How Awe Maze Works

we don’t prescribe solutions

we create the conditions to define them

Awe Maze curates experts who bring direct exposure to the types of challenges being addressed — informed by having navigated similar conditions, constraints, and outcomes across real project and operational environments. Our experts understand not only how issues are resolved, but how and why they emerge, having worked within the systems, decisions, and trade-offs that shape them. This perspective is grounded in applied experience and informed by industry best practices, enabling us to bring relevant judgment, credible context, and practical insight to each engagement

A few things our experts have done…

  • Why This Matters
    Projects and assets generate vast amounts of information, but without clarity on what is required at each phase, teams either overproduce information or discover critical gaps too late.

    What Happens Without It
    Engineering, construction, commissioning, and operations teams work with misaligned expectations, leading to late-stage remediation, rework, and uncertainty at handover.

    What Changed
    By defining lifecycle-based information requirements, organizations established clarity on what information was needed, when it was needed, and how it would be used — improving readiness, reducing downstream remediation, and enabling smoother transitions from project delivery into operations.

  • Why This Matters
    Asset tags are the backbone of how equipment, documents, data, and systems connect across the facility lifecycle.

    What Happens Without It
    Without a single authoritative master tag register, assets appear under multiple identifiers across systems, creating confusion, manual reconciliation, loss of trust in data, and increased operational risk.

    What Changed
    By consolidating asset identifiers into a governed master tag register, organizations restored consistency across engineering, maintenance, and operations systems — improving data reliability, reducing rework, and enabling confident decision-making.

  • Why This Matters
    When requirements are not clearly defined, technology solutions shape how work is done — rather than supporting how work should be done.

    What Happens Without It
    Organizations invest in systems that meet feature checklists but fall short of operational needs, resulting in customization, workarounds, and underutilized platforms.

    What Changed
    By defining clear, tool-agnostic minimum technical and functional requirements, organizations were able to evaluate solutions objectively, align technology to real needs, and make informed decisions about whether existing tools were fit for purpose.

  • Why This Matters
    Modern projects rely on concurrent engineering to maintain schedules, but parallel work increases coordination and information risk if not properly aligned.

    What Happens Without It
    Misaligned assumptions surface late, driving rework, schedule pressure, and gaps that affect construction, commissioning, and handover.

    What Changed
    By aligning information expectations across disciplines and phases, teams were able to work concurrently without sacrificing quality — improving coordination, reducing late-stage surprises, and supporting downstream readiness.

  • Why This Matters
    Information, digital, and technology initiatives often cut across engineering, IT, operations, and external partners — requiring coordination beyond traditional project structures.

    What Happens Without It
    Decisions stall, ownership becomes unclear, and initiatives drift toward tools or tasks rather than outcomes.

    What Changed
    Through focused project and technology advisory, organizations gained clarity on priorities, sequencing, and ownership — enabling informed execution while keeping attention on outcomes rather than activity.

What We Can Do For You

  • We help isolate the actual problem from the solutions that may already be circulating within the organization. This ensures the issue is defined based on evidence and impact, not urgency or past precedent. By separating what is wrong from how it might be fixed, teams gain a shared understanding of the problem before committing time, budget, or resources to a particular approach.

  • When information gaps exist, our working sessions help teams understand what is missing, why it matters, and what addressing it would realistically involve. The focus is on framing a practical remediation path — aligned to project, commissioning, or operational needs — without immediately jumping to execution or tooling.

  • We support organizations in clarifying information expectations for vendors and aligning those expectations early. Through facilitated sessions, teams establish shared understanding around what “good” looks like, reducing rework, confusion, and downstream remediation while improving vendor readiness and outcomes.

  • We help organizations connect their technical, operational, and information realities to how they support customers and stakeholders. These labs ensure customer success efforts are grounded in real experience, credible content, and practical understanding — creating programs that resonate because they are informed by how work is actually done.

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