60 minutes of capture or 5 km corridor per month. Single ArcGIS endpoint. Distress detection across the full D6433 set.
For working civil engineers
A $29/month app that turns the iPhone Pro you already carry into a survey-grade pavement, sidewalk, and right-of-way inspection tool.
The problem
A day of work.
A typical pavement, sidewalk, or apron inspection takes 6 hours of walking and another 4 hours of write-up. Distresses are rated by eye. Two inspectors on the same surface produce data that varies by 27 to 45 percent. The record is a PDF that lives in a folder.
A record that fails an audit.
When a regulator asks where a number came from, or a plaintiff's lawyer asks for the chain of custody, the answer is usually "the inspector said so." Subjective records aren't defensible. The work product is liability.
There has to be a better way to do this. There is.
The product
One app. The same standards your audit depends on. The data lives in your tenant.
How it works
01 · Capture
Open the app, tap "New Scan," walk a sidewalk or drive a corridor. The iPhone Pro's LiDAR captures sub-millimeter surface detail. Continuous capture; no waypoints; no manual stops.
02 · Classify
Every crack, depression, faulting, rutting, or accessibility issue is detected and classified against the section of the standard that governs it — ASTM D6433 for pavement, PROWAG for sidewalks, ICAO Annex 14 for airfields, EN 13036 in Europe.
03 · Publish
The output pushes to your ArcGIS tenant as a feature service. IFC for BIM. PDF for the audit-ready record. Every observation is cited to its standard, geolocated, time-stamped, and traceable.
Time per inspection: roughly one-fifth to one-tenth of what it used to take.
The differentiator
No other tool in this price range produces a record that holds up in audit. Polycam is a 3D scanner. Fieldwire is a punch list. Bluebeam is PDF markup. LAIRA is the compliance record.
Eleven standards mapped today at docs.airwai.com. Sixty more queued. Every distress LAIRA detects ties to the section number a regulator would cite.
Proof
3–7×
More anomalies detected vs. manual
Esri case study · 2M+ data points per pass
70%
Labor reduction on the inspection cycle
Esri case study · SBD operations
11
Compliance standards mapped at docs.airwai.com
60+ more queued across five asset classes
Featured by Esri.
Esri published the SBD case study as part of the co-marketing partnership. SBD's Part 139 self-inspection program runs on LAIRA. The detection rate, the labor savings, and the audit-grade output are documented, not aspirational.
Pricing
Free tier on the App Store. Pro at $29 a month or $288 a year. Team at $49 a seat. Enterprise sales-led.
60 minutes of capture or 5 km corridor per month. Single ArcGIS endpoint. Distress detection across the full D6433 set.
Unlimited capture. 10 hours of archive triage per month. Unlimited ArcGIS endpoints. IFC export. Audit-grade PDF. SSO-ready.
Shared team library. Role-based access. Audit log. Priority queue. MDM-ready distribution for engineering teams.
SSO, MDM, custom retention, named CSM, SLA, custom integrations into ServiceNow / PAVER / Cartegraph / IBM Maximo.
Annual prepay saves about 17%. App Store handles tax + VAT. Free 30-day Pro trial; no card required.
Who uses it
01
D6433 PCI surveys at the city or state DOT. PAVER export, HPMS reporting, asset-management workflow.
02
Bills per-site at a civil engineering firm. Pavement, sidewalk, and right-of-way condition surveys for clients.
03
Sidewalk and curb-ramp audits. Willits-class consent decrees, EU Accessibility Act compliance ramp.
04
FAA Part 139 self-inspection at smaller commercial and GA airports. ICAO Annex 14 outside the US.
05
MHE-heavy warehouses, distribution centers, ports. OSHA 1910.178 + ASME B56.1 surface documentation.
If one of these is you, the next 15 minutes is worth it.
Why now
01 · Mobile sensor maturity
LiDAR has been in every iPhone Pro since 2020. The hardware is in your buyers' pockets. The entry cost is App Store distribution, not procurement.
02 · Compliance pressure
Continuous-scan reporting is mandated on a 2026 to 2028 ramp. Auditable evidence isn't optional; it's the law.
03 · The Willits effect
US cities are paying out under PROWAG / ADA settlement frameworks. Cities buy tools that document compliance.
04 · Incumbent inertia
The industry has two options today: $1M ARAN trucks or a clipboard and a tablet. The middle is empty. LAIRA fills it.
Try it
01 · Free tier
Search "LAIRA Airwai." Install. Scan in 5 minutes. No card. No commitment.
02 · 30-day Pro trial
Full Pro features for 30 days. Unlimited capture, IFC export, ArcGIS push, PDF audit reports.
03 · Pro annual
Saves $60 vs. monthly. Locks in current pricing. The fastest path if you already know.
Most paying customers started on Free. Try it. Then decide.
Backup · If they ask about alternatives
| Capability | LAIRA | Polycam | Fieldwire | Bluebeam | DroneDeploy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standards-mapped output (D6433, PROWAG, ICAO, etc.) | ✓ | ||||
| ArcGIS feature service in your tenant | ✓ | ° | |||
| Audit-grade PDF with cited standards | ✓ | ° | |||
| LiDAR-grade ground capture | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| IFC export to BIM workflows | ✓ | ||||
| Sub-$50 / month | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Polycam & Scaniverse are great 3D scanners; they don't produce compliance-mapped outputs. Fieldwire & Bluebeam are punch-list and PDF-markup tools; they don't capture data. DroneDeploy is aerial-only and starts at $329/mo. LAIRA is the only sub-$50 tool in the standards-mapped category.
Next step
Book a 15-minute walkthrough. We will scan a real surface, push to ArcGIS, and you will see the audit-grade output in your tenant before we hang up.
Try it yourself first
App Store · search "LAIRA Airwai"
iPhone 12 Pro+ or iPad Pro M1+
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Standards reference: docs.airwai.com