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Built in the cab
Every product decision is made by people who've held the radio. If a feature doesn't make sense to someone driving an appliance with crew on board, it doesn't ship.
A navigation company exclusively for blue-light services.
Blue Light Maps was founded in 2024 by a former operational responder who’d spent too many years using consumer-grade navigation tools in a fire appliance. We build software for one user — UK emergency services — and we won’t ship work that wouldn’t make sense in the cab.
Our story
The first version of Blue Light Maps was a side project. The founder, then a watch commander at a UK fire service, kept building little tools to make the navigation problem less painful for the crews he worked with. Hydrant overlays in a custom Google Maps layer. A routing tweak that respected appliance weight. Pre-arrival risk briefings on a tablet stuck to the dashboard.
By 2024 it had become clear the side project was the better job. We incorporated, took on funding from operators-turned-investors, and committed to building a single thing properly: a navigation platform that was designed for blue-light response from the start, not a consumer tool with a uniform jacket on.
Two years later we’re deployed across UK fire, police, and ambulance services. We’re hiring carefully, growing the customer base in step with our deployment capacity, and turning down work that isn’t a clean fit. The plan is the same as the day we started: ship the right map to every cab in the UK.
How we work
Four principles we lean on when decisions get hard.
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Data stays inside
Responder location, incident data, and operational telemetry all stay inside your service’s network boundary. No customer data leaves the perimeter. Our routing engine runs where your CAD does.
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Open about what we can’t do
Some routing problems aren’t solved. Some integrations are messy. We tell procurement teams the honest answer, including when the honest answer is “not yet.”
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Made for procurement reality
Public-sector procurement is its own discipline. We staff for it. Our pricing, contracts, and security review processes are built to land cleanly inside G-Cloud and DOS frameworks.
The team
Small team. Operators on every product call.
We hire for operational empathy first, technical depth second. Most of the team has a service background; the rest have spent enough time with crews to design like they do.
HM
Henry Maps
Founder · Former responder
AC
Alex Chen
Head of Engineering
PS
Priya Shah
Head of GIS
DO
Daniel Okafor
Deployments & Customer Success
SM
Sarah Mitchell
Procurement & Contracts
ML
Marcus Lee
Senior Engineer · Routing
Ready when you are
Put the right map in every cab.
30-minute walkthrough. Trial with your CAD data. No commitment until your team is sold.
UK-based · Trusted by responders · Built by responders