Strategic advisory · Geospatial · AI

Geospatial strategy for the era of AI.

MapGuru helps enterprises turn fragmented public and commercial data into decision-grade geospatial intelligence — AI-assisted sourcing pipelines, lakehouse-native engineering, and risk analytics delivered into the platforms your business already runs on.

Who we are

The advisory between your data platform and the physical world.

Every enterprise decision happens somewhere — yet the data that describes that somewhere is scattered across thousands of agencies, formats, and portals. AI has changed what's possible: sourcing that once took an analyst-year now takes a well-engineered pipeline.

What hasn't changed is talent. There is far less geospatial expertise in the market than there is geospatial data — and the people who pair it with cloud-native engineering and agentic AI are scarcer still.

MapGuru is a principal-led advisory built on exactly that combination — designing and building these systems for global insurers, government agencies, and data-driven enterprises, with deep GIS practice, cloud-native platform engineering, and applied AI honed at the frontier of the geospatial industry.

Geospatial × AI

Grounding enterprise AI in the physical world.

Language models reason fluently about words and poorly about places. We close that gap by making enterprise AI spatially aware — connecting LLMs and agents to authoritative geospatial data, earth observation archives, and the platforms where your organization's spatial truth already lives.

That perspective is earned daily. We architect and operate production agentic systems end-to-end — orchestration, memory, model routing, governance — and helped shape how earth observation data and agentic workflows come together at the frontier of the cloud geospatial industry.

Executive AI counsel

Access to AI isn't an AI strategy.

Rolling out AI by switching it on for everyone is how pilots stall. A successful rollout is a coherent strategy — decisions about where AI genuinely changes the business, run with the discipline of any other capital program. That's the counsel we bring to the executives making those calls.

  • AI-accelerated timelines Delivery plans that price what AI genuinely speeds up — and what it doesn't — from someone who ships on those timelines.
  • Team capacity Building the skills and workflows inside your teams so AI leverage compounds, instead of stalling after the pilot.
  • Token economics AI spend governed like any other line item — token consumption tuned to outcomes, not left to sprawl.
  • Executive packaging All of it delivered in the traditional timelines and budgets boards already understand.

Capabilities

How we work with you

Strategic advisory

Executive counsel on AI adoption and location intelligence — rollout strategy, roadmaps, and build/buy/license decisions, packaged in timelines and budgets boards can fund.

Geospatial data engineering

AI-assisted pipelines that source, harmonize, and govern authoritative data at jurisdiction scale — hazard, parcel, and infrastructure layers made analysis-ready.

Solutions architecture

Cloud-native, lakehouse-ready systems designed for your stack — integrated with the geospatial applications your teams already run, and built to outlast the engagement.

Staffing & team development

Talent strategy, embedded senior expertise, and mentoring that grow an in-house capability that stays when we leave.

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Why leaders choose us

Advisory that ships

  1. Practitioner-led

    Strategy from someone who still writes the pipelines. Every recommendation is one we've implemented ourselves, in production, inside enterprise environments.

  2. AI-native, not AI-flavored

    From agentic sourcing pipelines to spatially aware AI systems, we apply AI where it genuinely scales expert judgment — and tell you plainly where it doesn't.

  3. Built for your platform

    No parallel systems, no orphaned deliverables. Everything we build lands in the data and geospatial platforms your teams already trust.

  4. A profile you can't hire

    Geospatial, cloud-native engineering, and agentic AI rarely coexist on one team — let alone in one person. Engaging MapGuru puts that combination to work without the unicorn hunt.

Kyle Ryan, founder and principal of MapGuru

Founder & Principal

Kyle Ryan

Kyle's career spans AI-native product work at the frontier of the cloud geospatial industry, natural-hazard data programs inside global commercial insurance, and geospatial engineering across utilities, telecom, and municipal government. MapGuru is where that experience becomes your advantage.

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