About Aurecon

Aurecon is an international engineering, design, and advisory company that holds a key presence in the Asia-Pacific region with 31 offices and over 7,500 employees. Aurecon consists of leading designers, engineers and scientists, who work across markets and asset types to tackle some of the world's most complex challenges on behalf of their clients.

The Pain of Siloed Data Workflows at Aurecon

Aurecon has long embraced a data-centric approach to uncover valuable insights into customers' complex design and technical challenges. However, until recently, the process of collaborating on datasets was far from efficient. Teams were stuck working across a tangled mess of spreadsheets, scattered databases, text files, CSVs, and single-use Python scripts. This patchwork of tools was not only static and siloed but also made data collaboration a slow and painful process.

Moreover, every project required a manual effort from domain experts to convert raw data into something that could be utilized, draining time and resources. Because collaboration was so fragmented and ad hoc, the results were often limited, disconnected, and failed to capture the big picture. In short, the old data workflows weren't just inefficient—they were holding teams back from delivering the best insights and results possible.

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Aurecon's AI Data Solution

Today, Aurecon leverages Nomic to efficiently surface information from decades of accumulated company knowledge and data, resulting in greater explainability in their AI systems, enabling faster workflow iterations, and enhancing the accuracy of their data-driven decisions.

To facilitate these workflows, Aurecon leverages Nomic Enterprise to empower all of its 7,500 employees to explore, collaborate and build with their proprietary data in new ways:

Data exploration and curation

• Nomic enables deeper insight into data powering Aurecon's AI systems. Technical teams and subject matter experts are able to collaboratively explore their unstructured datasets and generate insights that help them make business critical decisions through use of the Nomic data interface.

Data collaboration

• Nomic lets Aurecon experts collaboratively curate and communicate data-driven findings across technical and non-technical teams for all collaborators to act on.

Data automation

• Aurecon uses the Nomic Platform developer API to integrate unstructured data automations directly in their platform, such as powering their internal RAG systems. Every filter on the Nomic Map interface comes equipped with a production-ready API endpoint they can use to go from POC to Production.

The Aurecon team now seamlessly integrates these powerful workflows across departments, skill sets, and project scopes, driving greater efficiency and collaboration. To truly demonstrate the game-changing impact of Nomic, we spoke with a diverse group of Aurecon employees who shared how it has revolutionized their work, unlocking new capabilities and streamlining complex tasks. Below are the standout insights from their experiences, showcasing the unmatched value Nomic brings to the table.

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With Nomic in Action

Dave Mackenzie, Managing Principal Digital

According to Dave Mackenzie, Managing Principal Digital, Nomic has unlocked dataset explainability, created faster iteration cycles, improved data quality, and heightened trust in the process.

“Nomic has revitalized my excitement for being back in the midst of data work.”

I leverage Nomic's collaborative capabilities to enhance my data, from simple deduplication processes to large-scale tagging of specific data points. The most significant improvement for me personally has been using Nomic to better explain the data that powers our AI systems. This has helped my stakeholders gain a clearer understanding of the bigger picture and has been particularly beneficial in areas such as risk management. By unlocking data explainability, Nomic has driven improvements in quality, cost savings, and data democratization across Aurecon. It has effectively brought our subject matter experts and domain specialists closer to the data and equipped them with new tools and capabilities to power data-centric outputs.

For example, I was able to assemble a large dataset to fine-tune a model—something that was previously beyond reach and far outside my usual tasks. Similarly, a leading bridge engineer was able to create a Nomic map to curate client feedback and requirements, despite lacking the technical expertise to interpret the data in previous data workflows. This demonstrates that Nomic not only unlocks new capabilities for our team but also motivates both senior leadership and data/software engineers to make decisions with data at the core.

I believe Nomic has boosted my team's productivity across technical and non-technical members.

Personally, Nomic has revitalized my excitement for being back in the midst of data work, making it something I look forward to rather than dread.

Overall, it's clear that without Nomic, our investment in leveraging generative AI for our customers would have been significantly more challenging.

Key Metrics:

• 100% productivity has been unlocked for non-technical stakeholders, who were previously not engaged in the process at all.

• ~20% net new capacity has been increased for our engineering teams thus far.

Theodoros' Gen AI team

Theodoros' Gen AI team uses Nomic to organize, deduplicate, and cluster information.

Nomic is gradually becoming our primary backend for search and a key component in our synthetic generation pipelines. For general users at Aurecon, it offers a low-code solution to empower our team with embedding models and data curation. For our application layer, the Nomic Platform streamlines our tech stack and provides a consistent framework for building tools around our data.

Nomic has enabled more advanced approaches to synthetic data generation and, in cases of training task-specific models, has facilitated the involvement of domain experts through curation and feedback. This has resulted in increased productivity, the development of novel workflows, and improved user experience while reducing complexity in our workload.

Key Metrics:

• We have observed a 30% increase in productivity for tasks where Nomic has been implemented, saving 5-10 hours weekly.

• Additionally, it has the potential to save us over $10,000 per year by reducing our reliance on other search applications.

Brian Killeen, Regional Practice Leader, Bridge and Civil Structure Engineer

Brian Killeen, Regional Practice Leader, Bridge and Civil Structure Engineer utilizes Nomic to organize, retrieve, and discover insights across large customer datasets.

Nomic represents a significant advancement in how we organize, retrieve, and derive value from our existing project knowledge and domain-specific data. Its ability to integrate large-scale, disparate content—or even just the metadata associated with that content—into a Nomic data map provides a new way to grant access and support our team in their work without needing to reinvent the wheel. This efficiency allows our experts to focus more on innovation and delivering high-impact results, rather than spending time sifting through tons of data.

Nomic instantly resolves the long-standing issue of information silos across teams. Previously, accessing critical knowledge required knowing the right people or having specific details about the information sought. Take, for instance, a recent project where we needed to consolidate hundreds of separate engineering documents into a new standard. Nomic transformed this process by eliminating the tedious manual "copy and paste" tasks and integrating key information, expertise, and collaboration capabilities into a unified platform.

With Nomic, teams can swiftly surface and utilize data, driving productivity and improving the bottom-line for our team. This gives us the ability to focus on what truly matters—delivering groundbreaking solutions that elevate our clients' success.

Key Metrics:

• We've seen initial savings of 10-20 hours per week, with the opportunity to unlock even greater efficiency over time.

• Enhanced value delivery—Nomic empowers our team to leverage our expertise like never before, improving both the quality and cost-effectiveness of our solutions.

• Nomic unlocks substantial cost savings long term by reducing the need for redundant file storage and retention, while still allowing full access to content across our various CDEs.

Luke Hughes, AI solution developer

Luke Hughes is an AI solution developer who uses Nomic to analyze and present insights from text datasets in order to tackle complex, large-scale customer problems.

Previously, working with, visualizing, or deriving useful insights from text data was incredibly challenging and labor-intensive. However, with Nomic, the process has been streamlined, eliminating much of the guesswork and enabling us to effectively analyze text datasets to tackle large-scale problems. This has significantly reduced our workload, fostered creativity, accelerated insights, and minimized downtime when datasets change.

For example, I recently presented a Nomic map as a proof of concept to a team. They could immediately understand how the problem could be addressed using Nomic and LLMs. The insights were clear and easy to communicate. Unlike before, where explaining how our insights would translate into value required extensive time, the team was able to interact with the Nomic map interface and instantly grasp its potential.

Key Metrics:

• I believe that, for problems involving large volumes of text data, Nomic has increased my team's productivity by up to 50%.

Nomic Enterprise Deployment

Aurecon has strict requirements around data residency, data access controls and availability. Nomic Enterprise lets you deploy a dedicated Nomic instance in most major world regions including North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific; with enterprise single-sign-on linked to data role- based-access control; and availability SLAs.

Nomic is SOC2 Type II compliant meeting the strictest data security and compliance practices, and a single-tenancy enterprise deployment provides Aurecon significant benefits beyond the standard multi-tenant Nomic deployment.

Data Residency and Security

Aurecon's compute and data planes are physically and logically isolated from all other Nomic customers.

Scalability and Dedicated Capacity

Aurecon has dedicated compute and storage capacity meaning internal users do not have to contend for dataset creation, processing analytics resources.

Enterprise Single Sign On

Internal applications and IAM at Aurecon integrate with Nomic allowing for easy set-up and identity maintenance.

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