ROUTi-AI: AI-Powered MEP Design Automation for Mission-Critical Infrastructure

ROUTi-AI is an Agentic AI-powered software platform that automates complex MEP BIM design and routing, dramatically reducing engineering time, design errors, and costs for semiconductor fabs, data centers, and industrial facilities.

The Problem

Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) engineering is one of the most complex and labor-intensive processes in the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) industry. Designing and coordinating thousands of interconnected pipes, ducts, and cable trays requires extensive engineering expertise, repetitive BIM modeling, and time-consuming clash resolution.

As global demand for semiconductor fabs, AI data centers, and advanced industrial facilities accelerates, engineering firms face growing shortages of skilled professionals, tighter project schedules, and increasing pressure to reduce construction costs.

The Solution

ROUTi-AI transforms conventional MEP engineering through intelligent design automation. The platform automatically generates and optimizes 3D MEP routing within BIM environments, considering equipment connections, spatial constraints, obstacles, and engineering requirements.

At its core is Probee, SLZ's proprietary Agentic AI technology, designed to learn from historical engineering data, as-built models, and engineer feedback. Probee infers engineering patterns and project-specific design constraints to generate optimized routing solutions for new projects.

Unlike traditional BIM software that primarily supports manual modeling, ROUTi-AI automates repetitive design processes and supports engineering decision-making, allowing engineers to focus on higher-value activities such as validation, optimization, and coordination.

Key Features and Capabilities

• Automated MEP BIM Design: Generates coordinated 3D piping, ductwork, and cable tray routes, significantly reducing manual modeling.

• Intelligent Routing and Clash Avoidance: Identifies obstacles and spatial conflicts to generate optimized routing paths.

• Agentic AI Engineering Intelligence: Leverages Probee to learn from engineering data and improve design recommendations.

• BIM Workflow Integration: Operates within existing BIM environments, supporting engineering collaboration and model coordination.

• Design Optimization: Helps reduce unnecessary routing, material consumption, and costly design revisions.

Performance and Value

In an internal benchmark involving 73 MEP routing lines, ROUTi-AI automatically generated approximately 90% of the required routes within 45 minutes, compared with conventional workflows requiring substantially longer engineering effort.

By automating repetitive tasks and optimizing routing decisions, ROUTi-AI enables engineering teams to shorten design cycles, improve design consistency, minimize clashes and rework, and use skilled engineering resources more effectively.

Target Markets and Customers

ROUTi-AI is designed for EPC contractors, MEP engineering firms, specialty contractors, and industrial facility owners working on complex, mission-critical infrastructure.

Its primary applications include semiconductor fabrication plants, hyperscale data centers, industrial and manufacturing facilities, high-rise buildings, and shipbuilding and offshore projects.

Business Model and Scalability

ROUTi-AI is offered through an enterprise B2B SaaS model, combining software subscriptions, enterprise licensing, AI usage- and compute-based services, and project-specific integration.

Its scalable architecture is designed to support increasingly complex engineering workloads and global enterprise deployment.

Vision

ROUTi-AI is evolving beyond conventional BIM automation toward an intelligent engineering platform where AI agents learn from engineering experience, infer design solutions, and collaborate with human engineers.

Our vision is to make engineering intelligence scalable, accessible, and increasingly autonomous—transforming how the world's most complex infrastructure is designed and built.