TL;DR: Scaling a chemical process from lab-scale result to commercial plant can take years and hundreds of millions of dollars. Alkali’s Engineering Copilot (ProcessMate) uses AI to catch process design errors and automate equipment sourcing – keeping your projects on time and on budget.

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The Problem:

As chemical engineers, we’ve seen how design errors and procurement delays derail project schedules and budgets:

• Engineering Rework: Projects often undergo 10+ design iterations due to incorrect equipment selection, overlooked safety requirements, or careless design errors.
• Procurement Delays: Complex part sourcing, manual quote/response workflows, and relentless vendor follow-up (chasing confirmations, shipments, exceptions) can delay projects by months.

Our Solution:

Alkali Engineering’s ProcessMate platform streamlines error checking and procurement. Free engineers to do creative work, get projects built on time!

1. AI-Driven Design Checks – Like an engineering spell-check for your schematics, AI identifies design errors before it’s too late.
2. Smart Equipment Selection – Cross reference your engineering designs and vendor catalogues to help you get the right parts, faster.
3. Version Control & Chat Interface – Interpretable version control for engineering schematics. Version control is no longer just for software engineers!

The Team:

• Emmett Goodman (PhD, Stanford – ex-AWS GenAI Labs): Led delivery of GenAI solutions for AWS’s flagship customers, showcasing “art of the possible” solutions.
• Victor Miller (PhD, Berkeley – ex-Shell Engineer): Led 8-figure chemical engineering infrastructure projects.

Our Ask:

We’re looking to talk to:

• Project managers fighting schedule overruns
• Industrial vendors wanting faster RFP/RFQ cycles
• EPC/Engineering firms interested in piloting AI-driven design validation and procurement

👇 Know someone who fits? Email us at founders@alkali-eng.com !