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Utility AI Mapping vs Traditional Utility Mapping

Remember the days before we all had Google Maps on our phones? We can time-travel back to the days of printing out MapQuest directions, or further back to the 80s when you had to go buy a physical map and chart your course to your destination before you left your driveway.

AI Innovation

Chris Garafola

July 7, 2025

Utility AI Mapping: Better Data and Better Decisions with Amir Hofman

Utility AI Mapping: Better Data and Better Decisions with Amir Hofman

Our Utility AI Platform is a fundamentally new approach to understanding, consuming, and accessing utility data. Traditional utility mapping has relied on fragmented records, outdated as-builts, and manual field investigation. It’s hard to know what’s really out there without exhaustive, inefficient, time-consuming research, and even then there are still unknowns. 

Product

Chris Garafola

April 17, 2025

Smarter Infrastructure Planning with Utility Intelligence

Kaustabh Page, Senior Product Director at 4M, sat down with me recently for an episode of “Convos with Chris.” We discussed the core principles guiding his product decisions and how those principles shape everything from the user interface to the data validation process of 4M’s Utility AI platform. 

Product

Chris Garafola

May 2, 2025

Here's What's New in 4M: May 2025

You asked. We delivered. From Improved admin dashboards to easier ways to share folders and export utility insights, this month's updates are packed with upgrades designed to give you more control, visibility, and collaboration in 4Map.

Product

Chris Garafola

June 2, 2025

The Future of Utility Mapping, AI Innovations, and Winning with 4M

During his military service, 4M Analytics Co-Founder and CEO Itzik Malka was trained to locate and dispose of buried explosives. That experience sparked Malka’s interest in the subsurface, which contains an underground network of man-made infrastructure powering the lives of every American.

Product

Chris Garafola

January 22, 2025

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Utility AI Mapping vs Traditional Utility Mapping

Remember the days before we all had Google Maps on our phones? We can time-travel back to the days of printing out MapQuest directions, or further back to the 80s when you had to go buy a physical map and chart your course to your destination before you left your driveway.

Chris Garafola

July 7, 2025

AI Innovation

Here's What's New in 4M: June 2025

More control? Check. More transparency? Check. More data coverage? Double-check. This June, we packed 4M with smarter admin tools, easier ways to verify sources, and expanded data coverage to Virgiina—so you can spend less time guessing and more time building.

Chris Garafola

July 1, 2025

Company News

How CMA Unlocked 5X ROI with 4M

Chen Moore & Associates (CMA) is a mid-sized Florida-based ENR 500 firm, coming up on its 40th year in business. Originally a water and wastewater consulting firm, it has grown to provide a comprehensive suite of civil engineering services, including transportation, land development, water resources, and general civil engineering.

Chris Garafola

June 26, 2025

Customer Story

Here's What's New in 4M: May 2025

You asked. We delivered. From Improved admin dashboards to easier ways to share folders and export utility insights, this month's updates are packed with upgrades designed to give you more control, visibility, and collaboration in 4Map.

Chris Garafola

June 2, 2025

Product

How Kimley-Horn Used 4M to Win Aspen Airport Contract

Kimley-Horn is one of the country’s premier engineering, planning, and design consulting firms. It started as a traffic organization in North Carolina and has grown to more than 8,000 employees in more than 120 offices across the US. It provides full services across a range of disciplines and prides itself on exceptional client service and creative solutions.

Chris Garafola

May 27, 2025

Customer Story

April Roundup 2025

They say ‘April showers bring May flowers’—but here at 4M, those showers have blossomed into a garden of fresh features, bold launches, and quick‑win improvements to help you plan smarter, move faster and work safer.

Chris Garafola

May 6, 2025

Product

Smarter Infrastructure Planning with Utility Intelligence

Kaustabh Page, Senior Product Director at 4M, sat down with me recently for an episode of “Convos with Chris.” We discussed the core principles guiding his product decisions and how those principles shape everything from the user interface to the data validation process of 4M’s Utility AI platform. 

Chris Garafola

May 2, 2025

Product

Utility AI Mapping: Better Data and Better Decisions with Amir Hofman

Our Utility AI Platform is a fundamentally new approach to understanding, consuming, and accessing utility data. Traditional utility mapping has relied on fragmented records, outdated as-builts, and manual field investigation. It’s hard to know what’s really out there without exhaustive, inefficient, time-consuming research, and even then there are still unknowns. 

Chris Garafola

April 17, 2025

Product

How 4M Enables LAN to Plan Faster and Scope Projects More Accurately

Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, Inc. (LAN) is a full-service civil engineering firm. Founded in 1935 in Houston, they’ve grown from a small local firm to a national leader in the heavy civil infrastructure engineering industry. Among other initiatives, LAN is currently working on infrastructure projects with TXDOT across Texas. 

Chris Garafola

April 9, 2025

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