What DRG does

DRG Inc is a family-owned Professional Corporation headquartered in Camarillo, California, that has delivered land surveying services across Southern California since 1989. The firm offers a portfolio of six core land surveying services — ALTA/ACSM, Boundary, Design, Topographic, Subdivision, and Construction Survey — and has extended the catalog with three add-on capabilities: Utility Investigation (including subsurface pot-holing), Feasibility Studies, and SWPPP/WQMP regulatory inspections performed by a registered Water Pollution Control Manager. Its underlying technology stack consists of GPS receivers and robotic total stations used for high-precision measurement, mapping, and construction staking workflows.

The firm serves two primary customer segments in roughly equal measure: a public-sector segment of municipalities and government agencies (named clients include the Cities of Los Angeles, Camarillo, Glendale, and Westlake Village) and a private-sector segment comprising developers, contractors, architects, and individual homeowners (named clients include Walgreens, CVS, Richard Meier Architects, Evergreen Devco, and others). Revenue is generated on a per-job, quote-based professional services model with no publicly disclosed pricing, and client engagement is initiated either by phone ((805) 787-3945) or through the firm's static corporate website (drginc.com), which serves as the only documented marketing channel.

DRG operates as a small privately held firm (51–100 employees) with no disclosed institutional investors, no parent company, no documented M&A activity, no leadership transitions, and no geographic expansion beyond Southern California. The company does not hold patents, certifications beyond the WPCM registration, or any disclosed AI/ML capabilities, and its technology is best characterized as modern but conventional professional surveying equipment rather than a proprietary platform.

Name

DRG

Legal name

DRG Inc

Website

https://drginc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

DRG Inc is a family-owned professional surveying firm founded in 1989 that provides GPS-based boundary, topographic, construction, and regulatory inspection services to municipalities, developers, architects, and homeowners across Southern California.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Camarillo

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, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Per-job surveying service fees: DRG Inc quotes each surveying engagement on a per-job basis after scoping needs, charging for professional surveying services (boundary, ALTA/ACSM, topographic, design, subdivision, construction, utility investigation, feasibility studies, and SWPPP/WQMP inspections). Pricing is quote-based and not publicly listed.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

DRG Inc is a Southern California Professional Corporation founded in 1989 that delivers land surveying, mapping, and construction layout services to public and private sector clients. Its portfolio spans ALTA/ACSM, boundary, design, topographic, subdivision, and construction surveys, supplemented by utility investigation, feasibility studies, and SWPPP/WQMP inspections, performed with GPS and robotic total station equipment.

Product overview

DRG Inc offers a single unified professional surveying service portfolio (rather than a modular software platform), consisting of six core land surveying offerings — ALTA/ACSM Survey, Boundary Survey, Design Survey, Topographic Survey, Subdivision Survey, and Construction Survey — supplemented by three add-on service modules (Utility Investigation, Feasibility Studies, and SWPPP/WQMP Inspections), with Job Estimates acting as a supporting quotation service. The core surveys form the primary deliverable set produced for developers, contractors, architects, municipalities, and individual homeowners, while the add-ons extend the offering into subsurface utility mapping, regulatory feasibility research, and construction-phase environmental compliance inspections.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ALTA/ACSM Survey A survey made for the purpose of supplying a title company and lender with survey and location data necessary for issuing American Land Title Association or Extended Coverage Title Insurance. Used by title companies, lenders, and parties to commercial real estate transactions.
• Boundary Survey A survey conducted for the purpose of locating corners, boundary lines, and/or easements of a given parcel of land. Used by property owners, developers, and attorneys needing parcel definition.
• Design Survey A combination of boundary and topographic surveys prepared for the creation of a site plan used for designing improvements or developments. Used by engineers, architects, and developers during the design phase.
• Topographic Survey A survey that locates topographic features — natural or man-made — such as buildings, improvements, fences, elevations, trees, streams, and contours of the land. Required by government agencies or used by engineers and architects for design of improvements.
• Subdivision Survey The subdivision of a tract of land into smaller parcels, showing orientation and survey data on a map, prepared in conformance with local ordinance and the Subdivision Map Act. Used by land developers and municipalities subdividing parcels.
• Construction Survey Construction staking to establish the correct location of structures shown on improvement plans for constructing roads, buildings, utilities, and other improvements. Used by contractors and developers during construction.
• Utility Investigation Depth-of-investigation service ranging from City/Utility Company records research to pot holing to determine physical locations of subsurface utilities. Used by developers, contractors, and engineers needing to locate underground utilities before excavation.
• Feasibility Studies Research, investigations, and meetings to determine the costs and approach of improvements with local governing agencies. Used by developers, property owners, and architects evaluating project viability and entitlements.
• SWPPP/WQMP Inspections Site inspections conducted during construction by a registered Water Pollution Control Manager to meet criteria outlined in Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPP) and/or Water Quality Management Plans (WQMP); inspections can be required by local authorities to continue after construction is complete, with non-compliance fines up to $25,000 per day. Used by contractors, developers, and municipalities needing regulatory environmental compliance during construction.

Named customers16 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Stantec: Global engineering, architecture, and environmental services firm that includes surveying and geospatial services within its portfolio. Comparable through its surveying practice for public infrastructure and land development, though it operates at much greater scale and breadth than DRG.
• Michael Baker International: Large national engineering, consulting, and surveying firm serving federal, state, and municipal infrastructure clients. Comparable as a surveying and mapping services provider, though significantly larger and broader than DRG — typically a competitor on larger public-works RFPs.
• AECOM: Global infrastructure consulting firm with surveying, geospatial, and construction-services capabilities embedded in its design and engineering practices. Comparable as a broad incumbent surveying services provider to large public and private clients, even though it competes with DRG primarily on large multi-disciplinary bids.
• NV5 Global: Technical engineering and consulting firm offering surveying, mapping, and geospatial services alongside environmental and infrastructure capabilities. Comparable through surveying and SWPPP/environmental compliance services for infrastructure and development projects in the Western U.S.

Direct peers

• Huitt-Zollars: Full-service engineering, surveying, and architecture firm with a strong presence in California and the Western U.S. Comparable on surveying, construction staking, and infrastructure design services for municipalities and developers — overlapping with DRG's core and add-on offerings.
• Psomas: California-headquartered professional services firm providing surveying, mapping, engineering, and environmental services across the Western U.S. Direct peer because it competes head-to-head with DRG in Southern California on boundary, topographic, ALTA, construction staking, and SWPPP work for municipalities and private developers.
• David Evans and Associates: Employee-owned surveying, engineering, and planning firm with offices throughout the western U.S. Comparable because it offers the same land surveying and mapping services DRG provides (boundary, topographic, construction, ALTA) and serves a similar mix of public agencies and private developers.
• Fuscoe Engineering: Irvine, California-based civil engineering, surveying, and GIS firm serving public and private clients throughout Southern California. Direct peer given overlapping service lines (ALTA, boundary, topographic, construction staking) and the same Southern California geography and public-sector customer base.
• Bowman Consulting Group: National engineering, surveying, environmental, and planning consulting firm with active California operations. Comparable because surveying and construction-staking services for municipalities and private developers are a core offering, putting Bowman in direct competition with DRG across Southern California.

Regional players

• CR England Surveying: Utah-headquartered land surveying firm serving the Mountain West with boundary, topographic, ALTA, and construction-staking services. Comparable as a regional land-surveying peer with similar service mix and customer base, though it does not directly compete in DRG's Southern California geography.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about DRG