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Vortex Civil Infrastructure × BI Consulting Services

Raleigh–Triangle, NC · Build Well. Live Well.
Prepared for Duncan September 2026
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Civil Project Portfolio & Production Board

One structured model over daily reports, cost codes, equipment hours and safety logs — earned value, production quantities and backlog for the four named corridors in your portfolio, recalculated live as you filter.

Corridor map — progress by project

Hand-drawn NC schematic · fill length = % complete against contract value
EarnedRemaining
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Weekly earthwork production — planned vs actual

Cubic yards moved per week, all crews in the selection
Actual CYPlanned CY
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Earned value S-curve

Cumulative PV · EV · AC ($M)
Planned (PV)Earned (EV)Actual cost (AC)
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Production by crew

Quantities in the selected period vs crew plan
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Cut / fill earthwork profile

CutFill
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Equipment utilisation

Operated hours ÷ available hours, by class
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Safety

Recordables and hours worked in the period
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Backlog by owner

Contract value remaining to earn
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Data structure — proposed star schema

The "optimum data structure" you asked about: one fact per daily report line, four conformed dimensions
Every tile above is a measure over fact_daily_report (one row per crew × cost code × day) joined to dim_project, dim_cost_code, dim_equipment and dim_date. Equipment hours and safety events land as two thin secondary facts sharing the same keys, so one slicer filters all of them.
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Ask the data

Natural-language layer over the same model (mock)
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Private AI on your own server

The "ask the data" panel above is built to run on a GPU server inside your own network: an open-weight model over your own documents, with every answer citing the file it came from. No per-seat licence, works offline, and nothing leaves the building.

How it sits in your environment

YOUR NETWORK · NOTHING LEAVES THE BUILDING Your files policies · SOPs · contracts reports · ERP exports indexed locally GPU One server, in your building open-weight model · your data only in seconds Cited answers every reply links to the source file and page no cloud AI · no third-party processor
One appliance-class server on your rack or in a secured closet. Your files are indexed where they already live; the model runs locally; answers come back with the source page attached.

What that means in practice

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    Your data only, on your hardwareAn open model over your own documents and exports. No third-party AI processor, no data-transfer agreement to review.
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    Every answer cites its sourceReplies point to the file and page they were drawn from, so people check the answer instead of trusting it blind.
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    No per-seat licenceThe whole team can ask questions. Cost is the server and our build, not a monthly number that grows with headcount.
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    Works offlineIf the internet connection goes down, the answers still come. Nothing depends on a vendor's uptime or pricing changes.

The short deck

14 slides on how a private AI server is scoped, secured and rolled out. Click through, or take the PDF.

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