Built in Canada for utilities, EPCs and engineering consultants.

AI for substation engineering that shows its work.

Ground Labs answers from your standards with the sheet to prove it, and assembles the repetitive drawings of a design package. Your engineers spend their hours on review, quality and the decisions that need them.

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Single-line diagram of a 138 kV to 25 kV distribution substation One 138 kV line feeds a 138 kV bus through disconnect switch 89-L1 and breaker 52-L1. Two 138/25 kV transformers, T1 and T2, each feed their own 25 kV bus. The two buses are joined by a normally open tie breaker, and four 25 kV feeders leave the station. 138 kV line L1 89-L1 52-L1 138 kV bus 52-T1 52-T2 T1 138/25 kV T2 138/25 kV 25 kV bus 1 25 kV bus 2 N.O. F1 F2 F3 F4
Select any equipment to see the standard it was built to.

Most of a substation design is already written down.

Utility standards hold a standard schematic and wiring drawing for almost every piece of equipment in the station. The work is finding the revision that’s in force, copying it, and carrying the panel numbers, cable tags and wire numbers through a package that can run past a hundred drawings.

It’s careful, necessary work. It’s also where experienced engineers lose the hours they’d rather spend on review and the hard calls.

An illustrative design package of 152 sheets: 38 need engineering judgement, and 114 are standard drawings with new identifiers.
  • Needs engineering judgement
  • A standard drawing with new identifiers

Illustrative, not a measured project. Design engineers we’ve spoken with estimate that 70 to 80 percent of the drawing work on a package is this kind of substitution.

One platform, from the standard to the issued package.

Wiring drawing for a breaker’s status contacts: each 52a and 52b contact is wired from DC positive through terminal block TB1 to a relay input, returned to DC negative. Shown first as a standard drawing, then assembled for a project, then marked up. Relay panel [PANEL] Relay panel PNL #203 Breaker status contacts to relay inputs, 125 V DC 125 V DC (+) 125 V DC (−) Relay inputs Standard drawing Northfield substation [BREAKER] status wiring 138 kV breaker SWR-03A status wiring STD-PC-21.04 D1-0500-1296 Rev C Project P-2026-0142 Sheet 1 of 2 Sheet 14 of 152 Notes: 1. Sample sheet authored for a product demonstration. 2. Not an issued drawing and not derived from one.

Ask the standards

Ask in plain language. Ground Labs searches your standards library, answers with a citation for every claim, and opens the drawing it came from so you can check it against the original.

How are a breaker’s status contacts wired to the relay panel?

Each 52a and 52b contact is fed from 125 V DC positive through its own point on terminal block TB1, to a separate relay input. All inputs return to DC negative.1

STD-PC-21.04 Sheet 1, Rev C In force

Withdrawn and superseded revisions are filtered out before the search runs. If nothing in force applies, it says so instead of guessing.

Assemble the package

Start from the project scope. Ground Labs picks the standard drawing for each piece of equipment and fills in its values: panels, breakers, cable tags and wire numbers. Ordinary, repeatable code then writes every sheet, the same way every time.

Filled in from the scope for breaker SWR-03A

Panel
PNL #203
Breaker
SWR-03A
Wire numbers
6122–6127
Drawing
D1-0500-1296

Sheet 14 of 152 in the package

Review the markup

Redlines from checking or the field become proposed drawing edits, shown beside the markup so you can see they match. Nothing changes on a drawing until an engineer approves it.

Proposed edit on D1-0500-1296

TB1-4 TB1-9 matches field change FC-031

Built for work that gets stamped.

A professional engineer’s seal goes on the drawings you issue. So every part of Ground Labs is designed to be checked, not taken on trust.

  • Every answer cites its sheet

    Each claim links to the page and revision it came from, with the drawing shown beside it. Checking takes seconds, not a trip to document control.

  • Withdrawn standards stay out

    Withdrawn and superseded revisions are removed before the search, not after. An outdated standard can’t become the basis of an answer.

  • The model chooses, code writes

    AI selects the standard drawing and the values that fill it. Every edit to a file is made by ordinary, repeatable code, so a wrong value is wrong the same way everywhere and easy to catch.

  • Built to run where your drawings live

    Designed to deploy inside your environment on open-weights models, under the permissions you already have, with a record of every answer and edit.

For everyone who touches the project.

Utility engineering teams

Keep standards current and applied the same way on every project, and give your engineers cited answers from the library they already own.

EPCs

Get from scope to a first-pass drawing package sooner, so drafting hours move to checking, coordination and delivery.

Consultants and partners

Work from the same sources as the owner, with every reference traceable to a sheet and a revision both sides can see.

Start with one scope.

We’d rather prove it on your work than describe it. A pilot is focused, low risk, and asks for no commitment.

  1. A conversation and a demo

    A short call with your engineering team to see the platform and talk through where repetitive work costs you most.

  2. Pick a bounded scope

    One standards library, or one equipment type on a past project whose finished drawings you already have.

  3. Measure against your own drawings

    We run on your documents, in an environment you approve, and compare the output field by field with what your team issued.

  4. Decide with evidence

    You get the results and your engineers’ feedback in writing. Whether to go further is entirely your call.

The grid has to grow faster than the teams who design it.

Ground Labs is a growing Canadian team building AI for the engineers behind the grid. We believe the best use of AI in this industry is to amplify expert engineers, not replace their judgement, and to give everyone around a project the same trustworthy sources.

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