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Monarcha

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Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Monarcha is an AI-powered georeferencing platform built for mining, infrastructure, and land intelligence teams. It turns scanned maps, plats, and land documents into accurate, queryable spatial data in seconds.

Aligning historical maps, plats, and survey drawings to real-world coordinates is tedious work. Most teams either hire specialists or skip it entirely, leaving critical spatial data locked in documents.

Monarcha lets users upload any document and get a fully georeferenced, queryable GIS layer in 90 seconds or less.

Want to learn more? Check out monarcha.ai

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

James Spokes

Founder/CEO

James is a Co-Founder of Monarcha. He holds a B.A. from the College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell University. Previously, he designed for Station-F backed startup Loop, and built a multi-agency alerts systems at Mark43, where he was also first exposed to GIS software.He also is an accomplished photographer, having published multiple books and won prizes at the International Photography Awards.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Everett Lee

Founder/CTO

Everett is a Co-Founder of Monarcha. He graduated early from Cornell Engineering with a degree in Computer Science and began a CS master's, before dropping out to build Monarcha. He did research as part of Cornell's AI Innovation Lab and led Machine Learning Engineering at Cornell Data Science. Previously, Everett worked as an AI Engineer building computer vision models at WEX and as a Data Scientist at Avalara.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
2team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2025 · Source

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedNew York City, NY, USA
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