One-click invasive species mapping

Invasive species cost the global economy over $400 billion every year - and that number keeps climbing, because the window between first sighting and established infestation closes in weeks. The gap isn't scientific. It's infrastructural. The people who could close it are already moving through the landscape every day - they just don't have a way to report what they see that costs less than the moment it would take.

We’ve spent years working in the woods of Maine - mapping invasive spread, running drone surveys, and building detection tools with the land managers and conservation districts who are on the front lines of that problem. Naughtweed grew directly from that field work: a physical button that logs a GPS-stamped observation with a single press. No app, no form, no photo. The friction that keeps most people from reporting disappears.

The data already proves the model. One observer, one button, ordinary daily travel - over 10,000 knotweed observations across 86 days. That density is what gives land managers something they can act on.

Funds from this campaign go directly to hardware for our Design Partner Program: buttons placed with land trusts, watershed groups, trail stewards, and conservation districts who are actively shaping the platform alongside us. Each partner adds detection coverage to a region where early response is still possible - where the difference between a manageable patch and a landscape-scale infestation is often just a logged observation and a crew with the right tools showing up in time.

The people are already out there. The land is already telling its story. We're just building the infrastructure for collective and coordinated action.