Standard Expert

Context

Homologation work is repetitive retrieval. The same questions about limits, test conditions, and applicability get asked of the same documents by different engineers over the life of a product.

Constraint

The answers live in long, cross-referenced documents, and the cost of finding them again falls on whoever is asking this time. Institutional knowledge here is mostly a memory of where to look.

Contribution

I built Standard Expert, which preprocesses standards documents into a cache and serves queries against them through an interface that an engineer or another tool can call.

Approach

Indexing is a one-time preprocessing step per document, kept separate from serving, so the query path stays fast and the ingestion cost is paid once per standard rather than once per question.

Outcome

A recurring homologation question becomes a query against the indexed text instead of a repeated search through the source document.

Evidence

The work is held in a private repository containing the preprocessing step, the index, and the query service.