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Nokkam drafts. Your engineer signs.

Nokkam is software for engineering firms, from enquiry to signed quote. It drafts the drawings, the quantities and the quote. Your team checks them, and your engineer signs.

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What changes

Your engineer starts from a checked draft, not a blank sheet. Code checks every number, every assumption is shown, and the person who signs stays the one who decides.

  • 6steps in every session, the same in every trade
  • 3trades mapped, stage by stage
  • 1engineering firm building it with us
How a session runs

What happens between the brief and the signature?

Six steps, the same in every trade. You read the plan before anything runs, and you sign last. At each step there is Nokkam's work and there is yours.

Photographs on this page are generated illustrations.

Illustration of a hand holding a pen with a rust-coloured barrel over the blank corner block of a drawing sheet.
  1. 01

    Understand

    Nokkam

    Restates the task, says what done looks like, and asks one question at a time with a recommended answer.

    You

    Correct it before anything runs.

  2. 02

    Plan

    Nokkam

    Names every input with its source and marks each value stated or assumed. An assumed value pauses the plan.

    You

    Confirm, narrow or redirect.

  3. 03

    Draft

    Nokkam

    Works in a working copy, never your original. Every number is computed by a tool, not written in a sentence.

    You

    Watch it arrive, fix a value, or stop.

  4. 04

    Check

    Nokkam

    Runs every check the plan named. Pass, fail, not applicable or could not run, never softened.

    You

    Read the findings.

  5. 05

    Steer and sign

    Nokkam

    Hands back one card: the decision in one line, what changed and what was checked.

    You

    Approve, approve with edits, reject or escalate.

  6. 06

    Record

    Nokkam

    Applies the signed change and writes it to the ledger.

    You

    Nothing more. The signature was yours, never Nokkam's.

How a session ends

Can a draft go out on its own?

No. There are two endings and no third, and neither sends anything unsigned. They are how the product is built, not a disclaimer.

Ending 01

Handed back with a record

The plan it followed, what it changed, the checks it ran and the sources it read. Your team can read it and an auditor can check it.

Ending 02

Stopped, with the question in plain words

When the standard is unclear or the drawing contradicts the brief, the work stops and asks. A question costs a minute of your time. A wrong answer costs a revision.

What it never does on its own
  • Apply a change to a model
  • Issue a document
  • Send anything outside the team
  • Spend beyond the agreed budget
  • Judge compliance by model. Verdicts come from versioned, cited code
Working alone? One engineer holds every role
Illustration of one hand passing a squared set of portal frame drawings, held by a rust-coloured binder clip, across a pale table to another hand.
Decisions4Approve, approve with edits, reject or escalate. Each one is a named person's.
Signature1Needed before anything leaves the team. Never Nokkam's.
Teams

How does a whole team work on one job?

Inside the job, not in a forwarded chat. Each person sees what is waiting for them, and every hand-off carries the plan, the checks and the record behind it.

Planned. Designed, with no code yet
One quote in a fabrication shop
  1. 01The estimator starts the quote from the enquiry, and signs nothing.
  2. 02The senior engineer checks the draft and signs the frame.
  3. 03The director signs the quote, and every change after it.
Needs you Every decision waiting for you, across every job.
Rights per project An admin sets who may start work and who may sign what, up to a value.
Hand-offs When your part is signed, the next person finds it waiting.
Team memory Notes the team confirms, with who wrote them. Never deleted.
Trades

Which trades does Nokkam work in?

Engineering only, and every trade runs as stages with a signed gate between them. Structural steel fabrication is in build with our first client. Architecture and MEP are design partner fields. Electrical panels were explored on a real drawing. Mechanical equipment is planned.

Illustration of enquiry folders and rolled sketches queued along a long table toward one drafting desk, a person out of focus at the far end.
[Today]Enquiries queue behind one desk.
Illustration of a squared set of portal frame drawings and quantity sheets held by a rust-coloured clip, a pen beside the blank corner block.
[With Nokkam]Ready to sign.
Illustration of overlaid drawings on a light table crowded with small pale paper flags, one of them rust-coloured.
[Today]Every crossing flagged, most of them twice.
Illustration of a drawing with its flags gathered into three small groups at the edge, one rust-coloured flag on the single crossing of a pipe through a beam.
[With Nokkam]Grouped by cause.
Illustration of an open panel board on a workbench with an empty space on its rail, a single line diagram beside it and a rust-coloured pencil pointing at the gap.
[Today]A gap the drawing did not show.
Illustration of panel components laid out in rows beside a layout drawing, with a rust-coloured current transformer ring where the gap was.
[With Nokkam]Found and flagged.

Every quote waits for the one or two engineers who can size a frame.

When a client changes the span, the whole quote starts again.

Nokkam drafts the frame, the drawings, the quantities and a quote on the shop's own rates.

Nothing reaches the client until the shop's engineer signs it.

  • Concept and quoteIn build
  • Award and designPlanned
  • DetailingPlanned
  • Fabrication and sitePlanned

Thousands of clashes in every run, most of them duplicates, sorted by hand.

Imported CAD lines and furniture add more of them.

Nokkam groups the clashes by root cause and gives each one an owner.

The project architect signs every stage.

  • ConceptualPlanned
  • SchematicPlanned
  • Detailed designPlanned
  • TenderingPlanned

A concept drawing can leave out parts the panel needs.

On one real drawing we worked from, the power factor controller needed current transformers the drawing did not show.

Nokkam reads the single line diagram and drafts the layout drawings and a bill of materials that marks every line as read from the drawing, derived, or estimated.

Nothing is for construction until a licensed electrical engineer signs.

  • Drawings and materialsExplored
  • Low voltage distribution onlyBoundary
Five parts

What does a firm get?

Five parts, each marked with where it stands today, in fixed words: has code with tests, exists as fixtures and screens, planned.

01

Nokkam Desk

The application on your own workstation. It opens a project, runs sessions and keeps working copies beside your originals.

Exists as fixtures and screens
02

Nokkam CoDraft

The session: a thread where you brief the work, the drafts Nokkam brings back, and the log of what it did.

Requirement card and decisions have code with tests
03

The packs

What Nokkam knows about a trade. Your own rates, stock and standards never leave your firm.

Structural steel is the only pack with content
04

The record

Who, when, the action and the object, each entry chained to the one before it.

Has code with tests
05

The channels

How work comes in and goes out: files you export, sheets and quantities back. A pane inside your CAD tool is later work.

Planned. No connector, pane or file writer yet
Today

Everything here is in build.

Nothing is live for any client. Each status word says what has to happen before it changes.

Where it stands
Illustration of a closed, bound drawing set tied with a rust-coloured ribbon on a white shelf beside archive boxes.
The record

One query answers who signed what, against which standard, and when.

  • Each entry holds who, when, the action, the object and its hash, and the hash of the entry before it.
  • Anyone on the project reads it. An auditor verifies and exports it. Nobody edits it.
  • Today the ledger has code with tests. Binding a signature to the exact bytes it signed is not yet in the product.
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Where the work happens

On your machine, in a working copy. No original changes until it is signed.

What leaves a CAD tool

Nothing, through a pane. A model reaches Nokkam only as a file a person exported.

Your documents

Never train anything. Your rates, drawings and past jobs are never used for another firm.

Current practice

Written down in full, as a small team. No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification is held or implied.

Data handling
Where it stands

Is Nokkam live yet?

No. It is in build, and nothing is live for any client. The status words are fixed, and each one says what has to happen before it changes.

In build Today

Until a design partner has signed a quote drafted by Nokkam.

First client: ANUGRAH Engineers, Nagercoil, a fabrication, erection, HVAC duct and piping firm. Nokkam is built with them, on their real enquiries.

In pilot

While it runs on a firm's real enquiries, with us beside the estimator.

Live

Only when a firm runs it without us, on its own enquiries, and has paid.

Has code with tests
  • Intake and the requirement card
  • The four decisions
  • The rule check framework
  • Portal frame drafting
  • The ledger
Not built yet
  • Quantities and pricing
  • Drawing assembly
  • Members, roles and signing rights
  • File writers, panes and connectors
  • Rule pack clauses
  • Any CAD product integration
Design partners

Bring one real job.

We will tell you straight whether Nokkam can carry it. Places are open in structural steel fabrication, architecture and BIM, and MEP and HVAC, a few firms per field on founding partner terms.

Questions

What do firms ask first?

Whether it replaces their engineer. It does not. Nokkam drafts, and a named person decides.

Does Nokkam replace our engineer?

No. Nokkam drafts, and a named person approves, edits, rejects or escalates every decision. It never signs, and it never calls its own work approved.

What can it draft today?

For structural steel fabrication, the requirement card and portal frame drafting have code with tests. Quantities, pricing and drawing assembly are not built yet, and nothing is live for any client.

Can one engineer use it alone?

Yes, by design. Working alone, one engineer holds every role and can invite the team later. With a team, an admin sets per project who may start which work and who may sign what. Roles and rights are designed, with no code yet.

How are the numbers checked?

By code, never by the model. Every number is computed by a tool, every rule check names its clause and pack version, and each result reads pass, fail, not applicable or could not run. The check framework has code with tests. The clauses are not written yet.

Does it work inside our CAD software?

Not yet. Today a model reaches Nokkam only as a file a person exported. A pane inside your CAD tool is later work, and no connector or file writer exists yet.

Is our data used to train anything?

No. Your rates, drawings and past jobs never train anything and are never used for another firm. The work happens on your machine, in a working copy. No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification is held or implied.

Data handling
What does it cost?

There is no public price while Nokkam is in build. Design partners work with us on founding partner terms.