About LAI Solutions

Engineering first, Tech Second

LAI Solutions bridges the gap between AI capability and project delivery. With real engineering and construction experience, we help you navigate what’s possible with your current systems.

We connect your existing systems so the right information is in the right place. Fewer hours chasing data. Faster project delivery. Better margins.

Mission & Vision

The Reality of Project Delivery

Your best people are drowning in paperwork. They didn’t study engineering to update spreadsheets, chase approvals, or manually copy data from one system to another.

60-70% of project time spent on Admin. Engineers are expensive data entry clerks.

80% of projects go over budget due to poor visibility and delayed reporting.

Disconnected Systems Data lives in spreadsheets, email, and isolated apps.

Our Team

Our team brings project delivery and systems experience, tailored to engineering and construction.

Working harder isn’t the answer. Working with better systems is.

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  • Jack Shannon

    Managing Director

    Jack is the Managing Director of LAI Solutions and a qualified engineer with over seven years of experience working across some of Australia’s largest mining companies, including Fortescue and Mineral Resources. He founded LAI Solutions because he lived the problem himself. He brings that hands-on industry experience into every client engagement, combining strategic thinking with practical systems to deliver faster, more efficient operations.

  • Andrew Strika

    Technical Director

    Twenty-five years In IT including Deloitte and Woodside Energy working on large-scale projects across resources and energy. He’s seen what scales and what doesn’t. At LAI he leads the technical and integration side.

  • Rico Smits

    Lead Developer

    Rico spent years as a construction manager before pivoting into software development. Founder of Fielddynamixs, a field reporting app for mining and construction teams.

  • Kevin Sheppard

    Non Executive Director

    Kevin has spent decades building and scaling engineering services businesses from the ground up. He provides strategic guidance on sales, business development, and scaling our operations. His advice is grounded in real commercial experience in the services delivery space.

  • Baasil Siddiqui

    AI Developer

    Graduated from UWA with an honours degree in computer science. He works under the supervision of Andrew and brings the science behind our software.

Who We Serve

Four sectors. Same Problem

The industry changes. The bottlenecks do not. Document search, project setup, approval chains, and reporting. These eat time across every sector.

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  • Engineering, Civil & Mechanical

    Every RFI that sits in someone’s inbox and every transmittal tracked on a spreadsheet is costing you margin. We automate document control and approval workflows inside your Microsoft environment so nothing gets lost and nothing slows down your delivery.

  • Construction & Industrial Services

    Your site supervisors and engineers are good at what they do. But right now half their day is paperwork, approvals, and chasing information that should take five minutes to find. We fix the workflows so your team spends their time on site work, not admin work.

  • Mining Services & EPCM Contractors

    You’re managing massive document loads across multiple contractors and your team is spending more time chasing compliance paperwork than getting the job done. We automate the document management and reporting so your people can focus on hitting commissioning dates, not drowning in admin.

  • Energy and Infrastructure

    Your project managers are pulling data from five different places just to write a weekly report. By the time it’s done it’s already out of date. We connect your systems so reporting happens automatically and your PMs get back to actually running the project.

Our Values

Solving Work, Protecting Teams

LAI Solutions exists to respect engineers’ time, fix problems at the source, and make project work flow the way it should. We believe good teams shouldn’t be slowed down by clunky systems, duplicate admin, and disconnected tools, so we build practical solutions inside the platforms you already use, removing repetitive work through smart automation and AI.

If it doesn’t quickly reduce admin, improve visibility, and protect both margins and people, it’s not worth doing because real progress comes from systems that support delivery, not get in its way.

FAQS

Your questions, simplified with clarity.

Document-heavy, data-driven processes deliver the quickest wins:

Engineering documents – AI search, classification, and citation of information.

Quality management –Auto-generated compliance reports cut defects and audit prep time.

Finance operations – AI can build dynamic dashboards that surface actionable insights for CFOs and finance teams.

Production data & OEE – Real-time dashboards and predictive analytics surface bottlenecks, drive continuous improvement, and boost production efficiency.

The investment depends on two main factors, project complexity and how compatible your current systems are with modern AI platforms. We start with a focused pilot to validate ROI, then expand in phased stages once integration and results are proven.

Yes. Our connectors and RPA bots bridge modern AI models to legacy ERP, MES, and spreadsheet workflows without disrupting production. This interoperability lets you gain AI for production efficiency quickly while protecting existing investments.

We deploy models inside your firewall or in region-specific clouds, encrypt data in transit and at rest, and follow ISO 27001 and local privacy laws.

Most companies achieve payback within 3-12 months. We provide ROI calculators specific to operations and guarantee measurable improvements in agreed KPIs.

RPA (Robotic Process Automation) handles repetitive, rule-based tasks like data entry between systems. AI adds intelligence, understanding documents, predicting equipment failures, or analysing safety patterns. Basic automation connects systems with workflows