About

Software for the people who measure the world.

Paradigm Geospatial, Inc. builds desktop software for land surveying and reality capture: point clouds, CAD, plan sheets, field scanning and GNSS, designed with working surveyors around the way survey jobs actually run.

What we believe

Survey-grade is a standard, not a slogan.

Prove it or flag it

Field registration refuses a placement it cannot prove, and deliverables are checked before they leave the office.

Your data, your machine

The apps run locally with no usage tracking, and licenses are checked offline. Cloud AI features are optional and use your own API key.

Open formats

LAS, LAZ and E57 into Surveyor and back out, DXF and DWG drawings in CAD, and LandXML, Shapefile and GeoTIFF on delivery. Every format, app by app

Founders

Boundary law meets real-time engines.

Paradigm Geospatial is led by a practicing Professional Land Surveyor and a real-time systems architect, so the apps are held to the standard of a signed survey and built to stay fast on the largest jobs.

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 field-to-finish work across boundary, topographic, corridor and terrestrial laser-scanning surveys. He directed the field capture and office production of more than 40,000 Trimble X7 scans.

Tired of software that choked on large scans, mixed up survey feet and international feet, and pushed crews through five programs from five vendors, he set out the unified workflow the apps follow: quality-gated registration in the field, graded plat calibration in Puck, and survey standards the assistant can cite.

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, high-frame-rate graphics and distributed systems, including military laser-engagement training systems (MILES) fielded at more than fifteen installations.

Instead of building on an aging CAD library, he architected PGC Core and the .pgc2 format from a clean sheet, so point clouds and drawings stream straight to the graphics card and a viewport's speed depends on the screen, not the size of the file.

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Six apps, one survey workflow.

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