01 / Why owners need a new approach
More projects, fewer experienced people and higher stakes than ever.
Experienced people are retiring faster than the industry can replace them, just as demand for energy and industrial construction picks up. The design firms, contractors and experienced oil and gas professionals that owners depend on are already committed across more work than they can give full attention to. Good people are in short supply, and the best ones are spread the thinnest.
The stakes keep rising. Projects are larger, schedules are tighter and every dollar of capital has to be justified. When the right people aren't available at the right time, deliverables go out without being checked against your specifications. Context is lost at every handoff from design to procurement to construction, and the cost shows up later as RFIs, change orders and delays.
Net new construction workers the U.S. industry must attract in 2026, rising to 456,000 in 2027. Shortages are most severe around industrial megaprojects.
— Associated Builders and Contractors, January 2026
Of oil and gas projects overrun, by an average of 59% above the initial estimate.
— EY, Spotlight on oil and gas megaprojects
Of overrun root causes are internal: governance, process and procurement. These are risks an owner can manage.
— EY, Spotlight on oil and gas megaprojects
A Clarion observation
A typical $100M project warrants about 24,700 hours of owner-side engineering oversight. Because of resource constraints, only around 1,400 of those hours are actually applied.
Managing this risk is squarely in the owner's interest.
The experienced people aren't available to hire, so adding headcount won't close the gap. A solution that scales across every project in your portfolio needs a different approach.
02 / Independent Project Assurance
Owner-side oversight, running on a purpose-built technology platform and delivered by experienced engineers.
Clarion Orchestration is that new approach. Our engineers bring years of experience on industrial engineering and EPC projects, and they work as an extension of your team. The Clarion Platform lets them check the entire project record against your requirements, not a sample of it. These reviews cost relatively little to run, so we repeat them as often as you need and close gaps while they're still inexpensive to fix.
We orchestrate that work around the way you already operate. You keep your current systems of record, and we integrate with them instead of asking you to change them or buy new ones. Your contracts, document control and purchasing stay as they are.
Like an owner's engineer, built for how projects run now.
We do the independent review, verification and audit an owner's engineer does, across every document and every revision. Your design firm keeps engineer-of-record responsibility, and we hold it to your specifications.
On your side of the table
We hold no design or construction scope on your project, so we’re the one party with nothing to protect but your interests.
Every document, every revision
Full coverage instead of a sample. A complete FEED or IFC package audited in days, and deliverable reviews returned in hours.
One point of contact, one fee
Your Clarion Project Manager attends your meetings and is accountable for every answer, backed by our extended team, for a fixed monthly fee.
Scales to your portfolio
Our cost doesn’t rise with document volume, so every project gets the same standard of oversight, not just the largest ones.
03 / Services · Project development through closeout
Support across all five phases.
One team and one project record, from project development through closeout. Engage us for the full lifecycle or for a single package. The earlier we're involved, the more we can influence cost.
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Project Development
Market-validated estimates and lead times- ▸Basis of design review and audit
- ▸Estimate audit, with past lessons applied
- ▸Design and survey proposal evaluations
- ▸Confidential early vendor pricing and lead times
- ▸Schedule and risk check
- ▸Long-lead purchase strategy
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FEED & Detailed Design
100% review, with standards and lessons built in- ▸30/60/90 and IFC deliverable audits against your specs
- ▸Interface audits across all scopes
- ▸Design change (MOC) ripple checks
- ▸Checks against permit and filing commitments
- ▸Spec library indexing and conflict flags
- ▸True progress validation
- 03Proven at scale
Procurement & Expediting
15–30% additional savings · bid cycles cut from 2 months to about 2 weeks- ▸RFP package development
- ▸Technical and commercial bid evaluations
- ▸Split-bid award optimization
- ▸Total landed cost modeling
- ▸BOM-to-PO audits
- ▸Supplier document tracking
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Construction & Commissioning
50% fewer field RFIs- ▸Field Cost Tracking (daily T&M)
- ▸Pay application and invoice audits
- ▸RFI screening and change order audits
- ▸Construction stage gate audits
- ▸Mechanical completion and turnover audits
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Project Closeout
100% records audit, with lessons fed forward- ▸Records compilation across all parties
- ▸Traceable, verifiable and complete (TVC) records audit
- ▸Lessons built into specs and RFP templates
- ▸Vendor and contractor scorecards
Lessons learned don't sit in an archived document. The Clarion Platform builds them into the checks it runs, so they're applied at every phase and on your next project.
04 / The Clarion Platform
Built for projects that span stages, disciplines and companies.
The Clarion Platform is our own data management, AI and analysis platform, built for complex industrial projects. It isn't general-purpose AI pointed at your documents. Every model and check is tailored to how engineering, procurement and construction actually work: P&IDs and line lists, specs and datasheets, bid tabs, MOCs and turnover packages.
The platform does the throughput. Our oil and gas subject matter experts make the calls, and review everything it flags before it reaches you.
One record, development through closeout
Decisions, commitments and lessons carry forward from phase to phase instead of being lost at each handoff.
Every discipline checked against the others
Process, piping, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and civil deliverables are cross-checked against each other, not reviewed in isolation.
One view across every party
Owner, design firm, contractors and vendors keep their own systems. The platform reconciles their documents into a single record without changing anyone’s tools.
Who builds it
One team, from the model to the project meeting.
The Clarion Platform isn't built by software developers alone. Industry experts, data scientists, platform engineers and forward-deployed AI specialists work as one team, so every engagement is delivered the same way and the platform scales across your portfolio.
Industry experts
Long careers delivering projects at EPCs. They decide what the platform checks for and make the final calls.
Data scientists
Build and validate the models that read drawings, specifications, bids and field records.
Platform engineers
Run the data platform that brings every party’s documents together securely and at scale.
Forward-deployed AI specialists
Work inside your project, tailoring the platform to your specs, standards and workflows.
Project Data Library
Drawings, specifications, contracts, correspondence and vendor data are ingested, normalized and indexed once, giving every AI agent and analysis a single record to work from.
Learning that compounds
Every project makes the next one sharper.
Most lessons learned end up in a document that gets archived and never opened again. The Clarion Platform works differently. As it reviews deliverables, bids, change orders and field records, it captures the rules, heuristics and judgement behind each decision and builds them into the checks it runs. The next time we evaluate a bid, specify a major piece of equipment or review a deliverable, those lessons are applied automatically.
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Observe
Every review, bid, RFI, change order and field record the platform sees.
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Capture
The rules, heuristics and reasons behind each decision, not just the outcome.
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Codify
Turned into checks, thresholds and templates the platform runs from then on.
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Apply
Used on the next bid evaluation, equipment selection or design review. Then the loop repeats.
Project knowledge base
What the platform learns early in a project is applied at every later stage, from FEED through closeout.
Owner knowledge base
What it learns across all of your projects is applied to the next one from day one. It belongs to you and is never shared with other clients.
Your data, your systems
Secure, owner-owned and built around the way you work today.
Your knowledge stays yours
Your specifications, practices, project data and knowledge bases belong to you. What the platform learns on your projects is applied only to your projects. It is never shared with or used for any other client, so nothing crosses over.
- ✓Owner data held securely and kept separate from every other client
- ✓Your specs, standards and lessons learned remain your property
- ✓Learning from your projects applied only to your projects
No rip and replace
We integrate with your existing systems of record and orchestrate the work across them. Your team and your contractors keep working the way they do today, with no large new system to roll out.
- ✓Document control systems
- ✓Purchasing and ERP systems
- ✓Scheduling and other systems of record
AI agents and analysis on the platform
Drawing & BOM Extraction
Pulls line items, specs and quantities out of drawings and P&IDs, with no rekeying.
Development · Design · ProcurementDeliverable Review
Checks 30/60/90 and IFC deliverables against your specs, standards and code requirements.
DesignDocument Consistency Audit
Finds conflicts across documents at 100% coverage on every revision, before they become field RFIs.
Design · ConstructionMOC Ripple Check
Traces a design change through every drawing, BOM and model it touches, so stale data doesn’t get bought.
Design · ProcurementDecision & Commitment Register
Records who agreed to what and when, including permit and filing commitments, from minutes and correspondence.
All phasesAI Project Assistant
Answers any question about the project from the record in seconds, with citations back to the source.
All phasesRFQ Package Builder
Turns design data into solicitation-ready packages matched to your approved manufacturer list.
ProcurementBid Evaluation & Award Optimizer
Runs technical and commercial evaluations and models split-bid and landed-cost awards.
ProcurementBOM-to-PO Audit
Reconciles what was designed against what was bought, item by item.
ProcurementField Cost Tracking App
Captures labor and equipment daily and flags billing errors the same day.
ConstructionPay App & Change Order Audit
Audits invoices, pay applications and change orders against contract terms and field records.
ConstructionRecords (TVC) Audit
Confirms records from every party are traceable, verifiable and complete before turnover.
Construction · Closeout05 / Recent Results
Lower risk. Higher confidence. Faster answers.
Net savings on a large-bore PVF package for a midstream compressor station, awarded line by line across 94 items and 8 vendors.
Items on one IFC bill of materials that were never purchased, plus 10 bought in the wrong quantity.
Of wrong stud bolts bought after a spec change left stale data in the 3D model. Our audit traced the cause, and it’s now a standing BOM check.
Billing errors caught in a single day by Field Cost Tracking on an active compressor station project.
To check full drawing packages against customer specs and code, at a fraction of the cost of a traditional review.
We hold every design firm and contractor to your specifications at each stage gate, so you get a consistent A-team result no matter who is staffed on the project.
06 / Heard From the Field
From EPCs reclaiming engineering hours to owners accelerating capital deployment — here's what Clarion looks like in practice.
CAM is adopting Clarion across new and in-process projects. The labor savings are immediate — our engineers are focused on critical work rather than managing process. This is a practical application of AI that is touching every part of our business.
Project Manager · CAM Integrated Solutions
We engaged Clarion on two projects with tight, critical schedules. We were able to accelerate both while identifying millions in material cost savings that would have otherwise gone unrealized.
Jim Raschke
Project Manager · Williams Companies
07 / Getting Started · Pilot us on one project
Pick a project you finished last year.
Choose one where you still have the RFI log, the change order history and the final cost. We'll run the Clarion Platform against it for a fixed fee and show you what we would have caught. You already know the answers, so you don't have to take anything on trust.
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Retrospective
Fixed fee · 3–4 weeksWe audit a completed project and show you what we would have caught, against outcomes you already know.
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One package, one live project
Monthly feeStart as an independent third-party reviewer or take on procurement, with no change to your existing contracts or document systems.
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Full Independent Project Assurance
One fixed monthly feeSupport across all five phases of your next project. Bring us in once it’s funded and before design and survey firms are contracted, so their RFPs carry your specifications and lessons learned.
Have a project coming up?
The best time to bring us in is after funding and before your design firm is contracted. If design is already under way, we can start with a single review or a procurement package. Our team responds within one business day.