An AI agent that runs pressure vessel calculations in 20 minutes instead of a full day.
Hours of math. The kind of work that decides whether a refinery starts up on time.
Bottlenecks form around scarce expertise. Proposals miss deadlines. The senior engineers become a single point of failure, doing computation work instead of judgment work.
An agent that executes the full calculation pipeline, applies the relevant engineering codes, and drafts the documentation.
Senior engineers review the output instead of producing it. Judgment stays human. Computation becomes mechanical.
Not a productivity tool. A change in who does what. Capacity scales without hiring more senior engineers.