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# Armeta
> Armeta is the engineering intelligence layer for industrial facilities. Reads existing PDF P&IDs and turns them into structured, queryable engineering data. Currently deployed with operators, EPC contractors, engineering firms, and EHS consultants in oil & gas, chemicals, and refining.
Armeta processes the document of record for industrial process plants — the Piping & Instrumentation Diagram — and delivers structured outputs (Material Take-Off, component inventories, cross-drawing connectivity graphs) that feed downstream workflows including OSHA PSM compliance, EPA LDAR programs, HAZOP revalidation, MOC, and turnaround planning. Deployed on customer cloud or on-premise. Headquartered in San Francisco with engineering in Astana and Doha.
## Core pages
- [Homepage](https://armeta.ai/): The engineering intelligence layer for industrial facilities — overview, proof, and primary CTAs.
- [Platform](https://armeta.ai/platform/): How Armeta extracts P&IDs — pipeline architecture, accuracy validation, deployment options, security posture, integration surface.
- [Proof](https://armeta.ai/proof/): External validation, active deployments, founders, and institutional backing.
## Platform — supported document types
- [Platform — P&IDs](https://armeta.ai/platform/pids/): How Armeta contextualizes P&IDs — extraction surface, cross-drawing connectivity, contextualization against isometrics and line lists, deployment.
- [Platform — Piping Isometrics](https://armeta.ai/platform/piping-isometrics/): How Armeta contextualizes piping isometrics — fittings, welds, dimensions, BOM extraction, cross-document reconciliation.
- [Platform — PFDs](https://armeta.ai/platform/pfds/): How Armeta contextualizes Process Flow Diagrams — equipment blocks, process streams, operating conditions, HMB reconciliation.
- [Platform — Line Lists](https://armeta.ai/platform/line-lists/): How Armeta contextualizes line lists — line attributes, from-to connectivity, cross-document reconciliation against P&IDs and isometrics.
## Products
- [Products](https://armeta.ai/products/): Six Armeta AI products for estimating, permitting, facility documentation, codes, materials, and CAD.
- [Armeta Smeta](https://armeta.ai/products/smeta/): Cost estimating built on connected drawings, standards, catalogs, quantities, and rates.
- [Armeta Permit](https://armeta.ai/products/permit/): Automated building permitting system
- [Armeta CAD](https://armeta.ai/products/cad/): Professional CAD platform with integrated AI — drafting, automatic formatting to code, linked data, and compliance checks. Waitlist open.
## Solutions by buyer segment
- [For Engineering Firms](https://armeta.ai/solutions/engineering-firms/): Review engineering documentation before it leaves the office.
- [For Construction Firms](https://armeta.ai/solutions/construction-firms/): Connect catalogs, standards, drawings, and estimate documentation before committing to a price.
- [For Asset Owners](https://armeta.ai/solutions/asset-owners/): Check incoming project documentation and make existing engineering archives usable.
- [For Governments and Regulators](https://armeta.ai/solutions/governments-regulators/): Turn repetitive examination work into itemised, traceable findings for specialists to confirm.
## Glossary (industry terminology)
- [Preconstruction](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/preconstruction/): The phase of a capital project between the decision to invest and the start of physical work, in which the design is developed, costs are estimated, permits are obtained and the contracting strategy is decided.
- [Cost estimate](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/cost-estimate/): A forecast of the probable cost of a defined scope of work, produced at a specific level of design maturity and valid only for that scope, that maturity and that point in time.
- [BOQ — Bill of Quantities (BOQ)](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/bill-of-quantities-boq/): A structured list of every item of work and material required for a project, with measured quantities, used as the basis for tendering and for valuing work as it is completed.
- [Quantity take-off](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/quantity-take-off/): The process of measuring and counting the quantities of work and materials in a project directly from its drawings, models and specifications.
- [MTO — Material take-off (MTO)](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/mto-material-takeoff/): A structured list of the physical materials — pipe, fittings, valves, structural steel, cable and similar — required to build a design, extracted from engineering drawings and models to drive procurement and estimating.
- [Unit rate](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/unit-rate/): The cost of one measured unit of a work item — one cubic metre of concrete placed, one metre of pipe welded — combining labour, materials, equipment, overheads and margin.
- [Schedule of rates](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/schedule-of-rates/): A pre-agreed list of unit rates for defined work items, without quantities, used to price work whose extent is not known in advance.
- [Cost catalog](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/cost-catalog/): A maintained library of reference cost data — unit rates, resource norms, assemblies and material prices — from which estimates are built and against which bids are checked.
- [CBS — Cost breakdown structure (CBS)](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/cost-breakdown-structure-cbs/): A hierarchical structure that organises all project costs into defined categories, so that estimates, budgets and actuals can be compared at the same levels.
- [WBS — Work breakdown structure (WBS)](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/work-breakdown-structure-wbs/): A hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of a project into progressively smaller pieces of work, forming the common skeleton for scheduling, estimating and reporting.
- [Direct costs](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/direct-costs/): Costs that can be attributed to a specific, measurable item of permanent work — the labour, materials and equipment time consumed in building it.
- [Indirect costs and overheads](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/indirect-costs-and-overheads/): Costs required to deliver the project that cannot be attributed to any single item of work — site management, temporary facilities, equipment fleets, insurances and the contractor's share of head-office cost.
- [Preliminaries](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/preliminaries/): The section of a tender or bill of quantities that prices the contractor's general obligations and site-wide costs — establishment, management, temporary works, insurances — separately from the measured work items.
- [Contingency](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/contingency/): An amount included in an estimate or budget to cover costs that are expected to occur within the defined scope but cannot yet be itemised — the known-unknowns of the project.
- [Cost escalation](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/cost-escalation/): The anticipated change in prices between the date of an estimate and the dates when the work will actually be bought and built, provided for as a distinct line in the estimate.
- [Value engineering](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/value-engineering/): A structured review of a design against the functions it must perform, seeking ways to deliver the same function at lower whole-life cost — as distinct from simply cutting scope or quality.
- [Order-of-magnitude estimate](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/order-of-magnitude-estimate/): A screening-level cost estimate produced from minimal project definition, used to decide whether an idea deserves further study rather than to set a budget.
- [Definitive estimate](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/definitive-estimate/): A high-maturity cost estimate built from substantially complete engineering and detailed take-offs, accurate enough to serve as the project's control budget and the basis for final investment commitment.
- [Base estimate](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/base-estimate/): The estimated cost of the defined scope at current prices, before contingency, escalation and reserves are added — the "what we can see, at today's money" figure.
- [Cost norm](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/cost-norm/): A standardised statement of the resources — labour hours, materials, machine time — required to perform one unit of a defined work item, used as the objective core of an estimate.
- [Elemental cost plan](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/elemental-cost-plan/): A cost plan organised by the functional elements of a building — substructure, frame, envelope, services — rather than by trades or materials, used to steer design toward a budget.
- [Cost benchmarking](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/cost-benchmarking/): Comparing a project's estimated or actual costs against a reference set of completed projects, normalised for size, location, time and scope, to test whether the numbers are reasonable.
- [Budget vs estimate](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/budget-vs-estimate/): An estimate is a prediction of what a scope of work will probably cost; a budget is a decision about how much money is allocated to it — related, but not the same number and not the same act.
- [AACE estimate classes](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/aace-estimate-classes/): A widely used framework, published by AACE International, that classifies cost estimates from Class 5 to Class 1 according to the level of project definition behind them and the accuracy that can honestly be expected.
- [Factored estimate](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/factored-estimate/): An early estimating method for process plants in which total installed cost is derived by multiplying the cost of major equipment by empirically established factors.
- [Parametric estimating](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/parametric-estimating/): Estimating cost from statistical relationships between cost and measurable project parameters — cost per square metre, per tonne of capacity, per kilometre — derived from historical data.
- [Allowance](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/allowance/): An amount included within the base estimate for an item that is known to be required but not yet defined in enough detail to measure — priced by judgement rather than take-off.
- [Provisional sum](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/provisional-sum/): A stated amount included in a tender or contract for work that cannot be adequately defined at tender time, to be replaced by the actual cost of that work once it is instructed and done.
- [MTO growth allowance](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/mto-growth-allowance/): A percentage added to the measured quantities of a material take-off to cover the growth expected between the current design stage and the final installed quantities.
- [Bulk materials and tagged items](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/bulk-materials-and-tagged-items/): The two categories every engineering material list divides into: tagged items, specified and tracked individually by tag number, and bulk materials, specified by class and counted in aggregate.
- [TIC — Total installed cost (TIC)](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/total-installed-cost-tic/): The full cost of delivering an operating asset — equipment, bulk materials, construction labour, indirects, engineering and project services — as distinct from the cost of the equipment alone.
- [Design documentation](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/design-documentation/): The complete set of drawings, specifications, calculations, schedules and reports that defines what is to be built, produced in stages by the design organisation and consumed by everyone else on the project.
- [Permitting package](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/permitting-package/): The specific subset of project documentation assembled and formatted for submission to an authority in order to obtain a permit or approval.
- [Building permit](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/building-permit/): The formal authorisation issued by a competent authority that allows construction of a defined project to begin, granted after the authority has reviewed the submitted documentation.
- [Design review](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/design-review/): A structured examination of design outputs against requirements, codes and project criteria at a defined point, carried out to catch errors and misalignments while they are still cheap to fix.
- [State examination — State examination (State Expertise)](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/state-examination-state-expertise/): A mandatory expert review of a project's design documentation — and in most such systems its cost estimates — by a state or state-accredited body, whose positive conclusion is a precondition for a construction permit.
- [Code compliance check](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/code-compliance-check/): The verification that a design satisfies the requirements of the codes, standards and regulations that apply to it, traced clause by clause to the documents that demonstrate compliance.
- [Completeness check](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/completeness-check/): A verification that a documentation set contains everything it is required to contain — every document, section, attachment, signature and form — performed before any substantive review begins.
- [Submittal](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/submittal/): A document, drawing, sample or product datasheet that a contractor sends to the design team for review and approval before the associated material is procured or the work executed.
- [NCR — Non-conformance report (NCR)](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/non-conformance-report-ncr/): A formal record that work, material or documentation has been found not to conform to the specified requirements, together with the decision on what to do about it.
- [RFI — Request for information (RFI)](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/request-for-information-rfi/): A formal written question from the contractor to the design team asking for clarification, missing information or resolution of a conflict in the contract documents.
- [Change order](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/change-order/): A formal, signed modification to the construction contract that changes the scope of work, the contract price, the schedule, or any combination of the three.
- [Design basis — Design basis (also: Basis of design)](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/design-basis-also-basis-of-design/): The documented set of requirements, criteria, codes, site data and assumptions from which a design is developed — the premises of the project, written down.
- [FEED — Front-end engineering design (FEED)](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/feed-front-end-engineering-design/): The engineering stage between concept and detailed design in which a project is defined thoroughly enough to fix its cost estimate, support the investment decision and form the basis of EPC tendering.
- [IFC — Issued for Construction (IFC)](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/issued-for-construction-ifc/): The revision status marking a document as reviewed, approved and released as the version from which construction may proceed.
- [As-built documentation](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/as-built-documentation/): Project documentation revised at completion to record what was actually constructed, incorporating every field change, deviation and accepted concession made during the build.
- [Handover package](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/handover-package/): The structured set of documentation transferred from the project to the owner at completion — as-builts, vendor documents, certificates, test records and operating information — constituting the asset's permanent record.
- [Professional engineer seal](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/professional-engineer-seal/): The stamp of a licensed professional engineer applied to design documents in US and Canadian practice, signifying that the work was prepared by or under the direct supervision of that engineer, who accepts legal responsibility for it.
- [Signature and seal requirements](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/signature-and-seal-requirements/): The rules, differing by jurisdiction, that determine who must sign, approve or stamp design documents for those documents to be valid for permitting and construction.
- [Revision control](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/revision-control/): The discipline of identifying, tracking and distributing document versions so that at any moment there is exactly one revision of each document that everyone agrees is current.
- [Detailed design — Detailed design (detail engineering)](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/detailed-design-detail-engineering/): The engineering stage that converts a defined project into buildable documentation — the full set of drawings, models, isometrics, schedules and take-offs from which construction and procurement actually proceed.
- [Working documentation — Working documentation (the design/working split)](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/working-documentation-the-design-working-split/): In CIS practice, the second of two documentation stages: the construction-level documents developed after the approved design documentation, which is the stage that undergoes state examination.
- [Interdisciplinary check — Interdisciplinary check (IDC / squad check)](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/interdisciplinary-check-idc-squad-check/): The formal circulation of one discipline's deliverables to all affected disciplines for review and comment before the documents are issued.
- [MDR — Master document register (MDR)](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/master-document-register-mdr/): The controlled index of every document a project will produce — with numbers, titles, revisions, statuses and planned dates — serving as both the catalogue of the documentation and the instrument for measuring engineering progress.
- [Transmittal](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/transmittal/): The formal cover record accompanying documents sent between project parties, establishing exactly which documents, at which revisions, were sent to whom, when and for what purpose.
- [Vendor documentation](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/vendor-documentation/): The documents produced by equipment suppliers — drawings, datasheets, calculations, manuals and certificates — that must be reviewed by the project and integrated into its documentation set.
- [Deviation request — Deviation request (concession)](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/deviation-request-concession/): A formal request, raised before the work is done, for permission to depart from a specified requirement — as distinct from a non-conformance report, which records a departure after the fact.
- [Hold](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/hold/): A marked restriction meaning "do not proceed past this point without resolution" — applied on drawings to areas pending information, and in inspection plans to work stages requiring sign-off before continuing.
- [MOC — Management of change (MOC)](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/moc-management-of-change/): A formal process for evaluating, approving and documenting changes to a design, process or facility after its basis has been established, ensuring each change is reviewed for its consequences before it is made.
- [Punch list](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/punch-list/): The list of incomplete, defective or outstanding items identified as a project approaches completion, each to be corrected and signed off before the work is finally accepted.
- [AHJ — Authority having jurisdiction (AHJ)](https://armeta.ai/resources/glossary/authority-having-jurisdiction-ahj/): The organisation, office or official with the legal authority to enforce a code or regulation on a project and to approve or reject the wor
