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Changelog · 26 Aug 2026

Company-wide location map

Insight now opens on a map of every location in your company, not just the project you happen to have selected. Site boundaries drawn in Manage sit underneath, and it spans projects across different configurations. Mapping is a Pro feature.

Changelog · 25 Aug 2026

Chart styles for Calc

Define your house chart look once against your configuration and every chart anyone builds picks it up. Line pattern, marker shape and colour live in a named library rather than being reapplied by hand in each workbook.

Changelog · 24 Aug 2026

Switch any validation rule on or off

More control over the validation engine. Every rule it runs can be switched on or off for a configuration, so you decide what counts as a problem on your data. Six new data quality checks join the list at the same time.

Changelog · 20 Aug 2026

Shift records: nine new checks, and logs that print every row

Shift data is where a lot of quiet damage lives: overlapping windows, entries with no date, a crew starting shallower than the last one finished. Nine checks for it, each switchable on its own.

Changelog · 11 Aug 2026

Row history in the table editor

Rows now carry their own history, covering both who created them and what has changed since. See who at a glance in the grid, and open the full timeline when you need the detail.

Changelog · 30 Jul 2026

Coordinates that make it all the way out

A location you positioned on the map held coordinates that could not leave the platform. They now come through in your AGS and CSV exports, ready to open in QGIS or any other GIS, alongside the surveyed values rather than in place of them.

Changelog · 30 Jul 2026

Idle sessions give the licence back

Sessions now close themselves after a set period of inactivity, so a licence returns to the pool instead of being held overnight by a browser tab someone forgot to sign out of.

Changelog · 28 Jul 2026

Made Ground validation, accredited by the AGS

Four checks for anthropogenic materials, built on the AGS guide to describing Made Ground. They run alongside the soil description rules and switch on per configuration.

Changelog · 2 Jul 2026

Georeference your map overlays

Scanned site plans rarely arrive with a coordinate system attached. You can now place one by picking two known points instead of nudging it into position by eye.

Blog · 22 Jun 2026

Receiving data shouldn't mean cleaning it up

Supplier submissions turn AGS that arrives by email - and fails validation late - into data that's vetted against your own rules before it reaches your project.

Changelog · 22 Jun 2026

Supplier submissions: collect and vet AGS through Connect

Connect now works both ways. As well as sharing project data with clients, you can invite your suppliers - drillers and labs - to submit AGS straight into a project, automatically checked against your rules before it reaches you.

Changelog · 11 Jun 2026

Share media and testing in Connect

Connect now goes beyond tables. External contacts can browse shared photos and documents, and view or create testing schedules and chain of custody for their own projects.

Blog · 6 Jun 2026

Annotate the map: features, overlays and site plans

Draw on your map the way you'd mark up a drawing - then carry it straight through to your site plans.

Changelog · 2 Jun 2026

Map features and annotations

Mark up your map the way you would mark up a drawing. Draw features, organise them into layers, and carry them through to your site plans and PDF exports.

Changelog · 28 May 2026

Images block for log and sheet templates

A new Images block pulls tagged photos for each location straight into your log and sheet templates - so the photos you captured on site flow through to the PDF.

Blog · 23 May 2026

From sample to lab, without the paperwork

Testing schedules and chain of custody now live in GIMLabs - built as a matrix, exported straight to AGS.

Changelog · 21 May 2026

Chain of custody and testing schedules

Plan your lab testing inside GIMLabs and hand it over without a spreadsheet. Build a schedule as a sample-by-test matrix, and raise a chain of custody against the same samples.

Changelog · 13 May 2026

Laboratories and test catalogue

A new Laboratories area in Product OS lets you keep a catalogue of the labs you use and the tests they offer - ready to drop into testing schedules and chain of custody.

Blog · 9 May 2026

Photos where your data lives

Site photos and documents used to live in folders nobody could find. Now they sit right next to the records they belong to.

Changelog · 8 May 2026

Project media: photos and documents

Photos and documents now live alongside the data they describe. Attach media to a project, a location, or an individual record - then find it again with categories and tags.

Changelog · 29 Apr 2026

Image and PDF map overlays

Place historical maps, site plans, scanned drawings or any reference image directly on top of your project map. Pick an image or a page from a PDF, drop it on the map, then position, resize, rotate and crop it to fit. Everything persists, so the next person who opens the project sees it exactly where you left it.

Changelog · 21 Apr 2026

Calc Templates

You can now manage Calc Excel templates directly inside Product OS, instead of digging through the general Assets library to find them.

Changelog · 17 Apr 2026

Calc available on Go

The Calc Excel add-in is now included on Go tier with standard templates. Pull live project data into your spreadsheets without needing a Pro upgrade.

Changelog · 17 Apr 2026

Create Collection from Template

You can now create collections from predefined templates instead of building them from scratch.

Changelog · 8 Apr 2026

AGS 4 validation engine

The AGS 4 validation engine is now available in Manage. Run validation against your project data to catch issues before export.

Blog · 2 Apr 2026

How concurrent licensing works (and why it saves you money)

You don't need one license per person. Here's how concurrent licensing works and why it's better for growing teams.

Blog · 28 Mar 2026

Going digital: what to expect in your first week

A practical guide for teams switching from paper logs or legacy software to GIMLabs.

Changelog · 20 Mar 2026

Map label offsets

Map labels in Manage can now be repositioned per-location, with a new auto-arrange tool for dense sites.

Changelog · 15 Mar 2026

Insight: read-only data explorer

Insight is a new read-only product for browsing project data across your organisation. Built for stakeholders, reviewers and anyone who needs to see the data without the risk of editing it.

Blog · 12 Mar 2026

Why we built Connect

Sharing project data with clients shouldn't mean emailing AGS files every Friday or handing out licenses to your internal tools.

Changelog · 10 Mar 2026

Connect: client portal for sharing data

Today we're launching Connect, a brand new product in the GIMLabs platform. Connect is a branded client portal that lets you share project data with external contacts without giving them access to your internal tools.

Blog · 4 Feb 2026

What is GIMLabs?

A cloud-native geotechnical data platform for teams who collect, manage, and report on ground investigation data.

Blog · 21 Jan 2026

5 Field Logging Mistakes That Cost You Hours

Common data capture errors we see - and how to avoid them.

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