VistaGuard
The spatial view. Maps, strip logs, sections, anomaly polygons — geologist-defensible, methodology-disclosed.
VistaGuard turns the drillholes, geochemistry, and structural data sitting across your project into the visual artifacts a junior actually uses — strip logs, geochem maps, contour surfaces, anomaly polygons, drillhole plan views, cross-sections, element-vs-depth plots. Every artifact ships with a methodology disclosure your QP can sign, and the same input produces the byte-identical output every time.
The Problem
The Visuals That Get Sent to the Board Aren't Defensible to a Reviewer
Every junior knows the workflow. Most won't say it out loud.
The familiar pattern
Strip logs are screenshotted out of Strater or Leapfrog and pasted into a Word doc. Geochem maps are hand-styled in ArcGIS by whoever drew the short straw, with the interpolation parameters chosen by the dropdown defaults nobody remembers. Cross-sections are drafted in Illustrator over a screenshot. Anomaly polygons are drawn freehand around the assays that look high. Every visual is correct enough for the next meeting, none are reproducible, and the methodology disclosure is whatever the QP can reconstruct from memory the week before sign-off.
The gap isn't ambition — every team wants their visuals to be defensible. The gap is the toolchain. Doing it right means picking projections deliberately, choosing IDW or kriging parameters with a citation, fitting variograms a reviewer can audit, picking anomaly cutoffs with a defensible rationale, and producing the same output again next week when the QP asks for a revision. Doing it wrong produces visuals that look right in the press release and fall apart under peer review.
Most teams patch the gap with a stack of disconnected tools and the hope that nobody asks the methodology question. VistaGuard exists so they have a better answer.
What You Get
Defensible Spatial Output, Methodology Attached
Methodology disclosed by construction. Every map, strip log, section, and polygon ships with a disclosure of projection, interpolation method, parameters used, cutoffs applied, and source data version. The disclosure is auto-generated alongside the artifact — not retrofitted before sign-off.
Byte-identical outputs. Same input plus same configuration produces the byte-identical PNG, SVG, or PDF — every time, across machines, across weeks. Revisions are auditable. The QP can re-run last quarter's map and see the same image.
Spatial joins done once, correctly. Samples to drillholes, drillholes to property polygons, intercepts to structural domains, anomalies to geophysical overlap — the joins your project lives or dies by, performed against a coordinate system you chose deliberately, cached, and ready to re-render.
Defensible defaults, no GIS specialist required. IDW power, kriging variogram model, anomaly polygon cutoffs, projection selection — every default is picked from the textbook and cited in the disclosure. Override when you have a reason; keep the default when you don't.
The Artifacts
Every Visual a Junior Actually Ships
One tool, the full set. Each artifact deterministic, each with methodology attached.
Strip Logs
Full-program strip logs with lithology, structure, assay bars, and depth-axis configured to your project conventions. Batch-process every hole in one config.
Geochem Maps
Sample-point maps with graduated symbology, configurable basemaps, and multi-element overlays from LodeGuard outputs.
Contour Surfaces
IDW and ordinary kriging interpolation with a variogram-modeling assistant, parameter disclosure, and the option to override any default.
Anomaly Polygons
Configurable-cutoff polygon delineation as GeoJSON. Defensible defaults per element; explicit cutoff disclosure on every polygon.
Drillhole Plan Views
Collars, traces, and optional intercept-highlight overlays in plan, with north arrow, scale bar, and projection labeled.
Cross-Sections
User-defined section lines with drillholes projected, interpolated surfaces sliced, and the projection tolerance disclosed.
Element-vs-Depth Plots
Single-element down-hole traces with overlay handling for multi-element comparisons and below-detection-limit treatment disclosed.
Methodology Memos
The disclosure that travels with every artifact. Auto-generated, citation-backed, drop-in ready for the technical-report appendix.
Artifact Registry
Every artifact catalogued by project, type, parameters, and version — so ReportGuard can embed the right map in the right document without a reverse-engineering exercise.
Who It's Built For
Exploration Teams Whose Visuals Get Looked At Closely
VistaGuard is built for the people whose maps and sections end up in front of audiences who know the methodology.
Project Geologists
Stop redrawing the same strip logs and cross-sections every quarter. Build them once, version them, regenerate on demand with the methodology trail intact.
Exploration Managers
Walk into the next program review with maps and polygons your reviewer can actually audit — not Illustrator overlays nobody can re-produce.
Qualified Persons
Sign off on figures whose interpolation parameters, projection, and cutoffs are documented alongside the image. The disclosure is the audit trail.
Consultancies
Produce defensible spatial deliverables for your junior clients in a fraction of the time. Every output is reproducible the next time the client asks.
The Numbers
What This Is Worth
In the Family
VistaGuard + AssayGuard + LodeGuard
The chain, working together
AssayGuard protects the integrity of your input data — per-batch QA/QC review in minutes, not quarters.
LodeGuard turns the validated data into vectoring signal — defensible multivariate analysis with a methodology memo.
VistaGuard turns the analysis into spatial output — maps, strip logs, sections, polygons, all reproducible and disclosed.
Use any one alone, or chain them for end-to-end coverage from lab return to QP-ready spatial deliverable. AssayGuard → · LodeGuard →
Why Us
Built by Geologists Who Have Drawn the Bad Cross-Section
Most exploration GIS tooling is built by software companies who learned the geology second. VistaGuard is built the other way around — by people who have logged core, picked a projection wrong and lived with it for six months, defended an anomaly polygon to a reviewer who knew the cutoff was thin, and sat through the meeting where "what variogram did you fit?" gets answered with silence.
Everything in VistaGuard is designed to be defensible to a reviewer and usable by a working geologist. Methodology is disclosed, not buried. Defaults are conservative and cited. Outputs are reproducible because reviewers re-run them.
Limited Pilot Cohort Opening Soon
VistaGuard is the third product in our junior-explorer SaaS catalog, following AssayGuard and LodeGuard. We're opening a small pilot cohort for the first version — exploration teams with active drilling programs and multi-element geochemistry surveys who want to be the first to use it, shape its direction, and lock in early-adopter pricing.
Pilot cohort is limited. We're picking customers who'll get the most out of it and who'll give us the most useful feedback. Send us a note about your project and the visualizations you generate today.
More on the Way
VistaGuard Is the Third of Several
VistaGuard is the third product in a planned catalog of focused tools for the junior exploration industry — each addressing a chronic workflow gap, each designed to be defensible to a working geologist. Join the early-access list to hear about the next releases first.