For engineering and EPCM firms
Compress PEA, PFS, FS, DFS, and detailed engineering by 0.5 to 5 Full Time Engineers per study phase.
CoEngen is Vertical AI for the Mining Industry. It takes the repetitive interpretive, data-consolidation, and first-draft reporting work off your study teams so your senior engineers spend their time on judgment, not on drafting prose from blank pages.
CoEngen is targeting NI 43-101 report rewrite and QC compression from 120 hours to 5 hours per report.
The critical-minerals pipeline is bigger than your study team. That gap is not closing.
The energy transition has created the largest pipeline of mining feasibility work in a generation. Your firm's project intake is growing accordingly. Your senior technical staff, the people who can actually write interpretive content that survives NI 43-101 scrutiny, are not growing at the same rate.
The labour math is ugly and getting worse. MiHR projects Canadian mining will need up to 256,000 new workers by 2034, with a realistic shortfall of up to 133,000.¹ The industry is losing workers to retirement at a 2.3% annual rate and replacing them at only 0.7%.¹ 72% of mining employers expect retention to worsen over the next five years.²
Hiring and training out of that gap is not realistic on the timeline your project pipeline demands. The realistic path is to extend the reach of every technical person you already have.
¹ MiHR, Canadian Mining Outlook 2024.
² World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report 2025.
The interpretive layer between your data and your study deliverables.
CoEngen connects to the data systems your study teams already work from: LIMS, vendor databases, pilot-plant systems, project document stores, historical study archives. It produces the interpretive content those systems do not: mineralogical characterization, comparative test work summaries, first-draft flowsheet-definition narrative, NI 43-101-compliant technical prose. The base model is ready for any custom application; we tailor it to your specific systems, processes, and desired outputs.
Your senior engineers don't stop interpreting. They stop writing first drafts. They review CoEngen's draft, apply their judgment, refine, and sign off. Their expertise ends up on every page. Their hours end up on fewer pages of blank-page drafting.
Vendor · Client · Internal
Scattered inputs become a single, consolidated view.
CoEngen does in minutes what your engineers spend hours doing by hand: merging vendor data, client specifications, and internal records into one auditable interpretive layer.
From chaos to control.
Engineering studies today drown in fragmented inputs: vendor spreadsheets, client emails, internal memos, geological reports, assay results — each in its own format, none speaking to the others. CoEngen replaces that mess with a single, ordered pipeline.
Typical savings across the study lifecycle.
| Study phase | Full Time Engineer savings | What gets compressed |
|---|---|---|
PEA Preliminary Economic Assessment | 0.5–1.5 | Option-screening interpretation, first-pass economic framing, early characterization on inferred resources. |
PFS / Scoping Pre-Feasibility Study | 0.5–1.5 | Early-stage technical and economic analysis, design-option comparison. |
FS / DFS Feasibility / Definitive FS | 1–3 | Flowsheet-definition test work interpretation, process-design support, scenario comparison, disclosure drafting. |
Detailed Engineering Post-FS execution | 2–5 | Ore-variability work, vendor-data consolidation, guarantee-backing technical packages. |
What else changes.
- Targeting 120 hours → 5 hours on NI 43-101 report rewrite and QC
- Study-cycle compression. Turnaround in days, not months. Translates into faster financing and stronger project economics at bid time.
- Vendor management, automated. CoEngen consolidates multi-vendor submissions and renders them into any client-required template, so your senior engineers spend time on strategic thinking rather than data entry, and your vendors turn around proposals faster because they don't need to conform to project-specific templates.
- Consistent interpretive voice across every study reduces rework in internal technical review
- Lower variance between the study your senior PM led and the study a newer PM led. A common quality-control pain point.
- Faster ramp for junior and mid-career engineers, who learn faster when editing interpretive drafts rather than drafting from scratch
- Less senior-staff burnout, the single most expensive problem in study-heavy engineering firms
Run CoEngen against a project in your current pipeline.
A 4–8 week pilot against one of your own studies produces phase-specific Full Time Engineer savings measured against your own baseline, not against industry averages.