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For Civil Engineering Firms

Focus on engineering, not paperwork.

Your engineers spend half their feasibility study effort on manual data gathering and process navigation. Noetic automates the regulatory research and completeness checks so your team can focus on the work that requires professional judgment.

Too much time on process. Not enough on engineering.

Feasibility studies require digging through zoning codes, county clerk records, GIS layers, utility databases, and environmental regulations. Then the completeness check process adds weeks before the city even starts reviewing. Your engineers are spending their time navigating administrative overhead instead of solving engineering problems.

4-6
Weeks on Completeness
Before the city begins technical review
6-9
Review Cycles
Average rounds before site plan approval
$5-15K
Per Feasibility Study
Often a loss leader to win the project

Automate the grunt work. Keep the judgment.

Noetic handles the data gathering and process navigation that consume your team’s time. Your engineers stay focused on engineering — grading, drainage design, utility layout — while Noetic handles the regulatory research and administrative completeness that slows everything down.

Automated Regulatory Research

Zoning interpretations, deed restrictions, overlay districts, environmental constraints, utility availability, and adjacency standards — researched against the actual local code and cited to the source. Eliminates the manual data gathering that consumes 40-50% of feasibility study effort.

Completeness Pre-Check

Verify your submittal package against the city's completeness requirements before you file. Catch the missing documents, formatting issues, and administrative items that add 4-6 weeks before technical review even begins.

Department-by-Department Alignment

Know what each reviewing department will look for — drainage, transportation, zoning, environmental, fire, arborist — before you submit. Organized the way city staff review, so your team can address items proactively.

Citation-Backed Findings

Every flag includes the specific code section, threshold, and standard behind it. No vague guidance — your engineers see exactly which regulation applies and can make informed decisions about how to address it.

Navigate the process faster.

The completeness check is where most projects lose weeks. Noetic runs the same checks the city runs — before you submit.

Without Noetic

Assemble submittal package from memory and past experience
Wait 4-6 weeks for completeness check results
Resubmit with missing items, wait again
Technical review begins 8-12 weeks after first submission

With Noetic

Run completeness pre-check against city requirements
Address gaps before submission
Submit a complete package the first time
Technical review begins within weeks, not months

Measured results.

Validated with the City of Austin and leading Texas civil engineering firms.

40-50%
Time Saved
On feasibility study data gathering
4+ Weeks
Intake Savings
Average time saved on intake process
83%
Issue Detection
Of city reviewer comments caught pre-submission

Improving the quality of submissions upfront is one of the most effective ways to reduce review timelines. This pilot allows us to test how technology can support that process in a practical, project-focused way.

Shelly Mitchell, P.E.
Senior Vice President, Pape-Dawson Engineers

What Noetic delivers.

Site Intelligence Reports

Automated regulatory research for feasibility studies — zoning, deed restrictions, overlays, environmental constraints, utility availability. Sourced and cited.

Completeness Pre-Checks

Verify your submittal package against the city's intake checklist before you file. Catch documentation gaps that would add weeks.

Site Plan Review

Department-by-department review of your plan set against the full local land development code. Same-day turnaround with code citations.

Turn your loss leader into a profitable engagement.

Feasibility studies are often priced at cost or below to win the full project. By automating the data gathering, Noetic reduces the effort required — turning a $10K loss leader into a $3-5K profitable engagement without cutting scope.

Traditional Feasibility Study

Data gathering40-50% of effort
Typical cost$5-15K
MarginBreakeven or loss

With Noetic

Data gatheringAutomated
Typical cost$3-5K
MarginProfitable

Get your engineers back to engineering.

See how Noetic automates the regulatory research and process navigation that consume your team’s time — so they can focus on the work that requires professional judgment.

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