Cadigence is a CAD production intelligence platform built for engineering and design firms that produce drawings as deliverables. We help teams understand how their engineers spend their time — without timesheets, self-reporting, or process overhead.
Engineering firms have a visibility problem. A project ends over budget, and no one can say with confidence where the hours went. An engineer works 60-hour weeks and the billing still doesn't add up. A drawing gets revised three times and no one knows which version was approved, or by whom.
The standard answer is timesheets. Timesheets don't work. Engineers don't fill them in on time. When they do, they're reconstructing memory, not recording facts. The result is data that's inaccurate at best, and politically shaped at worst.
We built Cadigence to solve this at the source — by connecting directly to AutoCAD and recording activity as it happens. No memory. No guessing. No habit change required from engineers.
Asking engineers to report their own time introduces bias, error, and resentment. The most accurate record of what happened is what the software actually recorded.
Any system that requires engineers to do something differently every day will fail. Cadigence runs silently in the background — engineers open AutoCAD and do their work. That's it.
We track time and activity signals — not drawing content. Your files never leave your machines. This isn't a policy position, it's how the software is architected.
Cadigence is based in India. We built this product for Indian engineering firms first — because the market is large, the problem is acute, and there was no serious solution designed for this context.
We support international firms as well. If you're running an engineering practice outside India, get in touch and we'll walk you through how the platform works for your setup.