AGS 3 and 4 · BS 5930 · AGS Guide to GI Reports
Drop in the AGS file, the logs, the Schedule 2 and the lab results. StrataScope checks them, draws the plan, the logs, the sections and the graphs, and builds the factual report — so engineers spend their time on interpretation, not formatting.
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First pass, plainly stated. Everything StrataScope draws or writes is a first-pass suggestion for a competent engineer to verify. It is never a design value.
Features
One checked dataset drives every output. The register, the plan, the logs, the sections and the report all read the same holes.
Every AGS file is checked against the AGS rules, with a conformance report you can open from the register. A file that needs altering — a dropped digit in a coordinate, holes in two grids, overlapping strata — imports nothing until you have seen each change, before and after, and chosen.
Strata coloured by named unit and hatched with the BGS ornaments, with SPT N, cu, moisture content and RQD printed as the value at the test depth. A log that only exists as a PDF, scan or photo is read, and every value read is recorded as read: the factual report says hole by hole which values came from the logs, and the AGS export states each record's source.
Every hole on the plan, drawn by how it was excavated. Draw a line between holes and read the section; north–south and east–west sections through every hole are drawn to start you off.
Plasticity chart and test results against depth, with an Excel workbook alongside. The lab schedule shows what was scheduled against what came back, sample by sample.
Thirteen numbered sections and lettered appendices, built in Word from the data. Fields the tool cannot know print as a marker to complete before issue, never as plausible prose.
Once holes are located, the published geology and borehole records around the site are fetched from the British Geological Survey, or the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, with their attribution, and filed with the job.
How it works
Each job keeps its own record: its holes, schedules, lab results and issued documents stay together and apart from every other job.
Drop in AGS files, borehole logs, the Schedule 2 and the laboratory results. A file can arrive on any screen.
Read the register's counts and flags and the AGS conformance report. Every proposed repair is shown before it lands, and a derived value never looks like one the contractor supplied.
Generate the factual report, then issue it at a revision, P01, P02 and on. Nothing issued is ever overwritten: the client may be holding it.
Contractor and client
The contractor works the job. The client reads what has been shared with them, on the same drawings.
The ground investigation team
The designer or consultant
FAQ
AGS 4, and AGS 3 and 3.1 files from older archives. Each file is checked for conformance, and the result is one click from the register.
No. Every output is a first-pass suggestion for a competent engineer to verify. Values read exactly from the AGS file, values the tool derived, and faults are told apart by colour and in words, such as the Exact and Interpreted tags on the intake bays and the reason printed beside each fault, so the three cannot be mistaken.
StrataScope reads them: PDF, scan or photo. The read lands on the register for you to check against the logs, and later reads add to the job rather than replacing it.
Only a job the contractor has shared with them by name, and only what has been issued and published to them. Nothing priced ever reaches a client screen. A document issued to the client is the contractor's: checked and issued by them, at its revision.
StrataScope is not yet hosted for customers: it is in testing. Before any account opens, this answer will name the hosting provider and the region where each job's files and records are kept. Once it is, a log, lab sheet or core photograph you ask StrataScope to read is sent, from the server, to Anthropic's model to be read; Anthropic does not train on it. The privacy notice, how we use AI and the sub-processor list say who receives what.
A section for designers to bring their own drawings (DXF and shapefiles) under the holes, and access-track design, are in development.
Ask for a walkthrough and we'll take you through StrataScope on our demo contract: an invented job built to read like a real one, so no project's data needs to leave your office.