Continuous monitoring and triage
The Watch Framework
A design for watching a defined territory day after day and deciding what a person should look at today.
The situation it's designed for
A stewardship director has four thousand parcels under easement and three people who can drive to any of them. The satellite imagery arrives on schedule. Nobody has time to look at all of it, so in practice it gets looked at after someone calls.
The same shape shows up in a service territory, a set of insured properties, a group of contract farms. The ground being watched grew. The number of people watching it did not.
This framework is the design for the thing that watches in between the visits. It reads whatever is already coming in — imagery, sensors, field reports, permit filings — and sorts the territory into what changed enough to matter and what did not.
What it hands your team
- A written definition of what counts as a change worth a person's day, in your own terms — a cleared acre, a dropped pressure reading, a new access road.
- The roles: which watcher covers which ground, what each one is allowed to conclude, and how their findings get combined.
- The handoff design: what a field person receives, in what form, with what already done for them before they open it.
- A rejection path, so the times the system was wrong get recorded and change how it behaves next month.
What stays a human decision
- Whether an alert becomes a site visit, a phone call, or a note in the file.
- Any finding that becomes a legal notice, a landowner conversation, or an enforcement step.
- The threshold itself. The framework proposes one; your staff sets it, and keeps setting it.
What it's not for
- Territory where nothing is being observed yet. If there is no imagery, no sensor, and no field report, this has nothing to read. Start there instead.
- Detection at a precision the underlying imagery cannot support. A weekly ten-metre pixel will not find a single felled tree, and we will say so before you build.
- Replacing field staff. Every engagement we have run ended with the same number of people covering more ground, not fewer people covering the same.