We build easy-to-use tools for engineers, enabling you to work more efficiently. As engineering projects grow increasingly complex, the existing software stack falls short in adapting to a rapidly changing landscape with numerous diverse domains. Most engineering software is overly specialized and complicated, making it difficult for non-experts to use effectively.

We provide software tools that facilitate teamwork and collaboration across various domains and departments. Our tools enable you to integrate engineering knowledge directly into the product, creating an engineering system linked to all relevant data points. This single source of truth forms the foundation of an effective engineering system, allowing seamless collaboration with others. Given the sensitivity of engineering data and intellectual property, our tools are designed with robust data security and safety measures.

We view the engineering process as an exciting and dynamic journey, free from tedious and repetitive tasks. Consider the sketch below, which illustrates this process as a series of cycles where each iteration brings new insights and data. These new insights and data are then used to optimize and tweak the model, facilitating further iterations and ultimately leading to the most fitting solution.

To achieve this ambitious goal, we have decided to open-source most of our software. By doing so, we aim to build trust within our community. However, to provide the most value, some parts will remain closed-source to allow for custom and privacy-critical solutions for end-users and other companies. If you want to see what the future holds for powell-donovan, take a look at our roadmap.

We believe in the value that open-source software brings to all users. Our core modules are open-sourced and hosted on GitHub. Powell-Donovan is structured as an open-source development environment (dev-environment) that hosts all the core modules in a single workspace. If you want to contribute to the capabilities of Powell-Donovan, this is the best way to get involved.

The dev-environment is structured into individual modules, each representing a different capability. These modules can be compiled into standalone, hostable solutions. Anyone can build these solutions, which can either be locally hosted and accessed via the powell-donovan web-interface (coming soon) or accessed directly from our provided servers.

If you want to host a solution, the best way to get started is by following our guide on How to host a solution.

In addition to our public open-source solutions, we offer private solutions that are custom-built for end-users or other companies. These private solutions are not open-source, as they contain customer data and intellectual property, which is not available to the public.

Except for being closed-source, these private solutions use the same functionality provided by the core modules. Private solutions can also be self-hosted or hosted on our servers, depending on where the compute happens and where the data is stored. Access to any solution is the same, using our web-interface (coming soon).

Building private solutions also serves as a means to generate sufficient revenue to sustain the continued development of powell-donovan.

If you're interested in building a private solution or custom functionality, feel free to reach out to us at powell-donovan@outlook.com.

Given our current early stage of development, this roadmap is subject to regular updates and changes. Nonetheless, here's a rough outline of what to expect in the near future.

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