Forerunner
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Location
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Region: California
Country: US
Continent: North America
About
Forerunner is an AI-powered geospatial platform designed for governments to improve efficiency, automate workflows, and centralize critical tasks. It is built for dynamic governments, offering curated insights, trends, and stories to drive resilient communities. The platform showcases industry best practices and features that enable public sector agencies to implement data-driven strategies, real-world success stories, and research-backed reports. Forerunner also highlights security, accessibility, and ongoing support to empower agencies across the United States.
Forerunner provides an AI-powered geospatial platform designed for government agencies to improve efficiency and centralize critical tasks. The software helps public sector clients implement data-driven strategies to build resilient communities by offering curated insights and automated workflows.
Forerunner Industries, Inc.
2019
for_profit
active
Industries
Primary Industry: Business Services
Categories
Funding & Financials
Series A
1500000
private
Investors
Founders
JT White
Susanna Pho
Leadership
Technology Stack
Products
Floodplain Compliance: Software to manage floodplain compliance by consolidating relevant data into property profiles and providing compliance warnings to inform residents and officials.
Disaster Recovery: Tools to document flood damages, provide timely resident information, and expedite recovery efforts using geospatial data and reporting capabilities.
Resident Education: Public-facing features that provide residents with property-level flood risk information and access to important floodplain documents through a linked, real-time updated website.
Data Platform: A dashboard consolidating floodplain datasets and maps from public and private sources, updated in real-time to support floodplain management, disaster recovery, and resilience planning.
Substantial Damage Estimate (SDE) Feature: A tool that applies FEMA's SDE logic to assess property damage and generate substantial damage estimates within a centralized platform.
Share Elevation Certificates (ECs) Feature: Functionality to share Elevation Certificates with surveyors, developers, and property owners via direct links, including issue highlights for streamlined communication.