Oil & Gas · Midstream · Process Facilities

Your team knows what’s broken.
They just can’t get to it.

In live-operation environments, the work that would make your team faster never makes it onto the schedule. As-builts go un-reconciled. Standards drift. Automation stays on the backlog.

CAD Gen AI provides on-demand CAD drafting, automation development, and workflow solutions for live-operation facilities — handling the backlog work that never clears on its own.

01 / Diagnose

We Find What's Costing Your Team Time

Before any drafting starts, we audit how your team actually works — where standards drift, which tasks could be automated, where drawing data is scattered. Most teams have never had this done. It changes everything.

02 / Build

We Fix It With Automation and Systems

Custom AutoLISP routines, dynamic templates, layer protocols, and drawing standards enforcement — built around your actual workflow, not a generic best practice. You own everything we build. Your team can maintain it.

03 / Support

We Stay On as Senior Overflow Capacity

Once systems are in place, we remain engaged for project surges — senior piping design, P&IDs, isometrics, as-built updates. Scale up when projects are heavy, scale back when they're not.

The Problem

Engineering teams are stuck in a cycle.

In oil & gas, midstream, and process facilities — projects never stop moving. So the work that would make your team faster, more organized, and more efficient quietly piles up in the background. Most teams assume this is just how it is. It isn’t. It’s a fixable system problem.

CAD Gen AI provides on-demand CAD drafting, automation development, and workflow solutions for live-operation facilities — handling the backlog work that never clears on its own.

We don’t just deliver drawings. We build the system that makes your team faster long after we’re done.
Why CAD Gen AI

Not offshore. Not a generalist. Not just drafters.

Most CAD support options give you one of two things: offshore shops that execute whatever they’re handed without understanding your environment, or generalist consultants who don’t know a P&ID from a PFD.

We’re neither. CAD Gen AI is a senior oil and gas CAD specialist — fluent in CADWorx, AutoCAD Plant 3D, and AutoLISP — who comes in and diagnoses your actual workflow before doing any drafting at all. We speak ASME B31.3, B31.4, and B31.8. We’ve lived inside the same CAD environments you’re trying to fix.

Offshore shops execute. We diagnose.

Offshore CAD vendors deliver what you hand them. If your workflow is broken going in, the deliverables are broken coming out. We fix the environment first.

Generalists consult. We implement.

Most CAD consultants deliver a report and leave. We build the tools, write the routines, and configure your environment — then hand it back to your team fully documented.

Staffing agencies hire. We integrate.

A contract drafter integrates into your broken workflow and works around it. We identify the workflow problem, fix it, then stay on as overflow capacity — so the work actually gets faster.

How We Operate

Four principles behind every engagement.

Meet teams where they are

We don’t sell pre-packaged systems or force your team to adopt new tools. We start by understanding how your team actually works — then design solutions that fit, using what you already have.

Automation as a habit

Repetitive work is a problem to solve — not a line item to bill. If something on your project can be automated, we’ll build the tool to do it.

Senior eyes on every deliverable

You work directly with a senior designer — not a layer of management. The person doing the thinking is the person doing the drawing.

Leave it better than we found it

The tools, templates, and standards we develop stay with your team. We’d rather you keep building on what we leave behind than depend on us.

Engineering workstation with dual monitors displaying CAD software
Fig. 01 — Engineering Workstation CADWorx · Plant 3D
02 · Services

Three ways we work together.

Every engagement follows the same approach: diagnose first, then build, then support. No guessing. No generic solutions. No deliverables that don’t survive contact with how your team actually works.

01 · Assess

CAD Workflow Audit

The entry point for every engagement. We map your actual CAD environment — standards compliance, automation opportunities, data organization, workflow bottlenecks — and deliver a written report with specific, prioritized recommendations.

Workflow Assessment · Standards Auditing · Asset Organization · Drawing Cleanup · CAD Data Extraction · AI-Assisted Tools

You own the report regardless of what comes next. Most clients find the audit alone changes how they think about where their team’s time is going.

Starting at $2,500 · 2–3 weeks · Written deliverable included

02 · Build

CAD Automation & AutoLISP Development

Based on the audit findings, we build what fixes the problem. Custom AutoLISP routines, dynamic templates, layer protocols, titleblock automation, attribute extraction, drawing standards enforcement — all built around your specific workflow, not a generic template.

AutoLISP Routines · Dynamic Templates · Block Libraries · Title Block Automation · Attribute Extraction · Layer Standardization

Everything we build is documented so your team can maintain and extend it. The goal is to make your team faster permanently — not dependent on us.

We build the tools your team would build — if they ever had the time.

03 · Support

Senior Piping & Process Design Overflow

Once your environment is organized, we stay engaged as overflow capacity — handling project surges with production-ready piping layouts, P&IDs, PFDs, isometrics, spool drawings, and full construction packages in CADWorx or AutoCAD Plant 3D.

P&IDs · Piping Layouts · Isometrics · Spool Drawings · As-Built Updates · Construction Packages

Scale up when projects are heavy. Scale back when they’re not. Built to fit outside your billable headcount without committing to a permanent hire.

Built to ASME B31.3, B31.4, B31.8 · API · ISA · Client standards

Also available on request: as-built drawing updates · drawing cleanup & standards auditing · CAD data extraction & reporting · 2D-to-3D model conversion.

Computer screen displaying P&ID data extraction spreadsheet with block attributes
Fig. 02 — P&ID Data Extraction AI · AUTOLISP
03 · Process

How a CAD Gen AI engagement works.

Every engagement starts with a diagnostic — not a drawing. Here’s how it unfolds.

01

Workflow Assessment

We start by auditing your CAD environment — not your project backlog. We map how your team works, where time is being lost, which tasks are candidates for automation, and what your drawing standards actually look like in practice versus on paper. This takes 2–3 weeks and produces a written report.

02

Build & Implement

Based on the audit, we build solutions — AutoLISP routines, templates, layer protocols, data tools — directly in your CAD environment. If overflow drafting is needed in parallel, we run it concurrently. Everything is tested in your environment before handoff.

03

Handoff & Ongoing Support

We document everything we build and walk your team through it. Then we stay available as overflow capacity — scaling up for project surges, maintaining the tooling as your workflow evolves, and keeping standards consistent across projects.

04 · Investment

Pricing & engagement models

Every engagement starts with a Workflow Audit. From there, we move into automation builds, overflow support, or both — depending on what your team actually needs.

Hourly Retainer
$95–$145
per hour
  • Senior CADWorx, Plant 3D, AutoLISP work
  • Quote within 24 hours
  • Houston-based, US working hours
  • Pay only for what you use, no monthly minimum
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Most Common Fixed Per-Project
Starting at $3,500
scoped quote
  • Construction drawing packages
  • 2D-to-3D model conversion
  • AutoLISP automation builds
  • Quote in 48 hrs · Standards audit included
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Strategic Partnership
$4,500–$10,000
per month
  • Committed monthly hours, priority queue
  • Dedicated CADWorx / Plant 3D capacity
  • Same-day acknowledgment, SLA-backed
  • Standards pre-audit included
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Bulk & Volume Work Per-unit pricing

Volume drawing standardization and bulk titleblock updates available — pricing on request.

Find out where your team's time is actually going.

Book a free 30-minute conversation. We'll talk through your current CAD environment, where your team is losing time, and whether CAD Gen AI is the right fit for your team.

No pressure. No pitch deck. Just a direct conversation with a senior CAD person who has worked inside the same workflows you're trying to fix — and knows what it actually takes to change them.

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