ATLAS DISASTER MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
About Atlas

Built by someone who's done the work.

Atlas Disaster Management Solutions exists because debris monitoring software has always been built by developers who'd never stood at a disposal site. That gap is the founding thesis. Closing it is the product.

Atlas DMS — figure carrying the world
The Founder

Every role in the operation, before there was a product.

Atlas was founded by Chris Denney, who has spent 21 years on the operations side of disaster debris management — across dozens of activations, in every role the work requires:

Every feature in Atlas traces back to a moment in one of those roles where the existing software made the work harder. The product isn't a guess at what monitors need — it's a reaction to the specific pain of doing it for two decades without it.

The Record

21 years. 50 million cubic yards. $2 billion in federal funding.

Atlas's founder has worked the largest debris activations in modern memory — hurricanes, floods, wildfires, ice storms, and tornadoes across the United States. Every one of those events shaped what Atlas became.

50M+ cubic yards

Of disaster-generated debris managed across Atlas's founder's career — every load ticket, hazard removal, staging move, and disposal accounted for.

$2B+ federal funding

Successfully captured for recipients and subrecipients through clean documentation and disciplined FEMA Public Assistance compliance.

21 years

From an entry-level monitor in 2005 through every supervisory and program-leadership role in the operation. The career arc is the credentialing.

Dozens of activations

Hurricanes, wildfires, floods, ice storms, tornadoes — across federal, state, and local response structures.

Why Atlas Exists

Debris monitoring software has always been built to win the proposal, not run the operation.

Incumbents have shipped the same playbook for two decades — build the cheapest possible MVP, claim "platform" on the proposal, and hope the activation closes before the seams show. The field apps are rough. The back-office portals are usually worse, because nobody buying the software actually uses them. The product was never the point. The line item was.

The result is software that breaks when cell service does, requires a data manager to reconcile tickets days after the fact, and leans on green monitors to make eligibility calls that determine whether the federal reimbursement claim survives audit. None of those gaps are oversights — they're what happens when nobody designing the product has to live with the consequences of using it.

Atlas was built by someone whose career depended on the work being right, not on the proposal closing. Capture happens at the point of work — offline-first, geolocated, photo-attached, hash-chained. Reconciliation happens continuously, not at closeout. Supervisors get the validations and decision support that make the eligibility call easier to defend. The back office is built with the same care as the field, because the same career used both ends, every day, for 21 years.

That's the difference between software built to win the proposal, and software built by someone who runs the operation.

Posture

Built for the compliance bar government clients actually require.

Atlas is being designed with StateRAMP requirements in mind from the beginning — multi-tenant data isolation, role-based access control, audit logging, encryption in transit, session management, and incident response. The compliance posture isn't an afterthought retrofitted to win a deal; it's a design constraint shaping the architecture today.

FEMA Public Assistance documentation alignment is built in. The audit chain on every sensitive record is tamper-evident. Tenant data isolation is enforced at both the database and middleware layers, not just by convention.

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