Maaz Sheikh
Founder, CEO & Geospatial AI Engineer
About Ageospatial
Building physical intelligence in San Francisco
The city from above
San Francisco and the Bay Bridge
Living in the city
Pacific Heights, San Francisco
Golden hour on the Golden Gate
Crissy Field, San Francisco
The bridge from our homepage
In real Pacific fog
Every building, identified
The Ferry Building, block by block
Fort Mason, San Francisco
The Great Meadow, Marina District
Weekends in the Sierra
Northern California
Recent highlights
September 2026 · Maaz Sheikh
Our company launch video is coming up
this is massive! our company launch video is coming up, get ready! Simon Leon at the 🎥
September 2026 · Maaz Sheikh
Ageospatial (YC F26) is now backed by Y Combinator
I've been obsessed with maps since childhood. Now I'm building Ageospatial to help organizations value the risk on their physical assets with Geospatial AI. Extremely grateful to the customers and partners who believe our vision: humans and AI working together to understand the physical world through geospatial data.
September 2026 · Maaz Sheikh
Our GeoAI strengthening communities against floods in South East Asia
we work with Insurance and Financial services, but our data fusion engine is powerful enough to be used in wider use cases such as Government, Construction, Energy or Disaster response. big thanks to our local, regional and national…
August 2026 · Maaz Sheikh
The most beautiful thing about San Francisco is the “pay it forward” culture
you help someone with no expectation of getting anything back, and somehow the favor always finds its way back to you. I couldn’t be more grateful to everyone who believes in us and our vision. stay tuned, I have huge news coming up!
August 2026 · Maaz Sheikh
I grew up in social housing, obsessed with maps
we didn't have much growing up, but I was completely obsessed with maps. I realized I had a hidden superpower: a spatial memory. remembering places, and being able to represent them. creating my own world with geography was probably a way…
July 2026 · Maaz Sheikh
Preparing something huge at Ageo
we're preparing something huge at Ageo, and I've been locked-in to reach our insanely ambitious milestones In the mean time I'm working on myself as a founder with high intensity physical activity to keep my mind and body sharp (swimming…
June 2026 · Maaz Sheikh
Pinecrest Lake hike: keeping the area safe from wildfire
I got curious, what does it take to keep this area safe from wildfire? So I pulled up Tuolumne County's location data with our AI Agents. Seconds later: - A big chunk of this area is a very high fire hazard - 3 private parcels sitting…
June 2026 · Maaz Sheikh
SF Day 9
- Locked-in all day. We’re moving faster here than I thought possible. - Got intros to people who want to help us grow. - Met a founder who raised $1M on just an idea. - Went to Fort Mason Green and found an incredible community of…
June 2026 · Maaz Sheikh
Day 6 in SF
- 2 successful demos. - 18 000 non-sloppy lines of code. - Improved our company brain to automate more boring processes. - Ran up to the Radhaus at Fort Mason. Overheard a conversation about this startup building robodogs as security, used…
May 2026 · Maaz Sheikh
Geospatial AI Agents: why do public organizations pay for them?
This may be the most valuable article I have written this year. If you're following the recent advances in Geospatial AI, you need to read this!
February 2026 · Maaz Sheikh
My honest take on "AI for GIS" in Government right now
Every company is now trying to sell you (with their "army of sales team") a "chatbot with a map" and calling it an AI Agent. Any solid dev can build one. What these companies don't understand is the particular nature of each government…
February 2026 · Maaz Sheikh
I just built my company's first AI Employee
And he's pretty good! I save about 40% of my time by multiplying agents in my daily workflows. And as time goes on... they're going to improve!
February 2026 · Maaz Sheikh
Every pink square on this roof was found by an AI agent
No human was involved in this.
November 2025 · Maaz Sheikh
Gemini 3 Speaks to Satellite-Derived Flood Data
Google's newest LLM analyzes flood risk in seconds. Our AI Agent retrieved EO data from Copernicus GLOFAS, analyzed every pixel, and intersected it with buildings from Overture Maps to identify 1,330 buildings at risk in Geneva. No manual data discovery, no complex GIS required.
November 2025 · Maaz Sheikh
LLMs Are Transforming GIS Data Interaction
Simply typed 'Show me datasets related to railways' - AI instantly found, accessed, processed, and styled the data. Filtered 16.7 Hz railway lines in Bern in seconds. Do the same with any organization's internal data, anywhere.
October 2025 · Maaz Sheikh
Geospatial AI Workshop in Southeast Asia
Presented results from our Laos field pilot at a regional workshop on Geospatial Technology, AI & Subnational Risk Assessment. Our AI Agent assessed hundreds of villages by combining population, infrastructure, flood, and drought data to support risk and planning decisions.
September 2025 · Maaz Sheikh
AI Agent Analyzed 80 Villages in Minutes
Our Geospatial AI Agent analyzed 80 villages for risk assessment, demonstrating the power of automated geospatial analysis at scale.
September 2025 · Maaz Sheikh
GeoLLMs: AI Agents for Anything, Anywhere
Introducing our GeoLLMs - AI agents that can analyze geospatial data for any location, any use case, in seconds.
September 2025 · Maaz Sheikh
15 Months of Startup Lessons
Key learnings from building a startup: obsess over early customers, prioritize speed over complexity, value criticism over praise, hire slow, and never forget the fundamentals - sleep, exercise, and nutrition.
August 2025 · Maaz Sheikh
Picture to Map in Seconds
Drop an image into our Geospatial AI Platform and it finds the location, translates text, and enables instant geospatial analysis with 2000+ datasets. From photo to map pin in seconds.
August 2025 · Maaz Sheikh
Partnership with Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
We are incredibly grateful to partner with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation & Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, to simplify complex geospatial data through our Geospatial AI Agent, supporting Switzerland's partners and international cooperation efforts around the world.
July 2025 · Maaz Sheikh
We have routing services now
Our Geospatial AI Agent planned a route from Paris to Amsterdam with EV charging stations in seconds - no data science degree or expensive software required.
July 2025 · Maaz Sheikh
2.2 Million Schools Searchable with Geospatial AI
We've integrated UNICEF's Giga Maps dataset making 2.2 million schools around the world searchable by anyone using Geospatial AI Agents. No data or GIS expertise needed - just type, get answers.
July 2025 · Maaz Sheikh
84,000 Paris Roads in 30 Seconds
30 seconds to get 84,000 roads in Paris by talking to AI in your web browser. Fast is fun.
June 2025 · Maaz Sheikh
Summer Updates: Faster, Smarter, More Usable AI Agents
Our Geospatial AI Agent platform is now faster, smarter, and more usable than ever with web search-enabled prompts.
June 2025 · Maaz Sheikh
Web to Geospatial data, in seconds
Our Geospatial AI Agent can now search the web, extract relevant information, and turn it into geospatial data instantly. You can also enrich the result with traditional datasets.
May 2025 · Maaz Sheikh
Rapid Mapping with SDC
Localized AI Agents for Flood Risk in Southeast Asia together with the Swiss Agency for Development & Cooperation (SDC), we deployed GeoAI agents in Laos to generate high-resolution flood risk maps fusing satellite, terrain, and population data with local partner insights.
April 2025 · Maaz Sheikh
Swissnex San Francisco start-up camp
We joined Swissnex's Startup Camp in San Francisco, an experience that sharpened our mindset and company vision.
April 2025 · Maaz Sheikh
60s Flood Risk Detection
In just 60 seconds, our GeoAI Agent identified buildings and people at risk of flooding with a simple prompt.
March 2025 · Maaz Sheikh
Ageospatial featured in "GeoAI in Switzerland"
We were recognized in a national report on GeoAI innovation in Switzerland, alongside major partners and institutions.