Analysis, software and AI, built to order
Work we take on directly, separate from the products. Whether you need an answer out of geographic data, a tool that does the job your spreadsheet is currently doing, or a view on whether an approach will hold, it starts with a conversation about the problem rather than a list of technologies.
Spatial analysis
An answer from geographic data, and the working behind it
Satellite and aerial imagery, vector data, terrain, networks and statistics, for the area and period you name. You get the layers, the numbers and a written reading of what they show, in formats your existing tools already open.
What this covers
- Imagery analysis: land cover, change over time, water and vegetation, fire and flood extent
- Vector and network analysis: catchments, travel times, service areas, site selection
- Terrain and hydrology: slope, aspect, viewsheds, drainage and flow
- Statistics and modelling: clustering, hot spots, interpolation, suitability scoring
- Maps, GeoTIFF and GeoJSON layers, and a report that states the method and sources
Custom software development
Built around your workflow, not the other way round
Web applications, desktop tools, interactive maps and the pipelines behind them. We take on whole builds and we take on one piece of an existing system, in the languages and cloud you already run.
What this covers
- Web applications and internal tools, from a single dashboard to a full workspace
- Interactive maps and data visualisation for public sites and internal reporting
- Desktop applications for Windows and macOS, including offline and field use
- Data pipelines and integrations: imports, APIs, scheduled ingestion, caching
- GIS work that fits what you have: QGIS and ArcGIS plugins, PostGIS, tile services
- Deployment, monitoring, documentation and handover to your own team
AI adoption
Put AI on the tasks where it pays for itself
We start with the work you actually do, find the parts a model handles well, and build those. Where a simpler method does the job, we say so before there is anything to maintain.
What this covers
- Assistants and natural-language search over your own documents and data
- Document and image processing: extraction, classification, summarising at volume
- Automation of routine work: triage, drafting, data entry, quality checks
- Prediction and pattern detection on the history you already hold
- Model choice, hosting, running costs and evaluation, set up so output can be checked
- Training so your team can run and extend it without us
Consulting
A second opinion before you commit budget
Review of an approach, a system or a result, for teams deciding whether to build, buy or stop. Written so it can be read by the people holding the budget as well as the people doing the work.
What this covers
- Method review: whether the analysis is sound and whether the result will hold
- Architecture and code review on work already under way
- Data strategy: which sources to license, collect or drop, and what each one costs
- Scoping, estimates and phasing you can take to a decision meeting
- Wording for reports and briefings that survives being quoted
Start with the problem
Tell us what you are trying to do and when you need it. You get a scope, a price and a timeline back. If something off the shelf already does it, we will point you at that instead.