What Future Insight Group does

Future Insight Group B.V. is a privately held Dutch software company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Zwolle, the Netherlands. It develops the Clearly product suite, a set of cloud-based SaaS platforms built on international open standards (CityGML, IFC, OGC 3D Tiles, FAIR data principles) for project collaboration, BIM model management, and 3D digital twin solutions. The company sells primarily to Dutch municipalities and infrastructure / construction firms, with selective international public-sector engagements in Finland and Estonia.

The core platform consists of four products: Clearly.Projects (online collaboration and environmental management with integrated GIS), Clearly.BIM (web-based BIM viewing, IFC-to-CityGML conversion, and automated IdS / compliance checks), Clearly.3D-City (3D digital twin and city model management built on CityGML via partner VCS), and Clearly.Hub (an Open Urban Platform aggregating data sources for government smart-city initiatives). The technology stack separates data from applications, supports single-source data entry with multi-use output, and integrates with ArcGIS, Relatics, and Dutch national datasets (BGT, BAG, AHN). The company is ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001:2022 certified.

Future Insight earns revenue primarily through SaaS subscriptions (Clearly.Projects from €195/month, Clearly.3D-City from €500/month, Clearly.Hub on request), supplemented by perpetual or multi-year licenses (Clearly.BIM at €29,500) and professional services including training programs. GTM is a hybrid of inside sales, free trial for Clearly.Projects, partner programs for Clearly.Hub, and event-driven demand generation. The company has 11-50 employees, is founder-owned with no disclosed external funding, and references major customers including Heijmans, TenneT, Nobian, and the municipalities of Rotterdam, Leeuwarden, Groningen, Tilburg, and Overijssel.

Name

Future Insight Group

Legal name

Future Insight Group B.V.

Website

https://futureinsight.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Future Insight Group is a Dutch SaaS vendor that builds the Clearly suite of cloud-based platforms for project collaboration, BIM management, and 3D digital twins, serving Dutch municipalities and infrastructure and construction firms.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Geospatial & BIM Collaboration Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Building Information Modeling (BIM) & Digital Design Services (BPAHAKAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Location Intelligence, Analytics & Geospatial BI (BPAMANAE), Cloud Compliance, Audit & Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM/GRC) (HDABAHAI)

Keywords

• Project collaboration software
• BIM model management
• 3D digital twin platform
• Open urban platform
• GIS collaboration tools

Headquarters

HQ city

Zwolle

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Platform Subscriptions: The core revenue driver is recurring SaaS subscriptions for the Clearly product suite (Clearly.Hub, Clearly.Projects, Clearly.BIM, Clearly.3D-City). Pricing is tiered per product with monthly or annual billing.
2. Professional Services: Future Insight provides workshops, training (e.g., Kickstart 3D Digital Twin training), advisory services, and implementation support as part of its service offering, generating additional project-based revenue.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Future Insight Group develops and sells the Clearly suite of cloud-based SaaS products for governments, construction firms, and infrastructure operators. The suite includes Clearly.Hub (Open Urban Platform), Clearly.Projects (online project and GIS collaboration platform), Clearly.BIM (web-based BIM viewer with automated compliance checking), and Clearly.3D-City (3D Digital Twin platform). Revenue is generated primarily through tiered SaaS subscriptions, with additional revenue from training and professional services.

Product overview

Future Insight Group offers the Clearly suite of cloud-based software products built on open international standards. The portfolio consists of Clearly.Hub as the overarching Open Urban Platform (digital ecosystem), Clearly.3D-City for 3D Digital Twin and city model management, Clearly.BIM for Building Information Modeling, and Clearly.Projects as an online collaboration and environmental management platform with integrated GIS. These products are designed to work together within the Clearly.Hub ecosystem, enabling governments and organizations to connect and share 3D, BIM, GIS, and sensor data for data-driven decision-making across urban development, infrastructure, and environmental projects.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Clearly.Hub: Open Urban Platform - a digital ecosystem connecting data for smart applications in urban environments, developed with Capgemini and municipality of Rotterdam starting January 2023.
• Clearly.Projects
• Clearly.BIM
• Clearly.3D-City

Products and services

• Clearly.Hub Open Urban Platform and scalable digital ecosystem that connects 3D, BIM, GIS, and sensor data using open standards (CityGML, IFC, OGC, FAIR), enabling governments and organizations to share data for data-driven decision-making in smart-city environments.
• Clearly.3D-City Online, scalable 3D Digital Twin platform for storing, managing, and visualizing 3D city models based on international open standards (CityGML, OGC 3D Tiles); includes shadow/sight analysis, measurement tools, planner functionality, and export to Shapefile, DWG, CityGML and GeoPackage.
• Clearly.BIM Central, web-based BIM solution for viewing, sharing, querying, and storing IFC BIM files in a central database; includes automated Information Delivery Specification (IdS) and permit-compliance checks plus IFC-to-CityGML 3 conversion.
• Clearly.Projects Online collaboration platform and environmental management tool that combines project management with GIS visualization, integrating all project data, documents, tasks, decisions, drawings and GIS layers into one central platform with role-based access, process automation and full audittrail.
• Kickstart Training 3D Digital Twin Two-day paid training program that helps organizations with their 2D-to-3D transition, defining prerequisites and use cases for implementing a 3D Digital Twin using Clearly.3D-City.

Quantifiable outcome

• 60 hours saved at the start of each project through efficient stakeholder management
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered major and core.

• OIVA (Open Innovation for Verified Automation)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 June 2024OIVA is a new European innovation project. Future Insight works in Work Package 5 with TNO and various partners on automating digital permit procedures and spatial assessment in the built environment. Project announced June 2024.
• CapgeminicoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022Capgemini has partnered with Future Insight since 2022 to develop the Open Urban Platform (OUP) with Digital Twin for the municipality of Rotterdam. Capgemini contributes its expertise in ethics, governance, and digital transition, complementing Future Insight's technical capabilities. Hans Teuben (Capgemini): 'Onze samenwerking is er een om trots op te zijn, waar Future Insight de drijvende kracht is achter de bouw van het platform kan Capgemini juist haar ervaring en kennis rondom ethiek, governance en digitale transitie inbrengen.'
• Levi9coreTechnology or IntegrationFuture Insight has a unique collaboration with Levi9 for software development quality assurance. Levi9's role, alongside Future Insight's Development Lead Ed de Later, ensures a structured, transparent, and high-quality development process. Referenced in the article 'Zo borgen wij kwaliteit in onze softwareontwikkeling'.
• TNOcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFuture Insight collaborates with TNO within the OIVA (Open Innovation for Verified Automation) project Work Package 5, focused on automating digital permit procedures and spatial assessment in the built environment.
• ACCORD Project (Horizon Europa)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHorizon Europa research project for digital building permits completed. Future Insight served as knowledge expert, producing the Education Package for scalable, semantics-driven compliance in the construction sector.
• OASC (Open Access to Smart Cities)coreGTM or Marketing PartnerFuture Insight is a partner of OASC (Open Access to Smart Cities), contributing to open standards and interoperability for smart cities with the Clearly.Hub solution. OASC is a global network of cities and companies working on open data standards.
• VCS (Virtual City Systems)coreTechnology or IntegrationVCS (Virtual City Systems) provides the 3D CityDB database underlying Clearly.3D-City, based on open CityGML standard. Future Insight is the Netherlands reseller for VCS technology. Rotterdam chose VCS/Future Insight for its open standards and maintainable cloud strategy.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights12 records

Emerging players

• Cityzenith: Provider of the SmartWorldOS digital twin platform for buildings, cities, and infrastructure. Comparable emerging player focused on 3D digital twin applications for climate, energy, and smart-city use cases intersecting with Future Insight's Clearly.3D-City.

Direct peers

• Safe Software (FME): Vendor of FME, a data integration platform widely used to translate between BIM (IFC), GIS (CityGML), and CAD formats. Comparable to Future Insight's interoperability/BIM-GIS integration layer and serves many of the same architecture, engineering, and government customers.
• Relatics: Dutch platform for stakeholder, requirements, and project information management in infrastructure projects. Relatics integrates with Clearly.Projects and addresses overlapping use cases for environmental and stakeholder management in Dutch infrastructure tenders.
• Virtual City Systems (VCS): German provider of 3D CityDB and CityGML-based digital twin software. VCS is both a technology partner of Future Insight (underlying database for Clearly.3D-City) and a direct competitor in 3D city model management across European municipalities.

Broad incumbents

• Trimble: Provider of geospatial, BIM, and construction technology solutions (Trimble Connect, Quadri, Cityworks). Competes with Future Insight in infrastructure project collaboration and BIM-GIS integration for construction, but with a much broader portfolio.
• Bentley Systems: Provider of infrastructure engineering software (iTwin, OpenUtilities, ProjectWise) covering BIM, digital twins, and infrastructure asset management. Comparable to Future Insight's BIM/3D-city/digital-twin stack but at a much larger global scale and broader portfolio.
• Autodesk: Owner of Revit, BIM 360/ACC, and construction cloud solutions serving architecture, engineering, and construction. Directly comparable in BIM model viewing/sharing (Clearly.BIM competes against parts of BIM 360), but Autodesk is a broad incumbent rather than a specialized open-standards platform.
• Esri: Global GIS platform whose ArcGIS software is integrated with Future Insight's Clearly.Projects. Esri is the dominant geospatial incumbent; it competes broadly in the same smart-city/GIS/digital-twin space but offers a much wider portfolio rather than specializing in open BIM/digital-twin platforms.
• Hexagon (Geospatial division): Owner of Luciad, M.App Enterprise, and geospatial platforms used for 3D city modeling, digital twins, and smart-city applications. Comparable to Clearly.3D-City on 3D visualization and geospatial analytics, but Hexagon serves a broader enterprise/government base.

Others

• GeoSquare / Geonovum (Dutch open data ecosystem): Geonovum is the Dutch foundation for open geospatial standards (including 3D/Tiles adoption). As the national standards body in Future Insight's home market, it shapes the open-standards ecosystem the Clearly platform is built on, making it an ecosystem participant rather than direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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