PTS

What PTS does

XAIS-PTS is a UK-based infrastructure asset management and pavement engineering company formed in 2024 through the merger of XAIS (Asset Management) Ltd and Pavement Testing Services Ltd, operating as a subsidiary of Phenna Group. The company provides end-to-end services across five integrated revenue streams: asset management surveying (using GPR, LCMS2, FWD, Deflectograph, SCANNER, SCRIM, and HD photographic surveys), the proprietary XA© software platform (six modules covering core asset management, risk, scheme assembly, document management, exploration, and field inspection), professional consultancy and bureau services, infrastructure design and supervision, and UKAS-accredited materials testing.

Its primary customers are UK local authorities, county councils, National Highways, and select private contractors and materials suppliers (Amey, Tarmac, Aggregate Industries, Bear Scotland). Distribution is via direct enterprise field sales, with no self-serve or channel partner motion. Operations run from a Preston headquarters, a Doncaster regional office, and a Reading Technology Centre, with a headcount of 51–100 staff.

The business model combines project-based professional services (the majority of revenue) with recurring software licensing for the XA© suite and accredited lab testing. Quality and compliance are central to the value proposition — the firm holds ISO 9001, 14001, 17025, and 45001 certifications, UKAS laboratory accreditation, Constructionline Gold membership, and Cyber Essentials certification. These credentials, combined with a UK-only operating footprint and government-skewed customer base, create a specialist mid-market infrastructure services profile rather than a scalable software-led growth story.

Name

PTS

Legal name

XAIS-PTS

Website

https://ptsinternational.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

XAIS-PTS is a UK infrastructure asset management and pavement engineering firm serving local authorities, National Highways, and infrastructure contractors with surveying services, proprietary XA© software, design, and UKAS-accredited materials testing across three UK offices.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Preston

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Asset Management Surveying Services: Provides comprehensive surveying services including pavement investigations, asset management surveys, and airport/airfield pavement assessments. Services include coring and UMS, ground penetrating radar, falling weight deflectometer, deflectograph, visual condition surveys, network safety, carriageway/footway condition, friction testing, and pavement condition index assessments.
2. Asset Management Software: Licenses and supports the XA© software suite including Core System, Risk Management, Scheme Assembler, Document Management, Explorer, and Inspector modules for infrastructure asset management.
3. Professional Services: Consultancy and support services including network and asset data management, decision support and analysis, asset management consultancy, bureau services, and training and support.
4. Design Services: Infrastructure design services covering programme development, scheme feasibility and assurance, capital and maintenance design, construction supervision, and post-construction management.
5. Materials Testing: UKAS accredited testing facility providing cementitious, aggregate, geological, bitumen, emulsions, surface treatments, bituminous materials, and concrete testing services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

XAIS-PTS delivers end-to-end infrastructure asset management services for highways and airfield pavements, combining specialist pavement and condition surveys (using GPR, LCMS2, LiDAR, and AI defect detection), the proprietary XA© asset management software suite, professional consultancy and design services, and UKAS-accredited materials testing. The company serves UK government agencies, local authorities, and infrastructure contractors through integrated surveying, software, and engineering capabilities consolidated under a single provider relationship.

Product overview

XAIS-PTS offers an integrated software platform called XA© (Asset Management System) comprising six modules: XA© Core System (central asset management platform), XA© Risk Management (risk assessment and management), XA© Scheme Assembler (scheme assembly and planning), XA© Document Management (document handling), XA© Explorer (data exploration and visualization), and XA© Inspector (field inspection tool). The company provides end-to-end infrastructure asset management services including pavement and asset management surveying (using technologies such as Ground Penetrating Radar, FWD, Deflectograph, and LCMS2), professional services (network/asset data management, decision support, consultancy, bureau services, training), design services (programme development, scheme feasibility, design, construction supervision), and materials testing (UKAS accredited facility for cementitious, aggregate, and geological testing). The company was formed in 2024 through the merger of XAIS (Asset Management) Ltd and Pavement Testing Services Ltd.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• XAIS Core System: Integrated asset management software system.
• XAIS Risk Management
• XAIS Scheme Assembler
• XAIS Document Management
• XAIS Explorer
• XAIS Inspector

Products and services

• Pavement Investigations Specialist pavement investigation services for highway and infrastructure asset owners, covering coring and UMS (unbound material sampling), ground penetrating radar, falling weight deflectometer, deflectograph, and visual condition surveys to assess pavement structural and surface condition. Targeted at UK local authorities, national highway operators, and infrastructure contractors needing subsurface and surface pavement data to support maintenance and capital investment decisions.
• Asset Management Surveys Network-wide asset management surveying covering network safety, carriageway condition, footway condition, asset inventory, and site investigations and assurance. Delivered for UK local authorities and infrastructure operators to support forward works programmes, treatment length analysis, and projection modelling for roads and footways.
• Airport and Airfield Pavement Investigations Specialised pavement assessment services for airport and airfield operators covering pavement classification rating, friction testing, pavement condition index, landside surveys, and pavement engineering consultancy compliant with aviation standards. Targets airfield operators and airport authorities requiring aviation-grade pavement condition data.
• XA© Core System Central asset management software platform within the XA© suite, serving as the core system for infrastructure asset data management and analysis. Licensed to highway authorities and infrastructure operators for centralized management of pavement and infrastructure asset data.
• XA© Risk Management Risk assessment and management software module within the XA© suite, enabling infrastructure asset owners to evaluate and manage risk across their pavement and infrastructure portfolios. Targeted at asset managers requiring systematic risk-based prioritization of maintenance and capital investment.
• XA© Scheme Assembler Software module within the XA© suite for assembling and planning infrastructure schemes and works programmes. Supports forward works programme development for highway authorities and infrastructure operators by translating asset condition data into prioritized scheme plans.
• XA© Document Management Document management software module within the XA© suite for handling asset management documentation, supporting versioned storage and retrieval of inspection records, design documents, and scheme files for infrastructure asset management teams.
• XA© Explorer Data exploration and visualization software tool within the XA© suite for analyzing and visualizing infrastructure asset data. Provides asset managers with interactive exploration of pavement condition, inventory, and scheme data for evidence-based decision making.
• XA© Inspector Inspection and field data collection software within the XA© suite, used by field inspection teams to capture pavement and infrastructure asset condition data in the field and integrate it with the centralized asset management platform.
• Professional Services Asset management consultancy and support services covering network and asset data management, decision support and analysis, asset management consultancy, bureau services, and training and support. Delivered to UK local authorities and infrastructure operators requiring external expertise to augment internal asset management teams.
• Design Services Infrastructure design services covering programme development, scheme feasibility and assurance, capital and maintenance design, construction and supervision, and post-construction management. Provided to highway authorities, local councils, and infrastructure operators to deliver capital and maintenance schemes from inception through to post-construction.
• Materials Testing UKAS accredited testing services covering core logging and testing, aggregates, bitumen road emulsions, surface treatments, bituminous materials and mixtures, and concrete. Operated from a modern versatile testing facility providing cementitious, aggregate, and geological testing for construction materials suppliers and infrastructure clients.

Quantifiable outcome

• Minimises on-site time reducing network disruption
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature12 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Phenna GroupcoreOthersXAIS-PTS is a subsidiary company of Phenna Group. The company was formed through the merger of XAIS (Asset Management) Ltd and Pavement Testing Services Ltd in 2024, now operating under the Phenna Group umbrella as part of their infrastructure division.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Jacobs: Global professional services firm with significant UK transportation and infrastructure asset management work, providing overlapping pavement, highway and asset management consulting capabilities to similar government buyers.
• WSP: Global engineering professional services firm with a large UK highways, pavement and asset management practice that competes for the same National Highways and council frameworks that PTS serves, but at materially greater scale.
• AtkinsRéalis (formerly Atkins / SNC-Lavalin): Large UK-headquartered engineering consultancy with a strong highways asset management and pavement engineering practice that historically serves National Highways and many of the same local authorities as PTS.
• Fugro: Global geotechnical and infrastructure surveying specialist that operates large-scale pavement, road and airfield inspection programmes using GPR, LiDAR and similar technologies to PTS, serving national road and airport operators.
• AECOM: Major international engineering consultancy providing transportation asset management, pavement engineering and surveying services to UK public-sector clients — a broad incumbent competing for similar frameworks with much larger delivery capacity.

Emerging players

• Bentley Systems: Global infrastructure engineering software vendor with asset management and digital twin products for roads and transportation networks — an adjacent/competing platform to PTS's XA© suite at the larger end of the market.
• Causeway Technologies: UK-headquartered software provider for the infrastructure and built environment sector, offering asset management, highways maintenance and capital programming solutions that overlap with PTS's XA© modules.

Direct peers

• TRL (Transport Research Laboratory): UK-based transport research and testing organisation that performs pavement condition assessment, SCRIM surveys, friction testing and asset management research for highways authorities — closely aligned with PTS's surveying and materials testing offering.
• Yotta (Mayrise / Yotta Asset Management): UK provider of infrastructure asset management software and surveying services for highways, street lighting and waste — direct competitor to PTS's XA© software suite and asset management consultancy offering for councils.
• Gaist Solutions: UK specialist in roadscape and highways asset data capture using AI, HD imagery and similar surveying technology to PTS, providing digital surveys and condition assessments to local authorities and network operators.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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