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Software that has been to work.

Forty runs the business side of a survey firm: estimates, jobs, the field map, photos, and time.

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Developed and used every day by a working survey firm.

The customer’s quote on a phone: services to approve, a line included at $0.00, a line priced later, a discount, then sign and approve
The customer’s quote, sent with Forty · open the sample

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The office runs on a patchwork.

Six things, and none of them knows it works for a survey firm. Forty gives the office the treatment the crew gives a boundary: measured, bounded, recorded, closed.

A truck seat: a field book, a roll of pink flagging, a phone face down, coffee

  1. 01

    The work board

    Where the job stands, if someone updated it.

    In Forty:Jobs, lead to delivered

  2. 02

    Quote templates

    A Word file per quote. Zero and blank look the same.

    In Forty:Estimates

  3. 03

    Email

    Sent. Opened? Approved? Check the inbox, then call.

    In Forty:Approvals and follow-ups

  4. 04

    A photo app

    Another seat to pay for. Photos still stuck on a phone.

    In Forty:Site photos

  5. 05

    A time app

    Hours, but not against the job.

    In Forty:Time, rolled up to the job

  6. 06

    The whiteboard

    Who is where this week. Erased on Friday.

    In Forty:Every job on one map

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What the patchwork costs now.

The tools firms reach for, at their own published list prices. Set your headcount and change any line.

In the field7

  1. The work board

    Office seats

    $720(5 seats × $12) × 12

    monday.com/pricing · vendor pricing page · checked Sep 18, 2026

  2. Quotes and e-sign

    Office seats

    $1,140(5 seats × $19) × 12

    pandadoc.com/pricing · cross-checked · checked Sep 18, 2026

  3. Job-site photos

    Everyone, office and field

    $4,584($34 + 12 seats × $29) × 12

    companycam.com/pricing · vendor pricing page · checked Sep 18, 2026

  4. Time tracking

    Everyone, office and field

    $1,680($20 + 12 seats × $10) × 12

    quickbooks.intuit.com/time-tracking/pricing · vendor pricing page · checked Sep 18, 2026

What the patchwork costs now

$8,124a year

$677 a month. That’s before the phone calls.

Published list prices, billed annually, checked Sep 18, 2026. One tool per line: pick the one you use, change the seats, or leave a line out. This is what the stack costs today. It is not a Forty price.

None of these tools knows a line to be quoted from a zero, a state plane zone from an address, or a found monument from a duplicate.

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Built for survey work, not adapted to it.

The difference is in the details a generic tool never had a reason to learn.

A brass monument cap set in a sidewalk
A generic toolForty
Price

One “price” field.

A price, included at no charge, to be quoted, a discount tied to the work that earns it, and an hourly rate kept out of the total.

Approval

“Reply to this email to approve.”

Opened, approved, and signed on a phone. Three properties become three tracked jobs.

Follow-up

A reminder date that fires at midnight.

Timed from the real send, inside the customer’s business hours.

Photos

Saved when there’s signal.

An ID on the phone before signal. The phone keeps its copy until the office has it.

Location

An address field.

Plotted in the job’s own state plane zone. A portfolio gets a lettered pin per property.

Monuments

Two points at one corner: delete the duplicate.

Found again is proof the corner survived.

T4N R2W · five modules

The business side of a survey firm, held to survey standard.

M1 · Estimates & approvals

Zero is a price. Blank is not.

Price it, send it, know it was opened, get it signed on a phone.

Replaces

  • The Word quote template
  • The e-sign app
  • The “did you get my quote” call
The estimate builder: five services, each priced, with a portfolio total
All estimates on one board, by status
The customer’s quote on a phone, ready for approval
Approve and sign on a phone, with the timeline below

What you get

Four kinds of line, kept apart.
A price, a line included at no charge, a line still to be quoted, and a discount tied to the work that earns it. Hourly lines show the rate and stay out of the total.
One yes, three jobs.
A quote for three properties becomes three tracked jobs the moment the customer approves. Follow-ups go out in their business hours, not yours.
A phone face up on a kitchen table in morning light

In the day · 21:04

A realtor approves three lots from a phone at 9 pm. You have three jobs in the morning.

Priced by the line, not the lot.

$1,475

Illustrative rungs. Drag either one. Your firm sets its own prices.

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Addressed to the company. Signed by a person.

This is what your customer gets. It carries your firm’s name, not ours. Approve it and sign with a finger or a mouse.

  1. 1
    A price. $1,850.00, for 1,320 feet of line.
  2. 2
    Zero is a price. Included at no charge is a real line, and it says so. It is never a blank.
  3. 3
    Blank is not. To be quoted. It stays out of the total until someone prices it.
  4. 4
    A discount is its own line. Tied to the work that earns it, so it can’t be kept while that work is dropped.
  5. 5
    A rate is a rate. Hourly lines show the rate and never land in a total.
  6. 6
    Three properties, three jobs. Each becomes its own tracked job the moment they say yes.

Open it full screen Send it to someone in the office. It works on a phone.

Hartline Land Surveying, PLLC

311 Depot Street · Alder Creek, KS · (620) 555-0142

Sent Sep 16 · Opened Sep 17 EST-26-1127

Boundary surveys for three properties

Addressed to
Prairie Hollow Holdings, LLC
Approver
Dana Whitfield, Acquisitions

3 propertiesEach becomes its own job on approval.

A

1204 N. County Road 9

Pt. NE¼ SW¼, Sec. 12, T4N, R2W

  • Boundary survey1,320 ft of line, 4 corners
    $1,850.00
  • Corner monuments, set where missingCapped iron pins, up to 4
    Includedat no charge
B

1210 N. County Road 9

Pt. NW¼ SE¼, Sec. 12, T4N, R2W

  • Boundary survey980 ft of line, 4 corners
    $1,475.00
  • Discount · shared corner with AOne corner is already surveyed. Applies while A is approved.
    −$150.00
C

17 Orchard Lane

Lot 6, Orchard Hills Addition

  • Boundary survey860 ft of line, 4 corners
    $1,300.00
  • Elevation certificateTo be quoted, after the flood zone determination
    To be quoted
  • Fence-line staking, if requestedA rate. Not in the total.
    $165.00per crew hour
Subtotal
$4,625.00
Discount
−$150.00
Total
$4,475.00

One line to be quoted and one hourly rate are not in the total. Valid through Oct 16, 2026.

Approving opens three jobs, one per property. You sign on the next step.

Sent with

Fictional firm, people, and addresses.

M2 · Field-to-finish map

A monument found again is proof, not a duplicate.

The crew’s field codes, drawn as linework before a drafter opens the file.

Replaces

  • Field review that waits for CAD
  • A dot map that draws every line the same
Field-to-finish linework drawn from the crew’s field codes, over the parcel map

What you get

Every code in its own style.
Property corners, right of way, fences, and walls each draw the way a plat would. Retired codes still draw, because old jobs used them.
Found again is found.
A pin one crew set and another crew found years later is two true observations of a monument that survived, not a duplicate to clean up.
A fence corner post in open rangeland, pink flagging on the lath

In the day · 11:40

The points come in from the field. The PLS opens the linework on a laptop, sees the fence 1.8 feet over the line, and calls the crew while they’re still on site.

JOB-26-0317-A · 1204 N. County Road 9 · Field-to-finish

    M3 · Jobs & the map

    Each job plots in its own state plane zone.

    Every job, from lead to delivered, in one list and on one map.

    Replaces

    • The work board
    • The whiteboard
    • “Where is that job?” from memory
    Every job on one map

    What you get

    The right projection, per job.
    Some zones are a cone and some are a cylinder. The wrong one moves a point hundreds of feet without an error. Forty plots each job in its own.
    A pin per property.
    A portfolio spread over miles gets a lettered pin for each property, not one average pin in a field between them.
    A new subdivision in graded dirt, lot corners flagged

    In the day · 08:15

    A call comes in for a lot on County Road 9. The map shows your crew already set pins on the lot next door.

    A job opened from the map, with its details and site photos

    Kansas South · Lambert conformal conic · JOB-26-0317

    A B C 0400 ft

    Each pin in its own zone.

    M4 · Site photos

    The photo has an ID before it has signal.

    Photos that can’t get lost in a dead zone or land on the wrong job.

    Replaces

    • The paid job-photo app
    • Photos stuck on someone’s phone
    A site photo filed to its job, opened in the viewer
    Taking a site photo on the phone, filed to the job

    What you get

    Numbered on the phone.
    Every shot gets its ID before the network is touched, so a dropped connection can retry without losing or doubling it. The phone keeps its copy until the office has it.
    Distance from the job, in the camera.
    The crew sees how far they are from the job while they shoot, so the wrong property gets caught on site.
    A work pickup on a gravel road, far from signal

    In the day · 14:10

    The crew is in a dead zone at the back corner. The photos are still there when the truck hits the highway.

    A capped iron pin at a field edge, lath and pink flagging beside it
    Capped iron pin · NE corner · lath 4 ft N

    PH-26-08301

    JOB-26-0317-A · 1204 N. County Road 9

    41 ft from job09:14:06

    No signal · queued

    A photo from a dead zone. Same ID before and after the upload, so nothing is lost and nothing is doubled.

    M5 · Time

    Clock in to the job, not the day.

    Time on the job, from the phone, that rolls up to the job and the person.

    Replaces

    • The time app
    • Timesheets that don’t tie to a job
    Time by person for the week, split by job
    Time entries by day, each against a job
    Clocked in to a job on the phone

    What you get

    Runaway timers get flagged.
    A timer left running over a weekend is held out of the averages until someone fixes it.
    Hourly work kept apart.
    Hourly and day-rate jobs are kept apart from fixed-price work, so dollars per hour never divides a price by the hours that set it.
    A tailgate at first light: flagging, lath, a hammer, and a bag of pins

    In the day · Fri 16:30

    Someone left the clock running on the Mill Creek topo Tuesday. Friday’s numbers don’t show a 41-hour day.

    Time · Thu, Sep 18

    Crew 2

    JOB-26-0317-A

    Boundary · 1204 N. County Road 9

    02:14:36

    Running since 07:48

    JOB-26-0309

    Stakeout · 7 Birch Court

    1.25 h

    06:30 to 07:45

    JOB-26-0288

    Topo · Mill Creek Road

    Runaway timer Held out of the averages until someone fixes it.

    41:10:12

    Since Tue 16:52

    14.50 h

    JOB-26-0317-A, 3 people

    31.25 h

    Crew 2, this week

    Hours roll up to the job and to the person. The runaway timer stays visible and stays out of the math.

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    The business side. Not CAD.

    Forty isn’t a drafting package or a field data collector. It sits beside Carlson, Trimble, and Civil 3D, not in place of them.

    Stays where it is
    Drafting, the plat, the data collector, the total station.
    Comes into Forty
    The quote, the approval, the job, the map, the photos, the hours.
    A plat unrolled on a desk at dusk

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    • Developed and used every day by a working survey firm.
    • Five modules at launch: estimates and approvals, the field-to-finish map, jobs and the map, site photos, and time.
    Pink flagging tied to a branch in open woods

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