The Online Platform for Pipeline Asbuilts

A Data Halo administrator is the person who creates and manages projects, controls user access, and owns the project settings. On the Named Seat plan, every participant is named and credentialed — there are no open enrollments, and access is org-scoped by design. The Standard plan includes two named administrators, which is a practical safeguard against the inevitable bottleneck when one person is out. The Server plan has no limit on administrators.

A Viewer can see and export all project data — useful for clients, project managers, and anyone who needs visibility without touching the data. A Contributor has all of those abilities, plus the ability to import point files and work with the full suite of QC tools. Both roles are unlimited on the Standard and Server plans.

There is no charge for support and fulfilled feature requests. Data Halo has never charged anything other than the up front subscription fee.

Data Halo is built on the Django web framework running on Ubuntu servers, physically housed at the Switch Data Center in Austin, Texas — one of the most respected colocation facilities in the country. Server infrastructure is managed by Trinsic Technologies. Our Information Security Plan is available on request.

You can have an unlimited number of pipelines and design alignments in a single project, each treated as a distinct entity with its own stationing, mapping, and reporting.

Data Halo provides working API examples within various pages, presented as Python HTTP requests for clarity and ease of copy-paste integration. Developers working in any language capable of making HTTP requests — which is just about all of them — can apply the same concepts directly to their own stack.

Not quite. Data Halo is a fully managed, hosted platform — there is nothing to install, configure, or maintain on your end. What "Private Instance" means is that your organization gets its own dedicated server at our data center, handling only your company's survey data. No shared resources, no other companies' data in the mix. You get the isolation and performance of a dedicated environment with none of the overhead of running your own infrastructure.

For a standard demo, no — Mark will walk you through the platform directly and NordLayer is not a barrier at that stage. NordLayer becomes part of the picture once you are onboarded, since it is how access to the secured server is controlled on the Named Seat plan and is available as an add-on for Server plan subscribers. Think of it as the key to the front door rather than something you have to figure out on your own.

Once you are ready to onboard, the most common friction point is the IT department. NordLayer is a commercial enterprise VPN product with a well-established security profile, but some IT teams will want to vet it before allowing installation on company devices. That is a reasonable ask, and NordLayer's documentation is thorough enough to satisfy most security reviews. In some organizations, the path of least resistance is installing NordLayer on a personal device rather than a managed corporate machine — that is entirely supported and works just as well.

Mark handles the team account setup on his end. Getting connected on your side is straightforward once that groundwork is laid, and he is available to walk through any sticking points with you or your IT contact directly.