ATLAS, by GradeumFor engineering and design firms.

A defensible, auditable AI for engineering work.

It does the filing, checking, drafting and searching. The engineer decides; ATLAS does the work and keeps the record.

Engineering work is marked DRAFT - PE Review Required.

Every engineer decision is logged.

Get started See how it works

Illustration: a result, as it comes back

Finding 1 · C-101DRAFT - PE Review Required

Storm drain slope, STA 1+20 to 2+40: 0.40%

Criterion: §3.2 Storm drain slope: 0.50% minimum.
Source: C-101, profile, slope label at STA 1+80
Result: Does not meet entered criterion

Awaiting the engineer14:02

ATLAS is an AI - It can make mistakes.

An illustration: an invented sheet, invented criteria and invented findings. It shows how a check reads. It is not output from a real project.

Security

Security, in brief

Sign-in

Sign-in: Sign in with your Microsoft work account. Sign-in happens at Microsoft, under your organization’s own sign-in policies.

Your data

At rest: Documents are encrypted at rest with Microsoft-managed keys.
In transit: Traffic between you and Gradeum is encrypted with HTTPS (TLS 1.2 or higher).
Separation: Each firm has its own account.

Operations

Secrets: Service secrets for the live services are held in Azure Key Vault.
Training: We do not use your content to train our own models.
Mail: ATLAS’s mail access is limited to the ATLAS mailbox alone.
Record: Every engineer decision is logged.

Every answer for your IT reviewer

STA 1+00The bind

Then the work buried you.

Rev B that should’ve been Rev C.
The transmittal that doesn’t match the register.
The spec section in the wrong template.
The drawing you know exists, somewhere, from last month.

Forty hours a week, and half of them spent on work that matters — but doesn’t need your license.

You didn’t stop being an engineer.You just stopped getting to be one.

Then came AI: a tool that could carry half of it.

And you were told you can’t use it.

No, because the client’s files can’t leave the building.
No, because nobody can say afterwards what it read or where it went.
No, because if it’s wrong, it’s your seal, not its.

So either you don’t use it — and stay buried. Or you use it quietly, with no record, and carry that too.

Neither one protects you. Neither one protects the public your license exists to protect.

Regulation of AI in engineering is coming.

STA 2+00Not another AI.

ATLAS is what goes around the AI — so an engineer can finally use it and stand behind the record.

Any model, one record.

01
It never decides.
It finds, drafts, checks and cites — and everything carrying engineering judgment comes back marked DRAFT - PE Review Required.
The decision stays where the law put it. With you.
02
It cites, or says what is missing.
Every result points to its source, the file and the place, or says what’s missing.
03
Nothing changes without your answer.
Nothing changes without your answer on the record.
Every engineer decision is logged.
04
New files only.
ATLAS returns new files only.
It does not overwrite your originals.

The controls are code, not instructions.

Who is responsible, in the words of the Terms of Service

Gradeum does not practise engineering for you and does not sign, seal or certify any output.

A qualified professional must review, verify and approve every output before it is relied on, issued, built from, filed or stamped.

STA 3+00Where your files live

You choose your level of security.

No law yet sets a level of security for AI in engineering work. The duty to keep a client’s information confidential is already in the profession’s rules.

Licensees shall not reveal facts, data, or information obtained in a professional capacity without the prior consent of the client, employer, or public body on which the licensee serves except as authorized or required by law or rules.

NCEES Model Rules (August 2025), section 240.15 B.4

Atlas Cloud

The hosted line

At rest: Documents are encrypted at rest with Microsoft-managed keys.
In transit: Traffic between you and Gradeum is encrypted with HTTPS (TLS 1.2 or higher).

Atlas Cloud runs on Microsoft Azure, with the web app and database held in Gradeum’s Azure subscription.

Each firm has an Atlas folder, held for you in Gradeum's Microsoft 365 (SharePoint) and shared with your firm's users.

Every answer for your IT reviewer

Atlas Local

In testing

Atlas Local will cost more because it is the more secure line, for the firm whose client, contract or conscience asks for more.

Both lines, in full

STA 4+00The work

Give ATLAS a task, the data and a method.

By chat or by email to the ATLAS mailbox.

QC of a plan set
You give it
The sheets, and the criteria your firm enters.
See a check, start to finish
A proposal against its RFP
You give it
The draft, and the RFP it answers.
See how a missing item reads
A back-check
You give it
The checker’s redlines, and the revised set.
The QC record
You give it
What was checked, against what, and who decided.
See the record

Engineering output is marked DRAFT - PE Review Required; other work is marked DRAFT - FOR REVIEW.

STA 5+00A check, start to finish

Every result cites its source, or says what’s missing.

An illustration: an invented sheet, invented criteria and invented findings. It shows how a check reads. It is not output from a real project.

1 · CriteriaThe firm enters what the sheet is checked against.
2 · FindingsEach finding cites the criterion and the place on the sheet.
3 · DecisionsThe engineer accepts or rejects each one.
4 · RecordEach decision goes on the record.

Criteria the firm entered

§3.2Storm drain slope: 0.50% minimum.
§3.4Cover over the storm drain: 3.0 ft minimum.
§3.6Inlet spacing: 300 ft maximum.
§2.1Pipe material called out on the plans or in the specifications.

Firm design criteria, revision 3 (invented)

Findings

Finding 1Does not meet entered criterion
Storm drain slope, STA 1+20 to 2+40
Criterion
§3.2 Storm drain slope: 0.50% minimum.
Found
0.40%
Source
C-101, profile, slope label at STA 1+80
Awaiting the engineer
Finding 2Meets entered criterion
Cover over the storm drain, STA 2+40 to 3+60
Criterion
§3.4 Cover over the storm drain: 3.0 ft minimum.
Found
3.4 ft at the shallowest point
Source
C-101, profile, STA 3+10
Awaiting the engineer
Finding 3Meets entered criterion
Inlet spacing, Inlet 2 to Inlet 3
Criterion
§3.6 Inlet spacing: 300 ft maximum.
Found
285 ft
Source
C-101, plan, Inlet 2 at STA 1+15 and Inlet 3 at STA 4+00
Awaiting the engineer
Finding 4Not found: stated, not filled in
Storm drain pipe material
Criterion
§2.1 Pipe material called out on the plans or in the specifications.
Found
No material callout
Source
Looked in: C-101 plan and profile notes, and the specification sections provided
Awaiting the engineer

Sample project (invented) · Sheet C-101

The QC record

DRAFT - PE Review Required

Criteria entered by the firm: Firm design criteria, revision 3 (invented).

Decisions by the engineer of record.

Seal status: unsealed, preliminary, as shown in the title block.

No.	Item	Criterion	Found	Result	Decision
1	Storm drain slope, STA 1+20 to 2+40	§3.2 Storm drain slope: 0.50% minimum.	0.40% C-101, profile, slope label at STA 1+80	Does not meet entered criterion	Awaiting the engineer
2	Cover over the storm drain, STA 2+40 to 3+60	§3.4 Cover over the storm drain: 3.0 ft minimum.	3.4 ft at the shallowest point C-101, profile, STA 3+10	Meets entered criterion	Awaiting the engineer
3	Inlet spacing, Inlet 2 to Inlet 3	§3.6 Inlet spacing: 300 ft maximum.	285 ft C-101, plan, Inlet 2 at STA 1+15 and Inlet 3 at STA 4+00	Meets entered criterion	Awaiting the engineer
4	Storm drain pipe material	§2.1 Pipe material called out on the plans or in the specifications.	No material callout Looked in: C-101 plan and profile notes, and the specification sections provided	Not found: stated, not filled in	Awaiting the engineer

Findings still awaiting the engineer’s decision: 1, 2, 3, 4.

Log

14:02Check run against 4 entered criteria. 4 findings returned.

STA 6+00The record

A client asks: “Do you use AI?”

You say yes. “Yes. We use ATLAS.”

Then you show them how.

That is what defensible means.

Not that nothing can go wrong.

That you can prove what happened, and that the rules held.

How the record is kept, in the words of the Terms of Service

We keep a log of engineer decisions made in Atlas. It is kept while your account is active and deleted with your other Customer Content under section 8; the administrator may ask us for an export of it at any time before then.

STA 7+00Who builds it

ATLAS was built for engineers, by engineers.

Not to replace your judgment.

To give you your hours back.

The seal stays human.

Veteran-owned American AI company.

About Gradeum

STA 8+00Pricing

Pay for what you use.

Microsoft account

Pay through your Microsoft account, on the Azure Marketplace: coming soon. Until then, start with prepaid credit, assigned from a shared balance. One account per firm, no per-seat billing.

One account per firm, no per-seat billing.
The meter shows credit used per task.

See pricing

BE AN ENGINEER AGAIN.

ATLAS, by Gradeum. A defensible, auditable AI for engineering work.