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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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