Why we built this.
The core comes out of the ground once. Somebody looks at it for a few minutes, writes a description on a tray card, and the rock goes into a box in a yard. Everything anyone decides afterwards rests on those few minutes and that one description.
Then the same data gets handled three more times. Typed into a database, checked against a folder of photographs nobody can line up to depth, reconciled against lab results in a spreadsheet. Every pass costs a day and adds a chance to be wrong, and none of it is the interpretation the client is actually paying for.
We built Strataworks because a phone can now do the parts of that which are mechanical. It can measure the run instead of asking you to read a tape. It can assemble the tray into one continuous image and pin it to real depth. It can mark the breaks and draft the first pass at the log, and hand all of it to a geologist while the core is still in front of them.
What that changes is not really the field. It is everyone else. The project manager, the designer and the client stop waiting a month to find out what came up, because the core is on their screen the same day it was drilled, at depth, with the log attached. Decisions get made while they can still be acted on.
It also means designing for a drill pad rather than a desk. Offline is the normal state, not an error state, because service at a site is a luxury. Touch targets are sized for work gloves, contrast is set for direct sun, and the software never asks for a network to do something it could do on the device.
We know you've heard this before.
Every new tool promises to fix your workflow. Most of them add complexity instead. We get it. That's why Strataworks doesn't try to replace everything at once.
It is a capture tool first. If OpenGround is your database of record, it stays your database of record. Exports land in the formats your clients already accept. You are putting a better front end on the part of the job that has always been done by hand, not replacing everything behind it.
The team
Kirill Myagkov
Co-founder, CEO
Kirill has spent his career building data systems for industries where getting it wrong is expensive. At Outrig, he built the analytics infrastructure that operations teams relied on to make decisions in the field. He also co-founded a biotech startup and cut his teeth on robotics engineering, designing delivery drones for medical transport. He started Strataworks because geotechnical data deserves the same rigor he saw work in other high-stakes environments.
Owen Daniell
Co-founder, Head of Geoscience
Owen is an engineering geologist who has spent years on drill rigs and in the field. He worked site investigations at Beca and Stantec, was seconded to cyclone recovery infrastructure at TREC, and spent a season doing search and rescue on Aoraki Mt Cook. He studied geology at Bates College and engineering geology at the University of Canterbury. He knows what logging software should do because he has used the bad ones.