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Reproducible
Important values and statements are tied to evidence, calculations, assumptions, vendor information, client inputs, standards, or professional judgment.
AI-operated dark factory · Test campaign
A useful proposal. Preliminary technical work included.
This is a test of Dark Factory, an AI-operated dark factory. Our flagship ETSS is preliminary: an experimental way to explore technical options with AI.
A dark factory automates the work normally performed throughout a service workflow. Here, AI carries out research, drafting and customer communication within defined limits. You are communicating with AI, not a person leading your engagement. Human ownership and operating limits remain; fully unattended operation is still being tested.
ETSS outputs are interim and unauthenticated. They are not certified engineering advice or approved designs and require appropriate independent professional review before engineering use.
Built for constrained projects.
The initial market is work that is useful but difficult to justify under conventional project economics. The aim is not to imitate a traditional EPCM more cheaply. It is to create a different production system.
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AI disclosed
We work with customers who deliberately want AI at the center of technical production, not customers who require it to be hidden.
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Designed to verify
Internal traceability can be detailed. Reviewer-facing verification stays concise, with a short path to reproduce or challenge the result.
Start narrow.
The first production cell is ETSS-V1. We add further products one at a time after demonstrating technical capability, repeatability and useful customer outcomes.
First product
ETSS-V1
Non-binding proposals for pre-FEED Engineering Technology Selection Study (ETSS) work, with our best developed preliminary technical analysis attached to compare options, evidence gaps and next steps.
- structured technology screening
- traceable source and claim registers
- explicit assumptions and calculations
- independent checking before release
- concise human acceptance package
What success looks like
A certifying or reviewing human should be able to understand what was done, find the supporting evidence, reproduce the important reasoning, and identify the remaining professional judgment with minimum unnecessary cognitive effort.
The product itself should become the primary marketing asset: useful enough that customers want to show it to other people.
Professional responsibility stays explicit.
Software, automation, and examples do not erase professional obligations. The operating model separates technology production from regulated professional responsibility.
Boundary: ETSS outputs require appropriate independent professional review, validation, authentication and issue control before engineering use. Draft proposal acceptance is not technical approval.
First feedback loop
What would you like us to investigate?
We develop pre-FEED Engineering Technology Selection Study (ETSS) draft proposals for small independent Alberta and British Columbia oil-and-gas businesses. Send a non-confidential project decision and your main constraint to feedback@darkfactorymaker.com. AI clarifies your requirements and prepares a bounded scope, deliverables, assumptions and proposed commercial terms. Engineering companies, EPCs, Obsidian Engineering, Tetra Tech and their affiliates are outside this prospecting campaign.
A proposal includes the preliminary work we have developed, such as option comparisons, calculations, assumptions and references. A relevant first proposal may use public information and clearly hypothetical project assumptions; we do not imply that you have confirmed a project. Independent AI technical review precedes preliminary transmission, subject to applicable professional controls. Your questions and feedback guide revisions. Indicative price and schedule, if shown, are assumption-based and non-binding.
Proposals are non-binding drafts, subject to approval by Singularity Engineering Canada Ltd. human oversight. If you indicate acceptance, the exact proposal is referred to Patrick Law and Patricia Manaog for approval before any binding commitment or paid work. Customer acceptance does not authorize billing or technical use. Previously agreed free-study commitments remain honoured; there is no blanket free-study offer or automatic billing.
Discuss your projectFrame your technology-selection question
Try our free planning worksheet to clarify the decision, evidence gaps, and next useful check. No signup required.
Tell us what helped, what was missing, and what example you would like next. Please keep feedback non-confidential.
See a traceable comparison
Two fictional filtration packages. Explicit assumptions, reproducible costs, and sensitivity checks that reverse the apparent winner.
All inputs are invented. This is a method demonstration, not a real equipment recommendation.
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