Your Engineers Spend 60% of Time on Work AI Could Handle.
We Fix That in 8 Weeks.
Your best engineers get their time back. Starting in Week 1. No disruption to active projects. No full-day offsite training. Just measurable results.
16 Live Sessions. 8 Weeks. Measurable ROI.
Everything your team needs to adopt AI with confidence — built for engineering firms by engineers who have done it.
- 16 live sessions + 12-month recordings
- 90-min company strategy session
- 5 custom AI assistants + prompt library
- 100% money-back guarantee
"We went from 45% of projects on budget to 87% in three months. My engineers are energized and clients are happy." — Director of Engineering, Consulting Firm
Engineering Acceleration With The Power of AI.
From overwhelm to breakthrough performance: Practical AI that multiplies your team’s capacity while bringing back the joy of real engineering.
“We went from 45% of projects on budget to 87% in three months. My engineers are energized and clients are happy.”
– Director of Engineering, Consulting Firm
“We went from 45% of projects on budget to 87% in three months. My engineers are energized and clients are happy.”
– Director of Engineering, Consulting Firm
Breakthrough Starts Here
Your Best Engineers Are Drowning in Documentation. Not Because They Lack Talent. Because Generic AI Tools Were Never Built for Engineering.
The Time Drain: Proposals that should take 2 days are taking 2 weeks. Project reports eat into billable hours. Your most experienced people spend more time formatting than engineering. And every quarter, the workload grows while your team stays the same size.
The Frustration: You know AI could help. But every tool demo feels like it was built for a tech company, not an engineering firm. Your team tried ChatGPT, got inconsistent results, and went back to the old way. The gap between where you are and where you could be keeps growing, and it feels like you are running out of time to close it.
The Principle: Engineers should spend their time engineering, not formatting reports or copying data between systems. The work that requires real expertise, judgment, and creativity is the work that keeps getting pushed aside by tasks AI can handle.
Our Signature Process
The Crawl-Walk-Run-Sprint Method: Your Path to Breakthrough Performance
01.
CRAWL: AI Fundamentals Training
Your team learns practical AI basics tailored to engineering workflows. No theory, just hands-on training with your actual tools and projects. Within days, everyone saves hours on routine tasks.
02.
WALK: Strategic Roadmapping
We align your business objectives with AI opportunities through collaborative sessions. Together, we identify where automation and AI will have maximum impact on your specific goals and challenges.
03.
RUN: Deep Workflow Analysis
Our 6-phase diagnostic process maps your workflows, identifies constraints using TOC, applies Lean principles, and designs your future state. You get a complete blueprint for transformation.
04.
SPRINT: Pilot Implementation
Select a high-impact project and we’ll implement a complete AI solution. See real ROI within weeks, not months. Your team gains hands-on experience while proving the value before scaling.
05.
The Result
Your firm transforms from reactive firefighting to proactive excellence. Projects come in on budget. Engineers love their work again. And you have a proven system to continuously improve.
Ready to Start?
The Crawl-Walk-Run-Sprint journey begins with a simple conversation. Let’s explore how AI can unlock capacity in your firm.
Services
How You Win Back Your Team's Time in 3 Steps
01.
Find Where Talent Is Being Wasted
We start with a focused assessment of your highest-value workflows: proposals, documentation, reporting, and project delivery. In one call, we identify the 2-3 areas where AI will have the fastest, most measurable impact for your specific firm.
02.
Build Real Skills on Real Projects
Your engineers learn practical AI skills they apply the same week. Not in a classroom. On their actual projects. We customize every session to your tools, your workflows, and your project types. By Week 2, your team is saving time.
03.
See Measurable Results You Can Report
Within 6-8 weeks, you see documented productivity gains: hours recovered, proposals delivered faster, capacity freed for higher-value work. We track outcomes together and build your team’s capability to keep improving after our engagement ends.
01.
AI Training & Coaching
Custom and cohort-based programs that equip engineering teams with practical AI skills to save time & energy and deliver higher quality results.
02.
Engineering Acceleration Leadership Network
A private community for engineering leaders to learn, share, and stay ahead with AI-powered strategies.
03.
Done-For-You AI Consulting & Implementation
Full-service AI solution design, integration, and support so your firm gains the benefits without the technical burden.
04.
Specialized Engineering Consulting
Expert guidance in sustainability, hydrogen, and advanced engineering services to help firms tackle high-stakes projects with confidence.
Ready to See What AI Can Do for Your Firm?
Your 30-Minute AI Assessment with Shane Chalupa Includes:
- Workflow audit of your top 3 bottlenecks
- 2 use cases with ROI projections for your firm
- A clear next-step recommendation, whether that is working with us or doing it on your own
Delivered by a practicing engineer, not a sales rep. No pitch. No pressure.
Proof in the Performance
What Changes When Your Team Starts Using AI Effectively
Proposals that used to take your senior engineers all week now go out in hours. Project reports generate from your existing data. Your team has the capacity to take on new work without hiring.
Your engineers stop saying ‘if only we had time.’ They pitch bigger projects. They innovate on client work instead of reformatting deliverables. The ones who were considering leaving? They are excited again, because they are finally doing the work they were trained to do.
The Cost of Waiting Is Measured in Revenue, Not Just Time
Every month your team spends 60% of their time on administrative work, your competitors who have adopted AI are pulling ahead. They are delivering proposals faster, winning more work, and operating at 30% higher capacity with the same headcount.
The math is simple: At $150/hour, an engineer losing 10 hours per week to tasks AI can handle costs your firm $78,000 per year in unrecovered capacity. Multiply that across your team. For a 20-person firm, that is $1.56 million in annual capacity you are leaving on the table.
The firms moving now will set the standard. The firms that wait will spend twice as much catching up, if their best engineers have not already left for firms that invest in how they work.
Meet the Founders
We've Been in Your Shoes (And We Found the Way Out)
Hey, Shane and Mary here. You know that crushing feeling when your best engineer tells you they’re considering a new job? Not because they hate engineering, but because they’re drowning in spreadsheets instead of solving real problems? We’ve been there.
After 15 years leading engineering projects, Shane watched too many brilliant minds burn out on administrative tasks while projects hemorrhaged money. Mary saw the human cost: talented people going home defeated, too drained to enjoy their families, questioning if this was really what engineering was supposed to be.
Then came the breaking point…
A critical project, no specialist available, no budget, no schedule. Shane cracked it with AI in a matter of hours instead of waiting 3 weeks for a consultant. That wasn't just a project saved. It was a revelation.
We realized engineers aren’t asking for less work. They’re asking for work that matters. So we built Obnovit to prove something radical: when you combine battle-tested engineering discipline with practical AI, you don't just save time. You give people their passion back.
Today, we're still practicing engineers. We still face tight deadlines and demanding clients. But now we also help firms transform from chaos to clarity. Because every engineer deserves to love Monday mornings again.