Built by a PLS with 30+ Years of Field Experience.
Building integrity-grade systems for the surveying and civil engineering industry.
OUR MISSION
Build the field documentation platform that civil engineering and land surveying firms actually use. Designed by people who have walked the lot lines and know what a paper field book is supposed to do.
OUR VISION
Every field crew in the industry running on documentation that holds up. Every office side seeing what the field saw without translation. Every firm spending its time on work, not admin.
CORE VALUES
PRACTICAL AUTHENTICITY
Honest tools for real work. No demoware. No mockups in our screenshots.
SIMPLICITY FIRST
If it does not help the crew do the work, it does not belong in the platform.
STRAIGHT AND LEVEL HONESTY
Plain language. Clear pricing. No tactics. Built like a survey: dead straight, level, and verifiable.
DEFENSIBILITY
Every feature serves the goal of producing documentation that holds up under any review.
THE FOUNDERS
Three people with overlapping backgrounds in field work, software, and business.
Brian Jaquess
Co-Founder, Field Authority
Professional Land Surveyor with 30+ years of field experience. Brian knows what a paper field book does because he carried one for three decades.
Sean Schertell
Co-Founder, CTO
Ruby on Rails veteran. Sean designs the architecture that makes ZiaMap simple from the outside and durable on the inside.
Kurt Dahlstrom
Co-Founder, CMO
Marketing, design, and brand at the sentence level. Kurt owns positioning, content, and the funnel from first touch through paid conversion.
"WE DIDN'T SET OUT TO BUILD ANOTHER PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOL. WE SET OUT TO SOLVE A SPECIFIC, HIGH-STAKES PROBLEM."
The professional cost of missing field data. We knew the problem. We built the answer.