AI for geotechnical engineering firms, tested on investigations you already scoped and reported.

Codes name who sets the scope. New York City's Building Code, in its Chapter 18 as amended by Local Law 77 of 2023, says an engineer shall scope, supervise and approve the subsurface investigation and the classification of the soil and rock it finds. Section 1803.4.1 leaves the number, types and depths of borings, the drilling and sampling equipment, the in-situ tests and the lab program to the engineer responsible for the investigation. A draft can gather what a request asks for. What the site needs is decided by that engineer.

Much of a report is a record. The same chapter calls for a signed and sealed geotechnical report whose required contents start with a description of the planned structure, a plot of the boring locations, a complete record of sample descriptions, the soil and rock profile, groundwater and flood elevations, and in-situ and lab results, all listed ahead of any recommendation. Those record sections are assembled from field logs and lab sheets line by line, and each closed project shows how your firm assembled them.

Public clients put a clock on the scope. Loudoun County, Virginia's 2025 request for geotechnical engineering and soil scientist services gives the consultant 48 hours to respond once the county gives notice of work. A meeting follows, then a lump sum proposal priced from the contract's hourly rates, with hours by category of service, a narrative of the work, every non-labor cost and a schedule of subtasks in calendar days. Each task order proposal also names a quality control reviewer, a senior member of the firm who is neither the project manager nor the project engineer. That is a lot of careful reading to finish fast.

Each agency wants its own log. Caltrans requires any organization providing geotechnical reports or records of investigations to the Department to follow its Soil and Rock Logging, Classification, and Presentation Manual, whose 2022 edition took effect on July 1, 2023. Its Log of Test Borings is usually tied to a structure, sits in the project plans and travels with a separate Test Boring Layout sheet. A firm serving several agencies lays out the same kind of data many ways, and its finished reports show every layout it delivered.

A draft is not a sealed document. Texas engineering rules let a license holder seal only work they did or directly supervised. A preliminary document released from their control carries a statement instead of a seal: what it was released for, such as interim review, under whose authority and on what date, and that it is not for construction, bidding or permits. Nothing from this proof of concept is released, signed or sealed; it is a draft for your engineer to accept, correct or discard. These summaries of published rules are not legal or engineering advice.

One limit covers every job here. The proof of concept reads copies and drafts. It never touches your project system, a client portal, a live proposal or a live report, and it never classifies a soil, sets a scope, recommends a foundation or seals a document. Every technical call, and every seal, belongs to a licensed engineer.