What Wightman does

Wightman is a multidisciplinary architecture, engineering, and surveying consulting firm headquartered in Allegan, Michigan, founded in 1946 and operating 12 offices across Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio with more than 200 professionals. The firm is wholly owned by its employees and serves government, commercial, educational, and energy organizations throughout the Great Lakes region, delivering projects from pre-concept planning through construction.

The firm's service portfolio comprises three core practices — Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Surveying — complemented by three specialty practices: GIS, Interior Design, and Reality Capture (3D as-built documentation). Projects are delivered through an integrated multidisciplinary model that allows clients to procure a full scope of design and engineering services from a single firm, rather than coordinating across multiple vendors. The firm uses industry-standard tools across these disciplines; the website positions a client-centered, relationship-driven delivery model rather than a proprietary technology platform.

Wightman generates revenue through project-based professional services engagements, with custom project quotes determined by scope of work. The go-to-market motion is sales-led and direct, with prospects initiating contact through the firm website's general inquiry, survey request, and bid portal channels, the last of which indicates significant public-sector procurement activity. The firm markets four primary verticals — Commercial, Education, Government, and Energy — and publicizes reference projects with municipal clients including the City of Holland and the City of St. Joseph. Pricing is not publicly disclosed, and the firm has not raised outside funding.

Name

Wightman

Legal name

Wightman

Website

https://wightman-assoc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1946

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Wightman is an employee-owned architecture, engineering, and surveying consulting firm founded in 1946, operating 12 offices across Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio, and serving government, commercial, educational, and energy clients in the Great Lakes region.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Allegan

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Professional Consulting Services: Wightman generates revenue through project-based consulting engagements in architecture, civil engineering, surveying, GIS, interior design, and reality capture. Services are delivered to government, commercial, educational, and energy sector clients throughout the Great Lakes region. The firm offers survey requests, accepts bids, and processes invoices through their online systems.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Wightman is a full-service consulting firm that analyzes, advises, designs, and delivers architecture, civil engineering, and surveying projects for government, commercial, educational, and energy clients. Its portfolio includes three core services (Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Survey) plus three specialty services (GIS, Interior Design, and Reality Capture), delivered from pre-concept through construction across the Great Lakes region.

Product overview

Wightman is a full-service consulting firm offering a unified portfolio of services rather than a traditional platform-plus-modules architecture. The core offerings include three primary services (Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Survey) complemented by three specialty services (GIS, Interior Design, and Reality Capture). These services are delivered through a multidisciplinary approach where the firm analyzes, advises, designs, and delivers projects in partnership with government, commercial, educational, and energy organizations throughout the Great Lakes region.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Architecture Architecture services that start with listening to client needs and deliver building and space design as part of Wightman's multidisciplinary consulting approach for government, commercial, educational, and energy clients across the Great Lakes region.
• Civil Engineering Civil engineering services delivered from pre-concept through construction, providing comprehensive infrastructure solutions for municipalities, commercial developers, educational institutions, and energy sector clients.
• Survey Professional land surveying services that provide accurate measurement results to support project specifications for infrastructure, building, and site development work across the Great Lakes region.
• GIS Geographic Information System (GIS) services that provide visual, accessible spatial data for mapping, planning, and analysis to support government, commercial, educational, and energy clients.
• Interior Design Interior design services including space planning and the creation of functional environments, delivered as part of Wightman's multidisciplinary offering for commercial, educational, government, and energy clients.
• Reality Capture Reality capture services that use 3D capture technology to document as-built conditions of existing structures and sites, providing accurate project documentation for renovation, reconstruction, and planning work.

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Fleis & VandenBrink: Grand Rapids-based full-service engineering, architecture, surveying, and environmental science firm with multi-office Michigan presence - directly comparable multi-disciplinary AEC service mix and Midwest municipal client focus.
• Hubbell, Roth & Clark: Bloomfield Hills, Michigan-based engineering and surveying firm serving municipal, commercial, and industrial clients across the Great Lakes region, with comparable civil engineering and surveying capabilities and similar project-based municipal revenue model.
• Fishbeck: Michigan-based engineering, architecture, environmental, and construction management firm with multi-office Great Lakes presence serving government, commercial, and industrial clients - a direct multi-disciplinary competitor to Wightman.
• Williams & Works: Michigan civil engineering, surveying, and landscape architecture firm serving municipalities, with comparable professional services structure and Great Lakes regional client base.
• Mannik & Smith Group: Michigan and Ohio-based multi-disciplinary consulting firm offering civil engineering, environmental, surveying, and geospatial services to public and private clients across the Great Lakes region.
• Abonmarche: Mid-size Great Lakes AEC firm headquartered in Michigan/Indiana offering civil engineering, architecture, and surveying services to municipal and commercial clients, with a multi-office regional footprint closely mirroring Wightman's model and geography.
• DLZ Corporation: Ohio and Indiana-headquartered engineering, architecture, and surveying firm with offices across the Midwest, providing the same multi-disciplinary AEC services to government and commercial clients in overlapping Great Lakes geography.
• Anderson, Eckstein & Nicks (AEW): Michigan-based multi-disciplinary AEC firm offering civil engineering, architecture, surveying, and landscape architecture services to municipalities and private clients, with comparable regional scale and project types.
• ROWE Professional Services: Michigan engineering, surveying, planning, and landscape architecture firm with multiple Great Lakes offices, comparable in size and service breadth, competing for the same municipal infrastructure RFPs across Michigan.

Broad incumbents

• Tetra Tech: Global consulting and engineering firm with deep water, environmental, and infrastructure practices that increasingly compete for Great Lakes municipal work - a much larger incumbent whose presence raises competitive intensity on larger municipal RFPs.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/wightman-assoc-167062449971896

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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