On this episode of Liquid Assets, host Ravi Kurani speaks with Adam Tank, co-founder and Chief Customer Officer of Transcend, about their mission to transform infrastructure design through technology. With experience across microbiology, consumer goods, and robotics, Adam brings a unique perspective to improving the water sector. Seeing inefficiencies in engineering firms firsthand, Transcend overhauls the conceptual design process for critical assets like wastewater treatment plants.
What you’ll hear in this episode:
Adam’s Journey: Adam’s unique background across microbiology, consumer goods, and robotics.
Transcend’s Mission: How Transcend’s software transforms infrastructure design through automation.
Empowering Engineers: Understanding how Transcend gives engineers time to focus on innovation.
Startup Insights: Adam’s perspectives on starting a company and finding product-market fit.
Global Impact: Discovering how Transcend’s technology impacts millions around the world.
Optimizing Design: Seeing how integrated calculations optimize preliminary design.
Purposeful Entrepreneurship: Finding inspiration in startups using technology for good.
Envisioning the Future: Adam’s vision for more sustainable and equitable infrastructure.
TDG rapidly generates accurate budgetary proposals to help suppliers bid more, win more, and sell more.
Asset Owners and Utilities
TDG streamlines the capital planning and conceptual design processes to accelerate project timelines and deliver better outcomes.
EPCs, AECs, and Consultants
TDG enables engineering firms to deliver more value to their clients & increase competitiveness.
Individuals
TDG works for individual engineers who want to grow their business and reduce their non-billable time.
Academic
Transcend supports students and professors around the world to incorporate TDG into their curriculum.
Resources
Articles
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Webinars
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Case studies
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FAQ
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Transcend tools
Access a number of tools Transcend has developed to help engineers and industry professionals take back their time.
Security
Learn more about Transcend’s security practices
Industries
Water and Wastewater
TDG creates unique, optimized designs of water & wastewater treatment facilities by automatically combining decisions and calculations from each engineering field.
Power
TDG creates unique, optimized designs of T&D assets by automatically combining decisions and calculations from each engineering discipline.
Solutions
WWTP Design
TDG generates optimized, unique designs for water and wastewater treatment facilities by automating decisions and calculations across engineering fields.
Substation Design
TDG generates optimized, unique designs for T&D assets by automating decisions and calculations across engineering disciplines.
Utility Interconnection Hub
For transmission providers and power utilities, simplify the interconnection process by integrating TDG into your website to ensure developers submit fully compliant collector substation designs from the start.
Transcend Proposal Generator
Enables technology suppliers and OEMs to generate more proposals, faster, with more detail and less resources, so you can sell more of your technology and/or equipment
White Label Proposal Generator
Generate qualified leads, elevate your customer experience, and simplify your engineering and channel partner workflows in an intuitive, user-friendly interface integrated into your website.
PFAS Feasibility Study
For drinking water utilities, automatically generate accurate CAPEX and OPEX estimates to calculate the cost of upgrading your facility to meet stringent PFAS regulations
Booster Station Design
Automates and simplify the complex process of designing booster pumping stations
DC Battery Sizing
Get precise battery sizing recommendations in minutes for renewable energy and other critical infrastructure projects