What Certified Survey Co does

Certified Survey, Inc. (operating as Certified Survey Co) is a professional land surveying firm headquartered in Park Ridge, Illinois, at 1440 Renaissance Drive, Suite 140 inside The Pinnacle building. Founded in 1960, the company provides five core survey services to the Chicagoland area spanning Cook, Lake, and DuPage counties: ALTA/ACSM Surveys for commercial real estate transactions, Boundary Surveys for property line identification, Condominium Surveys, Topographic Surveys for site planning, and Subdivision Surveys for parcel division. Surveyors are Illinois-registered professionals, and the firm emphasizes personal service, prompt turnaround, and direct client communication.

The company operates on a project-based professional services revenue model. Fees are quoted individually based on parcel size, shape, terrain, vegetation, accessibility, and the existence of reliable survey monumentation, with the surveyor providing an approximate cost estimate before commencing work. The go-to-market is sales-led and direct: customers initiate contact via the company website (certifiedsurvey.com), phone (847-296-6900), fax, or email ([email protected]). There are no intermediaries, digital marketplaces, or resellers, and no pricing tiers are publicly listed.

The firm employs 8 people and serves a mixed customer base including individual property owners and buyers, lending institutions requiring surveys for mortgage decisions, and real estate professionals such as attorneys, title insurers, realtors, architects, and engineers. The business is privately held with no disclosed institutional ownership, no funding rounds, and no M&A, partnership, or leadership change activity in the available record.

Name

Certified Survey Co

Legal name

Certified Survey, Inc.

Website

https://certifiedsurvey.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1960

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Certified Survey, Inc. is a Park Ridge, Illinois-based professional land surveying firm founded in 1960 that delivers ALTA/ACSM, boundary, condominium, topographic, and subdivision surveys to property owners, lenders, and real estate professionals across the Cook, Lake, and DuPage counties of the Chicagoland area on a project-fee basis.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Park Ridge

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Land Surveying Services: One-time project fees for surveying services. Fees are quoted based on the size and shape of the parcel of land, terrain and vegetation, accessibility, and existence of reliable survey monumentation. The surveyor provides an approximate cost estimate prior to commencing work.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Certified Survey, Inc. is a professional land surveying firm that provides five core survey services—ALTA/ACSM Surveys, Boundary Surveys, Condominium Surveys, Topographic Surveys, and Subdivision Surveys—to property owners, real estate professionals, and lending institutions across Cook, Lake, and DuPage counties in the Chicagoland area. Services are delivered by Illinois-registered professional surveyors and are priced on a per-project basis, with each engagement scoped to the size, terrain, accessibility, and monumentation of the parcel.

Product overview

Certified Survey, Inc. is a land surveying company offering a portfolio of surveying services as a single unified service offering. The company provides five core survey types: ALTA/ACSM Surveys (for commercial real estate), Boundary Surveys (property line identification), Condominium Surveys, Topographic Surveys, and Subdivision Surveys. These services are offered to clients in the Chicagoland area (Cook, Lake, and DuPage counties) and are delivered by a team of professional land surveyors with personal attention to each client.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ALTA/ACSM Surveys

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Pix4D: Photogrammetry software provider enabling drone and terrestrial imagery to be converted into survey-grade maps, point clouds, and topographic surfaces. Represents a technology pathway that allows competitors to deliver mapping outputs Certified Survey currently produces via traditional field methods.
• DroneDeploy: Drone-based aerial mapping and analytics platform used by surveying and construction firms to automate topographic, volumetric, and progress-mapping outputs. A technology disruptor that competes with traditional survey workflows for portions of Certified Survey's topographic and subdivision service lines.

Broad incumbents

• Kimley-Horn: Major U.S. planning, engineering, and surveying firm with offices across multiple states offering boundary, topographic, and ALTA surveys to commercial real estate clients. Competes for larger survey assignments that exceed Certified Survey's capacity.
• Stantec: Global professional services firm with a substantial surveying, mapping, and geospatial practice supporting real estate, infrastructure, and environmental projects. Competes for the same commercial and institutional survey work as Certified Survey, but as one capability among many.
• WSP Global: Global engineering consultancy operating a large land surveying and mapping practice alongside its broader infrastructure and real estate services. Overlaps with Certified Survey on boundary, topographic, and ALTA work for large commercial and public-sector clients.
• Langan Engineering & Environmental Services: Large multi-discipline engineering and environmental consulting firm with a significant land surveying practice serving developers, attorneys, and lenders. Provides overlapping boundary and ALTA survey services but as part of a much broader engineering portfolio.

Direct peers

• Bowman Consulting Group: National consulting firm delivering land surveying, civil engineering, and geospatial services to commercial, residential, and public-sector clients. Overlaps directly with Certified Survey's ALTA, boundary, topographic, and subdivision survey lines, but at materially larger scale.
• Civil & Environmental Consultants (CEC): Multi-disciplinary firm providing land surveying alongside engineering and environmental services to real estate, energy, and infrastructure clients. Comparable in the survey portion of its offering, with similar boundary, topographic, and ALTA survey capabilities, though operating at much greater scale.
• Spicer Group: Midwest-based engineering, surveying, and planning firm providing boundary, ALTA, topographic, and construction-staking surveys to municipalities, developers, and private clients. Directly comparable to Certified Survey in service offering, customer mix, and reliance on professional-license surveyor expertise.
• Manhard Consulting: Illinois-headquartered civil engineering and land surveying firm offering boundary, topographic, ALTA, and construction surveying services across the Midwest. Closely comparable in service mix, customer base (developers, title companies, lenders, architects), and regional focus to Certified Survey.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/certified-survey-co

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 →

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