Decades of experience, finally searchable.

The knowledge exists. The time to find it doesn't.

COWI's engineers work under time pressure. New proposals need the right reference material on short notice. The reference material exists — tens of thousands of past projects, drawings, and AMA entries — but engineers rarely have time to find any of it before the deadline.

“We have decades of knowledge in our databases, but the teams don't have time to find it when deadlines are closing in.”

Daron Omed, VP Engineering, Heavy Civil

A second constraint: IT security. Any AI platform COWI used had to run inside a closed, ISO-certified environment. No general-purpose tools. No public APIs. No shortcuts.

Platform and partnership, inside their walls.

COWI chose Yesper as an AI platform and as a coaching partner. We worked with their teams to map business needs, prioritize use cases, and help them build their first AI-driven workflows themselves.

The deployment runs on a dedicated Azure instance that meets GDPR, ISO 27001, and COWI's own IT-security requirements.

Automatic checklists. Volumes in seconds. No IT queue.

Automatic checklists and a multi-step verification engine compare incoming documents against construction requirements and flag deviations. The mängd-och-räkna skill extracts and sums volumes from drawings and BIM models in seconds. And because the workflow builder is no-code, COWI's own engineers create and adjust routines without waiting on an IT queue.

“It is essential for us that the AI system is closed — higher security and accountability, and that it can scale with our organization's AI maturity.”

Marius Weydahl Berg, Chief Business Development Officer

Daron puts the business outcome directly:

“I want our engineers to spend less time on admin and more on innovative, value-creating decisions.”

Daron Omed, VP Engineering, Heavy Civil

Hundreds of hours back. Thirty years of archive in use.

Within months, COWI's teams freed hundreds of engineering hours. The same engineers who used to hunt through archives now spend that time on design decisions where their expertise matters most — and the reference material sitting in thirty years of project history finally gets used.

Estimation, comparison, compliance, spec review.

Resource estimation runs alongside document comparison, compliance matrices for public procurement, and technical specification review. COWI's teams keep building new routines on the platform themselves.