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— fieldintel

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
— vlm

Why We Replaced 'Extract' With 'Transcribe' (And Got 7x More Data)

FieldIntel ingests handwritten field books by asking a local vision-language model to read each page. The original prompt asked the model to extract and organize what it saw -- and produced confident hallucinations on roughly half the regions we tested. Replacing 'extract and organize' with 'transcribe verbatim' lifted total entity extraction by 6.7x on the same model, same hardware, same input. Here's the test, the failure mode, and the one-line config change that shipped in v1.2.2.

June 2026 · 6 min read
— crs

Reading a CRS Verification Report: A 3-Minute Walkthrough

When a customer hands over an archive sample for FieldIntel profiling, the deliverable on Day 7 is a four-page PDF with a status breakdown, a basemap-overlaid cohort, a per-point table, and a caveats section. Here's how to read each part of it -- what each status means, where to look for systematic problems, and how to know whether the configuration is ready to deploy.

June 2026 · 7 min read

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