Strata plan field verification software
Capture strata plan field verification on an iPad that keeps working with no signal, then produce the strata plan report from your own Word template — with the prose drafted against your own standards library.
Built for surveyors running teams of roughly 3–50 inspectors.
The loop you are running today
The measurement is the easy part. The reportable output — the evidence pack, the movement summary, the as-built narrative — is what the client is invoiced for, and it is usually assembled by hand from field notes, an instrument export and last month’s document.
The tell is simple: you are running a forms app plus Word plus a spreadsheet plus email, and re-typing the same findings into all four to get one strata plan report out the door.
How the strata plan report gets built
Capture it once, offline
Your firm builds the strata plan field verification form in-app — 25 field types, nesting repeatable groups, compound AND/OR visibility rules, reusable modules and calculated fields. Field capture works with no signal: jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio all queue in an idempotent outbox that only clears once the server confirms receipt.
Link it to your marks, stations and monitoring points
Enter marks, stations and monitoring points once, as a register. Every one of your observations, rounds and movement readings then points at a stored row rather than a name somebody typed — and the links survive a disconnected device.
Render your own template
The strata plan report renders into the Word template you already use — your letterhead, your section order, your clause library — with conditionals, loops over repeats, composable sub-templates and photo grids.
Drafted against your standards, not a generic model
You upload your own reference library — PDF, Word, Excel, CSV — and it is indexed for retrieval. A {{ai: …}} marker placed inside your Word template runs Claude at render time and drops the drafted prose into that exact spot, and {{ai:@space …}} narrows that one paragraph to one named tier of your library.
Where two sources conflict, the retrieved passages are labelled with their authority and the model is instructed to follow the higher one and state what it overrode. A document you mark superseded is excluded outright.
What a surveying firm typically loads
- Surveyor-General directions for the jurisdictions you practise in
- ICSM guidelines and the relevant AS/NZS drafting standards
- Project-specific survey control and tolerance specifications
- Your own field note conventions and evidence-recording practice
- Client deliverable specifications and acceptance criteria
The strata plan report gets reviewed before it leaves
You write the review framework: a checklist of what a strata plan report must contain, plus the prose standards you would mark a junior against. Link it to a report template and it runs on its own every time that template renders.
Each finding comes back with a severity — info, minor or major — the sentence at fault, and the evidence that contradicts it. A person accepts or dismisses every one, and that decision is kept against the report rather than lost in a reply-all.
The framework can also be grounded in a named tier of your standards library, so a finding can be raised against your methodology rather than against a general sense of what a good report looks like.
Checks a surveying framework usually carries
- Control, datum and epoch are stated for every deliverable
- Quoted tolerances match the project specification being reported against
- Every mark named in the text exists in the register
- Assumptions and sources of error are recorded rather than assumed
The check a document-AI tool cannot run
Every tool in this space reads the finished document. We also hold the structured submission the document was generated from, so the review is a comparison rather than a proofread: The movement summary reports 4 mm at PM3; the round’s readings put it at 11 mm.
That is a contradiction between the report and the field data — invisible to anything reading the strata plan report on its own, and the class of error that comes back from a client.
The same screen reviews documents produced anywhere else — a subcontractor’s report, a draft from your old system — uploaded as PDF, Word, HTML or text. On that path there is no submission to compare against, so it is your checklist and your standards only.
Enter your marks, stations and monitoring points once
Every field app can do repeating sections. Almost none can do links between repeating rows — many-to-many, with stable row identity, on a device with no signal.
Each reading points at a stored mark rather than a typed name, so a monitoring report can trend twelve rounds against the same point without anyone reconciling spelling between spreadsheets.
It is also what makes the work answerable afterwards. Once the relationships are stored rather than described in prose, a question across every job you have ever done is a query against a spreadsheet-style grid, not a re-read of forty strata plan reports.
What this is not
Worth knowing before you book a demo, so neither of us wastes the half hour.
- Not field-service dispatch. No timesheets, no parts, no inventory. Scheduling exists to get an inspector to a site.
- No signature capture. If your deliverable has to carry a signed sign-off on the artefact itself, this is not the tool yet.
- iOS only. There is no Android app.
- Field capture is what works offline — jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio. Reports, chat, scheduling and the inbox need a connection.
- No client portal. Reports go out as a file or a password-protected link.
Other surveying work we cover
- As-built verification surveysAs-built report
- Bathymetric survey runsBathymetry report
- Boundary survey field notesSurvey plan evidence
- Construction set-out recordsSet-out verification report
- Contour and detail surveysDetail survey report
- Deformation monitoring roundsMovement monitoring report
- GPR survey recordsGPR survey report
- Laser scan site capturesPoint cloud delivery report
Other disciplines
Rebuild your strata plan report in SurveyThanks
Bring the Word template you already send clients. If you are coming off another field-forms tool, a filled report can be uploaded, read field by field, and re-rendered into your template.