Every piece of infrastructure planning work ends the same way: someone has to write it up.

Analysis, stage gates, evaluations, engineering judgement, expert insight, stakeholder consultation: whatever the activity, the output is a document. A brief for an internal workshop. A deck for a steering group. A set of tables in an appendix nobody reads but everybody needs.

The work and the insight happen in collaborative workshops and in specialist software. The deliverable still ends up as a written report or a slide deck.

Which is why moving content out of Optioneer and into Word, Excel and PowerPoint is already one of the most common things our users do.

So we built a lot of Optioneer around that process, around being the best possible source for a report a subject matter expert was going to write.

Then the obvious caught up with us.

If we already hold the data - the options, the constraints, the costs, the local impacts, the project's own accumulated knowledge - then the only thing standing between that data and a draft report is knowing what the report needs to be. Who it's for. What template it follows. What internal knowledge belongs in it.

Answer those three questions and the most tedious part is done, leaving the expert to do the analysis and exercise judgement. So we did.

⚡Optioneer AI Report Writer turns the route and site data you already have in your Optioneer workspace into a custom, written report draft. A desktop study that takes a consultant days is drafted in minutes and ready to issue in hours, built from the project's real data with every claim traceable to its source. Across the workflows below, that removes at least 75% of the time spent producing a first complete draft.

“An estimate of the percentage of the work covered through these documents would be 100% of the route summary and 60% of an options assessment report.” - Project Manager at a utility serving 4 million customers

How it works

This isn't a chatbot pointed at a blank page. It's a context engine built on Optioneer's data structure: every figure, layer and comment is already linked to the option it describes, and applied in line with how your organization works.

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