Technical leadership & advisory
Fractional CTO services: executive-level technical judgment without a full-time hire. Technology strategy and roadmaps, build-versus-buy and vendor decisions, team guidance, and technical due diligence.
Geospatial platform consulting
Geospatial platforms that hold up in production.
North Forge Geo helps organizations plan, architect, and build geospatial, cloud, and AI solutions on Microsoft Azure and open source geospatial technology, from executive strategy to shipped code.
- Geospatial
- Cloud
- Applied AI
- Microsoft Azure
- Open source GIS
Led by a former Microsoft Principal Enterprise Architect with 20+ years in enterprise geospatial: Azure Maps and Bing Maps platforms, location services, digital twins, and geospatial AI.
Services
Senior expertise, from strategy to code
Four ways to work with us. Engage one, or combine them across the life of a platform.
Architecture & design
Geospatial and cloud platform architecture, data pipelines, scalability, modernization, and independent reviews.
Software development
Hands-on delivery of mapping applications, location APIs, spatial data processing, and cloud services.
AI consulting
AI that earns its place. Readiness and use-case selection, LLM integration, retrieval-augmented generation over your own data, agents, and machine learning applied to spatial data, delivered with the engineering discipline production demands.
Focus
Where geospatial, cloud, and AI meet
Location is part of most business data. We help you put it to work on infrastructure that scales, with AI where it adds real value.
Geospatial
Mapping platforms, routing, spatial analysis, and imagery and elevation pipelines, including offline and self-hosted map stacks. Deep experience with Azure Maps and MapLibre, and hands-on with ArcGIS, Cesium, Google Maps, Mapbox, and more.
Cloud
Azure architecture for spatial and data-heavy workloads: Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Explorer, Databricks, Cosmos DB, and PostGIS, with cloud-optimized formats that keep cost and latency in check.
Applied AI
LLM applications with Azure OpenAI, retrieval over your own data with Azure AI Search, agents that act on your systems, and spatial machine learning for prediction and optimization.
Experience
Built by people who built the platforms
Our founder spent fourteen years at Microsoft shipping the mapping SDKs and location services enterprises still build on, and advising its largest customers from the Office of the CTO.
- 20+ years
- in geospatial technology, cloud architecture, and enterprise software
- $3B+
- in new business across four major Microsoft deals where our founder was technical lead
- 100 PB+
- of open data available to a geospatial AI assistant our founder architected
- Since 2020
- on the MapLibre steering committee, helping govern the open source mapping platform
Selected work
Representative engagements
From AI over petabytes of open data to the SDKs behind enterprise maps.
Geospatial AI
An AI assistant over 100 PB+ of open data
Lead architect for an AI assistant that helps users discover and work with a vast catalog of open geospatial data through natural language.
Critical infrastructure
Large-scale digital twins
Large-scale digital twins for critical infrastructure, delivered for some of the world's largest organizations.
Platforms & SDKs
Azure Maps SDKs for Web, Android, and iOS
Designed, developed, and shipped the cross-platform SDKs that developers use to build mapping applications on Azure.
Approach
Clear scope, senior attention, no surprises
Every engagement starts with understanding the problem. Then we agree on the shape of the work that fits it.
Conversation
We learn your goals, constraints, and timeline, and tell you plainly whether we can help.
Discovery
A short, focused look at your systems, data, and team to agree on the problem worth solving.
Engagement
An advisory retainer, a defined project, or hands-on delivery, whichever fits the work.
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