GeoScreen launched with one tier, one country, and one job: an automated Tier 1 desk study, England only. It's grown a fair amount since then, and it felt worth stopping to actually list what's different now — not as a features press release, but because almost none of it happened because it looked good on
GeoScreen has, until now, been an England-only product. That was a deliberate scope decision at launch — better to be reliable across one nation than thin across three. As of this update, that scope has grown: GeoScreen now covers Wales, with the same rule-governed rating engine, the same figure set, and the same discipline about
What's Buried Beneath Your Site? GeoScreen Now Checks. A few weeks ago, a GeoScreen user asked us a simple question: "Does this tell me if there's a tunnel or underpass near my site?" At the time, the honest answer was no. Not because the question wasn't important. Quite the opposite. The presence of tunnels, underpasses
If you're buying land or bringing a site forward for development in England, flood risk is one of the first things a planning authority will look at — and one of the most common reasons a scheme runs into difficulty. Yet the flood zone system is widely misunderstood, and a surprising number of site appraisals
When we were developing GeoScreen, we weren't trying to replace the traditional consultancy model. We were trying to address the gaps it can't economically service — the situations where good ground risk work was either too slow to arrive, too expensive to justify, or simply not viable at the scale or speed a project demanded.
If you've worked in ground engineering or development for any length of time, you'll be familiar with the phased approach to site investigation. It's one of the most well-established principles in geotechnical practice: build knowledge progressively, let each stage inform the next, and don't commission intrusive investigation until you understand what you're looking for. GeoScreen's
When I built GeoScreen, the goal was straightforward: take the datasets a competent geotechnical engineer would check and automate the interrogation so nothing gets missed under time pressure. The platform launched with eleven geohazard categories, BGS geology, EA flood mapping, and heritage and ecology datasets — the core stack. But after running many reports and
GeoScreen — an automated geotechnical desk study platform — is now live in two tiers: Tier 0 — Ground Risk Snapshot: £75 + VAT Tier 1 — Preliminary Ground Risk Screening Report: £150 + VAT The question we're getting is obvious: what's the difference? The short answer is simple: the data is identical — only
How GeoScreen Works — The Technology Behind a 90-Second Ground Risk Report When people hear that GeoScreen delivers a Tier 1 Preliminary Ground Risk Screening Report — a fully automated desk-based assessment — in around 90 seconds, the first question is simple: How? A manually produced desk study typically takes a competent geotechnical engineer one
What GeoScreen Is — and What It Isn't GeoScreen produces a preliminary desk study. It is not a BS 5930:2015-compliant desk study (as clearly noted in the report itself), but a fast, consistent, data-driven starting point — something to have in hand when first considering a site, before committing to the cost of a full
