Mach9 Unveils Digital Surveyor 2:
a New Standard for LiDAR Feature Extraction

San Francisco, CA — March 19, 2026 — Mach9 announced Digital Surveyor 2, the next generation of its flagship mapping platform for surveying and civil engineering teams. The web-based CAD application helps surveyors, engineers, and drafters deliver engineering-grade mapping projects from start to finish in a single environment. Its AI-powered extraction engine suggests linear features directly from LiDAR point clouds — including curbs, pavement edges, guardrails, and barriers — and adapts in real time to each user’s drawing patterns.

The Problem: Demand Is Growing, Teams Aren't.

Across telecom, transportation, and utilities, LiDAR is being used on more projects than ever. But production teams haven't grown at the same rate. Skilled technicians still spend much of their time on repetitive digitization tasks instead of the higher-value judgment work they were trained to do. The result is a production bottleneck that limits how much work firms can take on, even as demand grows.
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Built from the ground up, Digital Surveyor 2 represents an exponential leap in how fast teams go from raw scan data to finished deliverables — with users reporting up to 100x faster project completion. Its AI-powered extraction engine works alongside drafters in real time, suggesting features as they draw while keeping every suggestion fully editable. The result: teams can produce complete, engineering-ready deliverables with the same quality and control they expect, in a fraction of the time.
"Something that would take us a month to do manually can now take us a few days in Digital Surveyor 2." said Juliana Conlon, GIS Engineering Technician at TrueNet Communications. "For a small team with customers on tight deadlines, that changes everything."

AI-powered extraction that learns as you work.

The feature extraction engine in Digital Surveyor 2 suggests linear features, such as curbs, pavement edges, guardrails, and barriers directly from LiDAR point clouds — and adapts to the user’s drawing patterns. As users draw, the software picks up on their patterns and refines its suggestions in real time.

Matthew Skibba, Director of Reality Capture at Feldman Geospatial, described the impact: "There's so much more functionality. The automation of going through some of these more complex lines — you have all those tools already in there. Anyone can pick it up, look at the interface, and be able to take it and run."

Smarter tools for every feature type.

Suggestions work across the extraction tools customers are already using, like line drawing and breakline extraction, giving operators flexible ways to work across any feature type — without being limited to a predefined catalog of supported features. For more demanding geometry with complex curves and tight tolerances, the platform's AI suggestions stay fully editable. Ensuring high quality assurance alongside access to manual control when needed.

Early users are already seeing the results. "I can shave weeks and weeks off of extraction," said Skibba. "We can fly through and look at all the vertices and lines in 3D, verify it. It's just been so efficient on our end."

A workflow built for how teams already operate.

Digital Surveyor 2 includes advanced draping capabilities, improved corner snapping, and a streamlined interface designed so users can be productive immediately — whether they've spent years in AutoCAD or are new to CAD tools. Quality assurance is integrated at every step, allowing reviewers to verify extractions in 3D without switching tools.

Russell Hall, Sr. Survey Project Manager at Langan, noted the platform's accessibility: "This software might have the lowest barrier to entry of any software. You don't have to learn Bentley or AutoCAD. You could take someone that's a surveyor and just knows where points would go in the field and they could be productive — very productive."

What's next

The release of Digital Surveyor 2 marks the foundation, not the finish line. Mach9 plans to continue expanding the platform's automation capabilities and supported feature types in the months ahead, with development shaped directly by feedback from production teams in the field.

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“We're focused on continuing to improve the overall experience — by getting data into the platform more seamlessly and making the experience more visual and intuitive. But efficiency alone isn't the goal. It's about complete production workflows with quality built into every step so these organizations can achieve their overall goals and missions” said Alex Baikovitz, CEO of Mach9.

Availability

Digital Surveyor 2 is available now. To learn more or book a demo, visit mach9.ai.

About Mach9

Mach9 accelerates how teams model and understand the world with automated feature extraction technology. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, Mach9's flagship Digital Surveyor platform helps transportation agencies, utility companies, and engineering firms extract miles of road corridor projects in a fraction of traditional processing time. Built on decades of research from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, Mach9 empowers the architecture, engineering, and construction industries to tackle large-scale infrastructure projects with unprecedented speed and accuracy. Leading survey and geospatial organizations, including Langan, Olsson, Woolpert, HDR, and major state DOTs trust Digital Surveyor to create engineering-grade maps for infrastructure design and operations.

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Contact

‍Alex Baikovitz

CEO, Mach9

‍info@mach9.ai