Remote asset & corridor intelligence, built on the back roads.

BackRoadIntel began with a wildfire. Founder Ryan Gallagher watched the fire jump the lake, then scrambled to work out which forest service roads he'd need to get out on — with no way to know which were even passable. The back roads rural communities fall back on when the highway closes are among the least-understood infrastructure in the country.

The Okanagan wildfires of 2021 and 2023 made the gap impossible to ignore. We set out to let communities and asset owners know the condition of their roads before they needed them, not during the emergency.

Today the approach is the same whether the corridor is an evacuation route, a utility right-of-way or a haul road: a vehicle already driving it captures the record, and we turn that drive into something you can review, compare and act on. We've piloted with more than ten First Nations communities around Lytton, and we test in the fire-affected Okanagan — the proving ground we know best.

The problem didn't stay in the past. In August 2026 the Bald Range fire forced our president, Chris Stewart, to evacuate his family's farm outside Summerland — twice in one night, the first time toward the fire before the order widened. The fire came within a few hundred feet of the house. Knowing which roads are open, before the smoke, is the whole point.