{"id":68,"date":"2019-06-24T17:25:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T17:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.filio.io\/?p=68"},"modified":"2026-05-02T20:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:30:41","slug":"meet-filio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.filio.io\/meet-filio\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the New Filio: Reintroducing Our Team, Vision, and Technology in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"68\" class=\"elementor elementor-68\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6653b1a5 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6653b1a5\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6fdcc562 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6fdcc562\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p><em>School of CEE, Georgia Institute of Technology<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>Filio\u2019s story starts in Atlanta, Georgia, where founder Mahdi Roozbahani and co-founder Fikret Atalay met at the Georgia Institute of Technology while pursuing PhD research under the same academic advisor. Mahdi\u2019s work centered on computational science and engineering, while Fikret focused on civil and geotechnical engineering. That combination of technical depth and field experience helped shape Filio\u2019s original mission: make visual project documentation easier to capture, organize, search, and share across engineering and construction workflows.<\/p>\n\n<p>Today, Filio helps teams capture field photos, organize project records, and keep visual documentation tied to jobsite context. For buyers evaluating documentation software, the key question is whether a tool only stores images or also supports day-to-day workflows such as progress tracking, reporting, handoff, and later retrieval. Filio is designed for teams that need more than a basic photo gallery, with a focus on structured visual records that are easier to manage across engineering and construction work.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you are exploring Filio, useful decision points include how your team captures site photos, how project context is preserved, how quickly reports can be assembled, and how easily office and field staff can find records later. You can learn more through our overview of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filio.io\/blog\/construction-photo-documentation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">construction photo documentation<\/a>, see how Filio fits daily operations in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filio.io\/blog\/an-engineers-day-with-filio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an engineer\u2019s day with Filio<\/a>, and review customer examples in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filio.io\/case-studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">case studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Filio was selected to participate in Georgia Tech\u2019s Create-X startup incubator, an early milestone that helped transform the idea into a practical web and mobile solution for documentation-heavy teams. Readers who want to go deeper can also explore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filio.io\/blog\/how-rich-metadata-and-location-based-data-elevate-construction-progress-tracking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how rich metadata and location-based data elevate construction progress tracking<\/a>, review setup guidance in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filio.io\/academy\/category\/filio-web-app\/account-and-company-setup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Filio Academy account and company setup library<\/a>, or compare options in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filio.io\/blog\/filio-vs-companycam-2026-which-construction-photo-tool-fits-your-workflow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Filio vs. CompanyCam<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Follow the link below for a feature article on Filio by Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering:<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/news\/grad-students-startup-filio-makes-it-easy-capture-and-catalog-worksite-photos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/news\/grad-students-startup-filio-makes-it-easy-capture-and-catalog-worksite-photos<\/a><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School of CEE, Georgia Institute of Technology The story of Filio originates in Atlanta, GA. Founder Mahdi Roozbahani (pictured right) and co-founder Fikret Atalay (pictured left) met at Georgia Institute of Technology while working on their PhD degrees. Though they worked for the same academic advisor, Mahdi\u2019s degree was focused on computational science and engineering, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-filio-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.filio.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.filio.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.filio.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.filio.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.filio.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.filio.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6170,"href":"https:\/\/blog.filio.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/6170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.filio.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.filio.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.filio.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.filio.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}