hi, everyone from the core shed to the ROM pad

Ask your schedule. Out loud.

Pip is the brain for your mine design and scheduling software. It reads the live schedule on your PC and answers on your phone, with the figures on cards. It finds stopes in CAD, drafts drill designs, and proposes changes that only happen after you say yes.

Download for Windows See what Pip does Join the beta

New in 1.4.2 Claude or ChatGPT · notes · files · reports · voice · 18 languages →

Works with your mine design software
Runs on your own PC
Your own Claude or ChatGPT sign-in
You confirm every change

that's Pip.
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what Pip does

The schedule, the CAD and the drill design, a question away

Pip works on the schedule you already have open in your design software. Ask the way you'd ask the planner at the next desk.

Ask the live schedule

Week totals, stopes, rates and fleet, read from the schedule as it is right now. Pip answers out loud with the figures on cards.

Ask →

Change it, with a yes Pro

Pip proposes rate and quantity changes, lists every edit, and applies them only after you tap Apply and Yes.

Confirm →

See stopes in CAD

"Where is stope 10?" Pip selects it in CAD, zooms in and sends a highlighted picture to your phone.

Show →

Draft drill designs Pro

Rings, boxhole and rise, and brow cables for one stope in about ten seconds, with checks, a preview and a 3D view.

Design →

ten minutes, start to finish

Watch Pip at work

A walk through Pip in a live design session: saying hello, what it can do, and how to ask it about the schedule, the CAD, drill designs and reports.

Download Pip Read the docs

Pip walkthrough · 10 min · plays from YouTube · open on YouTube

why Pip exists

It started with a junior engineer and a very big piece of software

When I started out as a junior mining engineer, I was handed one of the big mine design packages and a lot to learn. There wasn't much guidance. The help menu worked, and the senior engineers helped when they could, but the help menu can't see your design, and the people who can have their own deadlines. Neither was there every time I got stuck.

Pip is the colleague I wanted then. It sits on the screen next to your design, knows the software's commands, looks at what you have open and answers in plain words. It's there 24 hours a day, it never minds the same question twice, and it only changes your work after you say yes.

Botao, mining engineer and Pip's maker

for every level

Free

Graduate or new to the software

Learn by asking. "How do I hide these layers?" Pip shows you the command and does it with you.

Free

Experienced engineer

Do the routine in a sentence: schedule questions, finding a stope, turning layers on and off, the weekly report.

Pro

Power user

Unlock more than three times the commands and the skills: drawing, editing, drill designs and schedule changes.

See Pip Pro →

new · Pip inside your CAD

Pip, standing right on your CAD window

A small add-in puts Pip on top of your design software on the PC. Drag it anywhere, click it, and ask. Selections, zooms and layer changes happen on the screen in front of you while you talk.

Every command your design software's connector offers, found live: layers, entities and attributes, drawing, block model interrogation, scheduler set-up, the leveller, exports. New commands show up by themselves.
Looking and reading run at once. Anything that changes CAD or the schedule is spelled out first and waits for your yes, and every change is logged.
The same Pip, chats and skills as on your phone, headset and glasses.

Download the add-in Pip in CAD Skills that sync

(made-up mine, real add-in)

not just underground

For the whole mine, from the first drillhole to the last tonne

Pip's first skills grew up in an underground mine schedule. Pip itself isn't tied to one department: give it the right skills and data, and it helps everyone along the life of the mine.

Exploration
Drillhole planning and the drilling programme: what's next, and what came back today.
With skills
Geology & resources
Grades, domains and the block model, by voice. The block model already shows in Pip VR.
With skills
Mine planning
The live schedule, rate changes with a yes, stope drill designs, and MineJue, Pip's own design CAD: stopes, development, decline and a levelled schedule.
Live today
Surface & operations
Pits, haul roads, stockpiles and the ROM pad, and who's on shift.
With skills
Production
Planned against actual, by stope, shift and week, and what to do about the gap.
With skills

new · preview

Pip's own mine design CAD

From a block model to stopes, level development, a decline, a ventilation check and a levelled life-of-mine schedule, in seven steps on your PC. Pip is built in, so you can redesign by asking.

Stopes optimised lode by lode, along each lode's own strike and dip.
Longitudinal or transverse ore access, raises that stack, declines that meet every access square.
Open pit shells and an underground plan below the crown pillar.

Try the demo About MineJue

A MineJue level plan: transverse stopes with a footwall drive and crosscuts, an access off a figure 8 decline, and the return-air drive and raise

wherever you are

One Pip, on every screen you've got

At your desk, on the phone in the crib room, in a headset with the whole mine on the table. Every device talks to the same Pip on your PC and picks up the same chats.

iPhone TestFlight beta

The Pip AI app: hold to talk, read the cards, confirm changes and turn drill designs in 3D.

Android phone Beta

The same Pip on Android, with the phone's own speech recognition and voice.

Inside your CAD New

Pip stands on top of your CAD window on the PC: drag it anywhere, click it to chat, and watch it work in CAD. Or open Pip in a browser. More →

Meta Quest 3 Preview

The scheduled mine at table scale in mixed reality. Point at a stope, ask Pip. More →

Even G2 smart glasses Prototype

The week's figures and Pip's best plan options in the lens. Long-press to preview a change, long-press again to confirm.

And more On the way

Every screen talks to the one Pip server on your PC, so new ones are easy to add. A little desk terminal is next.

safe by design

Nothing changes until you say yes

Pip reads freely and writes carefully. Every change is a proposal first, and every applied value is read back from the schedule.

Ask
"Double the boggers on stope 5-1 next week."
Review the proposal
Pip lists each rate or quantity edit on named tasks, with what the scheduler will recalculate.
Apply… then Yes
Two taps, on purpose. Dismiss and nothing is touched.
Read back, then save
Pip checks every value in the schedule. Save it to keep the change, or close without saving to undo.

new · Pip VR for Meta Quest 3

Walk through the schedule

Put on a Quest 3 and the whole scheduled mine stands on your desk in mixed reality. Point at a stope, ask Pip about it, and step inside a drill design at life size.

Task solids in their real shape, coloured by activity or start date, with a timeline.
The block model inside the mine, and an exploded view of the levels.
Select stopes with your hands and ask Pip about them out loud.

Explore Pip VR

The mine's scheduled task solids at table scale; one stope is picked with a pointer ray and shows its name, tonnes and dates

coming soon

The Pip Skill Market

Skills developed by mining experts in every department, uploaded once and downloaded by teams anywhere. Each skill you add unlocks a new job for Pip, from exploration to production.

Experts publish what they know: the design rules, the checks and the drawing.
Geologists, engineers and planners add a skill, and Pip can do that job by voice, on the phone or in VR.
Versions and change history on every skill, and private skills for your company's standards.

How the Skill Market works Become a skill author

how it runs

On your PC, next to your design software

A small Pip server runs on your own Windows PC beside your design software. Your phone, headset or glasses reach it over your private Tailscale network.

Schedule figures go to Claude or ChatGPT through your own sign-in, as part of the conversation.
Nothing is sent to the Pip developer.
Chats and screenshots are saved on your PC, not in someone else's cloud.

How it works

Your phone, headset or glasses

Pip appiPhone, Android, Quest 3, Even G2

Tailscale · private

Your Windows PC

Pip serverNode.js
Claude Code or Codexyour sign-in
Pip connectorto your software
Design softwareCAD + scheduler

it gets dark down here

Meet Pip, the plug-tailed ore critter

A pocket-sized rock sprite with a miner's helmet, a headlamp, a plug for a tail and a little block-model cube. Pip's mood tells you what it's up to.

Ready when you are.

you've reached the ore body

Try Pip on your schedule

Pip is in beta with mine planners now, and growing into the rest of the mine. Tell us about your site and your team, and we'll be in touch.

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