Engineering directors
You keep hearing about AI but don't know where to start. You don't want a pitch deck — you want a list of three things your firm could ship next month.
AUTOMATON AI · WORKSHOPS
Stop guessing how AI fits your firm.
Watch it work in half a day. A hands-on workshop for engineering, planning, and surveying consultancies — built from the playbook I run at my own firm.
10
Workflow modules
≤5
People per session
4–8
Hours, your choice
30
Day follow-up included
WHO IT'S FOR
Three kinds of people get the most out of this.
Operations managers
Your team is losing days to 224c chasing, RFI responses, and consent pack assembly. You need to know what's automatable, what isn't, and what to do this quarter.
Civil engineers, planners, surveyors
You want your day back from admin so you can do the work you trained for. You need someone who's actually done it — not a tech consultant who's read about your job.
FORMATS & PRICING
Pick the depth you need.
HALF DAY
$750 + GST
per workshop, flat fee
- 4 hours · morning session
- ≤ 5 people
- On-site in Auckland · or remote
- Includes prompt library + 30-day check-in
Whole-team morning. The five universal Claude workflows that benefit every role — context engineering, document summaries, Microsoft 365 connectors, Co-Work folder cleanup, and Claude Projects. Your team walks out using Claude before lunch.
Book half dayAGENDA · 4 hours
- 09:00ALL
Intro · why · rules
What we cover. The non-negotiables. Why Claude doesn't press send.
- 09:15ALL
Context Engineering
The four-layer prompt. Live exercise on real council work.
- 09:50ALL
Document Summaries
Demo on a real s42A report. 60-page document → structured read.
- 10:20—
Break
Coffee. Five minutes to digest.
- 10:35ALL
Microsoft 365 Connectors
Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, Calendar. Monday-morning brief workflow.
- 11:05ALL
Co-Work folder cleanup
Live folder rename and structure on a messy project folder.
- 11:35ALL
Claude Projects — your firm's shared brain
Walk through setting up District Plan + standards Projects.
WHAT YOU WALK OUT WITH
Five things in your hand by the end of the day.
01
Prompt template library
Tailored to your council, your standards, your house style. You leave with prompts your team can paste in on Monday.
02
Claude Projects pack
Pre-loaded with your District Plan, the standards you cite most, and your firm's tone-of-voice notes. Built during the session.
03
Three concrete automations identified
We walk out with a prioritised list of automations your firm could build first — effort vs payoff, ranked.
04
Skills roadmap
What your power users should build with Claude Code in the next quarter. Specific, ordered, scoped.
05
30-day check-in
Free follow-up call to track which automations stuck, which didn't, and what to push on next.
WHY ME
I'm not a tech consultant guessing at your work. I do it every day.
6
Production tools shipped at my own firm
Stormwater, wastewater, floor levels, detention tanks, pipe sizing, 224c Tracker — all live in Auckland engineering today.
15
Years in land development
CPEng civil engineer. Subdivisions, infrastructure, council work — I've done the manual version of every workflow we'll automate.
1
Internal AI platform written
Wired into SharePoint, Azure AD, Microsoft Graph, 12d Synergy, WorkflowMax, and the NZ standards retrieval layer.
“Tripp Andrews has already built and is operating production AI tools for engineering calculation and certification work. The next stage is not experimentation — it is secure deployment, governance, and infrastructure.”
From the Tripp Andrews AI Strategy Board Paper, 2026 — written by Dietrich
QUESTIONS
The questions worth asking first.
No. The workshop is built for people who've never opened Claude. We start from zero and work through the same modules I use to onboard new engineers at my own firm.
NEXT STEP
Email me with your firm size, your council, and which week works. I'll come back within a day with a tailored brief and a date.