Author
Rajeev Sharma
Co-Founder & CEO, Markovate
Rajeev writes about the AI that turns engineering drawings into quotes, BOMs and takeoffs, and about building agentic AI that holds up in production. He is the product architect behind AI Blueprint Classifier, powered by CADIAM™.
About Rajeev
Rajeev Sharma is the Co-Founder and CEO of Markovate. He has spent more than 20 years building enterprise AI and software, including roles at AT&T and IBM. His work spans agentic AI, generative AI, machine learning and deep learning.
Rajeev is the product architect behind AI Blueprint Classifier, powered by CADIAM™. The platform reads complex engineering drawings and turns them into structured, source-linked data for quoting, BOMs, takeoffs and P&ID analysis. It is built for manufacturing, aerospace, EPC and AEC teams.
On the Markovate blog he writes for engineering, estimating and operations leaders. His articles cover why quotes break on complex drawings, where generic OCR and chat-style AI fall short, how BOM and drawing errors flow into cost, and what it takes to run agentic AI in regulated work such as medical coding.
What Rajeev writes about
Six themes run through his articles. Each links to the Markovate solution behind it.
Quoting & cost estimation
Why quotes for CNC, fabrication, injection molding and job shops break on the drawing, and how AI fixes turnaround and margin.
Explore AI Quoting SoftwareEngineering drawings & BOMs
GD&T callouts, drawing discrepancies, BOM errors, RFQ extraction and legacy P&IDs, and why generic OCR misses them.
Explore AI BOM SoftwareConstruction & takeoff
Where AI is really used in preconstruction, and how takeoff is moving from manual counting to reviewable AI quantities.
Explore AI Takeoff SoftwareHealthcare revenue cycle
Autonomous medical coding, agentic AI in revenue cycle management, and reducing claim denials.
Explore AI Medical CodingAgentic AI in the enterprise
How agentic operating systems orchestrate work across tools, data and teams.
Explore Agentic AIAI Blueprint Classifier
The drawing intelligence platform Rajeev architected, with eight specialized CADIAM™ agents.
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