AI-INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS
Unlocking opportunities through AI-integrated workflows
Today’s projects generate more data, involve more moving parts, and demand more agility than ever before. With AI seamlessly integrated into our work, we’ll help you act on critical information with confidence, empowering you to navigate tight timelines and regulatory complexity. The result? Streamlined workflows, prompt insights, and more time dedicated to making impactful decisions for your project.
While AI enhances our capability for speed and scale, our commitment remains steadfast: prioritizing your goals. Every AI-powered insight we offer is tailored to align with your vision of success and backed by the expertise of our skilled scientists and engineers. We apply AI where it makes a meaningful difference—supporting better service and fostering long-term outcomes. Together, we’ll help you transform challenges into opportunities, so you can concentrate on what matters most: advancing your project.
The agility to meet the moment
At Barr, we build AI into the way we work, applying the right tools to the right problems. From automating routine tasks to enhancing complex analysis, you’ll find AI-integrated workflows tailored to your project and business goals. These tools aren’t standalone add-ons—they’re thoughtfully embedded into the processes and decisions that drive real-world results.
We develop and test our AI solutions in real consulting environments, using actual project demands as the foundation. That way, they align with the decisions, timelines, and technical standards you navigate every day. Whether we’re creating a new tool or adapting an internal workflow, the result is a more efficient, scalable, and replicable way to solve challenges.
AI-enhanced data handling
We use AI to help you make sense of your data—faster and with less manual effort. Whether it’s transcribing handwritten field logs, extracting values from PDFs, or standardizing tables for systems like EQUIS or GIS, we build workflows that clean, organize, and validate your information. This means fewer delays, better data at the start, and more time for your team to focus on analysis and decision-making.
Purpose-built solutions
When your needs extend beyond a single project, we can help you go further. We design secure, custom tools that reflect how you work. From dashboards that track site-specific conditions to automated data-entry systems that integrate with your internal platforms, we build AI-enabled tools that scale with your operations and continue delivering value long after the project wraps.
Proven experience
Transforming regulatory analysis with AI
A client wanted to better understand how their permit conditions compared to similar facilities across Minnesota. Barr delivered a scalable, responsive tool that assisted with a wide range of regulatory and strategic questions.
Tailored AI tool benefits:
- A custom, natural language processing workflow created a searchable database of facility discharge information, including permit limits, location data, and whether the facility discharged to a wild rice water.
- Our GIS specialists visually mapped this data, giving the client a clear, accessible picture of how their situation compared to peers across the state.
Accelerating air permit review with AI
Faced with a tight deadline and a 1,500-page draft permit from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), the environmental team at Flint Hills Resources’ Pine Bend Refinery needed support reviewing and interpreting proposed changes. Barr’s team leveraged a custom AI workflow to streamline the review process and combined it with our regulatory expertise and detailed knowledge of the client’s site.
By integrating AI tools with our technical expertise, Barr delivered:
- A detailed comparison and initial interpretation of permit changes
- A prioritized, easy-to-navigate summary of revisions
- Significant savings in staff hours
- Increased confidence for the Pine Bend Refinery to meet the MPCA’s aggressive deadline
