Versioned cost books, parametric correlations with enforced validity ranges, and structured OPEX models — maintained yearly so your estimates never go stale.
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Composable domain packs
I&C and field instrumentation, chemical process (ISBL/OSBL, Turton-based), mining — open pit, underground, ISR, beneficiation, drilling, grade control — software and execution: each domain ships as a self-contained pack, deployable alone or combined.
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CAPEX · OPEX · TCO
Structured operating costs: power, fuel, maintenance, labour, consumables, G&A — reconciled component by component.
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Maintenance & I&C strategies
Run-to-failure to prescriptive: maintenance scales with the sensors and software actually in scope — no savings without the enablers.
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Software stacks L0 → L5
From smart sensor to digital twin — vendor, open-source and hybrid architectures, build and run costs.
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Any currency, place or date
Per-line currencies, FX tables, location factors, index-based escalation — and a price transposer: a 50 m³ vessel bought in France in 2020 becomes its 80 m³ equivalent in the USA in 2026, every factor traced.
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Built-in cross-checks
Lang, Hand, capacity ratio, capital intensity, SMRP maintenance band — factored methods automatically challenge every estimate.
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Design-to-cost toolkit
Variant trade-offs with break-even detection, tornado sensitivity, target-drift tracking, per-line "why this price" explain — plus a per-module DtC question bank for design reviews and the IdeaTrack register: idea lifecycle, mandatory gain rationales, savings computed from the actual BOM lines, and an interactive gain/effort matrix whose selection compiles straight into a project scenario.
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Your own cost data
House formulas calibrated on your actuals live beside the reference books — the third simulation level, and it always wins. Tier3 builds it from your ERP purchase history; ParaCost fits parametric formulas on your quote returns — review-gated, fully offline.
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EasyRFQ sourcing loop
Tick the components to consult, generate one RFQ pack per supplier — RFQ document plus Excel quote sheet, never disclosing your should-cost — then pick which returned quotes enter the BOM and measure the gap, line by line.
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AACE maturity gate
Don't declare your estimate class — determine it. Score your actual deliverables (P&IDs, heat & material balance, plot plans…) against RP 18R-97 logic and get the class they support, plus the exact gaps to the next one.
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P10 · P50 · P90 & cash flow
A light Monte Carlo where each line's uncertainty follows its pricing basis — a firm quote is tighter than an assumption — with the implied contingency, S-curve spend phasing and the engineering FTE staffing plan.
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Bid tabulation & price memory
Returned quotes compared vendor by vendor against your should-cost — price and lead-time scored, recommended mix applied in one click — while every intake feeds your private observed-price history — with the competition regime behind each price, so the sole-source premium becomes an explicit figure — and contractual index formulas revise old prices traceably.
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Design rules at the line
Curated cost-driving guidance per catalogue category — sizing margins, material thresholds, standardization — shown in the line inspector at the exact moment a component is chosen. Every rule cites its source; the bank is maintained without a terminal.
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Off-catalogue, never off-budget
An article with no catalogue home (a skid on a drawing, a local service, an unmapped take-off row) is captured, not dropped: priced only with a sourced direct price, otherwise reported and the total marked a floor — then attached, priced or capitalized into your own books.
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Roles & profiles
Admin, estimator, engineering, buyer, guest — personal keys, licence-bound seats, and hard server-side rules: the engineering profile never sees a vendor-selected price.
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System optimization
SysOpt turns coupled design choices (pipe diameter vs pumping energy, refrigerant vs compressor size) into an exhaustive bi-level search — every point priced by this engine, the winner delivered as a regular costing project.
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Scenarios & alternatives
Technical alternatives live as patches on one reference — written by the engineering team, compiled from a DtC idea selection, or generated by the gap analysis of a revised P&ID/BOM. One synthesis prices them side by side, with a significance verdict: a delta below the changed lines' uncertainty is no basis for decision. Retain merges; every decision is journaled.
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Data quality per WBS node
The standard project WBS reconciles the whole CAPEX to the cent — and every node shows the accuracy band of its pricing bases and the finest AACE class that data can defend. A node priced at ±35% supports Class 4, never Class 3, whatever the declared class.
