Field reporting for environmental consultants

Run your whole field team
from one place.

Your biologists capture reports, timesheets, and photos on or offline in the field. You see every project, every submission, and every hour in one dashboard — branded to your firm. No more chasing spreadsheets or Word documents.

Full oversightEvery report & hour
On or offlineWith or without signal
White-labelYour brand, your forms
field.yourfirm.com/dashboard
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Your Firm Ecological
Field operations
Week of May 25
28
Reports in
612
Hours logged
5
Need approval
14
Active biologists
BiologistProjectStatus
M. ReyesSolarSubmitted
D. CaldwellTransmission Line 7Approved
S. WhitfieldPipeline IntegrityPending

Purpose-built for the work your team already does

Biological monitoring Habitat surveys Construction compliance Wetland delineation Permitting & take reporting
The difference

The same workday —
before Transect, and after.

Your team's expertise doesn't change. Everything around it does.

✕  Without Transect
A separate app for GPS, another for photos, a spreadsheet for hours
Photos stranded in the camera roll — no location, no labels
Word templates that drift, so every deliverable needs cleanup
No single place to see what's submitted, pending, or billable
✓  With Transect
One app captures GPS, photos, and hours together — once
Every photo GPS-tagged and attached to the right report
One consistent, branded deliverable every single time
A dashboard showing every report, hour, and approval
What changes

From a patchwork of tools
to a single record.

Paper timesheets, Excel spreadsheets, Word reports, and photos scattered across phones — Transect collapses all of it into one place, captured once.

Paper timesheet
Excel spreadsheets
Word reports
Transect
Daily Field Report
Solar
Species · GPS · Photos
All in one record
Timesheet
Flows from the report
Deliverable
One-click branded PDF
The founder

Field-grade software,
by a field biologist.

Transect wasn't built in a boardroom. It was built by a working biological monitor who spent years stitching together paper forms, spreadsheets, and Word docs to get a single day in the field documented — and decided there had to be a better way.

Every form, every workflow, every offline-first decision comes from real days in the field. That's the difference between software made for biologists and software made by one.

JC
"Scientific integrity, clean documentation, and collaborative field work — every project, every time."
Jonathan Casillas Founder · Transect · Biological Monitor
What's inside

One app, the entire field-to-invoice loop.

Every feature your biologists need to document a day in the field — and everything the office needs to bill for it.

Daily Field Reports

Structured DFRs with site description, daily activity log, corrective actions, and communications — formatted to agency standards.

DFR · DTER

Species & take logs

Log sensitive-species observations and encounters with counts, behavior, and location — ready for permit and take reporting.

Observations

GPS-tagged everything

Coordinates captured automatically on every report, observation, and photo. No more juggling a secondary GPS app.

Geolocation

Annotated field photos

Capture photos in-app with GPS, date, time, and biologist name overlaid right onto the image — marked up and attached to the report they document.

Capture + markup

Timesheets

Weekly hours that always match the field reports — start/end times and activities flow straight from the daily report, so there are no mismatched entries and nothing to reconcile.

Hours

Invoices

Turn logged time and deliverables into clean, branded invoices — closing the loop from field work to getting paid.

Billing

Weather & site conditions

Temperature, wind, sky, and site conditions captured automatically via GPS with each report — the context every regulator expects to see.

Conditions

Signatures & drafts

Sign off in the field, with auto-saving drafts so a dropped connection never costs you a day's work.

Auto-save
Two audiences, one tool

Built for the field.
Ready for the office.

Designed for the biologist first — but the structural benefits show up immediately for the people running the firm and answering to clients.

For your biologists

A faster day in the field

Everything captured once, on a phone, exactly where the work happens.

  • Fill out reports in real time, fully online or offline, with auto-saving drafts
  • One-tap GPS and auto-populated weather on every report
  • Photos with location, date, time, and name overlaid onto the image
  • View, sign, and submit reports and timesheets in the same app
For your firm

Clean documentation, no cleanup

Consistent deliverables and real admin control across every biologist and project.

  • Multi-project support with sub-projects, contacts, and templates
  • Per-biologist accounts with role-based access
  • Timesheets that always match the reports — no mismatched entries
  • One-click PDF download and email, formatted the same every time
  • Full submission history for biologists and administrators
Made yours

Same powerful app.
Your firm's identity.

Transect ships with the full feature set — then we dress it in your brand. Your clients and field crews see your firm, not ours.

01
Your colors, logo & typographyThe whole app themed to your visual identity, top to bottom.
02
Your report templatesDFR and take-report layouts tuned to the agencies and clients you actually work with.
03
Your letterhead on every deliverableExported reports and invoices carry your branding automatically.
04
Same features, every timeCustomization is cosmetic — the powerful core never changes between firms.
Sierra Nevada Eco. Inc.
earth · amber · sage
Coastline Biological
marine · tidal blue
Mojave Field Sciences
desert · clay · sun
How it works

From first call to fully branded.

A realistic rollout runs about four to six weeks from signing to your whole team in the field — hands-on the entire way.

01 / DISCOVERY

Map your workflow

A short discovery session to map your projects, rates, and the report templates your clients and agencies expect.

02 / CONFIGURE

Branded & set up

Your logo, colors, and templates applied across the app — and an account created for every biologist.

03 / TRAIN

Train & pilot

A group training session (recorded for new hires), plus a pilot run with a few monitors before going wide.

04 / LAUNCH

Full rollout

Your whole team goes live with daily check-ins the first week, then ongoing 1:1 support.

Designed for where you actually work

The signal drops. Transect doesn't.

Built mobile-first for canyon bottoms, remote desert, and dead zones. Everything is captured locally and auto-saved as a draft, then synced the moment a connection returns — so a day in the backcountry never means a day of lost data.

100%captured — on or offline
0mismatched entries
1system, field to invoice
drafts auto-saved
Optional upgrades

Add what your
firm needs.

Every firm gets the full core platform. These are scoped add-ons you can layer on whenever you're ready — nothing you have to buy up front.

+Lead Biologist Announcements
+Independent Biologist Availability Calendar
+Document library (BOs, EAs, WEAPs) with offline access
+AI-powered document search with source citations
+Monthly invoice generation from approved timesheets
+Push notifications for assignments and announcements
+Full offline mode for remote field use
+Client portal for project managers
+1099 / W2 year-end export
+Project announcements / sign-up requests

Scoped and quoted per firm — tell us which ones matter and we'll build them in.

Get Transect for your firm

Let's build your version.

Tell us about your consultancy and we'll show you Transect, branded to your firm. Licensing is per-firm — reach out and we'll find the right fit.

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