Crosscut

What Crosscut does

Crosscut is a U.S.-based, certified small business founded in 2017 that builds cloud-native geospatial planning software for global health programs. Its core product, the Crosscut App, lets non-expert users generate catchment area maps, estimate target populations, analyze travel-time accessibility, and plan supplies in minutes by combining publicly available datasets (population density, roads, elevation, water bodies, land cover, administrative boundaries, and population sources including WorldPop, GRID3, Meta HRSL and Kontur). Differentiated features include a paintbrush editing interface that prevents topology errors, a hybrid land-block rendering system, two-tier nested catchments, printable A5 maps with QR codes for offline field use, daily automated pulls of supervision GPS data from CommCare and ODK, and a Microplan Collector built around users' existing email and Excel workflows rather than replacing them.

The company operates a freemium go-to-market: the Crosscut App is and always will be free in 55+ countries across three languages, with an Enterprise tier that adds custom map layers, white-label integration, predicted prevalence heatmaps, advanced forecasting and supply-chain network optimization. A separate, white-label edition — the ESPEN Geospatial Microplanner — is distributed through WHO ESPEN to 43 African countries, and a related Schisto Mapper application was added in 2026. Direct advisory services for international-development implementing partners (supply-chain management, geospatial insights, disease surveillance, monitoring and evaluation) complement the software. Customer and partner cohorts include the Gates Foundation, WHO ESPEN, DHIS2, UNICEF, USAID PMI Evolve / Abt Associates, The Carter Center, Sightsavers, GAVI, Christian Blind Mission, Unlimit Health, Locational and multiple Ministries of Health across Africa and Haiti.

Organizationally, Crosscut remains intentionally lean at 6–10 employees headquartered in Washington, DC. Revenue and funding are anchored in foundation grants and professional services rather than disclosed subscription revenue; the company has been named Gates Foundation Grand Challenge grant recipient, GAVI supply chain partner, COR-NTD Innovator of the Year, an Alliance for Malaria Prevention tech showcase selectee, a DHIS2 App-of-the-Year finalist, a Digital Public Good (DPGA/UNICEF) and a DHIS2 Strategic Technology Partner.

Name

Crosscut

Legal name

Crosscut

Website

https://crosscut.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Crosscut builds a cloud-native geospatial planning app that lets global health programs generate catchment area maps, estimate target populations, and plan supplies for NTD, malaria, and immunization campaigns across more than 55 countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Health Geospatial Analytics Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Social Assistance (624)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Data, Surveillance & Digital Public Goods Partnerships for Global Health (HLAJAOAN)

akta.pro secondary industries

Care Management & Coordination Platforms (case/disease management workflows) (HLACAHAD), Health Access & Social Care Innovations (Community Health, Telehealth for Underserved) (BPAGALAG)

Keywords

• Geospatial health mapping
• Catchment area analysis
• Health supply chain analytics
• Campaign microplanning software
• DHIS2 geospatial integration

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Free App (Core Product): The Crosscut App is and always will be free to use with a generous forever free tier. Basic catchment mapping, population analysis, and microplanning features are available at no cost.
2. Enterprise Features: Enhanced features and support for organizations with specific use cases: custom map layers, white-label integration, prevalence heatmaps, advanced forecasting, inventory projections, and supply chain design diagnostics.
3. Advisory Services: Technical consulting services for International Development implementing partners including supply chain management, technology and analytics, geospatial insights, disease surveillance, and monitoring and evaluation. Custom project support for complex country implementations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Crosscut builds and operates the Crosscut App, a cloud-native web application that enables non-expert health program staff to generate catchment area maps, estimate target populations, analyze geographic accessibility, and plan supplies for global health campaigns within minutes. The company supplements the app with white-label deployments (the ESPEN Geospatial Microplanner for WHO), an open-source Field-kit for data preparation, the Microplan Collector email/Excel workflow module, and bespoke Crosscut Advisory Services for international development implementing partners.

Product overview

Crosscut offers a single web-based application — The Crosscut App — with a free tier and an Enterprise tier, supplemented by a white-label version for WHO ESPEN (the ESPEN Geospatial Microplanner) and a related tool called Schisto Mapper. The core platform is augmented by the Microplan Collector module for email/Excel-based microplanning workflows, Field-kit open-source data prep tools, and printed catchment maps for offline use. Crosscut Advisory Services provides custom consulting. The Free tier covers basic catchment mapping in 55+ countries; Enterprise adds custom map layers, white-label integration, forecasting, and inventory projections; the ESPEN Geospatial Microplanner and Schisto Mapper are separate branded deployments of the same underlying technology.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Crosscut App: Online catchment area mapping application for non-experts to create accurate catchment area maps for health campaigns
• Microplan Collector
• Field-kit

Products and services

• Crosscut App The Crosscut App is a web-based geospatial planning application that lets non-expert health program users create accurate catchment area maps in minutes, estimate target populations, analyze geographic accessibility, and plan supplies for health campaigns. It uses publicly available datasets (population density, road networks, elevation, land cover, waterways, and administrative boundaries) to generate service boundaries that follow natural geographic features, and is available globally with a free registration in under one minute.
• Crosscut App Free Tier The free forever tier of the Crosscut App provides basic catchment area analysis with travel time and population heatmaps, identification of hard-to-reach settlements, supply planning for health campaigns, editable catchment borders, custom points of interest, DHIS2 and Google Earth integration, printable catchment maps, population estimates from WorldPop/Meta/Grid3/Kontur, and own-data uploads. It is available in 55+ countries and 3 languages.
• Crosscut App Enterprise Tier The enterprise tier of the Crosscut App adds custom map layers (disease prevalence, survey data, administrative boundaries), white-label integration with country systems, predicted prevalence heatmaps and survey optimization, advanced forecasting with continuous algorithms, batch-level inventory projections, and supply chain design with diagnostic network optimization and last-mile delivery modeling. It is offered under annual subscription for organizations needing enhanced features.
• Microplan Collector Microplan Collector is a module within the Crosscut App that lets planning teams continue using the email and Excel workflows most health programs already use. It sends microplanning templates via email, tracks completion, automatically flags unusual data, compiles a master plan, and downloads Excel supply plans estimating campaign resources, with population benchmarking at province, district, facility catchment, and community levels.
• ESPEN Geospatial Microplanner The ESPEN Geospatial Microplanner is a white-label version of the Crosscut App built for WHO's Expanded Special Programme for the Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (ESPEN). It provides site-based and settlement-based catchment mapping across 43 countries in WHO's African region without requiring GIS training, distributed through the ESPEN portal at no cost to countries.
• Schisto Mapper Schisto Mapper is a separate application built on the same underlying technology as the Crosscut App, built and maintained by Crosscut for WHO AFRO's ESPEN program. It is purpose-built to help plan schistosomiasis campaigns and is distributed through the ESPEN ecosystem.
• Field-kit Field-kit is an open-source set of tools for faster upfront geospatial data preparation during global health campaigns. It is designed to reduce the time spent on data cleaning and preparation before using the Crosscut App, with source code maintained on Crosscut's GitHub.
• Printed Catchment Area Maps Printed Catchment Area Maps are A5 black-and-white catchment maps generated by the Crosscut App and designed for use in low-connectivity environments where teams lack digital devices. They include QR codes and ground control point markers so that photographed mark-ups can be anchored back to real-world coordinates for digital feedback.
• Crosscut Advisory Services Crosscut Advisory Services are technical consulting engagements delivered to International Development implementing partners, covering supply chain management, technology and analytics, geospatial insights, disease surveillance, and monitoring and evaluation. Engagements include custom catchment mapping, microplanning support, custom DHIS2 integrations, and enterprise configuration, with case studies across Nigeria, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Burundi, Ghana, Uganda, Senegal, and DRC.

Quantifiable outcome

• Supervision coverage improved from 31% to 82% in Liberia's Grand Cape Mount County MDA campaign
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration12 records

AI capability4 records

Feature11 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core, key and minor.

• DHIS2 / HISP Center University of OslocoreTechnology or Integration · 4 May 2026Strategic Technology Partner in DHIS2's inaugural Technology Partnership Program. Crosscut integrates with DHIS2 giving users ability to create catchment area maps, estimate target population, analyze accessibility, plan supplies, and monitor coverage at sub-district level. DHIS2 Maps Academy curriculum includes Crosscut training for Ministry of Health staff from multiple countries.
• WHO ESPENcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWhite-label ESPEN Geospatial Microplanner built for WHO's Expanded Special Programme for Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases. Supports catchment mapping, population analysis, and microplanning workflows across 43 countries in WHO's African region.
• The Carter CenterkeyStrategic or Co-development PartnerOnchocerciasis campaigns in Nigeria across eight states, lymphatic filariasis MDA in Haiti. Crosscut vital for accurate population estimates for medicine procurement, team organization, and coverage calculation.
• SightsaverskeyStrategic or Co-development PartnerSchistosomiasis MDA campaigns in Nigeria (Kogi State) and Guinea-Bissau, Oncho/LF campaigns in Liberia's Grand Cape Mount County. Planning teams trained on ESPEN Geospatial Microplanner for campaign microplanning.
• UNICEFkeyStrategic or Co-development PartnerDigitized electronic microplanning strategies in Ethiopia and Uganda. UNICEF Uganda's Chief Child Survival and Development credits Crosscut with helping governments make wise choices on microplanning approaches.
• USAID PMI Evolve / Abt AssociateskeyStrategic or Co-development PartnerCrosscut selected as resource partner for PMI Evolve Project supporting malaria vector control programs in 21 countries. Five-year project (2022-2027) adapting geospatial planning application for IRS campaigns and ITN distribution.
• GAVIminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSelected as GAVI global partner in supply chain analytics (2022) with prequalification in Ethiopia.
• Christian Blind Mission (CBM)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupported Burundi Ministry of Health onchocerciasis mapping project to update endemicity maps using prevalence survey data and environmental modeling.
• CommCare (Dimagi)keyTechnology or IntegrationAutomated daily integration pulls supervision GPS data from CommCare field data collection, generates updated catchment maps and heatmaps each morning for real-time campaign monitoring.
• ODK CentralkeyTechnology or IntegrationIntegration with ODK Central for automated daily pull of supervision visit GPS coordinates to generate coverage maps during active campaigns.
• Unlimit HealthminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on schistosomiasis control in DRC where teams built health boundaries from hand-drawn maps and local knowledge when official boundaries didn't exist.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• QGIS: Open-source desktop GIS platform widely used by global health GIS specialists for catchment mapping. Emerging player because it is the primary alternative tool Crosscut displaces for non-expert users; both are open-source, but QGIS retains the expertise barrier that Crosscut specifically removes.
• InSTEDD: Global health technology nonprofit building digital tools for disease surveillance, response, and health information systems. Comparable as a technology-focused organization serving similar public health agencies with data and surveillance tooling, though with a broader platform approach rather than catchment-mapping specialization.

Direct peers

• BlueSquare: Health data analytics firm serving ministries of health and global health funders with DHIS2 integration, campaign monitoring, and supply chain analytics. Comparable to Crosscut because both target LMIC health systems, monetize enterprise analytics on top of DHIS2, and serve similar implementing partner customers.
• Akros Research: Global health organization using geospatial surveillance and data analytics to support malaria and NTD programs across sub-Saharan Africa. Directly comparable to Crosscut because both build GIS-driven planning tools for disease campaigns and work with the same ministries of health and donor ecosystem.
• ThinkWell: Health systems consulting and analytics firm supporting LMIC governments on immunization supply chains and health financing. Comparable to Crosscut's advisory business in particular, serving similar funders (Gavi, Gates) and ministries on supply chain design.
• VillageReach: Nonprofit focused on health supply chain optimization and last-mile delivery in low-resource settings. Comparable to Crosscut because both target supply chain diagnostics, immunization logistics, and last-mile health commodity distribution across African ministries of health.
• Dimagi (CommCare): Maker of CommCare, a frontline health data collection platform already integrated with Crosscut. Directly comparable as a global health field-data platform serving ministries of health and NGOs, with overlap in campaign monitoring and supply chain use cases across LMICs.

Broad incumbents

• Esri: Dominant GIS software incumbent whose ArcGIS platform is the traditional tool for catchment mapping and spatial analysis. Broad incumbent because Esri serves the same global health and government customers but as part of a much wider GIS portfolio and at significantly higher cost and complexity.
• CHAI (Clinton Health Access Initiative): Large global health organization operating health supply chain and analytics programs in dozens of LMICs. Broad incumbent because it overlaps with Crosscut's malaria, NTD, and supply chain work but operates as a much larger, multi-vertical organization rather than a specialized geospatial product company.
• Mapbox: Mapping and geospatial platform whose former engineer (Crosscut advisor Matthew Whittemore) helps contextualize the relationship. Broad incumbent providing underlying map tiles, datasets, and visualization tooling that Crosscut builds on top of, with overlap in custom geospatial applications for organizations.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat7 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/crosscutio
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/crosscut

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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