AI for Geotechnical Assets

Effectively demonstrate whether your geotechnical assets are being built and performing as intended

Day to day, from design to closure, not just at the next review.

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Vera, GeoXtra's AI, pulls the evidence together into one structured record and checks it against design intent through design, construction, operation and closure.

When Vera flags a deviation or anomaly, your engineers approve or reject it, your team assigns the action, and Vera follows it up until it's closed. Every finding cites its sources.

Vera does the checking and the follow-up; you make the decisions.

What GeoXtra brings:

Proactive governance

The right data to the right people at the right time, through your governance process, and Vera follows up each action until it’s closed.

Proactive risk management

Vera checks your records against design intent and your critical-control requirements, so your team can show where risk stands.

Efficiency

Vera assembles your data from its silos into one record, and GeoXtra generates daily reports and data reports, giving time back to the engineering.

What GeoXtra means for you:

Owners and operatorsOwners & operatorsSee, day to day, whether your facility is being built and run as designed, and show it to your board, lenders and insurers.More for owners and operatorsEngineersEngineers of record & consultantsStart every project with the site's history at hand. Vera digests historic design, investigation, lab and instrument data, each record with its source, so you're up to speed sooner and spend more of your time on engineering, less on assembling data.More for engineersContractorsContractorsSpend less time on reports, and hand over records with their check results and sources. GeoXtra reads supported instruments directly, such as select helical pile torque indicators, and Vera runs your QA/QC checks automatically and keeps your reports current as the records sync.More for contractors

MiningTailings facilities · Water dams · Heap-leach pads · Waste rock · Open pits and slopes · Reclaimed landforms

InfrastructureHydro dams · Embankments and levees · Foundations · Piles · Retaining structures · Excavations · Tunnels

Leon Botham
Leon Botham Founder, President, Partner, Principal Engineer

“GeoXtra uses AI the way our profession needs it. Vera got us up to speed fast, digesting years of site records and the design basis. It checks new evidence against design intent and shows the requirement behind each finding, so our engineers and scientists spend their time making calls instead of chasing documents and assembling reports. We're seeing risk sooner, and we can show our clients why we acted.”

In service on mine sites and civil infrastructure projects in Canada.

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Meet Vera, GeoXtra's AI

Vera assembles your data, checks it against design intent and your compliance requirements, flags deviations and follows up each action until your team closes it.

Owners and Engineers Make the Decisions

What Vera reads

Your requirements

Design criteria, specifications, your OMS manual and trigger action response plans, the standards you answer to and your permit conditions.

Your records

Field records and QA/QC tests, lab results, instrument readings, inspections, and historic reports and logs.

Vera uses both: it checks your field, lab, inspection and instrument records against your requirements, with your history as context.

What Vera does

  1. Checks your records

    QA/QC tests, lab results, inspections, OMS checks and instrument readings, against your specifications, OMS manual and permit conditions.

  2. Flags deviations and anomalies

    Each finding cites the clause, threshold or record behind it.

  3. Your people approve

    Your engineer approves or rejects each finding. No finding produced by Vera becomes a compliance record without an engineer's sign-off.

  4. Follows each action to closure

    Your team gives each corrective action an owner and a due date. Vera follows it up until it's closed. Your team signs off each closure, and the record keeps the evidence or the decision behind it.

  5. Keeps the record current

    Every finding, decision and action stays on record with its sources, and your team updates each risk rating with what Vera found.

The same record, from the first borehole to closure.

Your field, lab, instrument and document data in one GIS-based single source of truth, with Vera across all of it.

Run it all in GeoXtra, or connect the systems you keep

Capture on site, on the map, even offline.

  • GIS-based field forms, tests, inspections and photos
  • Reads supported instruments directly, such as helical pile torque indicators
  • Works offline and syncs when the device reconnects
  • On the phones and tablets crews already carry

Forfield crews inspectors contractors' QC

GeoXtra field app on a phone: choosing a location for a lift 6 compaction test on the satellite map, by latitude and longitude, with the KML chainage.GeoXtra field app on a phone: a helical pile's torque log, with its installed extensions and depth.GeoXtra field app on a phone: a lift 6 compaction record, with its date, inspector, backfill, location and contractor.GeoXtra field app on a phone: the site photos attached to a daily report.

What Vera reads, level by level

  1. Site Characterization

    Boreholes and their logs, test pits, cross-sections and 3D subsurface models: the ground your design rests on.

  2. Field Records and Inspections

    Records, tests and inspections from the phones and tablets your crews already carry, offline if there's no signal.

  3. Laboratory Tests

    Gradation, compaction, moisture and strength results, each tied to its sample, location and lift.

  4. Instruments

    Piezometer, inclinometer, settlement and survey readings, each against its trigger levels.

  5. Documents

    Your design criteria, specifications, OMS manual, permit conditions, and historic reports and logs.

Who we serve

One record for everyone who answers for the structure.

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  • Owners & operators

    See, day to day, whether your facility is being built and run as designed, and show it.

    Vera reads your field, lab, instrument and document records, flags deviations against your specifications and OMS manual, and follows each action through your governance process until it's closed. Your engineer of record and your contractors can work in the same record, each with role-based access, under your agreement. When the engineer of record or owner changes, the next one starts with the record, under your agreement, instead of folders of reports that take weeks to work through and make it easy to miss something.USDA NAIP, 0.3 m resolution, taken 12 Oct 2023, NAIP tile m_3411006_ne_12_030_20231012.

  • Engineers of record & consultants

    Start every project with the site's history at hand.

    Vera digests historic design and operation data alongside new investigation, lab and instrument data, each record with its source. It runs automated data analyses, plots and QA/QC checks, and keeps your reports current as the records sync. You get up to speed on a site sooner and spend more of your time on engineering, less on assembling data. You make the engineering calls.USDA NAIP, 0.3 m, taken 22 Jun 2023, NAIP tiles m_4307229_ne_18_030_20230622 and m_4307230_nw_18_030_20230622.

  • Contractors

    Spend less time on reports, and hand over records with their check results and sources.

    Crews capture tests, inspections and installation records on the phones and tablets they already carry, offline if there's no signal. GeoXtra reads supported instruments directly, such as select helical pile torque indicators. Vera runs your QA/QC checks automatically, cites the clause or threshold behind each flag and keeps your reports current as the records sync, which saves reporting time. Vera flags issues while they're still small, and your reviewers can check each flag against its source. You can export all your data, under your agreement, and the owner keeps the records you hand over.USDA NAIP, 0.3 m, taken 22 Jun 2023, NAIP tile m_4307222_sw_18_030_20230622.

Your data,
your agreement

  • 100% your own data. Download it any time, or we transfer it to you on request.
  • Hosted in Canada
  • Role-based access, including external reviewer accounts
  • SSO for enterprise users
  • Backup and recovery
  • Multi-tenant or self-hosted deployment where needed
  • Attribution and version history on every record

We work with your IT team on security reviews and audits.

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What you get

From “we think it's fine” to “we can show it's fine”.

Meeting design intent in every phase is what holds risk as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP).

  • Between reviews

    Vera flags a failed test, an overdue action or a late lab result while it's still small, not at the next review.

  • Dam safety reviews and audits

    Your team starts a dam safety review, a GISTM independent review or a compliance audit from a current record, instead of assembling one at the deadline. Your experts decide and sign off.

  • Closure and bond release

    Vera keeps every finding, decision and action on record with its evidence, ready to hand over at closure. Before reclamation, you can show regulators the facility was designed, built and operated as intended, with no open actions. It's the record your team needs for a bond release application.

  • Board and lenders

    Show your board and your lenders the current risk position, what it rests on and the decisions behind it.

  • Insurers

    Show your insurer's underwriters the evidence and decisions on record for the facility, across its life.

  • New owner or engineer

    When the engineer of record changes, the owner keeps all the data and continuity carries over to the new engineer. On a sale, the record can move with the asset under your agreement.

Structures

Geotechnical assets, from tailings to tunnels.

Mining

  • Tailings facilitiesA tailings impoundment with a wide grey tailings beach, a pond behind it and a discharge pipeline running along the beach.
  • Water damsAerial view of an earthfill dam with a grassed downstream slope and a spillway, holding back a reservoir among forested hills.
  • Heap-leach padsStacked lifts of a heap-leach pad with lined side slopes and drip-irrigation lines across the top, in a forested valley.
  • Waste rockA large waste rock dump with long, graded slopes above the mine floor, in low evening light.
  • Open pits and slopesTerraced benches and haul ramps on the walls of a large open pit mine.
  • Reclaimed landformsReclaimed mine land: reshaped slopes with established grass cover, beside the edge of the mine workings.

Infrastructure

  • Hydro damsA concrete hydroelectric dam with its powerhouse and spillway gates in a mountain valley.
  • Embankments and leveesA grassed levee with a crest road, holding back channel water that sits higher than the land beside it.
  • FoundationsWorkers in hard hats and high-visibility vests placing reinforcing steel for a foundation mat.
  • PilesA rotary piling rig with its mast raised over a steel casing at a pile location, with no one near the rig.
  • Retaining structuresA deep excavation held by a soldier-pile and timber-lagging retaining wall, with foundation formwork on the floor.
  • ExcavationsA deep circular shored shaft seen from above, with a lifting frame and access stairs at its rim.
  • TunnelsA tunnel portal under construction, with a ventilation duct, rail track and access stairs at the entrance.
A tailings impoundment with a wide grey tailings beach, a pond behind it and a discharge pipeline running along the beach. Aerial view of an earthfill dam with a grassed downstream slope and a spillway, holding back a reservoir among forested hills. Stacked lifts of a heap-leach pad with lined side slopes and drip-irrigation lines across the top, in a forested valley. A large waste rock dump with long, graded slopes above the mine floor, in low evening light. Terraced benches and haul ramps on the walls of a large open pit mine. Reclaimed mine land: reshaped slopes with established grass cover, beside the edge of the mine workings. A concrete hydroelectric dam with its powerhouse and spillway gates in a mountain valley. A grassed levee with a crest road, holding back channel water that sits higher than the land beside it. Workers in hard hats and high-visibility vests placing reinforcing steel for a foundation mat. A rotary piling rig with its mast raised over a steel casing at a pile location, with no one near the rig. A deep excavation held by a soldier-pile and timber-lagging retaining wall, with foundation formwork on the floor. A deep circular shored shaft seen from above, with a lifting frame and access stairs at its rim. A tunnel portal under construction, with a ventilation duct, rail track and access stairs at the entrance.

FAQ

Questions owners, engineers, contractors and IT teams ask first.

Our engineers already do this. What does GeoXtra add?

Your engineers do the engineering, and GeoXtra doesn't change that. What's hard for any team is keeping up with the checking and the follow-up between reviews, across the structures you answer for. Vera does that part: it checks your records against your criteria, whether they come from crews in the field, an import or a system you already use, such as a monitoring platform, and follows up each corrective action, with its owner and due date, until your team closes it. Your reviewers approve or reject each finding, your team closes each action and updates the risk position with what Vera found, and your engineers sign off.

Is GeoXtra only a construction QA/QC tool?

QA/QC is one part of it. During construction, Vera checks your field and lab tests and inspections against the design and specifications. During operation, Vera turns the requirements of your OMS manual into configured checks and runs them against your readings and records as they sync. Your engineers can confirm the references with Vera. Findings and actions run through your governance process: your reviewers approve or reject each finding, your team assigns each action, and Vera follows it up until your team closes it. Your engineers make every engineering call.

What does GeoXtra's AI actually do?

Vera, GeoXtra's AI, digests your existing records and reference documents, checks incoming records against them, and drafts findings that cite the record, document section or threshold they rely on. Vera also checks readings and test results against limits your engineers set, such as specification bands and trigger levels. Your reviewers approve or reject each finding, and your engineers sign off.

Can GeoXtra replace our separate data and compliance tools?

Yes, where you choose to, for the data and checks GeoXtra runs. Subsurface, lab, field and construction, instrument and document data can run in GeoXtra, with automated data analyses and your compliance and governance checks, in one platform instead of a separate tool for each. GeoXtra works with the systems you have, such as a monitoring platform.

Does GeoXtra replace our monitoring platform or its alarms?

No. GeoXtra works with the systems you have, such as a monitoring platform. Vera checks records as they sync, including instrument readings against their trigger levels, and your team decides what follows. Your monitoring alarms and your trigger action response plan stay yours.

What happens if Vera gets something wrong?

Vera's output is a draft for review. It cites the record, document section or threshold it relies on, so your reviewer can check the source. Your reviewer approves or rejects it, and superseded judgments stay in the record with their version history. No finding produced by Vera becomes a compliance record without an engineer's sign-off.

What if Vera misses something?

Vera adds a check; it doesn't replace your team's own review or the inspections your OMS manual requires. Your records stay open to your team, so your engineers can run their own checks and raise their own findings and actions. Vera follows those up the same way, until your team closes them, and every decision stays on record.

Does GeoXtra do engineering work? Who signs off?

No. GeoXtra supplies software, not engineering. It does not act as engineer of record, provide engineers or issue engineering opinions. A finding is a comparison of a record against a requirement in your reference documents or a limit your engineers set, with its source cited; it is not an engineering opinion. Owners, consultants and contractors can work from connected evidence and keep their own accountabilities. Your engineers set the criteria, make the decisions and sign off.

We're the engineer of record. What changes for us?

Your accountabilities don't change. GeoXtra supplies software, not engineering. You set the criteria and make the engineering calls. What changes is the groundwork. Vera digests the site's historic design, investigation, lab and instrument data, so you start with the site's history at hand, each record with its source. It runs automated data analyses, plots and QA/QC checks, and keeps daily reports and data reports current as the records sync; what you sign stays yours to write. Each finding Vera raises waits for a reviewer's decision, and every decision stays on record with who made it. When the engineer of record changes, the owner keeps the project data, under your agreement, and continuity carries over to the new engineer.

We're the contractor. Who sees our records, and can we export them?

Who sees your results, and when, can be set to match the contract for the work. Where configured, a reviewer outside the team that entered the results releases them. Every record keeps its attribution and version history, so a failed test stays on record after its retest. Vera runs your QA/QC checks automatically, cites the clause or threshold behind each flag and keeps your reports current as the records sync. You can export all your data, under your agreement.

Where is GeoXtra hosted, and can we get all our data back?

GeoXtra is hosted in Canada, with multi-tenant or self-hosted deployment available where needed. Vera's processing runs in Canada too, and your data isn't used to train AI models. You own your data: download it any time, or we transfer it to you on request, under your agreement. Access is role-based, including external reviewer accounts, and enterprise users can sign in with SSO. Backup and recovery are in place, every record keeps its attribution and version history, and we work with your IT team on security reviews and audits.

Can records be edited or deleted, and who can see the history?

Records keep their attribution and version history. A correction adds a new version with who made it and when; the earlier value stays in the record. Retention and deletion follow your agreement. It is the record your team needs for a dam safety review or a GISTM conformance review, and the one you can show your insurers. Your engineers decide and sign off.

Does it work in the field without signal?

Yes, for capture. Crews use the iOS and Android phones and tablets they already carry. Records captured without signal sync when the device reconnects. Vera then checks them against the wider project data and keeps your reports current. Where there is connectivity, Vera can flag issues back to the field for the crew's review.

How do we get started, and how does our existing data come in?

With a meeting: thirty minutes on one of your own structures or jobs. Then a pilot on one structure or job: your team sees Vera on your own records and decides from there. Your existing data, from historic records and investigation data to lab, field and instrument records and documents, comes into GeoXtra without a complicated onboarding process.

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How is it priced?

GeoXtra is an annual subscription, scoped to what you need. Book a meeting to scope yours.

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Behind GeoXtra

Behind GeoXtra

We started GeoXtra because we believe mining and infrastructure should be built and run right, and responsibly.

Why we started GeoXtra
  • Mo Shahsavari, co-founder and CEO of GeoXtra

    Mo Shahsavari

    Co-founder and CEO

    16+ years designing, building and operating mine waste management facilities and heap leach pads, including as an engineer of record, with international experience. Professional engineer licensed in Ontario and registered in British Columbia; co-author of published technical work on tailings.

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  • Saba Tayebifar, co-founder and CTO of GeoXtra

    Saba Tayebifar

    Co-founder and CTO

    12+ years building software, machine-learning and data platforms, from scalable cloud architecture to product management and design. Two-time SaaS co-founder who has taken products from prototype to paying enterprise clients, pairing hands-on engineering with product strategy and customer-driven growth.

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