Sign surveys & audits
Know what you actually have
Nobody knows how many signs their building has. Facilities managers guess low by half, because signs accumulate the way furniture does: a tenant here, a code requirement there, a temporary sign from 2019 that turned out to be load-bearing. Every wayfinding project, rebrand, and ADA question starts from that fog, and designing from fog is how remakes happen.
We walk the site and burn the fog off. It's the evidence-gathering arm of our wayfinding & ADA work.
Keyed location plans
Each sign's key placed on the floor or site plan, so the record and the building agree.
Inventory matrix
Every numbered sign marker maps to a row: photo, type, size, message, mounting, and condition.
Condition and code findings
What's failing physically and what's failing legally, with ordinance and ADA citations attached.
Priorities you can budget
Findings ranked by exposure and cost, so year-one money goes at the problems that matter.
We survey and audit your signage and hand back a field-verified record you can plan and budget against.
Who we work with
Sign companies
White-label design and documentation for shops busy building. We draw, you fabricate, and your client never knows we were involved.
Architects & designers
Signage and wayfinding documented to sit inside your set, on your schedule, drawn to the standard the rest of your drawings hold.
Facilities & property teams
Wayfinding and sign standards for campuses, portfolios, and multi-building sites that have outgrown the signs they started with.
Brands & retailers
Sign programs that hold the brand across every location and bend to each local code, without ever losing the look you built.
Surveys & audits, answered
Didn't find your question? Ask us directly — straight answers, no runaround.
- What's the difference between a survey and an audit?
- The survey is the record: every sign photographed, measured, and keyed to a location plan. The audit is the opinion: which signs fail ADA, which are out of code, which are rotting from the inside, which contradict each other. You can buy the record alone, but most projects want both, because the record without the judgment is just a very organized photo album.
- What do we actually receive?
- An inventory matrix listing every sign with its photo, size, type, message, and condition, keyed to floor plans or a site plan, plus the findings written in plain language with the code citations attached. It's a document a facilities team can budget from, an architect can design from, and a lawyer can lean on if the ADA question ever gets pointed.
- Can you work remotely from our photos?
- Partially, and we're honest about the difference. Good photos and existing drawings can carry a preliminary audit, and it's a cheap way to find out how deep the problems go. But mounting heights, braille quality, and tactile compliance get verified with hands and a tape measure, so a finding you'd act on gets field-checked first.
- What does a survey cost?
- It scales with sign count and site size, from a few thousand dollars for a single building to more for a campus. One number worth knowing: the survey is almost always cheaper than one remake order caused by designing against a sign count somebody guessed.
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