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empower: AI-powered decision intelligence layer for AEC firms
empower is the decision intelligence layer for architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms. It sits above your systems of record, in your tenant, with your data, security, and operating rules encoded. With AI agents built to operate across the project lifecycle, it connects delivery activity, resource signals, and financial performance to predict risks and trigger governed actions across every project.
Project data is everywhere. Margin still slips before anyone acts.
Delivery risk is still identified after budgets have moved. Utilization is still managed from last month’s data. Leaders are still making portfolio decisions with signals that are already out of date.
The problem is not a lack of systems. It is that no system connects those signals and acts on them early enough. Without that layer:
- Fee burn exceeds recoverable thresholds before project leaders are alerted
- Under-utilized resources inflate project costs across the portfolio
- Revenue recognition lags completed work, distorting the firm’s financial position
- Inaccurate time entry creates billing gaps that compound across active projects
empower is not a reporting tool. It is the intelligence layer that drives your project operations.
empower sits above evergreen and any other system your firm already uses. It connects project delivery data, resource signals, and financial performance into one unified view, then acts on it.
empower is the bridge between how your firm manages projects today and a future where delivery, resourcing, and financial decisions run on intelligence, not instinct. That journey moves through four continuous steps
Captures every
signal
Monitors projects, utilization, billing, and finance in real time
Surfaces risk
early
Identifies what is likely to happen next before it costs you
Determines the right action
Grounds every decision in your governance and delivery rules
Executes, not escalates
Triggers action automatically or routes decisions to the right person at the right moment
Pick your entry point.
empower scales with your ambition.
Every AEC firm is at a different stage of AI readiness. empower bridges where your firm operates today and where it needs to be, bringing together project industry expertise and platform innovation to move you forward at your own pace.
Assist
Reduce the manual load on project and finance teams without changing how your firm is structured. Each capability works inside Microsoft Teams and the tools your staff already use, so adoption is immediate and the impact on billing accuracy follows quickly.
- eBilling: Validate and submit compliant invoices across client billing portals
- Billing collaboration: Catch contract and scope deviations before invoices reach clients
- AR collections: Prioritize overdue project accounts and follow up with AI-guided outreach
- Time suggestions: Surface timesheet entries from Microsoft 365 activity so project staff capture every billable hour
- Persona-intelligent copilots: Surface project context, next best actions, and portfolio insights directly inside Microsoft Teams
Automate
Take the step from task automation to agents that carry operational responsibility across delivery, resourcing, and finance. Agents monitor live performance, act on thresholds, and bring humans in only when judgment is required.
- Project estimation agent: Analyzes similar completed projects to recommend work breakdown structures, effort scenarios, and role-based cost visibility before engagements begin
- Project resourcing agent: Recommends resources based on skills, availability, cost, and timing, and supports scenario planning so the right people are on the right projects
- Finance collaboration agent: Connects project task activity to time capture, approval workflows, and invoice proposals without manual follow-up
- Project manager agent: Monitors live project performance, detects fee burn deviations, and explains why a project has been flagged so leaders can intervene before margin is lost
- Sales and marketing agent: Tracks pipeline activity, surfaces win rate signals by project type and client, and guides business development teams toward the opportunities most likely to convert
- Invoice workflow agent: Sends proactive approval alerts in Microsoft Teams, routes invoices based on value and organizational hierarchy, validates data, and creates approved invoices in your financial system automatically
Orchestrate
Firms at this stage are asking a different question: not which tasks can AI handle, but which processes, when redesigned around AI, change the economics of how the firm wins and delivers work. The answer starts with a structured assessment of where the highest return sits across the business.
- Align and map: Identify the processes where AI delivers the highest measurable return
- Discover and design: Surface automation opportunities across billing, collections, project delivery, and finance
- Validate and value: Validate feasibility and business impact before committing to full implementation
- Prioritize and plan: Build a prioritized roadmap with clear owners, timelines, and ROI targets
How empower works
empower sits inside your tenant, connected to every system your firm already runs
empower is installed inside your Microsoft tenant. It connects to evergreen, your system of record for project delivery, resourcing, and financial operations, as well as other platforms your firm already uses, including legacy systems, or other project management systems. You do not need to replace your existing systems. empower adds the intelligence layer above them.
Your siloed data is mapped onto a unified, AEC-industry-specific data model. This creates a connected view of your firm’s projects, finances, resources, and client relationships that agents can reason across and act on.
Build your operational foundation with evergreen. Activate intelligence with empower.
evergreen provides the connected operational foundation for architecture and engineering firms, linking project delivery, time capture, resource management, billing, and financial management within one governed system.
empower sits above this foundation as the decision intelligence layer. It interprets project and financial signals, applies AEC industry context, and uses AI agents to guide decisions and trigger governed actions across the project lifecycle.
This means:
- Delivery and financial decisions are grounded in real project and resource data
- AI operates within your existing security model and project governance framework
- Actions align with how your firm actually runs, not generic workflows imposed from outside
What sets sa.global apart in AI for AEC
sa.global is the safe bridge that helps architecture and engineering firms move from how they operate today to the new agentic paradigm, bringing the fusion of project industry expertise and platform innovation.
Industry-tailored
empower is grounded in the economics of project delivery, from how utilization drives margin to how fee burn behaves across different contract structures and disciplines.
Proactive intelligence
Agents watch project and financial signals in real time and act the moment a threshold is crossed or a risk materializes, before a status meeting surfaces it.
Seamless integration
Whether your firm runs on evergreen, Deltek, Oracle, SAP, or a legacy combination, empower connects above what you have without replacing it.
Secure by design
Every agent, workflow, and data connection runs inside your Microsoft tenant, under your existing security model and access controls.
Built for transformation
sa.global brings the methodology as well as the platform. From identifying the right use cases to delivering and sustaining them, the engagement is designed around your firm's specific operations and objectives.