Overview
Every organization sits on years of accumulated knowledge — environmental impact assessments, habitat survey reports, soil analysis PDFs, regulatory submissions, field notes, satellite imagery catalogs, engineering drawings, and more. This knowledge is scattered across file servers, email threads, and the memories of experienced staff. When a senior team member retires or moves on, that institutional knowledge walks out the door. The GeoVault turns all of that into a queryable, spatially-aware knowledge base. Ingest your documents and NIKA builds a knowledge layer that understands what your organization knows and where it applies geographically. Any team member — from a new graduate to a project director — can ask questions in plain language and get answers grounded in your organization’s own data.What It Solves
Before the Vault
- A junior ecologist needs to know if a site was previously surveyed — they email three colleagues and wait two days for an answer
- A project manager needs historical soil data for a planning application — they dig through a shared drive with 15 years of nested folders
- A field team arrives on site with no context on prior work — they spend the first day re-discovering what was already known
- When the most experienced team member is unavailable, critical project questions stall
With the Vault
- The junior ecologist asks “Have we done any Phase 1 habitat surveys within 2km of this site?” and gets a sourced answer in seconds
- The project manager asks “What geotechnical reports do we have for developments along this river corridor?” and gets a summary with document links
- The field team asks “What species were recorded here in previous seasons?” and gets species lists with survey dates and locations
- Every team member has access to the collective experience of the entire organization
Key Features
Ingest Any Format
Drop in the documents your team already has. The vault processes PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, CSVs, GeoJSON, shapefiles, and more. No reformatting or manual tagging required — the AI extracts structure, entities, and spatial references automatically.Spatial Awareness
Knowledge isn’t just text — it’s tied to places. The vault understands that a bat survey report relates to a specific site boundary, that a soil analysis covers a particular set of boreholes, and that a flood risk assessment applies to a defined catchment area. When you ask a question, the vault knows which knowledge is geographically relevant.Natural Language Q&A
Ask questions the way you’d ask an experienced colleague:- “What environmental constraints exist for development along the A34 corridor?”
- “Summarize all the protected species records we have within this county”
- “What did our last ESIA say about water quality in the project area?”
- “Are there any historical contamination records near this proposed borehole location?”