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viAER
viAct.ai
viAct Drone AeroVision AI technology, viAER, is engineered to redefine aerial intelligence for the fast-emerging Hong Kong’s low-altitude economy. With seamless integration into existing digital ecosystems — from Smart Site Safety Systems, WMS, ERPs, to BIM, it ensures 99.9% accuracy in detecting anomalies, predicting maintenance needs, and optimizing on-site decisions. Whether it’s detecting structural deviations in construction, corrosion in offshore rigs, or surface instability in mining sites, viAER turns aerial visualization into actionable intelligence. Key Capabilities • Geospatial Mapping with centimetre-level accuracy • Safety Monitoring through Thermal and Visual anomaly detection • Automated Earthwork Volumetrics • Autonomous Confined/Restricted Space Inspection • Perimeter Security & Intrusion Detection • Incident Response & Emergency Mapping Powered by Edge AI, viAER delivers real-time insights even in low-connectivity or remote areas.Starting Price: $1000 -
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Paraxia-Plus-10
Sciopt Enterprises
With origins from Stanford U., Paraxia-Plus-10 is a Windows based optical design program specifically optimized for laser resonator and laser beam propagation applications. Its drag and drop layout mode enables real time visualization of beam properties using the “Digital Laser Workbench”. Laser engineers/designers can access laser beam data not generally available from geometric ray tracing optical design codes. Tools include optimization, tolerance analysis, stability plots, and FFT based rigorous beam propagation of arbitrary input beams. This enables simulation of diffraction effects and beam deviations from decentered and/or laser damaged components. Waist size and location is listed relative to each component, and beam diameter and beam radius of curvature is available anywhere along the beam path. Users can supply code to extend capabilities, and to enable scripting. The program is used worldwide by, consultants, laser companies, & govt. labs, often with multiple copies.Starting Price: $1,750 one time fee -
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DeepEX
Deep Excavation LLC
DeepEX is a powerful, advanced geotechnical application for the design and analysis of deep excavation projects. It enables engineers to perform structural and geotechnical design of any deep excavation model in one package, supporting wall types such as soldier piles, secant/tangent piles, sheet piles, and diaphragm walls, multiple support systems, including anchored walls, braced excavations with struts or rakers, top-down excavations with slabs and deadman walls, and allows modelling in 2D or full 3D. It supports various analysis methods, including limit equilibrium, non-linear (using elastoplastic Winkler springs) and finite element analysis; it integrates both structural and geotechnical checks, works with international steel member databases and design codes, offers automated workflows for rapid modelling (including voice-command entry and model wizards), and can export drawings and sketches or immersive 3D visualizations. -
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DeepFND
Deep Excavation LLC
DeepFND is a powerful, user-friendly software tool for deep foundation pile design that brings together geotechnical and structural calculations in one integrated environment. It allows engineers to compute axial geotechnical pile capacity (skin friction, end bearing) and estimate settlement response from SPT or CPT inputs, perform full lateral pile analysis (displacement, shear, moment) via defined head-loads or pushover routines, and design single piles, pile groups, and pile rafts, including custom pile-cap geometries. It supports nearly all pile types, drilled, driven, CFA, caissons, drilled-in-displacement, micropiles, and helical piles, and models soil-structure interaction either via soil springs or a full 3D finite-element engine. It enables structural checks under service and factored load conditions using international design codes (ACI, AISC, Eurocodes, AS/NZS, Chinese Standards, AASHTO LRFD). -
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Sensat
Sensat
Sensat is a cloud-based visualization and geospatial intelligence platform built specifically for large-scale infrastructure projects, enabling engineering, construction, and operator teams to merge complex site data into immersive 2D/3D digital environments. It allows users to visualize project designs and constraints in the real world, test multiple build options against actual site conditions, identify risks early, and make better decisions before execution. It fosters clearer communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders by turning technical models into easy-to-understand visualizations, reducing time spent jumping between tools or version-control headaches. With integrations into common geospatial and BIM workflows, Sensat supports the full lifecycle of infrastructure delivery, especially for sectors such as energy, rail, utilities, and real estate, helping teams de-risk their programme, collaborate smarter, and accelerate delivery.Starting Price: $1,310 per month -
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ArchiQuill
ArchiQuill
ArchiQuill is an AI-powered architectural rendering platform that transforms sketches, elevations, and design concepts into photorealistic images within seconds. It supports popular design tools like SketchUp, Rhino, Revit, Cinema 4D, 3ds Max, and more, allowing architects to turn their digital or hand-drawn ideas into polished visuals instantly. With specialized tools for exterior design, interior spaces, landscape projects, and garden layouts, ArchiQuill streamlines the entire visualization process. Designers can explore fast concept development, real-time AO map rendering, and intelligent design recommendations powered by AI. The platform also encourages creativity by offering style customization and rapid prototyping capabilities. Built for speed, simplicity, and professional-grade quality, ArchiQuill helps architects focus on design rather than time-consuming rendering workflows.Starting Price: $29/month/person -
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AUTOSOL
AUTOSOL
AUTOSOL’s software platform is designed to unify industrial data communications by securely collecting, accessing, and sharing real-time, historical, and edge data from industrial devices and control systems into a centralized, actionable information stream. The core is AUTOSOL Communication Manager, an advanced multi-protocol polling engine and OPC server that connects with diverse field devices (RTUs, PLCs, meters) in their native protocols and delivers standardized data to SCADA systems, HMIs, databases, and analytics tools for operational visibility and control. It supports multiple telemetry types concurrently and bridges legacy systems with modern IIoT devices, enabling organizations to extend the life of existing infrastructure while adopting new technologies for enhanced performance. -
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LuxFlow Pro
LuxCreo
LuxFlow is a dental 3D printing preparation software that streamlines and automates complex print workflows, so dental professionals can go from design files to print-ready output with minimal effort. It integrates seamlessly with the LuxCreo ecosystem and simplifies tasks like automatic orientation, support generation, nesting, and slicing for a wide range of dental indications and resin workflows, turning traditionally manual preparation steps into a one-click process that saves time and reduces errors. Tailored specifically for dental applications, LuxFlow includes built-in professional-grade parameters and intelligent defaults that help ensure predictable, high-quality prints across crowns, models, nightguards, surgical guides, and other appliances. Users can import standard design files, leverage automated tools for optimal placement and support structures, and customize parameters when needed for advanced control. -
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DC-Software
DC-Software
DC-Software delivers a comprehensive suite of foundation engineering and soil mechanics tools designed for efficient geotechnical analysis, planning, design, and dimensioning of foundations and retaining structures. It features two main product groups: DC-Foundation for geotechnical calculations, groundwater lowering, and infiltration, and DC-Soil for subsoil examination including bore profiles, geological sections, geothermal borings, old load surveys, and GIS with document management. It supports recording geotechnical parameters in versatile ways, graphically displaying and evaluating subsoil investigation results, and performing advanced calculations for stability of footings, slope and base failure, settlement, piles, reinforced earth, gabions, cantilever and retaining walls, excavation pits, soil nailing, underpinning, and more, often in accordance with relevant standards and codes. -
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DWGSee CAD
DWGSee
DWGSee CAD is a lightweight and affordable CAD software designed for fast, stable, and fully compatible 2D drafting. It offers a classic CAD interface with command line support, making it familiar to AutoCAD users while requiring far fewer system resources. DWGSee CAD allows users to open, edit, and create DWG, DXF, and DWF files with full compatibility across AutoCAD versions. The platform includes a comprehensive set of drawing, editing, and annotation tools for professional drafting workflows. Advanced features such as Dimension Driven design enable precise adjustments by modifying dimensions directly. DWGSee CAD supports exporting drawings to PDF or image formats and provides robust printing and batch printing capabilities. With a small installation size and a one-time lifetime license, DWGSee CAD delivers professional CAD functionality at a significantly lower cost.Starting Price: $198 -
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Pointly
Pointly
Pointly is a cloud-based, AI-powered 3D point cloud classification and management platform that turns large, raw point cloud datasets into structured, actionable information by enabling both automatic and manual classification, segmentation, and vectorization of 3D data using intuitive tools and pre-trained or custom AI models. It provides a centralized system to store, organize, and annotate point clouds directly in a web browser, supports scalable parallel processing for large datasets, and offers manual annotation tools alongside automated classifiers to accelerate data preparation and enhance precision. It also allows integration via API, export of classified point clouds in standard formats like LAS/LAZ, team collaboration on projects, and optional custom AI model training for specific use cases. Additional benefits include secure cloud processing with encrypted storage, scalable performance to avoid bottlenecks, and flexible deployment options.Starting Price: €99 per month -
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AVIX Suite
Solme
Originally created as a Continuous Improvement tool, AVIX has evolved into a comprehensive end-to-end solution composed of modules designed to meet each customer's specific needs. By providing precise data and linking information across functions, AVIX helps companies streamline operations, reduce waste, and increase overall production efficiency. The basic modules in AVIX Suite are: AVIX Method - Method and time study software for process documentation & production planning. AVIX Resource Balance - Line balancing software for workload balancing between workstations & operators. AVIX FMEA - FMEA software that makes FMEA analysis easy. AVIX SMED - SMED software for changeover time reduction. AVIX DFX - Design for assembly & BOM engineering software. AVIX Ergo - Ergonomic assessment software to improve workplace ergonomics. You can buy one or more modules and expand gradually as the need arises.Starting Price: $4050/year -
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Artemis
Artemis
Artemis is a generative AI-powered clean energy proposal and design platform that transforms how installers, sales reps, and operations teams quote, sell, and manage residential solar, battery, and home improvement projects with speed and accuracy. It automatically generates complete, compliant solar and battery system layouts, shading and geospatial analysis, production modeling, and ROI savings in seconds by fusing high-resolution imagery, utility data, and local regulations, eliminating manual drafting and long design queues. It embeds financing options, lender comparisons, and soft credit checks into live proposals, lets users edit designs and pricing in real time during presentations, and supports CRM integrations and website embeds so customers can get interactive pricing and system designs online. Artemis also centralizes workflows from design through contract execution and operations, offers white-labeled tools for sales teams, and uses validated data and AI models.Starting Price: $8 per proposal -
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Pathmode
Pathmode
Pathmode is the intent engineering platform for product teams building with AI. It transforms messy user feedback from support tickets, interviews, and research into structured, execution-ready specifications. Product managers, engineers, and designers can map user journeys, synthesize evidence into machine-readable IntentSpecs, and auto-sync them to tools like Linear, Jira, Cursor, and Claude. Pathmode connects the dots between what users actually need and what your team builds — eliminating guesswork and enabling AI agents to act on real user intent.Starting Price: 0 -
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Alchemite
Intellegens
Alchemite provides AI-augmented physical modeling and solutions that help organizations extract actionable insights from experimental and simulation data by combining machine learning with physics-informed models to improve prediction accuracy, reduce experimental costs, and optimize product and process development. Its solutions span materials discovery and design, predictive modelling of performance and reliability, multiscale modelling that connects atomistic to macroscopic behaviour, and automation of workflow tasks such as data integration, surrogate modelling, and model validation. It supports physics-aware neural networks and hybrid modelling approaches that respect underlying scientific laws while learning from data to enable faster and more accurate simulations, reduced reliance on expensive physical testing, and improved decision-making. Intellegens’ tools are applied in areas such as battery performance prediction, chemical process optimization, etc. -
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Liveline
Liveline
Liveline is a cloud-based 3D industrial layout and proposal design platform that lets sales, engineering, and manufacturing teams quickly build, visualize, and present detailed three-dimensional factory and production line layouts with a drag-and-drop interface that doesn’t require deep CAD expertise. It enables users to transform 2D plans into interactive 3D layouts, import CAD models, generate high-definition visualizations and videos, and collaborate in real time to refine solutions with clients or stakeholders, helping accelerate the quotation and approval process while improving clarity and engagement during sales discussions. Liveline also includes tools for creating compelling proposals that showcase machinery, conveyor systems, and production configurations in immersive 3D, facilitating faster decision-making, seamless handovers to engineering teams with comprehensive bills of materials, and higher proposal win rates.Starting Price: $2400 per year -
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BAESS Labs
BAESS Labs
BAESS Labs is an AI-powered solar design platform built to streamline the entire project development process. It enables users to generate Bills of Quantities, perform energy simulations, and create financial analyses in minutes. The Smart PV Designer offers visual module placement, shading analysis, and real-time optimization. Users can model ROI, IRR, and NPV while generating professional reports for client presentations. With global weather data integration, projects can be designed accurately anywhere in the world. The platform uses AI credits to power intelligent features while offering a free plan to get started. Designed for speed and efficiency, BAESS Labs helps solar professionals save significant time on system design and proposal creation.Starting Price: $18/month/user -
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CalcSteel
CalcSteel
CalcSteel is a web-based structural steel design and analysis platform built to make professional engineering tools affordable and accessible. It features a full 3D browser editor that allows engineers to model structures directly online without downloads or installations. The platform includes a 6 DOF FEM solver and design verification according to major international standards such as AISC 360, Eurocode 3, NBR 8800, AS 4100, and IS 800. With over 640 steel profiles available, users can quickly assign sections and loads to their structural models. CalcSteel enables engineers to analyze, verify, and generate professional documentation and PDF drawings within minutes. Unlike traditional structural software that costs thousands per year, CalcSteel offers a free tier and paid plans starting at accessible monthly pricing. Designed for structural engineers, fabricators, firms, and students, it provides professional-grade tools without enterprise-level costs.Starting Price: $9/month -
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I After Sales
Components Engine
I After Sales (IAS) is a groundbreaking platform designed to transform the way businesses handle after-sales services. Focusing on innovation, simplicity and efficiency, IAS offers a comprehensive suite of tools that digitalize and streamline every facet of customer service. From creating interactive 2D and 3D spare parts catalogs to managing intuitive, customizable dashboards, IAS delivers advanced solutions that enhance both user experience and business productivity. Thanks to AI integration, the IAS platform unlocks powerful smart features: advanced chatbots for real-time user conversations, guided spare parts search, instant access to documents and orders, and customizable automated responses—all easily managed from the back office. Thanks to cloud technology, IAS ensures universal and secure data access, while supporting scalable and flexible business processes. -
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vPlan AR
ValidPixel LLC
vPlan AR is a LiDAR-powered floor planning platform designed for contractors, restoration teams, inspectors, estimators, architects, and property professionals. Using LiDAR-enabled iPhones and iPads, users can quickly scan rooms and buildings to generate accurate floor plans without manual measurements or traditional surveying workflows. The platform combines mobile room scanning with a browser-based floor plan editor that allows users to refine layouts, manage multi-room and multi-floor projects, add architectural elements, and export professional documentation. vPlan AI also includes AI-powered tools that help analyze floor plans, calculate dimensions and square footage, answer questions about layouts, and streamline documentation workflows. Key Features: LiDAR-powered room and building scanning Automatic wall and dimension detection Browser-based floor plan editor Multi-room and multi-floor project support AI-powered floor plan assistant PDF, DXF, XML, and 3D modelStarting Price: $19 -
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Thoa
Thoa.io
Thoa is a cloud bioinformatics platform that solves the six most expensive problems researchers face daily: environment and dependency conflicts, pipeline management, reproducibility, scaling compute, collaboration, and data sharing. Run Nextflow and Snakemake workflows on managed cloud infrastructure (up to 12TB RAM) with zero DevOps setup. Thoa's AI-assisted debugger resolves environment issues in real time, so pipelines don't crash hours into execution. Every run automatically captures its full execution context: data, software versions, environment, and machine config. Share complete analyses with collaborators in one click. Recipients can view and re-run results without creating an account or mirroring infrastructure. Supports Docker, Conda, Singularity, Python, and R.Starting Price: $35/user/month -
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QuickArchViz
QuickArchViz
QuickArchViz is an AI-powered architectural visualization platform that turns CAD screenshots, 3D model captures, sketches, and interior references into client-ready concept visuals. Built for architects, interior designers, real estate teams, property developers, visualization studios, and architecture students, QuickArchViz helps users create exterior renders, interior visualizations, architectural sketches, material studies, and walkthrough-style visual assets without a traditional rendering pipeline. Users can upload rough visual inputs, choose a use case or visual style, and generate polished architectural imagery directly in the browser. QuickArchViz is designed for fast concept development, design iteration, client presentations, and early-stage visual exploration.Starting Price: $20/month -
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VCLAVIS
VCLAVIS
VCLAVIS is innovative web-based software for pressure vessel and heat exchanger design, developed by a team of experienced engineers. Designed to revolutionize the industry, it provides a totally new web based platform that enhances accessibility, efficiency, and compliance in pressure vessel engineering.Starting Price: $250 -
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Simcenter EDEM
Siemens
Simcenter EDEM is a high-performance Discrete Element Method tool for bulk material and particle simulation, designed to give engineers crucial insight into how granular materials interact with handling equipment across a range of operating and process conditions. It accurately simulates and analyzes the behavior of coal, ores, soils, fibers, grains, tablets, powders, rocks, crops, and other real-world materials. Users can get started quickly with extensive pre-calibrated material model libraries representing rocks, ores, soils, and powders, while validated physics models support dry, sticky, compressible, and more complex material behaviors. Simcenter EDEM can simulate complex, industry-scale particle systems involving many millions of particles with fast and scalable compute performance across CPU, GPU, and multi-GPU solvers. -
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PFC (Particle Flow Code)
ITASCA Consulting
PFC, or Particle Flow Code, is a general-purpose distinct-element modeling framework available as two- and three-dimensional programs, PFC2D and PFC3D. It is designed to simulate synthetic granular and solid materials as assemblies of variably sized rigid particles, including disks, spheres, rigidly connected clumps, and convex polygons or polyhedra. It provides an efficient and flexible way to model the motion, interaction, breakage, flow, deformation, and failure of particle systems across geomechanics, mining, civil engineering, materials processing, and industrial design. PFC is especially useful for problems where the behavior of a material emerges from particle-level contacts, bonding, friction, rearrangement, fracture, or flow rather than from a continuous mesh. Users can represent bonded materials such as rock, concrete, or cemented soil, as well as loose granular materials such as sand, gravel, ballast, ore, powders, and grains.Starting Price: $9,588 one-time payment -
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Bulk Flow Analyst
Overland Conveyor Company
Bulk Flow Analyst is a Discrete Element Method simulation tool designed to help engineers analyze and optimize bulk material flow throughout transfer chutes and conveyor systems. Developed and used by engineers with direct expertise in transfer chute design, the software is built to make DEM simulation intuitive and practical so users can focus on chute performance instead of managing complex DEM parameters. Bulk Flow Analyst can simulate transfer problems involving bulk materials moving through chutes, hoppers, feeders, conveyor transfer points, belts, and related material-handling equipment. It helps designers visualize and evaluate how particles flow, impact, accumulate, discharge, and interact with geometry under different operating conditions. Through DEM, it supports analysis of difficult conveyor design challenges such as flow requirements, chute plugging, belt wear, chute surface wear, dust generation, spillage, material degradation, and impact behavior.Starting Price: $1,000 one-time payment -
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Aspherix
DCS Computing
Aspherix is a state-of-the-art Discrete Element Method platform designed to simulate particle behavior in diverse systems and provide high-precision process modeling for industrial and research applications. It offers comprehensive DEM simulation tools for analyzing granular materials, powders, bulk solids, cohesive particles, polydisperse materials, and particle interactions across a wide range of environments and processes. Aspherix gives users strong control over simulation data, integrates information from multiple sources, and supports seamless analysis across varied formats, helping teams optimize operations and drive product innovation through data-driven simulation. With user-friendly dashboards and real-time analytics, the platform helps engineers move from complex particle behavior to fast, actionable insights. -
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Aircraft Inspecti
Aircraft Inspecti
AircraftInspecti is a mobile and web application built exclusively for independent aircraft technical representatives — the licensed engineers and consultants who carry out pre-purchase, delivery, redelivery, lease return, and C-check inspections on commercial and business aircraft. It eliminates the 4–8 hour administration burden after every physical inspection. After leaving the hangar: sorting handwritten notes, organising field photos, cross-referencing findings against ATA zones, and assembling a professional client report. AircraftInspecti handles all of this in the field. Core features: zone-based photo capture mapped to ATA 100 zones, auto-generated finding reports from field inputs, digital inspection checklists for pre-buy, delivery, redelivery, lease return and C-check inspections, client-ready PDF export, and an inspection history log per aircraft registration. Available on iOS, Android, and web. Built for the independent tech rep, not enterprise MRO.Starting Price: $19 USD/month -
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AMTOS
Aggregator Solutions Ltd.
AMTOS — Aviation Maintenance Training & Operations System — is a cloud-hosted platform purpose-built for EASA Part-147-approved Maintenance Training Organizations (MTOs). It unifies the entire training lifecycle in a single system: personnel enrollment, course scheduling, a Part 66 question bank, online computer-based exams, attendance tracking, and regulatory reporting — all on a single shared database. Role-tailored dashboards serve administrators, instructors, and students simultaneously. Compliance tools include EASA Form 148 Certificate of Recognition generation, audit-ready records, and BI dashboards for performance oversight. AMTOS eliminates the duplication and version-control risks of spreadsheet-based workflows, keeps every record authoritative and up to date, and scales from a single MTO to a multi-site training network. -
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realvirtual.io
realvirtual GmbH
realvirtual.io is a Unity-based framework for industrial digital twins and virtual commissioning in machine and plant engineering. It imports the customer's own CAD (STEP, SolidWorks, CATIA, NX), lets you define kinematics (drives, sensors, grippers) without altering the original geometry, and connects real or simulated PLCs and robot controllers through 15+ native interfaces (Siemens S7, Beckhoff TwinCAT/ADS, OPC UA, MQTT, EtherNet/IP, Fanuc, KUKA, ABB) to one 3D model. It ships with full C# source code, so there is no black box and no vendor lock-in, and holds high-fidelity visuals at 60 fps while keeping cost far below legacy digital-factory tools. One model carries through sales, engineering, virtual commissioning, 3D HMI and operator training. A free Starter edition is on the Unity Asset Store; companion product realvirtual WEB (open source, Three.js) delivers the same model to any browser via one link.Starting Price: $0
