A workspace that works beyond Wi-Fi
Conservation teams were collecting precise field observations, then losing hours to spreadsheets, conflicting versions, and unreliable connectivity. Atlas keeps the essential workflow local first.
My contribution
I led product discovery, interaction design, and the sync architecture. The smallest useful unit is an append-only observation:
from dataclasses import dataclass
from datetime import datetime
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class Observation:
species: str
latitude: float
longitude: float
recorded_at: datetime
device_id: str
Events are reconciled when a connection returns. The interface always tells the researcher whether work is saved locally, queued, synchronized, or needs attention.
Outcome
The pilot replaced three separate tools and reduced end-of-day reconciliation from almost an hour to a few minutes. More importantly, researchers trusted it enough to stop carrying paper backups.