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For structural engineering firms

Built to Last

Knowledge at your fingertips, inside the engineering tools where your team works.

Sid makes every drawing, model, and report in your firm searchable. Sid integrates with Revit, CAD, and Excel to perform design checks and build models. Sid checks designs against the building code and finds deficiencies in seconds.

Our customers

Waddell Engineering CPE Structural TTC Nahl Engineers Ostan Engineering Dr. Sauer & Partners Techno Three Uganda IMAK Architects
The problem

Engineering knowledge is not accessible

It is buried in engineers' minds and scattered across folders. New engineers cannot learn from past decisions and experience.

Introducing Sid

One unified data structure for all tools

A software application that builds a company brain around your data and connects to tools you already use and trust.

Before Sid

Precedent stays locked in heads and drives. When someone leaves, it is gone.

After Sid

Every project opens into one structured memory your team can ask, for good.

What Sid does

One memory. Four jobs off your plate.

See how Sid retrieves projects, builds models, checks designs, and keeps the reasoning behind every decision.

SID / RETRIEVErunning
Past shear wall details on a 60 by 100 shed, wind governed
PROJ 25-01-101Mark Craig 60'x100' shed additionshear wall · ASCE 7 wind · 202598%
PROJ 23-091Delta cold-storage warehousetilt-up shear · same span · 202391%
PROJ 22-140Rowan equipment mezzaninebraced frame · wind check · 202286%
Grid A-D / 1-3 · 24 ft bays · steel moment frame
roof beam · DCR 0.82
W21×44Roof beam · grid A-DLb 6.0 m · A992 steelDCR 0.82
W14×90Column B-2unbraced 4.2 m · K 1.0DCR 0.67
Generated from grid A-D / 1 · 12 members sized, ready to open in ETABS
Checking 12 members against ETABS results · AISC 360 + ACI 318
Column B-2 axial + bending0.79AISC 360 H1
Slab one-way shear0.61ACI 318 §22.5
Beam B-3 flexure · revise1.04AISC 360 F2
Roof wind uplift0.88ASCE 7 §27
3 of 4 pass. Sid drafts the revision note and links the governing clause.
24 decisions logged · Delta cold-storage warehouse
Mar 04Slab thickened 8" to 9" to hold deflection under L/360 at the 24' bayARA. Rai · sheet S-201
Feb 27Moment connection at C-2 switched to bolted, field weld access too tightJOJ. Okafor · RFI 14
Feb 19Wind governs over seismic for lateral, ASCE 7 exposure C confirmedARA. Rai · calc pkg
Feb 11Footings switched to spread from piles, bearing confirmed at 3 ksfMSM. Sains · geotech
Every call kept with who, when, and the drawing it lives on
One shared structure

Your firm's work, structured once and ready everywhere

Sid connects drawings, models, calculations, codes, and decisions without moving them into another filing system. Every tool reads from the same firm memory.

One source of truth across the firm

No migration and no new home for your files. Sid keeps every source connected to the project, member, check, and decision it belongs to.

YOUR TOOLS & FILESSTRUCTURED MEMORY Revit & BIM ETABS · SAP2000 Calcs & spreadsheets Drawings & PDFs Codes & specs Reports & timesheets Projects Members & details Code checks Decisions

Every drawing, model, calculation, and code connected to the work it informs.

How it works

Frictionless integration that meets you where you are

STEP 01

Ingest your archive

Sid's crawler reads years of past projects overnight: drawings, codes, models, and reports, structured into one searchable memory before your team notices.

PDFDWGRevitCalc Packages
STEP 02

Connect your tools

A local connector links Sid to the software your engineers already run, so answers and models land where the work happens, not in another tab.

ETABSSAP2000Bluebeam
STEP 03

Put Sid to work

Ask for precedent, a preliminary model, or a code check. Sid drafts it with sources attached and an engineer approving every step.

RetrieveModelCheck
Data security

Intelligence without exposure

Your firm's work is your advantage. Sid is built so your data stays yours, siloed, and never leaves your control.

01 / Training isolation

Your data never trains the models

Sid learns your firm's way of working inside your own environment. Your drawings and calcs are never used to train a shared model.

02 / Siloed

Isolated at the organization level

Each firm runs in its own secured environment. Your data is confined to your organization and never mixes with anyone else's.

03 / Controlled visibility

Sid only knows what you allow

Access follows your permissions, so Sid surfaces only what a given user may see. On-premises deployment is available for full data sovereignty.

Plans

Pricing that scales with your team

Free
Sid Trials

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

  • Upload up to 50 technical drawings
  • 3 licenses for testing
  • 7 day trial
  • Full retrieval pipeline
Register
Standard
$299 / user / month

Your entire project archive, structured and searchable. No migration, no disruption, just your firm's knowledge finally working for you.

  • Automated file ingestion
  • Plain-language search with sources
  • Tool integration included
  • Continuous model improvement
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On premises
Custom

Full data sovereignty for firms that require nothing to leave their network. Everything in Standard, deployed inside 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 by project archive size. Contact us for an estimate.

From the field
“Their combination of engineering knowledge and AI expertise let them integrate tools that directly support our designs and project management. They didn't just deliver a product. They led hands-on training and made adoption easy.”
Brian Waddell
CEO, Waddell Engineering

Backed by

University of Waterloo Velocity Google Cloud Garage Capital
Questions

Frequently asked

Onboarding takes about a week. Sid's crawler starts ingesting your archive right away and your team can query within days. The first phase structures your data into the company memory. The second connects your tools so Sid can build and check.

No. Data is stored on Amazon Web Services in a region native to your country, with enterprise-grade encryption in transit and at rest and strict access controls throughout the pipeline. On-premises deployment is available for firms that need nothing to leave their network.

No. Sid connects to your existing software through a local desktop connector. Your team keeps its workflow and Sid makes it sharper. We work with ETABS, SAP2000, SAFE, RAM, Revit, RISA, Bluebeam, AutoCAD, and more.

Sid learns from how your engineers work, through direct feedback and from watching which outputs get accepted. Like a junior engineer, it improves as it sees more projects. When someone adjusts a calculation, design, or report, Sid reweights toward your firm's way of doing things.

Sid handles common engineering files: PDF drawings, BIM models from Revit, ETABS, and SAP2000, spreadsheets, technical documents, and images. It extracts structure and meaning so each file can be searched, referenced, and worked with.

Team

Founders who lived the problem

Mankirat Singh Sains

Mankirat Singh Sains

Co-founder & CTO
James Hinsperger

James Hinsperger

Co-founder & CEO