Nuclideon We built the engine the geospatial market said was impossible. It shipped to 30,000 users.
We built the engine the geospatial market said was impossible. It shipped to 30,000 users.
The full story. No omissions.
The full story. No omissions.
Development on the Unlimited Detail engine started in 2003. The premise was contrarian: render unlimited-scale 3D point cloud data using a search algorithm on standard CPUs, with zero GPU dependency. Over the next decade, expert engineers including our CTO Paul Fox were brought in to solve the unique challenges of this technology. The initial aim was the gaming market; the value proved out in the geospatial industry.
Leica Geosystems, a division of Hexagon, licensed the engine to power their JetStream product line. 30,000+ survey professionals ran Unlimited Detail in production for a decade. The technology operated inside a Tier 1 enterprise product. It was not theoretical.
In early 2024, Euclideon, the company that commercialized the engine, entered administration. Commercial execution broke down while the engineering team continued to deliver. The technology continued to perform.
In August 2025, Kristian Wares, Paul Fox and other key employees acquired the assets, cleared the debt, and incorporated Nuclideon. No external investors with exit pressures. The engineering team that made the Unlimited Detail engine perform now owns it.
Within five months, Nuclideon signed the US Navy, Lockheed Martin, and the Queensland Government. The team that built the technology rebuilt the company around it.
The geospatial market has a structural failure.
The geospatial market has a structural failure.
The world generates more geospatial data than existing tools can render. Sensors get cheaper. Data density increases. Dataset sizes grow 40% each year. Your tools have not kept pace.
Cut the data.
Downsample, tile, decimate. Your analysts make decisions on 10% of what the sensor captured. The precision your capture program delivers is destroyed before anyone analyzes it.
Buy expensive hardware.
GPU workstations at $8K-$20K each, replaced every 3 years. There are supply issues. They break at mine sites. They add IT overhead at every deployment point.
Accept cloud dependency.
Wait months for approval from your security team. Lose access when connectivity drops. Accept vendor lock-in on your most valuable spatial datasets.
Nuclideon eliminates all three. The patented CPU-native rendering engine handles datasets that crash other platforms, on the hardware sitting on your desk, with no cloud requirement.
The team that built the technology owns the company.
The team that built the technology owns the company.
Kristian Wares
CEO & Co-Founder
20 years in enterprise technology sales across Microsoft, SAP, Apple, Dell, and Cisco. Kristian built the commercial operation that signed the US Navy, Lockheed Martin, and the Queensland Government in Nuclideon's first five months. He runs go-to-market strategy, commercial partnerships, and customer relationships.
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Paul Fox
CTO & Co-Founder
Paul led the team that developed the Unlimited Detail engine. Over a decade of continuous development of a CPU-native point cloud rendering algorithm that no one in the geospatial industry has replicated. Paul leads architecture, engineering, and product development.
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Corey Cook
President, C2 Horizons & Nuclideon US Operations
Three decades of experience across government, industry, and international operations. Corey leads Nuclideon's US business development and government relations, with direct expertise in defense procurement, C2 systems, and logistics technology. His 16 years at Lockheed Martin included Director and Chief Engineer for Advanced Technology Solutions. If you're in government or defense, Corey speaks your language.
LinkedInNamed customers. Specific outcomes.
Named customers. Specific outcomes.
Every deployment listed here is a paying customer or a validated enterprise integration. We do not list logos without substance.
Classified 3D visualization on air-gapped networks.
The US Navy selected Nuclideon for classified 3D geospatial visualization across air-gapped networks. Rendered on standard government-issue hardware. Zero GPU. 100% air-gapped.
C2 platform integration via udSDK.
Lockheed Martin integrated the Unlimited Detail engine into a C2/ISR system via udSDK. The compiled DLL delivers unlimited-scale point cloud rendering on CPU without GPU dependency.
171,000+ datasets at full resolution.
The Queensland Government selected Unlimited Detail to power their statewide 3D Digital Twin for mineral exploration. LiDAR, photogrammetry, and geochemical survey data fused into a single navigable environment. Terabytes of spatial data rendered on standard government hardware with GIS integrations.
30,000+ production users on the engine.
Leica Geosystems licensed the engine to power JetStream, run at production scale by 30,000+ users for over a decade inside a Tier 1 Hexagon product.
The numbers your procurement team needs.
The numbers your procurement team needs.
The technology is proven. The company is built. The question is whether your team keeps working with 10% of their data.
The technology is proven. The company is built. The question is whether your team keeps working with 10% of their data.
Send us your hardest dataset. We render it at full resolution on standard hardware and walk you through the result. Your team evaluates on their own terms, with their own data, on their own hardware.