Automation for engineering consultancies
Measurement data, calculation exports, standard reports, revisions, site inspections. If your engineers spend their afternoons pasting results into Word and rereading the same paragraphs on every project, we automate it — with software and AI built around the calculation tools you already use.
Today: pasted into
Generated, every time
Your field
Pick your field and jump straight to the examples that fit your work.
Building physics & energy 5 examples The Sun installation 
Acoustics & vibration 5 examples CHIME, a sculpture driven by sound 
Building services 5 examples Wiring The Wave's segments 
Fire safety & compliance 5 examples Mounting study for CityGems 
Inspections & surveys 5 examples Measuring for the Wake-Up Lamp 
Every advisory firm 3 examples Trajectory check for The Sun The problem
It's rarely the engineering. It's moving results into reports, checking them and reissuing them, again on every project.
Numbers move from the calculation tool to Excel to the report by hand, and every paste is a chance for a typo.
Standard paragraphs, tables and appendices copied from a previous project and edited until they fit.
Meter exports, logger files, photos and notes from site, sorted and renamed before anyone can use them.
A second engineer rereads the whole report because nobody can see what changed since the last version.
A new version of a standard means hunting through every template for the old clause.
Status, versions and comments live in someone's inbox.
Before you build anything
Think of one task in your firm and tick what's true. Frequent, repeatable work on digital information is where software pays back fastest — and we'll tell you what we'd do about it.
Score 0 of 9
How much could you save?
Your own numbers, for one repetitive task.
What fits
A proper tool
Weeks of your engineers' time every year. Worth one source of truth.
Counted over 46 working weeks and 40-hour weeks. This is your estimate of your own process, not a promise; the process review replaces it with a measured number.
How often × how long
Every task in your firm sits somewhere on this grid. Wherever yours lands, there's something we can do — except the bottom left, where we'll tell you to leave it.
Tick the questions above and your task's quadrant lights up.
What we build
Most firms need a mix. We start with the smallest thing that gives you back the most hours.
Scripts and connections between the tools you already have.
A private web app with one database for projects, measurements and reports.
Reading, sorting and drafting — with your engineer checking and signing the result.
Dashboards and reports from your measurements, sensors, hours and budgets.
Use cases
Real processes from advisory firms, and what software does with them. Pick your field; firm-wide examples apply to everyone.
Results from your energy calculation software placed in your report template, with the measures and tables filled in.
Replaces · Copying results into Word
Temperature, humidity and CO₂ from sensors logged against the limits, with an alert before a problem.
Replaces · Downloading loggers and plotting by hand
Sound level meter exports turned into the tables and graphs your report needs, in one step.
Replaces · Reformatting exports in Excel
Notes, voice memos and photos from site turned into draft findings, for the engineer to check and complete.
Replaces · Typing up notes back at the office
Equipment and quantities pulled from the model into your schedules and calculation inputs, refreshed on every issue.
Replaces · Counting and retyping from drawings
Test sheets filled in on a tablet on site, and the commissioning report generated from them.
Replaces · Paper forms typed up afterwards
Standard paragraphs linked to the clauses they cite, so a new version of a standard shows which templates and reports are affected.
Replaces · Searching every template for the old clause
Drawings and specifications read into a checklist of requirements, with every item linked to its source for the engineer to verify.
Replaces · Reading the full set for every check
Photos, measurements and findings captured per location on a tablet, and the inspection report generated in your template.
Replaces · Sorting photos and typing findings at the office
Recurring defects per building type, contractor or region, from the reports you've already written.
Replaces · Knowledge that lives in senior engineers' heads
Each issued report frozen, with exactly what changed between revisions, so checking a revision takes minutes.
Replaces · Rereading the whole report
Ask which project had that issue, which solution was accepted, or how you worded that conclusion — with links to the source.
Replaces · Asking the colleague who remembers
Proposals assembled from your scope templates and the hours of comparable past projects, in your layout.
Replaces · Starting every proposal from the last one
Firm-wide examples are shown with every field.
Your stack
You don't have to replace anything. We connect through exports, file formats, APIs and scripts, so your calculation tools stay your calculation tools and your engineers stay in charge.
Worked example
How we'd approach it for an advisory firm. An illustration of our method, not a client project.
Before
Today an engineer exports results, pastes them into Excel for checks, copies the tables into the last project's Word report and rewrites the paragraphs that no longer fit.
One meeting with the engineer who writes it most, walking a recent report from site visit to issue.
Standard paragraphs, tables and conditions turned into a template that knows which text belongs with which result.
Measurements and calculation exports go in. The report comes out with tables, graphs and the right paragraphs.
Every conclusion is reviewed and signed by your engineer. Software drafts; it never decides.
Issued versions are frozen. A revision shows exactly what changed, so checking it doesn't mean rereading 40 pages.
After
The calculation tools keep calculating. The pasting, formatting and rereading move to one place.
Data and security
Client buildings, measurements and findings are confidential, and your reports carry liability. The setup reflects that from the first line of code.
A dedicated server in the EU, or your own office server.
AI providers configured for zero retention and contractually barred from training on it.
Confidential projects processed by open models on your own hardware. Nothing leaves your building.
Source code, data and documents are yours, with exports in CSV, Excel and JSON at any time.
Process
Nothing is built that you haven't seen first.
We follow one of your real projects from site visit to issued report and map where your hours go. You get a clear scope and price before anything is built.
Every screen and your report layouts, clicked through together and changed before any code is written.
Short build blocks, each ending in a review where your own data goes through the real thing.
Training, user and admin guides, the source code and your data. Small changes stay easy afterwards.
Typical ranges from our service pages, not commitments. The process review gives you the real number.
Background
Hola Studio engineers installations that have to work in public, outdoors and for years: sensors, electronics, printed structures and commissioning on site. Test sheets and measurement files are familiar ground.
Municipality of The Hague
2022
A 3D sand-printed sculpture on Scheveningen beach that turns exercise into a game, using motion sensors and no cameras at all.
Self-initiated
2022
A kinetic installation that follows the real sun across the sky — a glowing 80 cm sphere travelling a 16-metre arch from sunrise to sunset, planned for the glass dome of BlueCity in Rotterdam.
Sportbedrijf Rotterdam
2025
Light modules that clamp onto the lampposts, railings and fences a city already has, and turn a route into a timed run.
Clients include Municipality of The Hague · Sportbedrijf Rotterdam · The Hague University of Applied Sciences
FAQ
No. Your calculation and simulation tools keep doing what they're good at. We connect to their exports, file formats and APIs, and move only the pasting, formatting and checking work.
No. Software fills in results, tables and standard text, and AI can draft findings from site notes. Every conclusion is reviewed and signed by your engineer.
No. We use EU-hosted AI with zero retention and no training on your data, and for confidential projects the AI can run entirely on your own server.
Often the first win is small: one script that turns meter exports into report tables, or one template that fills itself from a calculation. Use the check on this page; if a task is frequent, repeatable and already digital, it's usually worth a conversation.
We don't publish prices, because scope decides it. The process review maps one of your real reports and ends with a clear scope and price before anything is built.
Typically 1–4 weeks for a process review, 4–12 weeks for a focused AI tool or automation, and 6–14 weeks for a firm-wide platform.
You do. You receive the source code, the data and the infrastructure accounts, with no lock-in.
Yes. Hola Studio is based in Rotterdam and works with firms internationally, in English or Dutch.
Tell us how a project moves from site visit to issued report in your firm today. We'll tell you honestly what's worth automating, and what isn't.
Hola's studio assistant
Hola — I'm Ola. I know how the studio works: what we build, how we scope it, and what engagements usually cost.
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