After more than two decades in enterprise IT, including founding and later selling Think Network Technologies, a Durango, CO based MSP recognized as a Colorado Top Company Co-Founder Matt Glick turned his focus toward a problem he encountered in his parallel career as a Mechanized Ski Guide (A3 Pro 2) and Colorado Type 1 Blaster.
Avalanche, ski patrol, and guiding operations were still managing critical daily workflows through paper forms, whiteboards, disconnected spreadsheets, and overly complex or fragmented digital tools. Yet the work itself, including explosive shot accountability, terrain management decisions, weather and snowpack analysis, operational workflows, and ATF compliance, demanded a far higher level of organization, reliability, and accountability.
Most importantly, there was no centralized operational system tying everything together. Critical information was scattered across platforms, difficult to access, and often unsupported by responsive product development or customer service.
Matt understood both sides of the equation: the importance of building reliable digital workflows for high-consequence operational environments, and the importance of customer support as the foundation that keeps those systems functioning effectively in the real world.
The earliest version of the platform, developed over a decade over, focused on a simple goal: digitizing operational forms that ski patrols and guide services were already completing by hand. Initial functionality included: AM/PM forms with integrated weather data, basic avalanche mitigation tools, shot placement and analysis tracking, and run list management.
Built originally on legacy PHP, the first codebase remained operational for more than a decade while the platform steadily expanded alongside the operational needs of snow safety teams and emerging technology.
Over time, it evolved into a comprehensive operational platform featuring 3D run lists, GIS-based interactive mapping, avalanche mitigation explosive tracking with exportable documentation, ATF-compliant digital inventory management and monthly reconciliation workflows, multi-source satellite imagery, and integrated weather systems pulling from Synoptic, Campbell Cloud and LoggerNet/Datalogger direct feeds.
Field operations also became a major focus, leading to the development of native iOS and Apple Watch applications for shot timing, GPS capture, Inventory and direct access to daily operational workflows in the field.
Today, the platform includes modern API-driven integrations that allow operational data sharing and interoperability with strategic industry partners building complementary high quality products.
The system itself has undergone a complete modernization into a true multi-tenant SaaS platform with database per tenant isolation, improved scalability, and enterprise grade architecture. Co-Founder Jim Philpott joined the effort, bringing extensive industry and technical software experience as well as additional full-stack developers and a Lead Software Consultant. In addition, MTN FX maintains an advisory board to help drive the platform’s modernization and long-term evolution.
MTN FX runs in production for operations across North America today. Ski patrol, heli-ski, cat-ski, and backcountry guiding. The current chapter is the AI intelligence tier: narrative polishing, multi-module report generation, and a RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) system over historical reports, built on the Anthropic API. The objective is the same as day one. Software for snow pros, built by snow pros. One source of truth.
