WEFTEC 2025 Technology Spotlight: Risk & Rehab Recommendation Engine — Product Demo
SewerAI presents the Risk & Rehab Recommendation Engine at WEFTEC 2025 in a ~49-minute technology spotlight and live product demo, showing how utilities can turn inspection data into defensible, funding-ready rehab plans in minutes.
At WEFTEC 2025 — the Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference — SewerAI took the Technology Spotlight stage to demonstrate the Risk & Rehab Recommendation Engine, a powerful AI-driven module built directly into the PIONEER platform. In this ~49-minute session, the SewerAI team walked attendees through a live product demo showing how utilities can move from raw inspection footage to defensible, funding-ready rehabilitation plans in minutes, not months.
About the Session
The WEFTEC Technology Spotlight format gives innovative companies a focused stage to demonstrate real, working technology to an audience of water and wastewater professionals. SewerAI used this opportunity to show — not just tell — how Risk & Rehab transforms the way utilities prioritize and plan infrastructure rehabilitation.
The session is designed for asset managers, engineers, and utility leaders who are responsible for making capital improvement decisions and need a faster, more transparent path from inspection data to action.
What Is the Risk & Rehab Recommendation Engine?
Risk & Rehab is SewerAI's AI-powered risk scoring and rehabilitation recommendation tool, natively integrated into the PIONEER platform. It continuously analyzes inspection data to generate risk scores and prioritized rehab recommendations for every asset in your system — automatically, and with full traceability.
Rather than relying on periodic manual reviews or opaque scoring models, Risk & Rehab gives utilities a living, always-current view of system risk — one that engineers, asset managers, and funders can all trust.
Key Features Demonstrated
Always-On Analysis
Risk scores update instantly as new inspection data is loaded into PIONEER. There's no waiting for a batch process or a manual review cycle. Pair Risk & Rehab with AutoCode — SewerAI's automated defect coding engine — for the fastest possible turnaround and the most accurate results, with no manual coding required.
Customizable Risk Recipes
Every utility has different priorities, regulatory requirements, and risk tolerances. Risk & Rehab ships with the proprietary PIONEER Default Risk Model as a proven starting point, but utilities can customize the scoring criteria to reflect their own priorities — or build an entirely custom risk model from scratch. This flexibility ensures the tool works for your system, not a generic one.
Total Transparency
One of the most common objections to AI-driven tools in infrastructure management is the "black box" problem — scores and recommendations that can't be explained or defended. Risk & Rehab is built differently. Every risk score and every rehabilitation recommendation is fully traceable, with clear reasoning that engineers can review, stakeholders can understand, and funders can accept. There is no black box between you, your engineers, and the people who approve your capital plans.
AI Recommendation Chat
Risk & Rehab includes a conversational AI interface that lets users ask natural-language questions about any asset in their system. Want to know why a specific pipe segment scored high for risk? Curious about the rehab history of a particular asset or what maintenance actions are recommended next? Just ask — and get an instant, data-backed answer. Think of it as ChatGPT for your sewer system.
From Inspection Data to Funding-Ready Plans
The core promise of Risk & Rehab is speed without sacrifice. Traditionally, turning inspection footage into a prioritized capital improvement plan requires weeks or months of manual analysis, engineering review, and report writing. Risk & Rehab compresses that timeline dramatically — generating defensible, funding-ready rehab plans in minutes.
"Defensible" and "funding-ready" are the operative words. The output isn't just a ranked list — it's a documented, traceable recommendation set that utilities can take directly to grant applications, bond financing discussions, or regulatory compliance reviews.
Watch the Full Demo
The full ~49-minute WEFTEC 2025 Technology Spotlight session is available to watch on YouTube. Whether you're evaluating Risk & Rehab for your utility, looking to understand how AI is reshaping infrastructure asset management, or simply want to see the PIONEER platform in action, this demo is a comprehensive look at what's possible today.
Watch the WEFTEC 2025 Risk & Rehab Technology Spotlight on YouTube →
Learn More About SewerAI and PIONEER
SewerAI builds AI-powered tools for wastewater utilities, helping teams inspect faster, code more accurately, and make smarter infrastructure decisions. The PIONEER platform brings together automated defect coding (AutoCode), risk scoring, rehab planning, and AI-assisted analysis in a single, integrated environment.
To learn more or request a personalized demo of Risk & Rehab for your utility, contact the SewerAI team.
