Campus, research & mission mapping — self-hosted
Campus operations, academic research and mission mapping for universities, schools, nonprofits and NGOs — over your own data, self-hosted and sovereign, and explorable in plain language. No per-seat cloud fees.
On the roadmap — delivered on requestResearch and campus data deserve their own platform
Universities, schools and research groups need to serve spatial data and teach with it — without per-seat cloud fees or sending research data off-site.
An education & research suite
A sovereign, self-hosted GIS backend for teaching, research and mission work — with uncapped users, so you can share widely without per-seat licensing.
Campus Operations
Buildings, assets, space and safety on one campus map.
Research Data Serving
Publish research spatial data as ArcGIS-compatible services for analysis and sharing.
Teaching & Open Science
A self-hosted GIS backend for courses and open-science data — no per-seat fees.
Student & Field Projects
A sovereign platform for student field data and capstone projects.
Social Science & Community
Demographic and social-science mapping over your own datasets.
Nonprofit & NGO Mission
Communicate the cause, understand the community and measure impact.
Runs on Strata, or on your existing Esri services
Serve your data through Strata, or read your existing ArcGIS REST services unchanged. A sovereign, self-hosted GIS backend for teaching and research — build your own apps on it, with uncapped users. Keep your Esri licenses.
Self-hosted & uncapped users
Runs on your own infrastructure with no per-viewer fees and uncapped users — ideal for campuses and research groups that need to share widely without per-seat licensing.
Honest boundaries
Naming what this doesn't do yet is what makes where it wins believable.
A backend, not an LMS
It's a spatial data backend for courses and research — not a learning-management or survey platform.
Serving is read-only today
Publish and explore data now; editing and collection come with a later release.
Delivered on request
This industry solution is on the roadmap and delivered, customized to your institution — talk to us to scope it.
Build it yourself, or have us deliver it
Every solution starts from an open, AI-guided template — build it yourself for free, or have us deliver and support the finished result.
DIY — the free open template
Clone the open (MIT) repo, follow the AI-guided setup, and run it on Strata Free — on your own data, on your own servers. Yours to customize, no license.
See the open template →Delivered + supported
We stand it up, customize it with AI on your data and jurisdiction, load your first layers, and support it — delivery, license and annual support on Strata Team or Unlimited.
Serve your data. Then talk to it.
Strata serves your spatial data over the ArcGIS REST protocol, then lets anyone explore it in plain language — on-prem and sovereign, at a fraction of Enterprise cost. Keep your Esri licenses.