What people ask before they sign up.

Gradeum builds AI-native software for engineering firms (Praxis) and infrastructure asset owners (Civitas). Both products index your existing documents and make them searchable in plain language — without those documents ever leaving your network. Built and led by a Texas-licensed P.E.

Two audiences. Praxis is built for small to mid-size civil, structural, MEP, coastal, geotechnical, and environmental engineering firms. Civitas is built for infrastructure asset owners — ports, port authorities, public works departments, county and municipal engineering offices. Headquartered in Houston; we serve clients nationwide.

Documents stay on your hardware. The Nexus service runs locally and indexes your corpus in place. When AI is needed, only sanitized, query-scoped excerpts leave the building — never whole documents — over mTLS to our cloud Engine. Every query is logged immutably for audit.

No. Gradeum is a tool that helps your licensed engineers find, cite, and produce work faster — it isn’t a P.E., and it doesn’t issue technical recommendations. Every AI-assisted output is routed through a P.E. review queue with citations and a sealed-by record before it leaves your firm.

The platform is free. You only pay for AI compute — at cost plus 15%. Typical solo P.E. usage runs about $15/month; a 5-person firm $60–$90; a 20-person firm $200–$350. No setup fees, no per-seat charges, no minimums.

None. Every feature is available to every user. New features are added at no cost. Auto-reload is available so compute doesn’t run dry mid-week.

Standard implementation is five business days: Nexus install and ingest in days 1–2, indexing and OCR in days 3–4, training and go-live on day 5. Most firms are operational by the following Monday.

Minimum: a 4-core CPU, 16 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD, and Windows 10/11 or Ubuntu 22.04+. The precision system scanner at gradeumtech.com confirms compatibility before you commit to anything.

PDFs (including scanned drawings via OCR), Word documents, specifications, reports, inspection records, calculations, correspondence, spreadsheets, and image-based scans. If it’s in your file system, Nexus can index it — incrementally, with no re-ingest needed for new files.

Every AI-assisted output enters a review queue with full citations down to the chunk and page level, plus a sealed-by record showing which licensed engineer reviewed it and when. The Veil layer sanitizes client-confidential information before any query leaves Nexus. Gradeum itself never stamps, seals, or makes engineering judgments.

Yes. Request a demo or join the waitlist — first-cohort access opens at launch on May 4, 2026. Because the platform itself is free, the entire product effectively functions as an open trial: you pay nothing until Gradeum thinks for you.