Tamerlan Rakhmetzhanov, CEO of Armeta, explains the architectural mismatch between how data centers and industrial power facilities are engineered.
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Rakhmetzhanov: Industrial buyers are growing tired of pure SaaS models
“Nowadays there are tons of different AI tools, applications, platforms, but everyone is getting tired of certain
software as a service model.
you know, everyone demands results, you know, like end to end results basically.”
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Rakhmetzhanov: Designing industrial facilities currently takes up to five years
“Nowadays, it can take up to five years, you know, and we wanted to do it like in a couple of days, weeks maximum, you know, but we realized that when you're tackling generative design, generate, to generate whatever, first you need the data and context.”
Disclosure
Armeta considers acquiring a traditional US engineering firm to make it AI-native
“We have an idea of potentially soon acquiring a traditional engineering company in the US.
And making it AI native and provide AI native services, you know.
So, but this is a private equity story, growth equity story, but we're thinking about it.”
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Rakhmetzhanov: Armeta pre-sells product features before writing code
“So now when I want to develop a certain feature even if I've not developed the feature itself, I go and tell all of my clients that I've already developed this feature. It is ready to be bought. Would you buy it right now? And they're like, hell no, man, like,…”
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Rakhmetzhanov: 80% of industrial process drawings remain trapped in legacy formats
“80% of those drawings are kept in legacy formats, like PDF scans, JPEGs, since all the refineries and plants were built 20, 3040, 50 years ago.”
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Rakhmetzhanov: Armeta is collaborating with 12 global oil and gas corporations
“Currently we're in collaboration with 12 different corporations across the globe. Those are super major oil and gas asset owners and operators and they're, Engineering construction contractors, basically.”