Innovation · Intellectual Property · 14 Patents Pending

Defensible methods built for owner-side infrastructure governance.

AMP's patent-pending methods represent 20 years of owner-side utility capital program experience encoded into reproducible, auditable, and scalable workflows. These are not configuration choices — they are purpose-built methods that define how owner-side PMIS and infrastructure intelligence should work.

14 Patents Pending USPTO Filed Owner-Side Methods Practitioner-Built Public Infrastructure
Why Methodology Matters

Software is easy to build.
Defensible owner-side methods are not.

The gap in public infrastructure technology is not the technology — it is the methodology. Most platforms are built by developers who understand software. AMP is built by practitioners who ran capital programs, asset management functions, and program delivery offices from the owner's side for 20 years. That experience is encoded into every workflow, register, and reporting structure.

01 — Ownership
Built from the owner's chair
AMP's methods emerge from actual experience managing utility capital programs, owner's representative engagements, PMO reporting, and alternative delivery programs — not from observing them from the outside.
02 — Scalability
Reproducible across programs
Owner-side governance methods that work for one GC/CM program should work for the next. AMP's patent-pending methods are designed to be standardized, not reinvented for each client.
03 — Defensibility
Auditable and defensible
Public agencies answer to boards, ratepayers, auditors, and regulators. AMP's methods produce documentation trails that are designed to hold up — not documentation as a byproduct.
Patent-Pending Method Categories

What AMP has filed — and why it matters for owners.

AMP's 14 patent-pending methods span capital program intelligence, risk scoring, compliance automation, and asset lifecycle governance. Each method represents a workflow gap that practitioner experience identified and systematic IP development addressed.

Method 01
Autonomous Work Order Generation
Method for automatically generating maintenance work orders from asset condition data, inspection triggers, and risk thresholds — closing the loop between asset intelligence and field operations without manual intervention.
Method 02
Regulatory Compliance Gating
Automated compliance checkpoint enforcement across capital program workflows — ensuring that required documentation, approvals, and regulatory milestones are captured before program stages advance.
Method 03
Climate-Adaptive Risk Scoring
Risk scoring methodology that incorporates climate exposure factors — flood risk, temperature variance, drought stress — into asset failure probability and capital prioritization models.
Method 04
Agentic Capital Improvement Program Formation
AI-driven method for forming and prioritizing Capital Improvement Programs from asset risk data, condition scores, funding availability, and regulatory requirements — reducing manual CIP development effort.
Method 05
AI-Powered Public Records Audit Chain
Method for maintaining an auditable chain of AI-assisted decisions in public infrastructure governance — ensuring that AI recommendations are traceable, explainable, and defensible under public records requirements.
Method 06
Bidirectional Digital Twin Synchronization
Method for maintaining two-way synchronization between capital project records and operational asset data — so that capital construction events update the asset record, and asset condition events inform capital planning.
Method 07
NCN Auto-Trigger Chain
Method for automatically triggering Notice to Comply and related contract notification chains from detected project condition events — reducing owner exposure from missed contractual notification windows.
Method 08
Weibull PM-Compliance Beta Modifier
Method for modifying Weibull failure probability parameters based on preventive maintenance compliance history — improving failure probability accuracy for assets with documented maintenance records.
Additional patent-pending methods cover Dual-Custody Assignment, Level-of-Service Chain-of-Failure Bridge, O&M Budget Bottom-Up synthesis, and SIPOC Chain umbrella governance frameworks.
What This Means for Owners

Patent-pending methods that protect your program — not just AMP's IP.

AMP's methods create durable advantages for the utilities and public agencies that deploy them.

Workflow standardization that survives staff transitions
When methods are encoded in the platform — not in individual staff knowledge — program continuity doesn't depend on any one person staying.
Compliance automation that reduces manual effort
Regulatory gating, audit chains, and notification triggers that run automatically mean fewer missed compliance milestones and less staff time chasing documentation.
Risk intelligence that boards and auditors accept
Actuarially grounded risk scoring with traceable inputs and auditable outputs produces the defensible priority lists that rate increase hearings and federal audits require.
AI assistance that is auditable
AMP's AI methods are designed with public-sector accountability requirements in mind — recommendations are logged, explainable, and traceable. AI does not operate outside the audit trail.
The Practitioner Difference

20 years of owner-side experience. 14 methods filed.

20
Years owner-side practice
14
Patents pending, USPTO
16
Platform products
~340
Platform modules

AMP's IP development began with a simple observation: the tools available to public infrastructure owners were designed for contractors, IT asset management, or generic project coordination — not for the specific governance, accountability, and documentation requirements of public infrastructure owners.

AMP Consulting delivered owner-side PMIS implementations, SharePoint capital delivery environments, and alternative delivery project controls for public utilities before AMP Essentials and AMP Insight existed as products.

The patent-pending methods in the AMP platform are the systematized result of that practitioner work — encoded, reproducible, and protected. Not derived from software development observations. Built from the chair where the decisions are actually made.

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Patent applications are pending with the USPTO. Claims are not yet issued or granted. Patent-pending status does not guarantee that patents will be issued.