Is your firm doing work it will never get paid for?
Return trips. Photo admin. Note cleanup. The time your crew absorbs that no client ever reimbursed. See your number.
Your firm
Four quick questions. Round numbers are fine.
Here is what the old way costs you.
That is $75,620 your firm absorbs every year in time no client is paying for. Every dollar of it delays an invoice and slows down when you get paid.
The math is conservative. It runs your inputs against 240 working days at your billing rate. Return trips are calculated at 4 hours each (drive time plus rework). Your real number is likely higher once you count office-side time spent hunting for records and context.
Want this breakdown in your inbox?
Drop your email and we will send your full number and where the hours are going, plus how ZiaMap closes the gap. Your crew captures field work once, on the device they already carry, and it is done. Photos are geo-tagged on the spot. Notes stay in the session where they happened. Fewer return trips, faster closeout, sooner invoicing. We launch August 1, and beta firms get their first month free.
Where the number comes from
This tool estimates the field documentation work your firm absorbs but never bills: photo admin, field note cleanup, and the return trips crews make for a record that should have been captured the first time.
- Admin time runs your per-day photo and note minutes across every field person, over 240 working days, at your blended billing rate.
- Return trips are counted at 4 hours each: drive time plus the rework once the crew is back on site.
- The total stays deliberately conservative. It leaves out office-side time spent hunting for context, and the invoices that sit unsent while the paperwork catches up.
How ZiaMap closes the gap
ZiaMap is a field documentation platform for survey and civil firms. Crews capture the record once, on the device they already carry, and it is done. Close the job faster, invoice sooner.
Capture once, in the field
Photos are geo-tagged and timestamped on the spot. Notes stay in the session where they happened. No end-of-day transcription, no deciphering what a photo was of.
See the mobile app →No second trip
Forms for restaking, survey requests, and accident reports live where the crew is. Close the ticket and collect a signature in the field, so nobody drives back for a missing record.
Built for surveyors →Works with your stack
ZiaMap runs alongside the data collectors and software your crew already uses. It documents the field record. It does not replace your survey workflow.
What it works with →