Engineering & Design Tools
Build an engineering standards library
Kliv is an AI app builder. Describe your engineering standards library, and it builds a real app for versioned standards, job-specific editions, search, review states, and Slack alerts on your own domain.
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What is Kliv?
Kliv isn’t a document folder or a search box over PDFs — it’s an AI that builds software for you.
You describe the app you need in plain words, and Kliv builds it: the records, revision logic, file storage, search, review states, job bindings, alerts, and access rules. You own the result, run it on your own domain, and change it later by asking. It isn’t a document template.
On this page, that app is an internal standards library for an engineering office. Kliv builds all kinds of web apps; this is one example.
Why build your own engineering standards library?
An engineering office’s standards are more than files. They are rules with history: revisions that take effect on dates, jobs quoted under editions that must not move silently, and memos that explain why a clause changed.
Kliv builds the library as records with that shape. Standards, revisions, jobs, lessons learned, search, and Slack alerts sit in one app, so “which revision governs?” has an answer.
Standards, revisions, and the jobs that cite them
Everything in the library is a rule, an edition of a rule, or work that depends on one.
The standards
Weld procedures, design guides, calculation templates, and spec sections are records with owners, disciplines, and scope, not filenames with dates attached.
Revisions
Every standard is a chain of editions with effective dates and attached markups. “Current” is maintained by the database.
Job bindings
Job 4471 records the exact editions it was quoted under. When a standard changes, the job does not move unless a change order says so.
Lessons-learned memos
Memos are filed against the standard they affect, so the note about the cracked saddle weld appears when someone opens the procedure that allowed it.
The office’s agent
The agent answers from the corpus and cites the clause and revision it read. Asked about a specific job, it answers from the editions bound to that job.
Change alerts
When a revision publishes, a Slack message lists what changed and which live jobs cite the standard.
An example: Werner’s pressure-vessel fabricator
Here’s how one engineering office might use a standards library built with Kliv. It’s only an example — you would describe your own standards, revisions, review steps, job bindings, and alerts.
A shop problem becomes a proposed revision
A fit-up issue on Job 4468 becomes a marked-up change to paragraph 6.2 in STD-114. The proposal is a draft revision attached to the standard, not an email thread.
Review happens inside the record
The standard owner and an independent checker sign off in the app. Review state, approver, and effective date are fields, so approval is easy to find.
The new edition becomes current on its date
On the effective date, the new edition becomes current everywhere the standard is read. The old edition stays archived and still answers for jobs that used it.
Slack tells the office what changed
One Slack message in #engineering lists the changed clause, the reason, and the three live jobs that cite STD-114.
Jobs answer from the right edition
The next quote binds to the new edition. Job 4468 stays with the edition its contract used, and the agent answers from the right revision for either job.
Describe what you want to build
Kliv builds from your description, so the more detail you give, the closer the first version. Name your disciplines, standards, review states, job bindings, search behavior, and alert rules. Here are three to build on:
Weld procedure library
Versioned procedures and job-specific qualifications.
“Build a searchable weld procedure library where each procedure has an owner, discipline, versioned revisions, attached markups, effective dates, and every active job records which revision it was qualified under.”
Company design manual
Review states, superseded editions, and Slack summaries.
“Build a company design manual where each section has an owner, discipline, draft, in-review, and current states, superseded editions stay readable by effective date, and every published change posts a summary to Slack.”
Spec clause finder
Search over standards and lessons learned with citations.
“Build a spec library for our project engineers that searches 20 years of spec sections, standards, and lessons-learned memos, answers only from our corpus, and cites the clause and revision it used.”
The load path
The agent is pinned to editions. The knowledge base is your office’s corpus, revision by revision. Asked about Job 4468, the agent answers from the edition that job was quoted under, cites the clause, and names the revision it read.
Files have review states. Native files and PDFs live in the file store, but the record is the standard. Draft, in review, and current are states with per-discipline edit rights, not labels in filenames.
Alerts act in Slack. The library can post publish notices, stale review requests, and weekly change digests into your Slack channels. Alert rules are rows you edit.
Werner’s library should outlive tools and staff changes. Software that has to live that long inside one company is a craft of its own; Kliv’s internal-tools practice is that craft.
Common questions
What exactly is Kliv?
Kliv is an AI app builder. You describe the standards library you need, it builds the app, and you own the result.
Do I get a real app, or a template?
A real app. Kliv builds records for standards, revisions, jobs, files, search, alerts, review states, and access rules.
Can I change it after it’s built?
Yes. Add a review state, change alert rules, add a discipline, or revise how jobs bind to standards by asking in plain words.
Can superseded editions stay readable?
Yes. Old editions keep their effective dates and stay attached to the jobs quoted under them. Publishing a revision adds history; it does not rewrite it.
Who gets to change a standard?
Anyone can propose a markup if your rule allows it. Only the owner or required reviewers can publish. Review states and edit rights are enforced on the record.
Does the agent answer from outside our corpus?
No. It is grounded in the standards, memos, and lessons learned your office filed. If the corpus is silent, it says so instead of guessing.
Can subcontractors use the library?
Yes, with scoped accounts. A subcontractor can see the standards their job binds to and nothing else, enforced at the row level.
Can it post to Slack?
Yes. Publish notices, review reminders, and weekly digests can post through Kliv’s Slack integration, with rules stored in the app.
Can jobs keep the edition they were quoted under?
Yes. A job binding records the exact editions that govern it. Later revisions do not change that binding without a recorded change.
Can files stay attached to standards?
Yes. PDFs, native files, markups, and memos can live in the file store and attach to the standard or revision they belong to.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes. The app runs on your own domain with the sign-in and access rules you define.
Can I move off Kliv later?
Yes. The code syncs to your own Git repository, so leaving is a git pull, not a rebuild.
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Make the current revision clear
Describe your standards, revisions, jobs, review states, search rules, and Slack alerts in detail. Kliv builds the library that keeps the answer tied to the right edition.