The Field Company is a Cape Town-based open-source technology collective building offline-first tools for conservation. Our flagship product, FieldLog, enables rangers, scientists, and community researchers to collect field data on $50 phones with no internet connection. We also maintain comprehensive biodiversity databases, develop affordable IoT monitoring devices, and grow a global network of field workers, developers, and conservationists. Everything we build is free and open source — because environmental knowledge should flow to the people who need it most. Explore our mission, read our open letter to humanity, or join us on Discord.
The Field Company is an open-source technology collective based in Cape Town, South Africa. We build offline-first tools for conservation researchers, rangers, and field scientists working in remote environments with no internet connectivity. Everything we build is free and open source.
FieldLog is our flagship product — an offline-first mobile data collection platform for field research. It runs on $50 Android phones with no signal, captures GPS-tagged observations with photos, and syncs when connectivity returns. FieldLog is open source and field workers never pay.
Our blog covers conservation technology, biodiversity monitoring protocols, camera trap software comparisons, planetary boundaries science, offline-first software engineering, citizen science, GPS accuracy for field work, climate data analysis, and open-source conservation tools. We publish data-driven, citation-backed articles for researchers, conservationists, and developers.
Join our Discord community at https://discord.gg/cx5PZW9h9f. Read our open letter to humanity at https://thefieldco.com/blog/letter-to-humanity. Explore our mission at https://thefieldco.com/our-mission. Contribute to FieldLog on GitHub at https://github.com/thefieldcompany. Contact us at hello@thefieldco.com.