Automating Engineering tasks with VIKTOR: A Guide to Safe, High-Quality Innovation

Why VIKTOR Changes the Game

Engineering teams face a big challenge: too much time is lost to manual computations, repetitive checks, and data transfers between tools. This work is essential, but keeps engineers from focusing on creative design and actual problem-solving.

The solution is to automate some of the manual and repetitive activities. But building custom engineering software is a slow, complicated and often painful process. Examples of such tasks can be manual rebar detailing or updating Excel load combinations. As engineers, we spend weeks or even months building a tool and setting up non-engineering-related features such as the user management system, authentication and accessibility controls.

The VIKTOR platform is used by engineers worldwide to automate engineering processes. They can either build their own tools using Python low code or have AI build (part of) the tool with the new VIKTOR App Builder.

VIKTOR has built in mechanisms to ensure the quality of code and offers user management, authentication, and governance. In this article, we will cover some of the reasons why VIKTOR can be the scalable and flexible solution AEC firms are looking for to scale their digital efforts!

Building high-quality tools from the first moment

In engineering, if you can guarantee high-quality results at every step of the development process, the quality assurance and control process will be a lot smoother. The team at VIKTOR realised this early on, and we made sure to always keep this in the back of our mind, asking ourselves ‘How will this be used by an engineer and what do they need to know, see and even feel to deliver a high-quality tool?’. The answer we came to was transparency: we need to show what’s going on. Thanks to full version history with one-click rollback, the option to review/adjust the code at any time or even ask the built-in LLM to explain the steps, an engineer is able to check, adjust and revert what the LLM is doing before moving on to the next step.

We also wanted to make sure that any engineer on the project can review and verify the code. ‘Verified tool’ indicators, Inline explanations, a clear list of dependencies and many more features currently in development are being implemented so that an engineer is always aware of what the code does before adding the tool to a project.

Built-in Governance You Can Trust

The platform runs on AWS and undergoes rigorous testing to ensure the safety of engineering data and sensitive project information. The proof lies in its ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certifications, so that your quality and security controls aren’t just promised, they are audited. VIKTOR also caters to large organisations' requirements. Thanks to SSO (Single Sign-On) options and control over the permissions, admins can keep the right people in the right places with minimal friction. Do you need your data available across the World, or would you like to keep it separate per region? VIKTOR lets admins determine the regions in which the data is available to satisfy client and regulatory requirements, no matter where you are located.

Smarter Testing with Less Manual Work

At VIKTOR, we are continuously looking to improve. Our plans for the future of the platform are straightforward. Use quality assurance and quality control logic to detect bugs and errors at an early stage of the process. As LLMs become a standard helper in programming tools, manual result checks will become a key driver in quality control. Thanks to shorter development times, there should be more time available to perform these checks properly. At VIKTOR, we will make sure that, similarly to seeing your equation in Excel, your code is readable and easy to test. In the future, VIKTOR will provide more logic and testing mechanisms to ensure tools do what they promise to a user. This way, it reduces the total time it takes to deploy a tool even further.

Conclusion

Ultimately, the question we began with (why is VIKTOR a logical solution for Architecture, Engineering and Construction firms?) finds its answer in the balance between speed, safety, and trustworthiness. By lowering the barriers to building custom engineering tools while preserving transparency, governance, and quality control, VIKTOR ensures that innovation is not only faster but can also be more reliable. Engineers can now focus on solving meaningful challenges instead of becoming an IT department, confident that their work is supported by a platform built on proven standards and forward-looking improvements. In this way, VIKTOR doesn’t just accelerate app development; it establishes a safer, smarter foundation for the future of digital engineering.