Move teams off license-heavy stacks. Without a re-train year.
A productised path off proprietary GIS platforms and onto open, standards-based alternatives.
The buyer’s problem.
Mid-market firms can no longer justify the per-seat cost of legacy GIS platforms. Renewals are getting harder to defend at every budget cycle. But ripping the old stack out is daunting — workflows live in custom toolboxes, data lives in proprietary formats, and the analyst team learned its craft in one ecosystem. Most teams stay locked in by inertia, not by value.
The work, concretely.
- 01
Inventory of every license seat, custom workflow, model and data format currently in use.
- 02
A pilot migration of one workflow end-to-end — proves the new stack runs, your analysts stay productive, and the data round-trips cleanly.
- 03
A standards-based stack: PostGIS for storage, GeoServer / pg_tileserv for serving, MapLibre / OpenLayers for clients, QGIS for desktop work.
- 04
Re-pointed automations, scheduled reports and integrations — your downstream consumers don't notice.
- 05
Documented change-management plan and an analyst playbook so the team can self-serve afterwards.
What moves where.
Every licensed component gets an open, standards-based counterpart. Discovery confirms the map for your estate.
- ArcGIS Server
- GeoServer / pg_tileserv
- OGC map, feature and vector-tile services.
- Geodatabases (.gdb)
- PostGIS
- The spatial database underneath everything else.
- ArcMap, ArcGIS Pro, MapInfo Pro
- QGIS
- One analyst desktop instead of several.
- Proprietary web map clients
- MapLibre / OpenLayers
- Open-source, vector-tile-native web maps.
- Toolboxes, scheduled reports, integrations
- Re-pointed
- Your downstream consumers don't notice.
Three steps. Each one priced before it starts.
Step 1
Discovery
$8K — 3 weeks
License audit, workflow inventory, target-state architecture, fixed-price plan for the full migration.
Step 2
Pilot
$30K — 6 weeks
One workflow migrated end-to-end on the new stack. Side-by-side validation. Go/no-go decision with full data.
Step 3
Full migration
Scoped from Pilot
Phased migration of remaining workflows, data, integrations and team. Old licenses retired on a known date.
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The questions every buyer asks before the second call.
We answer them up front so the second call is about the work.
- Q01Will our analysts need a year of retraining?
- No. The pilot moves one workflow end-to-end and proves your analysts stay productive on the new stack before anything else changes. You also get a documented change-management plan and an analyst playbook, so the team can self-serve afterwards.
- Q02Do we have to switch everything at once?
- No. Discovery and the pilot touch one workflow. The full migration is phased across the remaining workflows, data, integrations and team, and the old licenses are retired on a known date.
- Q03What happens to data in proprietary formats?
- Discovery inventories every data format in use. The pilot moves one workflow's data onto the new stack and validates it side by side against the old one, so you see it round-trip cleanly before anything else moves.
- Q04Will our reports and integrations break?
- No. Automations, scheduled reports and integrations are re-pointed to the new stack, so your downstream consumers don't notice the switch.
- Q05Can we stop after discovery or the pilot?
- Yes. Each step is priced before it starts and ends in a decision: discovery delivers a fixed-price plan for the full migration, and the pilot ends with a go/no-go call made on full data.
- Q06What will we pay in licenses afterwards?
- Nothing per seat. PostGIS, GeoServer, pg_tileserv, MapLibre, OpenLayers and QGIS are all open source, so the stack we ship needs zero vendor licenses.
- Q07Where does the new stack run?
- In your environment: it deploys into your AWS, Azure, GCP or on-prem estate, not ours.
- Q08What contract do we sign?
- A standard MSA under US (Delaware), UK (England & Wales) or Indian law, your choice. NDAs are signed within 24 hours of request.
Take the next step
Bring open-stack GIS migration to your team.
30-minute call. We'll either be a fit, or be honest that we aren't.