True-cost calculator

A generic dev team spends months learning geo. Ours already knows it.

The expensive part isn't the rate. It's the ramp. Every month a generic vendor spends learning GIS is spend burned before a line of value ships. Our engineers start on day one.

What do you want to strengthen?

Your build

Pick what you're building. We preset a blended dev rate. Edit anything.

What you're building

Sets a benchmark monthly dev rate below.

Team size (FTE)2 devs

Developers on the build.

Dev rate / month$7,000 / mo

Real GIS-Point blended rate per geo-native developer (~$6.5–7k/mo). Final by scope & seniority.

Generic vendor ramp3 mo

Months a non-geo team burns on discovery + learning geospatial before shipping value. This is the number that hurts.

Tune assumptions

Wrong-build risk premium15%

Share of early work a domain-blind team redoes after "that's not how geo works". Geo-native ≈ 0.

Skip the geo learning curve. Ship from day one.

Our engineers already know PostGIS, GeoServer, OGC and LiDAR pipelines: no discovery tax, no lock-in, the code is yours.

Bring your stack and goal. We sketch the architecture and the first 2-week milestone.

Cost of a slow, domain-blind start

$48,300

A generic vendor burns $42,000 ramping and redoes $6,300 before real value ships. Geo-native starts ~3 mo earlier.

Generic vendor

~3 mo

to first shipped value

GIS-Point (geo-native)

~day 1

domain already known

Time to value	Generic dev vendor	GIS-Point
Learning the geo domain	~3 mo	0already know it
Discovery before start	long	short
Risk of building wrong	high	low
Code & IP	possible lock-in	yours · open-sourceno Esri lock-in

Burned during vendor ramp

$42,000

Redone (wrong-build)

$6,300

Months you start earlier

~3 mo

Head start value

$42,000

Our price, shown up front: geo-native dev, per developerGIS-Point rate · final by scope & seniority

$7,000 / mo

How the math works

Cost of a slow start = vendor ramp months × dev rate × team size: spend that goes out the door while a domain-blind team learns geospatial before shipping value. Redone work = first-quarter spend × wrong-build risk %: the share a domain-blind team rebuilds after discovering how geo actually works. Head start value= the same ramp spend, reframed as the output you'd already have with a geo-native team on day one. Rates are illustrative benchmarks; every field is editable.

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Time to value

Generic dev vendor

GIS-Point

Learning the geo domain

~3 mo

0already know it

Discovery before start

long

short

Risk of building wrong

high

low

Code & IP

possible lock-in

yours · open-sourceno Esri lock-in