Seequent Evo: Openness to unlock “incredible value”, CEO says

• 20 April 2025
• Construction Focus
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Seequent Evo represents a new era of innovation for both Seequent and its customers, setting the foundations for AI and machine learning, Chief Executive Graham Grant has said.

Grant told customers and media gathered at a Seequent event in Toronto that the arrival of Seequent Evo was a continuation of Seequent’s track record of technology innovation.

Seequent announced the arrival for mining customers of the Seequent Evo geoscience platform earlier this week to coincide with the start of PDAC 2025 where the new product is being showcased. Seequent Evo is the result of years of research and development. It connects data and applications with an open approach.

Grant said that just as the launch of Leapfrog revolutionised geological modelling, Seequent Evo would solve significant industry challenges created by walled gardens and proprietary data formats.

Evo will connect data with public APIs, making movement of customer information in and out of the platform easy.  That included movement from Seequent applications and others, including those of competitors.

“We are used to coming in from left field and with Evo we are coming in from left field. We are swimming in the complete opposite direction to everyone else. And we think that’s going to unlock unbelievable levels of value for our mining customers and for that we are super excited. And why can we do that? One word – because it’s open.”

Seequent Evo had already enabled Seequent to build two powerful new cloud-based applications – Driver and BlockSync.

Driver was a gamechanger that would help geologists build better 3D models faster, by quickly providing information and using machine learning to reveal local trends in the data. Grant described those capabilities as a huge step forward.

Grant told guests at the event that block models were the key data structure in mining but that they had traditionally been locked up “like Fort Knox.”

“BlockSync fundamentally breaks this paradigm open. We break it into an open, auditable system of record where you can take block model data from any source, liberate it away from the software where it shouldn’t be, and put it in the cloud where it should be.”

“So your teams can collaborate, they can enquire, they can look at just a bit, not the whole thing, no longer be moving terabytes around a billion block models.  And you can update and make frequent decisions on-the-fly.

“It’s secure, it’s auditable and it has traceability.”

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Grant invited Gabi Brandao, Director – Orebody Knowledge at Teck Resources on stage to share her insights from working with Seequent Evo as part of a limited availability programme.

Brandao, who has used Seequent products for more than a decade, said it had been exciting watching the Seequent Evo platform come together.

Brandao had the chance to observe Seequent Evo’s evolution behind the scenes and told guests the first release of Evo was the foundation for something bigger and said it potentially marked the beginning of “another Seequent revolution”.

“Driver is a really good addition to the modelling toolkit,” she said. “It takes the data set and applies machine learning and it started to help us to understand what are the trends and what are the anisotropies.”

“I can only imagine how wonderful it will be when Seequent decides to incorporate more of those workflows into the Evo ecosystem,” she said.

• Mineral
• Seequent
• LeapFrog
• Seequent Evo
• BlockSync