# Customers and design partners

> Noetic's named design partners are [Pape-Dawson Engineers](https://www.pape-dawson.com/) and [Dunaway](https://www.dunawayassociates.com/). Other national civil engineering firms are running pre-pilot evaluations.

## Pape-Dawson Engineers

> "Improving the quality of submissions upfront is one of the most effective ways to reduce review timelines. This pilot allows us to test how technology can support that process in a practical, project-focused way."
> — **Shelly Mitchell, P.E.**, Senior Vice President, Pape-Dawson Engineers

[Pape-Dawson](https://www.pape-dawson.com/) is a multi-state civil engineering firm headquartered in San Antonio, with offices across Texas and into Florida and the Carolinas. Roughly 2,000 employees. Runs land development, transportation, and survey practices.

Pape-Dawson is Noetic's first active pilot partner. The pilot kicked off **March 9, 2026** with three projects, including a mixed-use development on South Lamar Boulevard in Austin. The first AI-assisted completeness submission went to the City of Austin in May 2026.

## Dunaway

[Dunaway](https://www.dunawayassociates.com/) is a Texas civil engineering and surveying firm with offices in Austin, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, and elsewhere across the state. Brian Bowden, VP of Technology and Innovation, leads Dunaway's evaluation of AI for pre-submission review.

Dunaway and Noetic ran the Sanorita test project as a joint accuracy benchmark in early 2026. The firm joined the City of Austin pilot in April 2026.

## Other national civil engineering firms

Several other national civil engineering firms are running Noetic on projects in Central Texas as part of pre-pilot evaluations. As those firms publish, this page will be updated to name them.

## How Noetic fits into a firm's workflow

A typical 300-unit multifamily site plan in Austin takes a civil engineering firm roughly **320 hours and seven revision cycles** to move through review. Internal QA/QC accounts for **25–30% of project time**. Noetic runs as the firm's pre-submission check: same review the city will run, on the same plan, before it goes in. Findings come back in hours; the project engineer decides what to fix.

The output isn't a stamp or a substitute for the engineer's judgment. It's a list of the things a city reviewer would catch, with code citations, available before the plan is submitted.

## More pages

- [Austin partnership](https://www.noeticbuild.com/about/md/austin-partnership)
- [Product](https://www.noeticbuild.com/about/md/product)
- [Press](https://www.noeticbuild.com/about/md/press)
- [About Noetic](https://www.noeticbuild.com/about/md)

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*Last reviewed 2026-05-21.*