Spatial Lab is a practitioner community and guided learning platform for geospatial professionals who want clarity—a personalized roadmap, live sessions, and a network of people building with modern tools.
GeoParquet, PostGIS, DuckDB, Sedona, QGIS, MapLibre—the landscape changes monthly. You start learning one thing and wonder if you picked the wrong one. Nearly 65% of your peers say their biggest question is: "what should I even learn?"
AI is rewriting what it means to "know" a tool. You spent years learning Python scripting and now you are wondering if those skills are about to be automated. 39% of geospatial professionals say AI/ML is the most important thing they need to learn.
You watch tutorials, start courses, and abandon them at 12% completion. Not because you lack discipline—because there is no one to ask questions to, no one to notice when you disappear, and no one who understands the specific transition you are trying to make.
"Is my ArcGIS experience still relevant?" "Did I choose the wrong career?" "The world moved on and I feel left behind." These are the questions 40% of mid-career professionals in your field are silently carrying.
"I am stuck in my career. I am lost."
"The geospatial world feels incredibly overwhelming and fluid. It's hard to know what tools to learn and spend time on."
"I have a desktop GIS background but I don't know where to begin to make the transition to where geospatial is headed."
"I want some direction, on how to progress from my degree to practice. I want a path to success."
"Everyone keeps telling me I chose the wrong career. I need help feeling more confident in my path."
"There are so many things I am really confused. Your videos help but there is still confusion."
"I am stuck in my career. I am lost."
"The geospatial world feels incredibly overwhelming and fluid. It's hard to know what tools to learn and spend time on."
"I have a desktop GIS background but I don't know where to begin to make the transition to where geospatial is headed."
"I want some direction, on how to progress from my degree to practice. I want a path to success."
"Everyone keeps telling me I chose the wrong career. I need help feeling more confident in my path."
"There are so many things I am really confused. Your videos help but there is still confusion."
Memorize tool interfaces and button clicks
Follow code-heavy tutorials step by step
Hope you can reproduce it on your own data
Learn alone from pre-recorded content
Generic curriculum for everyone
Understand concepts and spatial architecture
Know what to build and why it matters
Use AI as an accelerator, not a crutch
Learn live, together, with practitioners
Personalized roadmap built for your goals
When you join, you get direction from day one—not a library of content to wade through.
Take a detailed onboarding quiz. I personally review every response and build a learning plan based on your background, goals, and the role you are targeting. No guessing. No generic curriculum.
You are not learning alone anymore. Connect with analysts, engineers, architects, and pivoters who share wins, work through roadblocks, post jobs, and build together.
Weekly live events are the backbone. Learn together, ask questions in real time, and go deeper than any pre-recorded tutorial. Every session tagged and searchable.
Your background does not matter. Your willingness to show up does.
You come from ArcGIS, desktop workflows, and shapefiles. You want to modernize without drowning in code.
You are entering geospatial from data engineering, software, environmental science, or another technical field.
You know there is a next level but you cannot see the path. You need direction, not more content.
You want to move from analyst to architect, from executor to leader. You think in systems, not tools.
You want to stand out in the job market with skills that actually matter to employers hiring today.
You want a community of practitioners who understand the work, share the challenges, and actually show up.
Every other learning platform is still teaching you to memorize syntax. We focus on the concepts and architectural thinking that make AI useful—because if you cannot tell the AI what you want it to do, the AI is useless to you. This is not a gimmick. It is the future of how geospatial professionals work.
No hidden tiers. No content gates. Pick the level of guidance you want.
Everything you need to learn modern GIS and build your career with a community behind you.
Best for self-directed professionals who want guidance and community.
Everything in the Lab, plus a direct line to Matt for accelerated career growth.
Best for professionals targeting architect or lead roles who want direct practitioner mentorship.
This is not a 40-hour course you need to finish. It is a community and a roadmap. Your onboarding plan tells you exactly what is most valuable for your time. Drop into a live session when you can. Search the replay catalog when you have 20 minutes. Post a question and get answers while you work. The Lab fits your schedule—43% of your peers had the same concern, and the entire experience is built around that reality.
Free content is the reason you are overwhelmed. There are thousands of tutorials about geospatial tools. The problem is not access to information—it is knowing which information matters for you, right now, given your background and goals. You are not paying for content. You are paying for direction: a personalized roadmap, a community of practitioners, and a guide who builds production spatial systems and can tell you what actually matters.
Yes—and the timing could not be better. We take a concepts-first approach that embraces AI. You do not need to memorize Python syntax. You need to understand what spatial SQL does, why cloud-native formats matter, and how modern architectures work. AI handles the syntax. You handle the thinking. Many members come from traditional GIS backgrounds with zero coding experience and find this is exactly the approach that was missing.
Absolutely. Your spatial thinking, data management instincts, and domain knowledge are the foundation everything else is built on. Desktop GIS gave you the concepts. Modern GIS gives you the scale. The transition is about extending what you know, not discarding it. Your roadmap will show you exactly how your experience maps to modern tools and where to fill the gaps.
This is not a course. There is no 12-module curriculum collecting dust. This is a community with live events, a personalized plan, and people who will notice if you disappear. The live sessions create accountability. The community creates belonging. The roadmap creates clarity. Those three things together are what courses cannot replicate.
The $97 tier gives you everything: community, roadmap, live sessions, all content. The $297 Lead tier adds direct access to Matt—1:1 coaching, masterminds with advanced peers, and priority career strategy. If you are self-directed and want the community and structure, the base tier is everything you need. If you want a direct line to someone who builds production spatial systems and can personally guide your career moves, Lead is built for you.
Join a community of geospatial professionals who are done learning alone. Get your personalized roadmap and start moving with clarity.
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