Spatial Lab is where GIS professionals figure out modern geospatial together. You get a learning roadmap I build for you personally, weekly live sessions, and a community that notices when you go quiet. Most members know exactly what they're working toward within their first week.
We surveyed 981 GIS professionals about what's actually holding them back. It's almost never a lack of tutorials.
GeoParquet, PostGIS, DuckDB, Sedona, QGIS, MapLibre. The landscape changes monthly. You start learning one thing and wonder if you picked the wrong one.
AI is rewriting what it means to know a tool. You spent years learning workflows and now you're wondering which of those skills still matter, and which are about to be table stakes.
You watch tutorials, start courses, and abandon them a few weeks in. Not because you lack discipline. Because nobody answers your questions and nobody notices when you stop.
"Is my ArcGIS experience still relevant?" "Did the field move on without me?" These are the questions mid-career professionals carry around quietly. You're not the only one asking.
"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
A roadmap built for your goals, by a person
Not a vague promise of "growth." This is the arc most members follow when they show up consistently.
Take the onboarding quiz. Matt reads every answer and builds your roadmap by hand: what to learn, what to skip, and where to start given your background.
Your first live session, your first questions answered by people who do this work. The "am I learning the right thing?" loop finally goes quiet.
Through the Accelerator (included with membership) you put your first modern project at a public URL: real data, real analysis, on GitHub.
You talk about spatial SQL, cloud-native formats, and pipelines like someone who uses them, because you do. That changes interviews, reviews, and what you get to work on.
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, your goals, and the role you're targeting. No guessing. No generic curriculum.
You're not learning alone anymore. Analysts, engineers, architects, and career 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 is tagged and searchable afterward.
Your background doesn't matter. Your willingness to show up does.
You come from ArcGIS, desktop workflows, and shapefiles. You want to modernize without drowning in code.
You're entering geospatial from data engineering, software, environmental science, or another technical field.
You know there's a next level but you can't 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.
Most platforms are still teaching you to memorize syntax. That's the part AI already does. What AI can't do is know what to build, which data to trust, or why one architecture beats another. That's the thinking we teach. If you can't tell AI what you want, it can't help you.
The 14-day course that takes you from ArcGIS-dependent to building with open-source tools sells on its own for $699. Every Spatial Lab membership includes it, along with every other course and workshop in the Lab. One month of membership costs less than a seventh of the course alone.
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.
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Join, take the quiz, get your roadmap, attend the live sessions, start the Accelerator. If the Lab isn't right for you, email us within 30 days of joining and we'll refund your first payment in full. No forms, no exit interview. And you can cancel your membership anytime after that in two clicks.
Join while the timer is live and your first month of Spatial Lab is 50% off: $47 instead of $97. The code is applied automatically when you click any join button on this page. After the first month, your membership renews at $97. Cancel anytime before renewal and you pay nothing more. The Lead tier is high-touch 1:1 time and is never discounted.
Yes. Cancel from your account settings in two clicks, no emails required. On top of that, your first 30 days carry a money-back guarantee: if the Lab isn't right for you, email us and we'll refund your first payment in full. Between the two, there's no way to get stuck paying for something you don't use.
This isn't a 40-hour course you need to finish. It's a community and a roadmap. Your onboarding plan tells you exactly what's worth your limited 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 around your schedule, not the other way around.
Free content is the reason you're overwhelmed. There are thousands of tutorials about geospatial tools. The problem was never access to information. It's knowing which information matters for you, right now, given your background and goals. You're not paying for content. You're paying for direction: a roadmap built for you, a community of practitioners, and a guide who builds production spatial systems for a living.
Yes, and the timing has never been better. We take a concepts-first approach that embraces AI. You don't need to memorize Python syntax. You need to understand what spatial SQL does, why cloud-native formats matter, and how modern architectures fit together. AI handles the syntax. You handle the thinking. Many members come from traditional GIS backgrounds with zero coding experience.
Absolutely. Your spatial thinking, data management instincts, and domain knowledge are the foundation everything else builds 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's no 12-module curriculum collecting dust. It's a community with live events, a personal plan, and people who notice if you disappear. The live sessions create accountability. The community creates belonging. The roadmap creates clarity. Those three things together are what courses can't replicate.
The $97 tier gives you everything: community, roadmap, live sessions, all content including the Accelerator. The $297 Lead tier adds direct access to Matt: 1:1 coaching, a mastermind with advanced peers, and priority career strategy. If you're self-directed, 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 that.
Get your roadmap, the $699 Accelerator, and a community that shows up. First month $47 while the timer's live, backed by a 30-day guarantee.
Get your roadmap, the $699 Accelerator, and a community that shows up. $97/month, cancel anytime, backed by a 30-day guarantee.