AutoGraph by lyfX.ai
Generative process design
for chemical engineering.
AutoGraph is the AI-native platform for the concept phase — where 80% of a plant’s lifetime cost is decided. Describe your intent. Generate everything else.
Concept decisions dominate lifetime cost
Around 80% of a plant’s lifetime cost is locked in during the concept and front-end engineering phase — long before the detailed design starts. Despite that, the concept phase still runs on hand-drawn block diagrams, cost estimates assembled in spreadsheets, and tribal knowledge that walks out the door when senior engineers retire.
Comparing alternatives takes weeks. Opportunities are lost. The tools used downstream — CAD, simulators, P&ID software — never reached the concept phase. AutoGraph does.
Intent in. Everything else generated.
Most process engineering is decided before it is detailed. Yet the industry still revolves around drawings. AutoGraph flips that: you start from intent — what the plant should do — and the platform generates the block diagram, the equipment selection, the CAPEX, the OPEX, and the ROI around it.
Built on a graph-native model of the plant, with reasoning AI that queries a proprietary equipment and design context database. Every result is reproducible, traceable, and ready for a senior engineer to review.
The product suite
AutoGraph is delivered as a stack of focused modules. Each one solves a concrete piece of the concept-phase workflow on its own. Together, they take a project from intent all the way to a defensible go / no-go decision.
PFD Bench
Live
The ingestion module. Upload a Process Flow Diagram, get an accurate process description in minutes. Already in production at K-UTEC. Learn more →
CAPEX Engine
In development
The concept-costing module. Takes a block diagram, produces equipment specs and a Class 5 CAPEX estimate grounded in a real equipment database. Learn more →
OPEX Engine
Planned
Operating-cost evaluation for any given setup. Connects to current and forecast prices for raw materials, energy, and utilities, and returns a defensible OPEX picture for the design under review.
ROI Engine
Planned
Discounted cash flow, NPV, and payback analysis on top of the CAPEX and OPEX outputs. Compare alternatives side-by-side without leaving the platform.
Factory Bench
Integrated economics platform
CAPEX Engine + OPEX Engine + ROI Engine, working together on the same process graph. This is the product that changes how concept-phase decisions are made — multiple alternatives, full economics, in tandem with AI.
AI-native from day one
Incumbent engineering software is adding AI downstream — to detailed engineering, P&IDs, 3D layout. The concept phase, where the costly decisions are actually made, remains unaddressed. AutoGraph starts there.
Built by founders with deep domain expertise in chemical industry, engineering, and applied AI. Developed in partnership with K-UTEC AG Salt Technologies, where PFD Bench is already used in live engineering projects.
Let’s talk
We’re talking with chemical companies, engineering firms, equipment manufacturers, and integration partners. If concept-phase decisions matter to your business, we’d like to hear about it. Short call, no slides.
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