Geospatial Platform for the Trades & Civil Defense Mesh — Community Resilience · Trade IntelligencePatent Pending
folio-pin maps commercial and residential trade work to local maps, creating a searchable record of who built what, where, and when. A two-sided marketplace with built-in circular economy.
Two massive markets. One platform addressing both.
The traditional addressable market - contractors, tradespeople, and service providers competing on Angi, Thumbtack, and HomeAdvisor.
The less competitive angle - the ad spend architects, trades, and craftsmen currently give to Google. folio-pin lets them be found through actual work, not paid keywords.
Unlike competitors relying on hidden algorithms, folio-pin shows real work at real addresses. The pin is either there or it isn't.
Each engine reinforces the others, creating a defensible local network effect.
Customers search for trade work near them. Contractors pin their jobs to be found. Every completed job becomes a verified portfolio piece.
Vinyl waste, tires, scrap metal collected from commercial and residential. Credits earned, spent locally. Money stays in the community.
100-year asset timelines. Who built what, when, with what materials. Verified records that transfer with property ownership.
Municipal permit verification, code enforcement, property assessment. Multi-year contracts with predictable procurement cycles.
Banks, lenders, insurers reaching contractors and homeowners. Construction loans, equipment financing, property investment.
Building the next generation of tradespeople and entrepreneurs through integrated career education.
Pathfinder
"Who built your school?"
Trail Scout
How buildings work
Digital Scout
Document real work
Civic Scout
Business & licensing
Lunar Scout
Investment & economics
Proving the model in the US, then expanding to high-growth markets with large informal trade sectors.
690K+ jobs mapped
12K+ jobs mapped
8K+ jobs mapped
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Additional verticals ready for expansion
Both sides come with intent. Contractors want to be found. Customers want to search.
Pin work. Build portfolio. Get discovered.
Search. Find. Verify. Hire.
Seed round: $1.5M target
Mobile app, API, integrations
Africa pilots, US growth
Team, circular economy logistics
Contractor acquisition
Bootstrapped since attending Tech Raising in Santa Cruz, CA in 2011. Built this working prototype from a 5-year-old Motorola Android phone using v0.dev. Proving the concept doesn't require the capital.
Solo founder since 2019, continuing work started with my late wife and business partner of 44 years. We ran our sign business the same way - 50% deposit, 50% at install. No debt, no excuses.
Built to outlast its founder. A perpetual digital utility for the built environment.
A percentage of commercial ad-tech revenue diverts to a permanent community fund - creating a self-sustaining financial engine that exists independently of its founding team.
Institutional continuity across generations
Training students in Lexington and Marlborough to use geospatial tools to document trade history - transferring 40 years of industry wisdom into digital format.
We aren't just building a map; we are building a mentorship
Descendant of the Massachusetts engineering tradition (Data General). Designing for permanence, not exit.
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