Sage Fire Solutions, LLC

What Sage Fire Solutions, LLC does

Sage Fire Solutions, LLC is a privately held professional services firm founded in 2018 and headquartered in Medford, Oregon, that provides training, consulting, investigation, and expert witness services focused on fire codes and fire protection. The company is operated by its two principal members, Don Hickman and Margueritte Hickman, who collectively bring more than 60 years of fire service experience, including tenure as a Division Chief of Fire & Life Safety/Fire Marshal and a Deputy Fire Marshal. Service offerings are organized into two core lines — training and consulting — alongside two specialized add-ons: drone-based aerial photography and expert witness work. Sage Fire Solutions targets fire and building code officials, fire investigators, design professionals, developers, insurance professionals, and the legal community, with primary customer concentration in Southern Oregon. The firm holds ICC Preferred Provider status for fire code training, Oregon Private Investigator licenses, and FAA UAS Part 107 Remote Pilot certifications, with Margueritte Hickman also holding ICC Fire Inspector II and IAAI-CFI certifications.

The company generates revenue through professional services engagements delivered under quote-based pricing, with no publicly disclosed rates. Its go-to-market is sales-led and direct: prospective clients are routed through a website contact form, email ([email protected]), or phone (541 941 2681), and services are delivered onsite at client locations or online. Distribution channels are organic and lean — a LinkedIn page, a Facebook page, and a simple WordPress website — with no paid acquisition, no content marketing, no partnerships, and no intermediaries. The firm is bootstrapped, founder-owned, and has no disclosed funding, no parent company, no subsidiaries, and no mergers or acquisitions. Its technology stack is non-proprietary: commercial UAS 107 drones with 4K video capability are the only specialized technical tooling, supporting aerial documentation for structure safety assessment, burn pattern identification, crime scene documentation, and construction project monitoring. The business model is essentially a credentialed expert-pair consultancy monetizing individual billable hours and project engagements across a regional niche.

Name

Sage Fire Solutions, LLC

Legal name

Sage Fire Solutions, LLC

Website

https://sagefiresolutions.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Sage Fire Solutions, LLC is a 2-person, founder-operated professional services firm in Medford, Oregon that delivers fire code training, consulting, fire investigation, expert witness, and aerial photography services to code officials, developers, insurance professionals, and the legal community across Southern Oregon.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Fire Safety Consulting & Training

akta.pro primary industry

Fire Sprinkler & Standpipe Systems (Design/Install/Service/Testing) (BPABAHAB)

Keywords

• Fire code training
• Fire investigation services
• Fire protection consulting
• Expert witness services
• Aerial fire photography

Headquarters

HQ city

Medford

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel

Revenue model

1. Training Services: Fire code training and fire investigation training delivered onsite and online. Tailored training programs for organizations to maintain certifications and meet credentialing requirements.
2. Consulting Services: Consulting in fire codes, land use planning, legal issues, and fire investigation needs. Includes residential and commercial development project support from a fire marshal perspective.
3. Fire Investigation Services: Fire investigation services specializing in fire protection systems and fire/building code research. Services include evidence collection for criminal or civil court proceedings as Oregon Private Investigators.
4. Aerial Photography Services: Aerial videography and photography using commercial UAS 107 drones with 4K technology. Used for structure safety assessment, burn pattern identification, crime scene documentation, and construction project monitoring.
5. Expert Witness Services: Expert witness services for fire investigations, fire code topics, and residential/commercial building projects, specializing in fire department access and fire protection systems.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Sage Fire Solutions, LLC provides onsite and online fire code training, fire investigation training, fire code consulting, fire investigation services, aerial drone photography, and expert witness services for fire-related legal matters. The firm serves code officials, design professionals, developers, insurance professionals, and the legal community with services rooted in over 60 years of combined fire service experience from its two principal members.

Product overview

Sage Fire Solutions, LLC is a training and consulting services company that offers a unified portfolio of fire safety services. The core offerings include Fire Code Training and Fire Investigation Training (delivered onsite and online), complemented by Fire Code Consulting and Fire Investigation Services for code compliance and evidence collection. Add-on specialized services include Aerial Photography (using UAS/drone technology) and Expert Witness services for legal proceedings. All services draw on 60+ years of combined experience from founders Don and Margueritte Hickman.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fire Code Training Onsite and online training in fire codes tailored for fire and building code officials, design professionals, facility managers, and insurance professionals. As an ICC Preferred Provider, the firm helps maintain certifications and works with organizational credentialing requirements.
• Fire Investigation Training
• Fire Code Consulting
• Fire Investigation Services
• Aerial Photography Services
• Expert Witness Services

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Jensen Hughes: Jensen Hughes is a large global fire protection engineering and consulting firm offering fire code consulting, fire investigation, and code training services. It competes directly with Sage Fire's full-stack fire code, investigation, and consulting practice, but at significantly greater scale and geographic reach.
• Code Consultants, Inc. (CCI): CCI is a fire protection and life safety engineering consultancy specializing in fire code and building code consulting for design professionals and developers. It is a direct peer to Sage Fire's fire code consulting practice serving architects, engineers, and developers on permitting and code-compliance matters.
• Donan: Donan is a fire origin and cause investigation firm providing cause determination, evidence collection, and expert testimony for insurance and legal clients. It is a direct peer to Sage Fire's fire investigation and expert witness services, focused on insurance and legal community use cases.
• EFI Global: EFI Global is a multi-disciplinary forensic engineering and investigation firm with a dedicated fire origin and cause practice and expert witness services. It directly parallels Sage Fire's fire investigation, code research, and courtroom support offering, but with far greater geographic coverage.
• Telgian Corporation: Telgian provides fire protection engineering, life safety consulting, and code compliance services to architects, developers, and facility owners. It is directly comparable to Sage Fire's code consulting and fire protection system advisory work, though Telgian operates nationally with a much larger engineering bench.

Others

• National Fire Protection Association (NFPA): NFPA is the standards-developing organization for fire and life safety codes (NFPA 1, NFPA 13, NFPA 25, etc.) that form the substantive basis of Sage Fire's consulting and training content. It is an enabler and ecosystem reference point rather than a direct competitor.
• International Code Council (ICC): ICC is the standards and credentialing body that publishes the codes Sage Fire teaches and administers the Preferred Provider program through which Sage Fire delivers its training. It is an ecosystem partner/standards body rather than a competitor, but central to the firm's go-to-market motion.

Broad incumbents

• J.S. Held: J.S. Held is a global consulting firm offering forensic engineering, fire investigation, and expert witness services as part of a broad advisory platform. It competes for the same legal and insurance expert witness engagements as Sage Fire, but with national reach and many adjacent practice areas.
• Rimkus Consulting Group: Rimkus is a broad forensic engineering and consulting firm with fire and explosion investigation capabilities within a much wider portfolio (structural, mechanical, electrical failures). It overlaps with Sage Fire on the fire investigation and expert witness axis but operates as a multi-discipline incumbent rather than a fire-only specialist.
• Exponent: Exponent is a scientific and engineering consulting firm with fire and explosion analysis, code compliance, and expert testimony practices. It serves similar legal, insurance, and design professional clients as Sage Fire, but at far greater scale and with multi-disciplinary technical resources.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

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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