Open a 200 GB point cloud in seconds.
Swarmfile is one shared drive for datasets too big to move. Open a 200 GB LiDAR scan or orthomosaic and pan around it in seconds - you stream only the tiles you look at, never the whole file.
Multi-gigabyte data was never built to move.
SSDs in the back of a truck
Crews collect 200 GB of LiDAR in the field, drive it back, and copy it to the NAS. Half a day gone before anyone can process a thing.
The VPN grinds to a halt
One analyst opens a 50 GB orthomosaic over the VPN and the whole office slows down. The fix is usually someone driving an SSD across town.
Storage that scales with revisions
Every re-fly is another near-duplicate 200 GB folder on the NAS. You pay to store the same ground, over and over.
Swarmfile leaves the data where it is - and streams it to you.
Open a 200 GB scan. Pan around it. Wait for nothing.
The whole point of Swarmfile, in three steps.
- Step 1Mount
The whole survey drive appears
Sign in and every project is right there - 612 GB of scans and orthos across the drive, with nothing yet copied to your machine.
- Step 2Open
A 186 GB point cloud opens in seconds
Double-click the LAS in Cloud Compare, QGIS, or ArcGIS Pro. No copy step, no progress bar - it's ready before you've reached for the mouse.
- Step 3Pan
Only the tiles you look at stream in
Pan and zoom, and Swarmfile fetches just the tiles in your view. The other 185 GB never leave the cloud - so your disk stays nearly empty all day.
Built for how survey teams actually work.
Store only what changed
Re-fly a survey and you don't pay to store another full 200 GB - only the parts that are actually different. Revision 7 doesn't cost 7× revision 1.
Work in the field, sync at the truck
Pin the survey area and capture all day with no signal. A seed on a rugged field NAS quietly carries it back - in range, edits upload and the office sees the new tiles. Two people touched the same file? You pick the winner, no silent overwrites.
Share across firms and clients
Give a sub or a client folder-level access to one survey - read or comment, revoke in a click, no extra tenancy. SCIM and LDAP keep team access current.
Versioned history
Every change is timestamped with one-click rollback. "Who replaced the ortho?" becomes a one-line answer.
Try an alternate classification, keep the master safe
Branch the dataset to test a new point-cloud classification or processing pipeline without touching the shared tiles. Merge it back into main once it checks out.
Preview the point cloud before you load it
LAS/LAZ point clouds get an automatic preview - see the shape of the scan before you open the full dataset in your desktop tool.
Encrypted, per project
Every file is encrypted with your project's own key before it leaves your machine. Your control data stays yours. Working with sensitive survey data? An opt-in end-to-end tier keeps your keys off our servers - see how.
Stop driving drives back to the office.
Trial Swarmfile on one survey - 7-day Pro trial, card on file, nothing charged until day 7. Bring your own NAS or use ours; we'll help with the migration.
Cancel anytime before day 7.