For the engineers and capital teams who already know their work. Crivella captures your planning practice as a guided, interview-style platform — so a less-experienced engineer produces an execution plan at the level of your most senior people, with every recommendation traced to the standard behind it.
Today, a good execution plan depends on who is available to write it. That is not a software problem. It is a problem of capturing, structuring, and scaling expert judgment.
Asset teams build execution plans — turnarounds, plant modifications, debottlenecking, equipment replacements, inspection campaigns, small-to-mid capital projects, drilling and well-intervention programs — by drawing on best practices, workflows, and the judgment of senior people. The work is time-intensive, largely manual, and difficult for a less-experienced practitioner to navigate.
So planning quality varies with experience. The work bottlenecks on the few experts who hold it, and every time one of them retires, moves, or leaves, the organization pays to learn it again. This is knowledge churn — and it is among the largest unmeasured costs an operator carries.
Quality varies with experience
A novice practitioner and a thirty-year veteran produce very different plans from the same inputs. Consistency is the exception, not the rule.
The expert bottleneck
Sound plans wait on the availability of a small set of senior people who already carry too much. Their time is the constraint on the whole portfolio.
Judgment that walks out the door
The reasoning behind a good plan lives in people's heads. Retirements and moves take it with them, and it is rebuilt at cost — the hard way.
Questions come one at a time — project type, constraints, timeline, risk tolerance — and a structured execution plan builds as the practitioner answers. Complex regulatory requirements, vendor qualifications, and engineering constraints are handled in the background, so the user focuses on one decision at a time.
Every recommendation shows exactly which best practices, case studies, and expert judgments informed it, each reliability-graded and traceable. The plan is not a black-box output. It is a defensible record of how the decision was made — and who, human or agent, contributed to it.
For experienced practitioners
Faster, more consistent plans with full traceability — the routine carried by the platform, the judgment kept with them.
For newer engineers
Guided access to institutional knowledge without waiting on an expert — producing senior-level work from the first project.
For project leadership
Defensible audit trails built for the moments that come later — incident review, regulatory inquiry, board scrutiny.
We are systems engineers first, software developers second. Before a single adaptation is made, we establish — together — what success looks like and everything it takes to get there, including the process, governance, and training changes a platform alone cannot deliver. We call this Goal-Driven Cross-Functional Governance (GDCG).
Your subject-matter experts lead; Crivella facilitates and documents. Cross-functional working groups — asset delivery planning, project financial planning and cost, and safety, regulatory compliance and performance — define what is necessary and sufficient for success. The result is a complete decision architecture your people helped build, which is what makes it adopted rather than imposed.
Proof of Concept
Goals ratified, working groups convened, and the platform configured against one of your own reference plans — validated on your ground, not a demo.
Development & Testing
The configuration extended and tested across a representative set of project types, with acceptance criteria you define.
Implementation
Rollout to the first asset teams, with the process and training changes in place — each step gated by your acceptance of the last.
Enterprise Rollout
Deployment across assets and teams, with the configuration held in a versioned Coding Manual so the practice stays consistent as it scales.
The relationship is joint development with technology licensing. You remain in the driver's seat: every commitment is mapped to a phase and a milestone, and every phase is gated by your acceptance of the one before it.
The same engine, specialized through its Coding Manual, applies across the family of asset-level project work — durable institutional-memory infrastructure, not a single tool.
Execution Plans
Guided planning across turnarounds, modifications, debottlenecking, equipment replacements, and small-to-mid capital projects.
Turnaround Planning
Major turnaround scope and sequence, configured to a facility's own history — where every day of downtime carries real cost.
Permits & Regulatory Submissions
Drilling permits, environmental review packages, and regulatory filings — assembled, cross-checked, and defensible.
Operational Readiness
The handover bridge — operations grounded in the design record, gaps surfaced before startup rather than after an incident.
Process Safety & Management of Change
PSM documentation and MOC packages reviewed against the design record — every change traced to its source.
We baseline the platform against a statistically valid sample of your past projects: plan-development hours, work products and version history, budgets, and spend over time. Improvements in time, cost, and quality are measured as "as-was" versus "as-is" — against your operational experience, not a vendor's theoretical numbers.
Selecting a high-quality, judicious measurement basis is itself a critical success factor, and we treat it as one. Each enhancement is validated against your data, improvement to improvement.
Faster plans
Reduced plan-development time through systematic guidance.
Consistent quality
The same standard across every experience level and every asset.
Adoption by design
Built into the practice by the people who will use it, so it is kept rather than shelved.
The core platform — the Grounded Intelligence Console — is production-deployed today, running against hundreds of millions of pages in the most demanding information environments in American practice. This engagement configures existing capability for your capital-project workflows. It is adaptation, not a science project.
The architecture is protected by two granted United States patents (2001 and 2006), and it descends from the production standard that became the foundation of electronic discovery — the de facto standard for electronic evidence in nearly every federal civil case in the country. We have reshaped an information-intensive industry before.
How the Platform Works →Every recommendation traces to a specific, reliability-graded source in your own knowledge base — not general engineering lore.
AI and human contributions enter through the same discipline and the same review gate. Agentic work operates under the authority of your practitioners, never around them.
The configuration lives in a versioned Coding Manual you control, so the practice is preserved, auditable, and consistent as it scales across the enterprise.
Bring one of your own reference plans. We'll show you how the platform configures to your practice, and agree together on what a Phase-1 proof of concept would prove.