Salt Lake City, Utah, August 5, 2025 – Sharper Shape, a pioneer in powerline inspection solutions and digital twin technology, proudly announces the product launch of its LiDAR Insights, a breakthrough solution delivering faster, cost-effective, and highly accurate LiDAR classification results using cutting-edge artificial intelligence.
LiDAR Insights is designed to classify LiDAR point clouds with unmatched reliability and precision automatically. Leveraging a state-of-the-art AI engine, the system supports 29 electric utility network-specific classes—streamlining workflows and dramatically reducing the time and cost associated with traditional LiDAR data processing.
“With our new AI-powered LiDAR Insights, we’re taking the guesswork and labor out of classification,” said Chris Beaufait, President & CEO at Sharper Shape. “This means our customers can now receive mature, actionable LiDAR deliverables in a fraction of the time, and at a significantly lower cost.”
“We built the LiDAR Insights with geospatial professionals in mind—knowing their need for speed, accuracy, and seamless integration,” said James Conlin, Director of Product and Customer Success at Sharper Shape. “By automating classification with utility-specific intelligence, we’re helping utilities unlock the true potential of their LiDAR data—quicker, cheaper, and smarter than ever before.”
Seamlessly integrating into existing workflows, LiDAR Insights doesn’t just optimize classification—it elevates it. Whether used for vegetation management, asset inspection, or grid modernization, this new offering enables utility operators and geospatial professionals to achieve faster turnarounds and superior results.
LiDAR deliverables of all types just leveled up!
About Sharper Shape
Sharper Shape builds Living Digital Twin (LDT) software to help power transmission & distribution utilities and other operators of linear infrastructure manage risk, improve safety, and create operational efficiencies. Delivered on a cloud based, SaaS platform and supplemented by data collection and work package execution services, Sharper Shape’s technology is built by some of the brightest tech minds. Our ever-expanding library of advanced AI/ML algorithms allows us to produce LDTs which are easy to integrate into user workflows and to update with live field data. Our ultimate vision is a safer world, and our mission is to create these tools and offer insights which empower asset operators to make it so.
Sharper Shape was founded in 2013 and serves tier one utilities around the world, with dedicated technology centers in Helsinki, Finland and Salt Lake City, Utah.
For more information, visit www.sharpershape.com.
