Your data comes together in one place, and your team keeps the tools that work for them. There’s no year-long switch: start with the part that helps your team most, and move the rest when it’s better for you.
The parts Restoration Scope already does well move first. The rest keep running in the tools your team uses today, and move when they’re ready. Nothing blocks the parts that are.
| Part of the work | Today | First month | Later |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collecting field data |  Kobo | KoboSynced in | Field App |
| Site register |  Google Sheets | Restoration Scope | Restoration Scope |
| Boundaries and maps |  QGIS | Restoration Scope | Restoration Scope |
| Dashboards and reports |  Excel | Excel | Restoration Scope |
| The team’s own formulas and charts | Google Sheets | Google SheetsReads synced data | Google SheetsReads synced data |
Example 1 of 3: Kobo in the field, spreadsheets in the office
To make this work, Restoration Scope adapts to your systems. Data comes in from your tools and the Field App, lives in one project, and goes back out to the tools people already read.
Bring in years of spreadsheets, maps and photos once.
Add new files whenever they arrive.
Connect a source on a schedule or in real time, where the tool supports it.
Send records to a Google Sheets tab on a schedule, and edits back to Airtable.
Our offline Field App, when your team wants it.
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SalesforceWhen a project needs itUse Restoration Scope where it helps most, and keep the rest. We don’t ask you to fit into our system: we adapt to yours, and build what helps.
Keep collecting in Kobo, and see the big picture in Restoration Scope dashboards and maps.
Collect with our Field App, and keep reading the data in the spreadsheets your office knows.
Spreadsheets, survey forms, maps and photos, past seasons included. Send them as they are. We don’t merge or drop records on a guess: the ones that look wrong are flagged for your team to decide.
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Google DriveKoboWe do the moving. You make the calls only your team can make.
The pace depends on how quickly you send your data, whether you want an NDA first and how often we meet. Spend a full week with us and setup is done that week.
You bring your data and someone who can make decisions about it. We show you how it connects and where the gaps are, and field capture can start the same week.
Your team uses it on real work. We improve what doesn’t fit, add data quality checks and set up the next workflow.
Your team uses it every day, and we move on to the next part of your operation that matters most to you.
Most teams are up and running in one week to one month. The pace depends on how quickly you send your data, whether you want an NDA first and how often we meet. After that, each part of your work moves over when it’s ready.
No. Your systems stay in place and we move one part at a time. Parts we don’t cover yet keep running in the tools you use today, and move when they’re ready.
No. Send it as it is. Messy data is normal: every organization we work with has some. We flag the records that look wrong for your team to decide, and quality checks keep catching new ones.
Yes. Send everything you have. Acción Andina brought 120 seasons of data from 16 organizations into one system.
Only if you want them to. Teams can keep the Kobo or ODK forms and spreadsheets they know, and their data keeps coming in. If you move them to our offline Field App, we train one lead on your team, who trains the field team.
Yes. Records can go to their own Google Sheets tab on a schedule. Your formulas and charts read from that tab, so they stay up to date while others use Restoration Scope.
We import and connect your data. Your lead joins setup meetings, reviews the records we flag and trains the field team. Bringing in your data is part of implementation in the Organization plan.
Yes. The free pilot imports a sample of your data, under an NDA if you want one, and shows you what the platform already does with it.
Yes. Your data is yours. Any table or map view downloads as a spreadsheet or spatial file, whenever you want.
Bring in the spreadsheets, field forms and maps you already use, and see every site in one place.
