Surveyor
An assistant that works offline
Surveyor's assistant runs on your machine and answers from its help and US federal survey standards, citing where each answer comes from.
Paradigm GeospatialSurvey software on its own engine
From the scan to the signed drawing, on one engine.
Point clouds, CAD, plan sheets, field scanning and GNSS in five Windows apps that hand the work to each other, all on PGC Core, the engine we build ourselves. Built by a licensed surveyor and a real-time engine architect, for work that ends in a signed deliverable. Buy it once and own it, with every update included.
Every launch app can be tried free for 15 days. Perpetual licenses, activated offline. See pricing
The platform
Big jobs, opened whole. Every figure measured, method published.
- Speed 0.6 s
To the first frame of 13 billion points of public USGS lidar in Surveyor. Open the whole job, not one tile at a time.
The measurements → - One engine 1 core
PGC Core runs under all five launch apps, so a scan, a drawing and a coordinate mean the same thing in each.
The engine → - Smaller files −41 %
A .pgc2 against the E57 it came from, with the coordinate system, normals and levels of detail inside.
The formats → - Keep working 9 jobs
Kinds of long work Surveyor runs in the background, each with real progress and a clean cancel.
Background jobs → - Batch overnight 2 CLIs
Surveyor's converter and Pg-GPS's processor run from a script, with batch manifests and JSON.
The command line →
Available at launch
Six apps, one survey workflow.
Pg-GPS processes the static GPS baselines. Collector captures and registers in the field. Surveyor extracts, checks and delivers. CAD drafts and computes. Puck works the plan sheets. The Launcher installs, licenses and updates them all.
Point cloud production
Surveyor
Register, extract, check and deliver point clouds with billions of points.
View overview Survey drafting and civil CAD
CAD
Drafting, COGO and surfaces for survey drawings.
View overview Plan-sheet workspace
Puck
Stop measuring plats with a PDF ruler. Calibrate, close traverses and draft in survey coordinates.
View overview Field scanning on a tablet
Collector
Run two scanners from one tablet, and check the registration before you leave the site.
View overview GNSS post-processing
Pg-GPS
Static GPS baselines, with the CORS stations chosen for you.
View overview Install, license and update
Launcher
One place to open, license and update every Paradigm Geospatial app.
Free · View overviewHow they fit together
Each app hands the work to the next.
- Control Pg-GPS Process static GPS baselines against CORS stations it ranks for you.
- Field Collector Run the scanners and register each station on site.
- Office Surveyor Extract linework and coded points, check, and deliver.
- Drawing CAD Draft, run COGO, build surfaces and plot sheets.
- Record Puck Calibrate plats and plan sheets and close their traverses.
Pg-GPS exports a hand-off package for Surveyor. Collector writes a project Surveyor opens as-is. Surveyor's linework reaches CAD as DXF and LandXML, and Puck's traverses arrive as DXF.
Own your tools
Every launch app. Yours for good. Every update included.
Survey software has moved to subscriptions that stop the day you stop paying. The Founders license is one payment of $13,495 for a perpetual license to every app in the launch release, against $19,379 bought separately. Every future update to those apps is included, and the license is checked on your own machine: no dongle, no license server.
Automation, with you in charge
The tedious parts, handled. The judgment stays yours.
Surveyor
Curbs and linework from the cloud
Extract curbs and trace breaklines with the brush instead of digitizing every vertex, then review them before they are delivered.
Puck
Plan sheets read with Claude
Optional AI extraction finds lot lines, easements and monuments on a plat. You accept or reject each one, and it stays off until you add your own Anthropic API key.
Built for your desk
Desktop software that respects the job.
Native and GPU-accelerated
Surveyor, CAD and Collector are native Windows apps on PGC Core that draw with plain Vulkan 1.3. No CUDA, no vendor toolkit.
Your data stays with you
The apps run on your machine with no usage tracking, and your license is checked offline. Cloud AI features are optional and use your own API key.
Open formats in and out
LAS, LAZ and E57 come into Surveyor and go back out, DXF and DWG drawings open in CAD, and deliveries include LandXML, Shapefile and GeoTIFF. Every format, app by app
Who builds it
A licensed surveyor and an engine architect.
On a stamped survey, a software mistake is not a glitch; it is a misplaced monument. The apps are designed by someone who signs survey deliverables and built by someone who has spent three decades on real-time systems.
Co-founder and CEO
James Nicolau IV, PLS
Professional Land Surveyor in California, Nevada, Arizona and Hawaii
A second-generation land surveyor with more than twenty years of boundary, topographic, corridor and laser-scanning work, including the field capture and office production of more than 40,000 Trimble X7 scans. He designs the survey workflow the apps follow, from field registration checks to plat calibration in Puck.
Co-founder and CTO
Shawn Healey
Co-founder of Icon Systems (acquired by SAIC) · Computer Science lecturer, San Diego State University
Thirty years of real-time simulation, graphics engines and distributed systems, including military training systems. He architected PGC Core and the .pgc2 format so that a viewport's speed depends on the screen, not the size of the file.
Get started
Install once. License what you need.
One installer puts the Launcher and the apps on your PC; your license decides which apps open.