GARP
Geospatial Analyst Roundtable Platform
The World According to GARP
The Foundation
GARP is a structured practitioner research program hosted by Project Geospatial, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Twice per year, we convene working analysts across defense, federal civilian, and utility sectors to publish practitioner-grade intelligence.
Invitation-Only Cohorts
"If you're on the action team and do the work, you get to talk with the customer. If not, you get to read about it afterward."
GARP sessions convene 5 to 9 working analysts and analyst managers, no more. Government participants engage as experienced peers contributing to a shared body of knowledge. They get to be part of the discussion, not just the audience.
The Editorial Firewall
Patrons fund the program. They do not appear in the publication. Project Geospatial controls the methodology, facilitates the sessions, and publishes the findings — regardless of what those findings say.
Patrons do not shape questions, observe sessions, or have any editorial input. This independence is the product. It is what makes the findings worth having.
Annual Deliverables
Two major intelligence reports delivered directly to Patrons 30 days before public release.
Landscape Survey
Structured roundtables identify the most acute geospatial AI capability gaps — where tools fall short, where workflows break, and where data challenges remain unaddressed.
Includes 30-Day Pre-Release
Momentum Check
Returns to the same practitioner community six months later. Tracks which gaps have closed, surfaces new gaps created by automation, and measures velocity — a living intelligence function, not a snapshot.
Includes 30-Day Pre-Release
Who is in the Room
Curating the right perspectives to ensure rigorous, actionable outputs.
Invited to Participate
- Working geospatial analysts running real missions and workflows.
- Analyst managers with direct operational responsibility.
- Government participants engaged as experienced peers.
- Cross-sector representation: Defense, Federal Civilian, and Utilities.
Not in the Room
- Business development personnel.
- Academics and pure researchers.
- Vendor representatives.
- Sponsor observers of any kind.
Founding Patron Package
Strictly limited to 4–5 non-competing organizations. Founding cohort closes Q3 2026.
- 30-Day Pre-Publication Access: Both annual reports delivered 30 days before public release. Your team acts on findings while competitors are still reading the press coverage.
- Executive Briefing: A private session with GARP lead researchers on findings and their specific implications for your product portfolio, BD pipelines, and capture strategy.
- Citation & Commercial Rights: Full authorization to reference findings, statistics, and insights in technical proposals, white papers, and corporate materials.
- Founding Patron Designation: Permanent recognition on the Project Geospatial website and in program documentation. (Patron names do not appear in the publication itself.)
Why This Matters Now
Temporal Mismatch
LLM revisions ship every 3–6 months. Government budget cycles run 1–3 years. Vendors launch hammers in search of nails. GARP tracks the gap between AI capability and analyst reality — continuously.
The Missing Domain
Existing AI capability catalogs track agents, models, and platforms — but geospatial workflows, data pipelines, and exploitation tooling remain a conspicuous blind spot. GARP fills it.
No Equivalent Exists
One-off discovery sessions serve one company. Think-tank papers serve a general audience. GARP is the only recurring, cross-market, practitioner-sourced geospatial AI gap analysis in existence.
The Global Horizon
GARP launches in 2026 proving the methodology across three US markets. GARP 2.0 goes global — NATO and Five Eyes cohorts, regional sessions across allied nations, and a semi-annual synthesis giving the worldwide geospatial community a unified independent voice for the first time.
The domain scope expands too: Cyber, SIGINT, and adjacent intelligence disciplines where geospatial AI intersects with mission-critical workflows.
GARP is a program of Project Geospatial, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
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