O-Pitblast
O-Pitblast is a Portuguese software portfolio for open-pit and quarry drill and blast work, spanning blast design, borehole deviation measurement, field QA/QC, operational analytics and greenhouse-gas reporting. No pricing is published: quotes come through a demo request.
What is O-Pitblast?
O-Pitblast is not a single application but a portfolio of software and hardware for drilling and blasting with explosives, published by O-Pitblast, SA, a Portuguese company founded in Porto in 2016. The vendor puts it plainly: the portfolio brings together digital solutions that cover all stages of drilling and blasting operations, from planning to analysis. Six products are presented on the home page. O-PitSurface is the design and planning platform for open-pit and quarry work: it runs in the browser on Windows and macOS with no installation, imports survey topography and point clouds of up to three million points, handles as many as 10,000 holes, reads and writes OBJ, DXF, CSV, TXT and XYZ, draws heatmaps, embeds CAD tools and integrates with the DaveyTronic initiation system. O-PitDev pairs an AISI 304 stainless steel probe, waterproof and shock resistant, measuring through 360 degrees over Bluetooth 4.2 BLE on Android 8.0 or later, with a kit containing a hard case, a 30 or 40 metre rope, a charger, an armband, seals, grease and a manual. O-PitApp is the field QA/QC application: hole length, inclination, azimuth, diameter, stemming height and presence of water, bulk or cartridge explosive quantities, boosters and detonators, photographs and comments, several users at once, plan download through O-PitCloud and automatic reports. O-PitAnalytics reviews the finished work: initiation sequencing, broken volumes, explosive consumption, metres drilled, theoretical against actual KPIs, powder factor, cost breakdown across drilling, explosives, detonators, boosters and equipment, geometric ratios such as burden to spacing, and operational error tracking. O-PitEco estimates and controls greenhouse-gas emissions, reporting through O-PitCloud, while the free O-Pit Blasting Guide mobile app computes blast parameters. Three further products, O-PitUnderground, O-PitOperations and VipNordic, appear only in the contact form's subject menu. Data moves between the field application, the probe and the analysis platform through O-PitCloud. Consulting, custom system development and innovation services sit alongside the software, with 34 numbered training videos and an academic network of more than 90 universities. One point deserves emphasis: nothing on the site claims artificial intelligence. The predictions on offer rest on established empirical blasting models, not on learned ones.
What it does
- Design and plan surface drill and blast patterns for mines and quarries in O-PitSurface.
- Predict vibration, fragmentation and flyrock before the shot is fired.
- Import survey topography and point clouds of up to 3 million points, then lay out as many as 10,000 holes with built-in CAD tools.
- Capture the real hole and charging data at the face with the O-PitApp QA/QC mobile application.
- Measure actual borehole deviation through 360 degrees with the O-PitDev probe.
- Track operational KPIs and the full cost breakdown of each blast in O-PitAnalytics.
- Estimate and monitor greenhouse-gas emissions from drilling and blasting with O-PitEco, and generate blast reports automatically.
When to use O-Pitblast / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if O-Pitblast is the right fit.
When to use O-Pitblast
- Blasting and drill-and-blast engineers running open-pit mines and quarries, who design shots and want to see the predicted outcome before firing.
- Operations teams that need to close the loop between the blast plan, what actually happens at the face, and the post-blast review.
- Sites blasting under vibration and flyrock constraints, close to buildings, roads or other structures.
- Operations that want to quantify and cut the greenhouse-gas footprint of drilling and blasting with O-PitEco, or that measure real borehole deviation with the 360-degree O-PitDev probe.
- University mining departments, which receive free licences through a network of more than 90 academic partnerships, and civil engineering teams working on rock excavation and controlled demolition.
When not to use O-Pitblast
- Buyers who want to sign up and pay online: there is no public price, no self-service registration and no accessible trial.
- Developers hoping to build on top of the product: no public API and no developer documentation exist.
- Teams that need a non-English interface, since the site and the software are English only and the /pt, /es and /fr paths return a 404.
- iPhone-first field crews: O-PitApp and the O-PitDev application are published on Google Play only, and O-PitDev additionally requires its dedicated probe kit plus Android 8.0 or later with Bluetooth 4.2 BLE.
- Organisations whose procurement demands published security commitments: no certification, hosting country, data processing agreement or subprocessor list is available, and the vendor makes no artificial intelligence claim at all.
How to use O-Pitblast
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Work out which product answers your need: six are presented on the home page and three more (O-PitUnderground, O-PitOperations, VipNordic) appear only in the contact form.
- Request a demonstration through the demo form, or use the contact form and pick the product in its Subject menu; there is no self-service sign-up.
- For the O-PitDev hardware, go through the quote configurator: choose a quantity of one to five, a 30 or 40 metre rope and optional accessories, then click Ask for Quote.
- Agree commercial terms directly with the vendor, since no price is published anywhere on the site.
- Open O-PitSurface in the browser on Windows or macOS, with nothing to install, and build the drill and blast design.
- Install the mobile applications from Google Play (O-PitApp, the O-PitDev app, Blasting Guide) or from the App Store (Blasting Guide only).
- Download the blast plan onto the mobile application through O-PitCloud before heading to the face.
- Record the real hole, charging and deviation data on site, with photographs and comments, and let it sync back.
- Sign in to the analytics platform to compare KPIs, costs and sequencing against the plan and to export the automatically generated reports.
- Lean on the 34 numbered training videos, the downloadable product brochures and the dedicated support team; note that the FREE TRIAL banner on the home page simply redirects to the demonstration form.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- End-to-end coverage of the drill and blast cycle from a single vendor: design, field measurement, QA/QC, analysis and emissions.
- Field capture flows back to the analysis platform automatically through O-PitCloud, with blast reports generated for you.
- Open exchange formats (OBJ, DXF, CSV, TXT, XYZ) and a platform the vendor presents as compatible with other software.
- O-PitSurface needs no installation and runs on macOS as well as Windows.
- Substantial onboarding material: 34 numbered video tutorials plus on-site and online support.
- Fully verifiable legal identity: O-PITBLAST, S.A., Portuguese tax number 513831045, confirmed by VIES and by the commercial register.
- Backed by two international explosives groups, FORCIT Group and ENAEX, and committed to education through free licences for university mining departments and more than 90 academic partnerships.
Cons
- No public pricing at all: no pricing page, no amount and no tier anywhere across the 87 URLs of the sitemap.
- No usable free trial: the FREE TRIAL banner on the home page points at a withdrawn page that now redirects to the demonstration form.
- No terms and conditions and no legal notice, an absence established by enumerating the sitemap and probing the usual paths against a genuine 404.
- No security commitment in the open: no certification, no declared hosting country, no subprocessor list, no data processing agreement and no quantified retention period.
- The footer Privacy Policy link opens the FORCIT Group policy, whose scope is group staff and partners, instead of the product policy that quietly lives at /privacy-policy.
- Two different postal addresses coexist on the site, the registered office in the footer and another address in the privacy policy, with no explanation.
- English-only interface, no public API or developer documentation, O-PitApp and the O-PitDev app absent from the App Store, and no named customer references or verifiable figures beyond "nearly 100 countries" and more than 90 universities.
Pricing & Plans
O-Pitblast publishes no prices. There is no pricing page among the 87 URLs of its sitemap, no amount anywhere in the material collected, and no free plan open to the general public, so neither a lowest price point nor a currency can be stated. The only quantifiable route, the O-PitDev hardware configurator, displays no figure and ends with an "Ask for Quote" button, while product buttons read "Request a Demo", "More Info" and "Download Brochure" rather than "Buy" or "Pricing". O-PitDev is advertised as having a flexible business model for long-term value, without a number attached. Two things are genuinely free: the O-Pit Blasting Guide mobile application, on both the App Store and Google Play, and the licences granted to university mining departments under the Global Academic Network, a permanent free offer restricted to educational institutions. Every commercial figure must therefore be obtained through a demonstration or a quotation.
- the site carries no pricing page and no pricing table.
- The only visible commercial distinctions are the separate products of the portfolio (O-PitSurface
- O-PitDev
- O-PitEco
- O-PitApp
- O-PitAnalytics
- O-Pit Blasting Guide)
- each quoted on request.
- one to five units
- a 30 or 40 metre rope and optional accessories
- ending in a quote request.
- Free licences for university mining departments under the Global Academic Network
- reserved for educational institutions.
- Free download for the mobile applications published in the stores.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how O-Pitblast handles your data.
GDPR overview
O-Pitblast is established in the European Union (Porto, Portugal), so no Article 27 representative is required and none is named. The privacy policy is structured around the GDPR: it sets out the four legal bases (consent, contract, legal obligation, legitimate interest) and five rights (access, rectification, erasure, objection, portability), exercised through info@o-pitblast.com. It never calls itself GDPR compliant. The explicit compliance claim comes instead from the FORCIT Group Data Protection Policy PDF linked as "Privacy Policy" in every footer: "The purpose of this Data Protection Policy is to ensure that FORCIT Group complies with the GDPR, national data protection legislation and other legislation". O-Pitblast declares itself part of that group. No DPO is named, no retention period is quantified, no hosting country is stated, and neither a subprocessor list nor a DPA is offered.
Who owns the data?
The published privacy policy of O-Pitblast, SA covers the website and commercial contacts only: form data (name, email, phone, job title, company), automatically collected data (IP address, browser, operating system, referring URL, usage) and cookies. The company states that it does not sell, trade or rent personal data to third parties, and limits sharing to service providers acting on its behalf and to legal obligations. Users may request access, rectification, erasure, objection and portability by writing to info@o-pitblast.com. Nothing is said about who owns the operational data entered into the software itself: blast plans, hole measurements and field photographs fall outside the declared scope of the policy.
Reuse rights
There are no published terms and conditions, so no document defines what a customer may do with the data produced inside the software, nor whether it can be reused without asking. The only text available is the privacy policy, and it addresses personal data rather than reuse rights. O-Pitblast states that it processes that data to provide, operate and maintain its services, to improve, personalise and expand them, to communicate (support, updates and promotional messages), to monitor and analyse usage, and to detect and address technical incidents and security flaws. The legal bases invoked are consent, contract, legal obligation and legitimate interest, and the contact form carries a separate consent box for commercial messages with an announced unsubscribe route. Model training is never mentioned anywhere: no training clause, no opt-out, no statement in either direction across the nineteen documents collected.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
No hosting information is published. Across the nineteen documents collected there is not a single match for hosted, hosting, data centre, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, stored in or European Economic Area: no country, no region, no provider and no jurisdiction is declared for customer data, and the privacy policy mentions neither transfers outside the European Union nor standard contractual clauses nor any data location. Technical observation reveals only where the public website lives, which is a different question: the front end is a Next.js site served by Vercel, the apex domain resolves to an Amazon anycast address, the headless WordPress content system sits behind Cloudflare, and a cloud subdomain points at Azure infrastructure. None of that should be read as a statement about where blast plans, hole measurements or field photographs are stored; the vendor never makes that connection, and a reader should not make it either. The publisher is established in Portugal, which places it under European data protection law, but that is a fact about the company rather than a hosting commitment. Buyers with a data residency requirement will have to obtain one in writing during the sales conversation.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting O-Pitblast.
- No artificial intelligence is claimed anywhere on the site. Across nineteen collected documents, the terms artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural and deep learning appear zero times. The predictions offered, whether fragmentation, vibration or flyrock, come from established empirical blasting models rather than learned ones, so expect no adaptive or self-improving behaviour, and treat any AI framing of this listing as a directory decision rather than a vendor claim.
- Predictions are decision support, never a substitute for the blasting engineer's judgement. Vibration, flyrock and fragmentation forecasts depend on the inputs given, on rock that has not read the model, and on measurement discipline in the field. A crew that trusts a screen over a site inspection, especially near buildings, roads or people, is taking a real physical risk that no software absorbs.
- The FREE TRIAL banner still sitting on the home page belongs to a 2022 campaign: its destination has been withdrawn and the link now redirects to the demonstration form, a page where the word trial never appears. Nothing here can be tried without going through sales first.
- The Privacy Policy link in every page footer does not open the site's own policy but a two-page FORCIT Group Data Protection Policy dated 21 September 2022, whose declared scope is group staff and partners. The product policy exists at /privacy-policy but is linked from no page and is reachable only through the sitemap, and the explicit GDPR compliance claim comes from the group document rather than from O-Pitblast itself.
- The published documentation says nothing about what becomes of your operational data, meaning blast plans, hole measurements, charging records and photographs. There is no hosting country, no retention period, no subprocessor list, no data processing agreement and no terms and conditions, so anything you need contractually has to be negotiated because nothing is committed publicly.
- Corporate identity is presented inconsistently. Two different postal addresses coexist without explanation, the registered office in the footer and on the contact page and another address in the privacy policy, while the App Store listing still names the vendor O-Pitblast, Lda. although the entity is a S.A. The company also declares itself part of FORCIT Group and ENAEX, so ownership now sits with explosives producers.
- The catalogue is wider and less legible than the home page suggests: three additional products appear only in the contact form's subject menu, three Android applications exist against a single iOS one, and the entry point advertised for a given need may not be the product eventually sold to you.
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Moderate, and mostly commercial rather than technical. O-PitSurface needs no installation and opens in a browser on Windows or macOS. The mobile applications install from the stores, though O-PitDev also requires its physical probe kit and an Android 8.0 device with Bluetooth 4.2 BLE. The real barrier is the entry route: with no self-registration, every deployment begins with a demonstration or a quotation. Onboarding is well supported, with 34 numbered training videos, product brochures, on-site and online assistance, a dedicated team and a claimed small learning curve, but no public technical documentation, API or integration guide exists.
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Should you pick O-Pitblast?
O-Pitblast occupies a narrow industrial niche, and occupies it unusually completely. Very few vendors cover the entire chain, from designing the blast to measuring the holes actually drilled, recording what was really charged at the face, then analysing and costing the result. The loop back through O-PitCloud, with reports produced automatically, is what genuinely separates this portfolio from a drawing tool. For a directory reader, three reservations matter. Pricing is entirely opaque: no page, no figure, no tier, and no way to gauge the cost of entry short of a sales conversation. There are no terms and conditions at all, and no published security commitment of any kind, meaning no certification, no hosting country, no subprocessor list, no data processing agreement and no retention period. And the company is now part of FORCIT Group and ENAEX, two international explosives producers; that backing widens its horizon, but it also places the roadmap and the governance in the hands of owners who sell explosives. One thing should be said plainly, because the listing context invites the opposite assumption: the site never claims artificial intelligence. Across nineteen collected documents the words artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning do not appear once. The predictions the software offers, whether fragmentation, vibration or flyrock, rest on the empirical models the blasting profession has used for decades, applied carefully and presented well. That is a legitimate engineering product; it is simply not a machine learning one, and a reader arriving from an AI directory should know it before weighing anything else here.
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