NBDF

North Bay · est. 2024

// digital workshop

Engineered tools for AI, automation & municipal work.

A workshop for designing, prototyping, and testing practical software — then sharing what works and what breaks. Concepts and tools, documented end to end.

PROJECTS10
FOCUS AREAS05
LAB ENTRIES04
AVAILABLE NOW04

02 · Capabilities

A consistent set of practices

AI systems

Applied models, evaluation harnesses, and AI-assisted drafting tools.

Engineering tools

Reusable code and CLIs that make day-to-day engineering work faster.

Municipal tech

Software concepts for permits, records, and public-sector workflows.

Automation

Scripts and pipelines that remove repetitive, manual steps.

Experiments

Open-ended prototypes that probe new ideas and techniques.

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03 · Projects

Selected work

Concepts, prototypes & tools →

ENGINEERING · AUTOMATION

Project Management Code

A reusable codebase for tracking capital projects — schedules, budgets, and status rollups generated from structured data.

IN DEVELOPMENT

MUNICIPAL

As-Built Plan Retrieval System

An indexing and search concept for locating as-built drawings across decades of scanned archives.

CONCEPT ONLY

AI · AUTOMATION

Agenda Report AI Tool

Drafts staff-report summaries and agenda packets from source documents, with a human reviewer in the loop.

IN DEVELOPMENT

AI

AI Fleet Maintenance Prediction

An experiment in forecasting vehicle maintenance from telematics and service-history signals.

EARLY EXPERIMENT

TOOLS

GIS Export CLI

A small command-line tool for batch-exporting GIS layers to common formats from the terminal.

PLANNED TOOL

AI

Offline Model Evaluation Kit

A harness for benchmarking small language models on a local machine — no network required.

EARLY EXPERIMENT

GAME · CANVAS

Excavator Wind Run

A playable canvas prototype — drive an excavator through a construction corridor and fight a downward crosswind.

PROTOTYPE · PLAY

ENGINEERING · TOOLS

Potable Pipeline Engineering Suite

Hydraulic, structural, and transient analysis tools for pressurized water distribution design.

TOOL · AVAILABLE

ENGINEERING · TOOLS

Storm Drainage Toolkit

Pipe sizing, inlet capacity, detention basin volume, and outlet structures — quick-reference calculations for small-site storm drain design.

TOOL · AVAILABLE

ENGINEERING · TOOLS

Civil Transportation Engineering Suite

Preliminary roadway geometry, pavement, intersection, sight-distance, and trip-generation tools.

TOOL · AVAILABLE

04 · Lab log

Recent experiments

DateExperimentTagStatus
2026-06-09 Offline model eval kit — first benchmark run ai published
2026-06-02 Fleet maintenance signals from telematics ai wip
2026-05-24 GIS export CLI — batch format support tools planned
2026-05-18 Agenda report drafting — prompt iteration auto wip

05 · Writing

Capable is not the same as honest

Notes on evaluating small models offline

Why as-built retrieval is harder than search

Keeping a human in the agenda-drafting loop

When a CLI is the whole product

06 · Start a project with the foundry

Have a practical engineering, automation, or municipal technology problem to explore?
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