# Whirrx

> Whirrx is a Cedar Rapids surveying company that combines customers' drones, flight planning, field checks, cloud processing, training and QA into design-grade digital survey deliverables. Founded in 2018 by surveying and photogrammetry veterans, it serves surveyors, civil engineers, governments, utilities and construction teams through processing fees, training, turnkey systems and full-service survey work.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** Cedar Rapids, United States
- **Founders:** Steve Zeets (CEO and Founder), Jeffrey Walsh (Co-founder and CTO)
- **Team size:** Approximately 2 employees in the supplied company data; LinkedIn lists 2-10 employees.
- **Products:** Whirrx Processing, SurveyWhirrx Turnkey System, Survey Training and Technical Support, Full-service Drone Surveying, Road and Bridge Design Deliverables
- **Notable:** The founding team was among the early U.S. operators authorized for commercial drone work in 2014, according to Whirrx's company profile., Steve Zeets reported flying more than 2,000 mapping missions before founding Whirrx., Jones County, Iowa approved a $39,950 Whirrx aerial drone system purchase in January 2018.

## Products & services

- **Whirrx Processing** — Cloud-assisted processing and QA that converts customer-captured drone data into orthophotos, 3D models, point clouds and digital survey deliverables; the current site says supported systems have achieved less than 0.06 ft maximum vertical error on hard surfaces.
- **SurveyWhirrx Turnkey System** — A packaged survey-drone workflow historically sold with aircraft, full-frame camera, precision GNSS, ground station, batteries, cases, field-check software, training and support.
- **Survey Training and Technical Support** — Flight-planning, data-capture and workflow training for surveyors, including support for teams with no previous drone experience.
- **Full-service Drone Surveying** — Whirrx can perform the aerial survey for clients that do not want to fly and upload their own project.
- **Road and Bridge Design Deliverables** — High-resolution aerial data and design outputs for road, bridge, utility, airport, construction, landfill, quarry and mining applications.

## Achievements

- The founding team was among the early U.S. operators authorized for commercial drone work in 2014, according to Whirrx's company profile.
- Steve Zeets reported flying more than 2,000 mapping missions before founding Whirrx.
- Jones County, Iowa approved a $39,950 Whirrx aerial drone system purchase in January 2018.
- Iowa approved a $100,000 Demonstration Fund loan for Whirrx in late 2018, recorded as a 2019 debt-financing round.
- The SURVEY FASTER. SURVEY BETTER. trademark was registered in October 2019.
- Whirrx leaders have taught drone-survey accuracy and workflow sessions at professional surveyor conferences from 2019 through 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — Co-founder and CTO Jeffrey Walsh presented results from low-cost drone systems using minimal and zero ground control at Minnesota's Survey Technical Workshop.
- **2026-05** — Whirrx's LinkedIn page highlighted a SkyFleet collaboration that reduced a point cloud of more than half a billion points to a 1.5-million-point, feature-coded deliverable using Whirrx processing and Stitch3D.
- **2026-08** — The current website emphasizes processing data from customer-owned drones, advertises compatibility with DJI, Rock Robotic, Autel, Wingtra and Freefly systems, and publishes processing prices by project type.

## Links

- Website: https://whirrx.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/whirrx
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whirrx

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Last updated: 2026-08-20