Looq AI's Global Leap: Digitizing Infrastructure From the Ground Up

SAN DIEGO, CA – December 01, 2025

In a decisive move to address the mounting pressure on global infrastructure, San Diego-based Looq AI has announced a significant expansion of its global partner ecosystem. The addition of seven new strategic partners across North America, Europe, and Asia marks a critical step in the company’s mission to make the rapid, accurate digitization of the physical world a scalable reality. This expansion is not merely a business development milestone; it signals a major push to deploy its innovative ground-based reality capture technology to the surveyors, engineers, and utility operators on the front lines of maintaining and modernizing our built environment.

As infrastructure ages and the demand for digital twins—virtual replicas of physical assets—skyrockets, traditional methods of data collection are proving too slow, costly, and often unsafe. Looq AI is positioning its platform as a transformative solution, designed to work where aerial methods like drones are impractical and to vastly improve upon cumbersome multi-tool workflows. The goal, according to the company, is to empower professionals with a tool that delivers both uncompromising accuracy and dramatic efficiency gains.

A Strategic Web of Global Expertise

Looq AI's expansion strategy hinges on deep regional integration, selecting partners not just for their geographic reach but for their specialized expertise and established client relationships. This ecosystem approach is designed to accelerate adoption and provide localized, high-quality support.

In North America, the new network includes four powerhouse distributors. AllTerra Central, a premier Trimble dealer in the Southwest, will integrate Looq AI’s solutions into the established workflows of its extensive client base in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arizona. In the Pacific Northwest, Seattle-based LiDAholics brings expertise in advanced scanning technologies, creating opportunities to pair Looq’s ground-based capture with other methods for more comprehensive datasets. In the Intermountain West, Monsen Engineering leverages nearly 50 years of experience to bring the technology to Utah and Nevada, while Terrain LLC provides a crucial foothold with surveying and engineering firms in the Northeast.

Across the Atlantic, the partnerships with ECOGIS in Poland and Croatia and Geometius in the Benelux region plant a firm flag in the European market. Geometius, a major Trimble dealer with over 30 years of experience, will embed the Looq platform into its comprehensive technology stack, offering a complete digital workflow. ECOGIS provides deep-rooted expertise in GIS, photogrammetry, and geodesy, opening doors across Central and Eastern Europe.

Further east, the collaboration with IRIS STAR Technologies targets the rapidly developing markets of India and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. This partnership will focus on applying Looq AI’s platform to large-scale infrastructure monitoring, digital twin initiatives, and geospatial surveying, integrating the technology into broader digital transformation projects.

Capturing a Market in High Demand

The timing of this expansion is critical. The global reality capture market is projected to swell to over $18 billion by 2033, driven by the explosive growth of digital twins. For infrastructure alone, the digital twin market is expected to post a compound annual growth rate of over 36%. Looq AI is tapping directly into this demand by offering a solution that overcomes key industry bottlenecks.

For decades, asset managers have struggled with incomplete or outdated data, particularly for ground-level assets obscured from aerial view or located in complex urban environments. Looq AI's ground-based system is purpose-built to fill these gaps. Its handheld capture device, the 'Q' camera system, allows field personnel to quickly and safely document assets like utility poles, substations, and undergrounding projects with a level of detail that aerial surveys can miss. This is particularly vital for initiatives like wildfire mitigation, where detailed ground-level data on vegetation and equipment is essential for risk assessment.

“Our mission is to empower professionals with tools that deliver uncompromising accuracy and measurable efficiency gains, often realized in just days, helping engineering firms reduce project costs and increase margins,” said Dominique Meyer, CEO of Looq AI, in a recent statement.

Beyond LiDAR: A New Paradigm in Data Capture

While LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) has been the gold standard for high-accuracy 3D scanning, Looq AI is championing a fundamentally different approach that combines proprietary camera technology with powerful artificial intelligence. Instead of relying solely on lasers, the Looq platform uses a system of four high-resolution cameras, survey-grade GPS, and an onboard AI processor to generate dense, photorealistic 3D models.

The company claims its method delivers over 100 times the spatial sampling rate of some high-end laser systems, enabling incredibly fast capture times. A process that might take hours with a traditional total station, such as an as-built survey of a transmission pole, can reportedly be completed in under a minute. The real differentiation, however, lies in the software. The captured imagery is uploaded to the Looq Platform, where AI algorithms automatically process it into a sub-centimeter accurate, geo-referenced digital twin. This AI-driven workflow segments, labels, and classifies features, transforming raw data into intelligent, actionable information that can be seamlessly integrated into software like Trimble Business Center.

This camera-and-AI approach provides a significant competitive advantage. It lowers the hardware cost barrier, making survey-grade capture more scalable. Furthermore, it simplifies the field workflow, allowing a wider range of personnel—from technicians to engineers—to perform high-quality data capture with minimal training, while ensuring geometric accuracy and avoiding the “global drift” issues that can plague some mobile scanning systems.

From Theory to Tangible ROI

The most compelling evidence of Looq AI’s disruptive potential comes from its early adopters. Engineering and surveying firms are reporting transformative results. One San Diego-based surveying firm specializing in utility corridor mapping for undergrounding projects in wildfire-prone regions noted a stunning 60% reduction in turnaround times and a 43% decrease in survey costs after adopting the platform.

A project manager at a leading Canadian engineering and geomatics firm described the technology as a “game-changer” that is “disrupting the industry” by delivering high-quality survey data at unprecedented speeds. Similarly, a director of engineering at another firm called the platform an “indispensable engineering tool” for its ability to quickly and reliably fill data gaps in existing survey maps, keeping complex design projects on track.

The platform's value extends to quality control and emergency validation. In one case, a construction company used Looq AI to verify the height of a 60,000-square-foot concrete slab, a quick process that prevented a potential month-long delay and saved the project hundreds of thousands of dollars.

This tangible success has not gone unnoticed by investors. The company has secured $3.75 million in funding, including a $2.6 million seed round led by BootstrapLabs, a venture capital firm specializing in applied AI. A lead investor from the round highlighted the platform's strategic value, noting that Looq AI “accelerates the very digitalization of our world, generating troves of unique data upon which the company will build its AI moat.” This backing provides the capital to fuel further innovation and supports the global expansion now underway, solidifying Looq AI's position as a key technology provider in the future of infrastructure management.