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Fire & Safety meets agentic AI

Fire & safety expertise, built into software

Your codes, drawings and engineering judgement, turned into purpose-built software.

DeX delivery workspace Quantity take-off & bill of materials
  1. 01Business brief
  2. 02Requirements
  3. 03Workflow build
  4. 04QA evidence
  5. 05Security
  6. 06Engineer release
Illustrative DeX projectDemo complete

Estimator, specialist fire contractorWe recount sprinkler heads every time the drawings are revised. We need a take-off we can defend, sheet by sheet.

  1. Requirements agentBRD with sheet, zone and dedupe rules
    QueuedWorkingDoneSign-off
  2. Design agentEstimator review queue, BOM screens
    QueuedWorkingDoneSign-off
  3. Build agentSymbol extraction, dedupe, release
    QueuedWorkingDoneSign-off
  4. QA agentTests from acceptance criteria
    QueuedWorkingDoneSign-off
  5. Security agentAccess, dependency and release checks
    QueuedWorkingDoneSign-off
  6. Deploy agentYour cloud, SSO enabled
    QueuedWorkingDoneSign-off
Illustrative release - estimator approval required

Human approval is part of the workflow. DeX prepares the evidence; the named engineer decides what is released.

Workflows specified
15Each with its own requirements document
Lifecycle stages
06From tendering through service and management
Markets configured
05Australia, USA, UK, UAE and Singapore
DeX build benchmark
~1/10Of traditional build time, at about 30% of the cost

Built for teams who keep people and buildings safe

  • Fire protection consultants
  • Specialist fire contractors
  • Design and build contractors
  • Fire services maintenance
  • Asset owners and facilities
The fire lifecycle

From tendering to service

Find the stage where your team needs support, then use the library below to choose a workflow.

  1. STAGE 01

    Pre-Sales & Tendering

    Scope, quantify and defend the opportunity.

  2. STAGE 02

    Design Basis & Review

    Set criteria, inspect drawings and verify requirements.

  3. STAGE 03

    Detailed Design & Documentation

    Select equipment, optimise value and produce drawings.

  4. STAGE 04

    Project Delivery

    Prepare submittals, procure packages and control delivery.

  5. STAGE 05

    Testing & Commissioning

    Capture test evidence and complete a governed handover.

  6. STAGE 06

    Service & Management

    Maintain asset history and turn operations into visibility.

Workflow library

Pick the one costing you the most

Filter by team role. Each card shows the workflow, its outputs and its limits.

01 · Engineering & Design

AI Fire Design & Engineering

Drawings and specs in. An evidence-linked design basis out.

Design basis reportCriteria registerOpen conflicts
Open the workflow
02 · Engineering & Design

Intelligent Drawing Review

Candidate clashes pinned to sheet, revision and coordinate.

Issue registerPinned coordinatesReviewer decisions
Open the workflow
03 · Engineering & Design

Code & Specification Compliance

A clause-by-clause matrix. The reviewer decides, never the software.

Compliance matrixExceptionsEvidence links
Open the workflow
04 · Estimating & Commercial

Product & Equipment Selection

Certification scope filters products before comparison and shortlisting.

Side-by-side comparisonCertification scopeReviewed shortlist
Open the workflow
05 · Estimating & Commercial

Quantity Take-Off & BOM

A bill of materials where every line shows its sheet and zone.

Traceable BOMSheet and zone per lineExclusions
Open the workflow
06 · Estimating & Commercial

Estimation & Costing

Every rate carries its source, so price changes explain themselves.

Internal estimateRate sourcesMargin assumptions
Open the workflow
07 · Estimating & Commercial

Customer-Ready Quotations

An approved estimate becomes a branded offer, exclusions checked.

Branded quotationChecked exclusionsIssue history
Open the workflow
08 · Estimating & Commercial

Value Engineering

Every alternative passes a compliance gate before it is costed.

Option comparisonCompliance gate resultsConditional endorsement
Open the workflow
09 · Engineering & Design

Engineering Drawing Automation

Draft placement against approved criteria. The designer accepts.

Draft layoutScheduleRevision clouds
Open the workflow
10 · Project Delivery

Technical Submittal Automation

Superseded certificates caught before the package goes out.

Indexed packageDocument registerSpecification response
Open the workflow
11 · Project Delivery

Procurement & Project Intelligence

Each shortage links to the affected site milestone for timely action.

Availability dashboardShortage logSchedule impact
Open the workflow
12 · Commissioning & Service

Testing & Commissioning Assistant

Handover evidence assembled as you test, not afterwards.

Test sheetsDeficiency logRetest trail
Open the workflow
13 · Commissioning & Service

Site Inspection & Maintenance

The client report comes from the record the technician signed.

Signed inspection recordPhoto evidenceCorrective actions
Open the workflow
14 · Commissioning & Service

Digital Asset & Maintenance History

One device timeline traces service events back to source records.

Lifecycle timelineCertificate registerMaintenance plan
Open the workflow
15 · Leadership

Management & Operational Intelligence

One trusted view of delivery and service, with every figure traceable to its source.

Role dashboardsException listManagement brief
Open the workflow
Use case diagram

Five buyers, one map

See the workflows used by each team role.

Swipe to see the whole diagram

Use case diagram: who uses which of the fifteen workflows Fire engineer (Engineering & Design): AI Fire Design & Engineering, Intelligent Drawing Review, Code & Specification Compliance, Engineering Drawing Automation. Estimator (Estimating & Commercial): Quantity Take-Off & BOM, Estimation & Costing, Customer-Ready Quotations, Product & Equipment Selection, Value Engineering. Project manager (Project Delivery): Technical Submittal Automation, Procurement & Project Intelligence. Service & commissioning (Commissioning & Service): Testing & Commissioning Assistant, Site Inspection & Maintenance, Digital Asset & Maintenance History. Leadership (Leadership): Management & Operational Intelligence. Every workflow stops at a named approver. DeX fire & safety workflows«15 standalone workflows» Technical Submittal Automation 10 Submittals Procurement & Project Intelligence 11 Procurement intel Testing & Commissioning Assistant 12 Test & commission Site Inspection & Maintenance 13 Site inspection Digital Asset & Maintenance History 14 Asset history Management & Operational Intelligence 15 Ops intelligence AI Fire Design & Engineering 01 AI fire design Intelligent Drawing Review 02 Drawing review Code & Specification Compliance 03 Code compliance Engineering Drawing Automation 09 Drawing automation Quantity Take-Off & BOM 05 Take-off & BOM Estimation & Costing 06 Estimation & costing Customer-Ready Quotations 07 Quotations Product & Equipment Selection 04 Product selection Value Engineering 08 Value engineering Every workflow stops at a named approver Fire engineer«Engineering & Design» Estimator«Estimating & Commercial» Project manager«Project Delivery» Service & commissioning«Commissioning & Service» Leadership
Select a workflow to open it Led by Kathir Buyer uses it
Workflow walkthroughs

See a workflow step by step

Follow the tasks, decision points and outputs in three example workflows.

Steps and reviewer roles

Who’s involved

EstimatorQuantity surveyor
  1. 01
    Estimator

    Set the drawing scale

    Established per sheet so lengths and counts mean something.

  2. 02
    Automated

    Extract symbols and segments

    Devices counted, pipe runs measured, each tied to its sheet and zone.

  3. 03
    Automated

    Deduplicate across sheets

    Devices appearing on two overlapping sheets are caught rather than counted twice.

  4. 04
    Estimator

    Verify the quantities

    The estimator reviews by zone and system, with the basis of every line visible.

    Estimator verifies the quantities?

    Yes BOM released to purchasingNo Lines queried and re-measured
  5. 05
    Estimator

    Release a traceable BOM

    Exclusions and review status carried through to purchasing.

  6. Output

    What lands at the end

    A traceable item and quantity list by sheet, zone and system, showing the count or length basis for every line, plus exclusions and review status.

Open the full workflow
What changes

Less rework, more evidence

The manual steps around your existing CAD, estimating and service systems.

Task
Today
With a DeX workflow
Take-off after a revision
Recount the whole set
Review only the lines that moved
Certificates in a submittal
Wrong revision found when it bounces
Validated before the package goes out
Commissioning evidence
Rebuilt from phones at handover
Captured against each test, on site
A device's service history
Search across separate maintenance records
One timeline with sources
How DeX builds it

From requirement to live software

A specialist agent handles each stage. You approve the outputs that matter before the next one starts.

  1. 1

    Describe

    Your process, sites and standards, in plain language.

  2. 2

    Requirements

    BRD with user stories and acceptance criteria.

    You approve
  3. 3

    Wireframes

    Screens for field, office and reviewer roles.

    You approve
  4. 4

    Build

    Working code, data model and integrations.

  5. 5

    Test

    Automated QA against every acceptance criterion.

  6. 6

    Deploy

    Into your cloud or on-premise.

    You approve
  7. 7

    Support

    Changes as standards and sites evolve.

Built for regulated work

Your safety data stays yours

Deploy where you need

Cloud, on-premise or customer-managed networks.

Privacy-first AI

Sensitive details are processed in isolation during generation.

Full audit trail

Every sign-off and change is timestamped and attributable.

Connects to what you run

ERP, CAD, service and document systems through APIs.

Your standards, not ours

Configured for the market you work in

Standards are examples only. Nothing applies to your projects until you confirm it.

Australia

Sprinklers
AS 2118.1
Inspection & testing
AS 1851
Authority
Building surveyor

United States

Sprinklers
NFPA 13
Inspection & testing
NFPA 25
Authority
AHJ

United Kingdom

Sprinklers
BS EN 12845
Inspection & testing
BS 5839
Authority
Building control, golden thread

United Arab Emirates

Sprinklers
UAE Fire & Life Safety Code
Inspection & testing
Civil Defence maintenance
Authority
Civil Defence

Singapore

Sprinklers
SS CP 52
Inspection & testing
SS 575
Authority
SCDF
Kathir, Fire & Safety Industry Business and Technology Expert
Expertise should drive the AI

Meet Kathir

18+ years in fire & safetyLeads workflows 12–14AU · UK · US · UAE

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The line we do not cross

What this software will not do

Life-safety work. These limits are written into the requirements, not added as a disclaimer.

It does not decide compliance

The software assembles evidence, retrieves source clauses and shows conflicts. It does not determine whether anything complies. A named engineer does.

It does not stand in for an authority

An approval recorded in the software never implies consent from an AHJ, Civil Defence, building control or a building surveyor.

Nothing leaves without a named reviewer

Every output carries who approved it. Anything unverified keeps a draft marker until someone signs it.

It does not do sealed engineering

Hydraulic network calculation, definitive sprinkler layout, sealed design, BIM geometry authoring and final cost estimates are all out of scope by design.

Your standards, not ours

NFPA, EN, BS, ISO, FM, UL, LPCB and Civil Defence appear in the requirements as examples. None is assumed to apply to your projects until you say so.

~1/10of traditional build time
~30%of traditional cost

That is a claim about how fast Colakin builds software with DeX, and it is supported by delivered projects. It is not a claim about what any of these fifteen workflows will save your business. The requirements deliberately leave that to a pilot, measured against your own baseline.

How an engagement runs

From a question to a pilot, in five steps

Request the requirements document, review a wireframe and agree the scope before a pilot.

  1. 01

    You ask for the requirements document

    The full BRD for the workflow you care about, sent as written.

    Same day
  2. 02

    A ten-minute wireframe walkthrough

    A clickable prototype of that one workflow.

    10 minutes
  3. 03

    The Fire Fit Check

    Five questions: fit, hours lost, who approves spend, whether your documents can be shared, and timing.

    One call
  4. 04

    A scope built on your rules

    Your standards, your document formats, your approval gates.

    Within a week
  5. 05

    A pilot against your own baseline

    One workflow, your data, your engineers.

    Q1
Questions

Fire & safety software, answered plainly

What is DeX?
DeX is Colakin's agentic AI software development platform. It builds purpose-built software from business requirements - in fire & safety, that means fifteen specified workflows covering the lifecycle from tendering through to service and management reporting.
How much time or cost will these workflows save us?
We won't quote a figure. The requirements deliberately do not attach a percentage to any of the fifteen workflows - benefits are measured in a pilot against your own baseline. What we will quote is what it costs to build: roughly one tenth of traditional build time, at around 30% of traditional cost.
Do we have to take all fifteen?
No. Each workflow is standalone - it runs on uploads and manual entry, and none is a prerequisite for another. Most teams start with the one workflow costing them the most engineering time.
Which codes and standards are supported?
Yours. NFPA, EN, BS, ISO, FM, UL, LPCB and Civil Defence appear in the requirements as examples only. Your standards, editions and client-specific scopes are configured during scoping.
How is this different from our CAD, estimating or service software?
It isn't a replacement for any of them. Each workflow is built around the manual steps before and after those systems - counting from drawings, matching certificates to a schedule, reconciling deliveries against a BOM. The work that currently ends up in a spreadsheet.
Can we see the actual requirements?
Yes. Ask for the business requirements document for any of the fifteen workflows and we send it as written, including the sections describing what it refuses to do.
Which markets do you work in?
Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates and Singapore, each with its own standards and authority context configured.