The tools live at darbury.ai
Darbury's AI tools and experience, domain-specific applications built with Claude, with one foot in real engineering data, have their own home. Visit darbury.ai for the live experience.
Solved Faster with AI
Darbury's AI work has two sides. The productised tools below live at darbury.ai, ready to try. The bespoke apps & routines further down are built around your data and your standards. Across both, three pillars hold: Engineering Automation, AI-Powered Tooling, and CAD / Plant Intelligence.
PlantMCP
A Model Context Protocol server that connects AutoCAD Plant 3D directly to LLMs. Ask natural-language questions about your project, line lists, spec compliance, equipment counts and get answers grounded in the actual model, not a guess.
Open at darbury.ai →Available to tryPlant Viewer
A browser-native 3D plant model viewer for engineering review and collaboration. Share a live model with stakeholders who don't have AutoCAD; no licence, no install, just a URL. Review markups stay tied to the model.
Open at darbury.ai →In DevelopmentP&ID Analyser
AI-powered piping & instrumentation diagram analysis. Upload a P&ID and the analyser extracts tag lists, validates against your specs and flags inconsistencies in seconds rather than days. Turns a drawing review into a checked, repeatable routine.
Open at darbury.ai →Bespoke Automation, Built Around Your Data
Not every problem fits an off-the-shelf tool. Most real engagements are bespoke routines Darbury builds on top of your specs, your drawings and your asset base — measured in outcomes, not features: time saved, errors caught, decisions made sooner.
Engineering Automation
Batch processing of drawings, models and registers, the repetitive work that eats design-office hours, scripted once and run reliably.
Outcome: hours of manual rework removed per project.Drawing Intelligence
P&IDs, GAs and isometrics read by AI to extract tags, quantities and revisions, cross-checked against the controlled spec.
Outcome: inconsistencies caught before they reach site.Document & Spec Analysis
Long specifications, datasheets and handover packs distilled and queried in plain language, grounded in the source document.
Outcome: answers in minutes, with the reference attached.Claude-Based Chatbots
Domain assistants tuned to your standards and data, so non-technical staff can ask real questions of the asset base.
Outcome: expertise made accessible across the team.Spec-Validation Routines
Automated checks that compare a model or drawing against project specifications and flag every deviation, line by line.
Outcome: compliance evidenced, not assumed.Workflow Optimisation
The right AI inserted at the right step of an existing workflow, model selection, local vs cloud, and data compliance handled up front.
Outcome: AI that fits how you already work.Why Two Sites?
darbury.com is the engineering technology consultancy, 42 years of practice, three pillars, case studies and bespoke engagements. darbury.ai is where the productised AI tools live and can be tried directly. Two homes, one brand, one Dave and AI is the accelerant across both, never the headline.
Need AI Tailored to Your Workflow?
The tools at darbury.ai are off-the-shelf starting points. Most real engagements need them tuned, to your specs, your standards, your data. That's what the consultancy is for.