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Cross-discipline conflict detection for greenfield sites

The same physical equipment shows up under three different identifiers across CAD, equipment databases, and SAP. Vyuh resolves them into a single canonical model and lets AI agents reason over it — detecting spatial conflicts, including compound risks that exist in no single source system.

Currently in evaluation with a Fortune 10 energy major
The Alignment Problem

Same equipment. Three identifier systems.

On every greenfield project, the same physical asset shows up under three different identifiers — once in the process flow diagram, once in the equipment database, once in SAP. Without resolution, no downstream check can know whether equipment placed at coordinates (X, Y) falls inside a constraint zone identified by another system.

Entity resolution audit — anonymized excerpt

Every row collapses into one canonical entity. All downstream checks operate on the resolved model.

EquipmentPFD TagEquipment IDSAP Functional Loc.
Distillation ColumnC-101EQ-9123FL-XM-C101
Heat ExchangerE-101EQ-4472FL-XM-E101
Storage TankT-201EQ-7831FL-XM-T201
Centrifugal PumpP-301EQ-2156FL-XM-P301
Pressure VesselD-101EQ-6028FL-XM-D101
The Agents

What the agents do on top of the resolved model

The deterministic spatial engine is the ground truth — every intersection, distance, and exclusion zone is auditable math. AI agents reason over that ground truth where intelligence helps, but they cannot override the physics.

Resolution Planner

Multi-round reasoning loop. Inspects equipment properties, weighs pipe connections and relocation cost, tests moves against the spatial engine, and verifies improvement before committing. Streams its reasoning to the user in real time.

Conflict Analyst

Explains conflicts in domain-expert language and identifies compound risks the source systems cannot see on their own. Prioritizes by real-world impact, not just geometric severity.

D-101's 30m high-hazard exclusion zone overlaps Site Beta's FEMA flood zone — a compound risk that exists in neither system individually.
Report Narrator

Generates an executive recommendation with trade-off analysis between top options, grounded in the deterministic spatial engine. Every claim traceable; AI agents reason over the ground truth but cannot override the physics.

Conflict Detection

Seven spatial checks, three of them 3D-aware

Standard spatial analysis works in 2D — footprint polygons on a flat plane. Equipment sits at different heights, cranes sweep cones, pipe racks impose vertical clearances. The platform runs all seven checks for every site-layout combination.

  • Boundary violation
    Equipment extends beyond site boundary
  • Constraint overlap
    Equipment in flood zone, wetland, easement
  • Safety separation3D
    Pairwise distance below API 2510 / NFPA 30
  • Access violation
    Insufficient crane or maintenance clearance
  • Derived zone overlap
    Equipment inside another's computed exclusion zone
  • Crane swing3D
    Tall equipment in crane boom sweep path
  • Vertical clearance3D
    Equipment too tall for pipe rack clearance
Sample Agent Output

Ranked, decision-ready, traceable to ground truth

For every site-layout combination, the agents produce a ranked recommendation grounded in the deterministic spatial engine. The Resolution Planner then iterates equipment moves until conflicts stabilize — automatically resolving 43% of conflicts on the validation workload.

Site selection — ranked combinations

Site names anonymized. From the validation workload — Light Naphtha Processing Unit, 10 equipment items, 6 hazard classes, API 2510 / NFPA 30 / OSHA 1910.

RankSite + LayoutScoreConflictsStatus
#1Site A + Linear100/1000Recommended
#2Site B + Linear100/1000Recommended
#3Site C + Linear44/1003Not Recommended
#4Site C + Compact0/10011Not Recommended
Visualize the layouts

Equipment, constraints, conflicts — at true height

The same canonical model that drives the ranked output also drives the visualization. Equipment is rendered at true height, color-coded by hazard class. Constraint zones — flood plains, wetland buffers, pipeline rights-of-way — appear as transparent volumes. Equipment in conflict turns red. Switch sites and layouts to compare.

3D layout viewer

Drag to orbit, scroll to zoom. Conflicting equipment highlighted in red. Constraint zones shown as transparent volumes.

  • High hazard
  • Flammable liquid
  • Pressure vessel
  • Rotating
  • Structural
  • Occupied building
  • Conflict

The platform is live. Walk through it yourself.

Create a project, load the demo data, and watch the agents reason across the resolved model in real time.

Vyuh is built by a solo founder with a PhD in aerospace engineering and a quantitative research background at Goldman Sachs — domain familiarity with both industrial spatial reasoning and the cross-system entity-resolution math underneath it.