I've been reading about some other software companies' planned product updates for the next two years. It's becoming increasingly clear that SITEOPS is taking a different approach to CAD than anyone else in the industry.

Them: Lots of UI updates and validation controls to help ensure that the designs you draw can actually be implemented.

Us: Computer Aided Design for real.

We're talking about CAD software that can actually generate preliminary site designs, based on user-supplied criteria. What's more, SITEOPS can produce numerous design alternatives and you retain the ability to tweak and adapt those designs and/or import them into another drawing program.

Our approach was not possible until 2-3 years ago, due to advances in the field of evolutionary computing and the availability of raw server processing power. The best part is, it works and it's available today.