Case Studies / Engineering
Professional Services ~120 staff · Multi-office · Project-based

Multi-Office Engineering Firm

A multi-office civil and structural engineering firm running project-based work.

Lead service: AI synthesis + KPI scorecard layering + Research Lab Engagement: 14 weeks

The situation

  • Project data lived in a dozen places; no single source for project health.
  • Realization and utilization only surfaced after a project was already underwater.
  • Leadership had driver-blind, lagging financials only.
  • The team wanted to use AI well but had no baseline for 'good.'

What Grounds did

  • Built an AI synthesis layer over project, timesheet, and billing data.
  • Added the driver metrics they weren't tracking to a layered scorecard.
  • Ran a Research Lab loop: taught AI best practices, then baseline-tested and tracked.
  • Created a 'project intelligence' responsibility rather than a new hire.

Capabilities deployed

AI synthesis layer KPI / scorecard layering Research Lab teaching Baseline-test-then-track Role enhancement

Results

Real-time
Project margin visibility
+6 pts
Realization
Quarterly
AI-maturity baseline tracked
In-house
Capability stays after we step back

What stays: A real-time project-health scorecard and a tracked AI-maturity baseline.

Explore the model

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The same kind of live model we build inside the engagement. Move the inputs and watch the outcome change.

Interactive model

AI-maturity baseline → dollars

Teach the practice, set a baseline, track improvement, then price the lift.

How to use: drag the team's AI-practice maturity from baseline toward today's measured level, and set net service revenue. Each KPI interpolates, and the realization and margin lifts convert to annual dollars below.
78%
$22M
At 78% maturity, realization is 75.7% (+4.7 pts); visibility moves from post-mortem to real time.
$1.03M
Revenue captured from realization / yr
$1.03M
Profit from project-margin lift / yr
$2.07M
Total annual impact at this maturity

Illustrative example, not a specific client engagement.

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