
Register
On Premises
Custom Pricing

Full data sovereignty for firms that require nothing to leave their network. Everything in Standard deployed entirely within your own infrastructure.

  • On site server installation
  • Fully air gapped deployment
  • No data leaves your network
  • Dedicated implementation support
Talk to the Team

*Data processing is priced separately based on project archive size. Contact us for an estimate.

The Time Is Now

Stay Ahead, Begin Leveraging Your Work Today

Every project your firm has completed is training data for your own AI engineer. Sid learns and improves over time so the sooner you start the further ahead you get. The worst version is the first version and your competition is already falling behind.

Knowledge Base – Agent Resources
Testimonials

What Our Clients Are Saying

Real feedback from structural and civil engineering teams who made the switch.

“Working with the team at Sidian has been a great experience for Waddell Engineering. Their combination of engineering knowledge and AI expertise allowed them to integrate tools that directly support our engineering designs and project management system.

What really stood out was how they tailored everything to our specific needs. They didn’t just deliver a product. They came in, led hands-on training sessions with our team, and ensured a smooth rollout. Their ability to teach and troubleshoot in real time made adoption easy.”
Brian Waddell
CEO of Waddell Engineering
Backed by University of Waterloo, Google Cloud, and Velocity
Questions

Frequently asked questions

How long does setup take? +

Initial onboarding takes approximately one week. Sid's file crawler begins ingesting your project archive immediately, and your team can start querying within days. Phase 1 focuses on structuring your data and building the company brain. Phase 2 connects your tools for autonomous engineering.

Does my data leave my country? +

No. All data is stored on Amazon Web Services in a server location native to your home country. Sidian uses enterprise-grade encryption during transmission and storage, and strict access controls protect your information throughout the entire processing pipeline. On-premises deployment is also available.

Do we need to change our existing tools? +

No. Sid connects to your existing software through a local desktop agent. Your team keeps their workflow and Sid makes it smarter. We integrate with Revit, SAP2000, ETABS, AutoCAD, Bluebeam, Excel, and more.

How does Sid get smarter over time? +

Sid learns from its interactions, whether through user feedback or passive observance. Like a junior engineer, Sid improves as it sees more projects. It understands when an engineer adjusts a calculation, design, or report and reweights itself to improve outputs.

What file types does Sid support? +

Sid can process common engineering files including PDF drawings, BIM models (Revit, ETABS, SAP2000), spreadsheets, technical documents, and images. The system extracts structure and meaning from these files so they can be searched, referenced, and interacted with.

Team

The Founders Who
Lived The Problem

Mankirat Singh Sains

Mankirat Singh Sains

James Hinsperger

James Hinsperger