Schmidt Land Surveying

What Schmidt Land Surveying does

Schmidt Land Surveying, Inc. is a privately-held professional land surveying firm founded in 2006 and headquartered in Frisco, Colorado, operating throughout Summit County. The firm offers six core services: Improvement Location Certificates (ILCs), Land Survey Plats, Improvement Survey Plats, Topographic Surveys, ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys, and Construction Surveying. Field data collection is conducted using Trimble one-person total stations, Trimble GPS units, and Trimble Survey Controller handheld computers, while office computation, drafting, and plat production are performed using AutoCAD and Civil 3D. The firm operates as a small team of fewer than ten people, led by founder and President Liz Schmidt, who holds Colorado Professional Surveyor License No. 37047 and also serves as Deputy County Surveyor for Summit County.

The company serves a primarily B2B client base of engineering consulting firms, general contractors, architectural firms, and real estate developers operating in the high-end alpine real estate market of Colorado's Rocky Mountains, alongside individual residential landowners and real estate professionals. Customer testimonials indicate multi-year and multi-decade engagement relationships with named accounts including Martin/Martin Consulting Engineers, Columbine Hills Construction, Synergy Ventures, Breckenridge Lands, and local brokerage clients. Marketing and customer acquisition are driven by professional reputation and word-of-mouth referrals rather than paid digital channels.

The revenue model is project-based professional services fees, with pricing quoted by project scope, property size, and survey type; no pricing is publicly disclosed. Distribution is direct, combining individual-client engagement and sub-contractor work on larger construction projects within a single county geography (Summit County, with some activity in Eagle County). The company is founder-owned with no institutional investors, no disclosed funding history, and no subsidiaries.

Name

Schmidt Land Surveying

Legal name

Schmidt Land Surveying, Inc.

Website

https://schmidtlandsurveying.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Schmidt Land Surveying is a privately-held professional land surveying firm in Frisco, Colorado, founded in 2006, serving Summit County construction, engineering, real estate development, and residential clients with boundary, topographic, ALTA/NSPS, and construction staking surveys using Trimble GPS and AutoCAD/Civil 3D.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Land Surveying Services

NAICS

Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services (541370), Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services (54137)

SIC

Real Estate Agents & Managers (For Others) (6531)

akta.pro primary industry

Forest Inventory, Mapping & Monitoring (GIS/Remote Sensing/MRV) (IMAMAJAB)

Keywords

• Land surveying services
• Boundary surveys
• Topographic surveys
• Construction staking
• ALTA title surveys

Headquarters

HQ city

Frisco

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

Revenue model

1. Professional Surveying Services: Provides professional surveying services including Improvement Location Certificates, Land Survey Plats, Improvement Survey Plats, Topographic Surveys, ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys, and Construction Surveying. Revenue generated through project-based fees for surveying services to individuals, engineering firms, construction firms, and government projects.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Schmidt Land Surveying provides full-service professional land surveying throughout Summit County, Colorado, delivering Improvement Location Certificates, Land Survey Plats, Improvement Survey Plats, Topographic Surveys, ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys, and Construction Surveying. The firm serves engineering, construction, architectural, and land development firms as a sub-contractor while also providing direct consulting to individual residential landowners. Field measurements are captured with Trimble total stations and GPS, with office drafting completed in AutoCAD and Civil 3D.

Product overview

Schmidt Land Surveying is a full-service professional land surveying company serving Summit County, Colorado, founded in 2006. The company operates as a single unified service offering rather than a platform-based architecture, providing six distinct surveying services: Improvement Location Certificates (used in residential real estate transactions), Land Survey Plats (boundary surveys), Improvement Survey Plats (boundary surveys with improvement details), Topographic Surveys (elevation mapping), ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys (commercial properties), and Construction Surveying (pre-construction layout staking). These services cater to individual clients, engineering firms, construction companies, architectural firms, land development companies, and residential landowners. Field work is conducted using Trimble one-person total stations and GPS with Trimble Survey Controller handheld computers, while office computation and drafting are performed using AutoCAD and Civil 3D software.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Improvement Location Certificate (ILC) An Improvement Location Certificate is typically used by mortgage and/or title companies during residential real estate transactions. The ILC shows recorded boundary information and existing improvements (house, fence, driveways) on a parcel, with apparent encroachments noted. Corner monuments are not required, distinguishing it from a property boundary survey.
• Land Survey Plat A boundary survey requiring all property corner monuments to be found or set. Uses recorded plats, deeds, and precise field measurements of existing monuments and field evidence to determine property corner locations. The plat shows the land representation including conflicting boundary evidence or visible encroachments.
• Improvement Survey Plat Similar to a Land Survey Plat but additionally shows improvements such as buildings, fences, walkways, decks, or other visible features on the property.
• Topographic Survey A topographic map gathering elevation data of points on a parcel presented as contour lines, typically using one-foot or two-foot contour intervals. Used by engineers for driveway design, drainage improvement, and infrastructure planning, or by architects to determine optimal new house locations.
• ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey A survey defined by the National Society of Professional Surveyors and American Congress on Surveying & Mapping, often requested for commercial property sales by lenders, corporations, and title companies. Follows more stringent requirements than standard land or improvement survey plats, with Table A requirements checked including topography and flood plain information.
• Construction Surveying Pre-construction surveying that lays out the location of building corners, roads, utilities, or concrete work designed by engineers or architects. Ensures buildings do not encroach over building setbacks, easements, or property lines. Horizontal and vertical information is indicated on lathe or stakes in reference to spikes or rebar.

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Baseline Engineering Corporation: Colorado-headquartered civil engineering and surveying firm with offices across the state. Direct comparable because it delivers boundary, topographic, construction-staking, and ALTA work to private developers and engineering clients in Colorado, including mountain communities.
• Pioneer Surveying & Engineering, LLC: Colorado-based professional land surveying and engineering firm serving Front Range and mountain communities. Direct comparable because it offers the same boundary, topographic, ALTA/NSPS, and construction-staking services Schmidt provides, with similar Trimble-based field workflow.
• Merrick & Company (a Lochner company): Colorado-originated engineering, surveying, and geospatial firm, now part of Lochner. Direct comparable because it provides professional surveying, mapping, and geospatial services for infrastructure, energy, and land development clients in Colorado.
• Drexel Barrell & Co. (a Bowman company): Long-standing Colorado surveying and engineering firm, now part of Bowman. Direct comparable because it serves Colorado developers and constructors with boundary, ALTA, topographic, and construction surveying — overlapping with Schmidt's full-service mountain market.

Broad incumbents

• ESP Associates: National engineering, surveying, and planning firm with Colorado presence. Comparable because it offers the same core surveying and geomatics offerings (boundary, ALTA, topographic, construction staking) at greater scale and across multiple geographies.
• Olsson: National engineering and design firm with Colorado offices providing surveying and geospatial services. Comparable because it competes in the same private-sector boundary, ALTA, and construction-staking market while operating at a much larger scale.
• Bowman Consulting Group: National multi-discipline consulting firm with significant Colorado surveying and engineering operations (including the former Drexel Barrell). Comparable because it serves private developers and constructors with full surveying services and competes against Schmidt for larger Colorado projects.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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