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— fieldintel

Ask Theo Before You Break Ground

Every project starts with a question the firm can already answer and usually doesn't ask: what do we know about this site? Prior jobs, control we set, a boundary we resolved, a utility we hit. The knowledge exists -- reaching it takes an afternoon nobody has, so the bid gets priced blind and the crew rolls out cold. This is about the assistant that turns that afternoon into a question you ask in plain language, get back in seconds, and -- the part that matters in a liability profession -- get back grounded in your own records, with the job and the field note it came from, not a confident guess.

August 2026 · 5 min read
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How Much Does It Cost to Forget?

A survey firm's real asset isn't its trucks or its instruments -- it's the forty years of plats, field books, and deeds in the back room. That archive is also the firm's most expensive liability, because the moment you need it, the answer is buried in a filing cabinet or in the head of someone who retired last spring. Here is what forgetting actually costs a firm, why 'just search it' has never worked on this kind of data, and what it takes to make decades of records answer a question in seconds.

July 2026 · 7 min read

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