Litter count report app
Capture litter audits on a device that keeps working with no signal, then produce the litter count report from your own Word template — with the prose drafted against your own standards library.
Built for environment groups running teams of roughly 3–50 inspectors.
The loop you are running today
Environmental consulting is the clearest case of the report being the product: the client is buying a document that has to survive a regulator, an auditor, or the other side of a transaction. The field work is a day; the write-up is a week, and most of that week is spent re-typing sample IDs and pasting the same guideline text into a new Word file.
The tell is simple: you are running a forms app plus Word plus a spreadsheet plus email, and re-typing the same findings into all four to get one litter count report out the door.
How the litter count report gets built
Capture it once, offline
Your firm builds the litter audit form in-app — 25 field types, nesting repeatable groups, compound AND/OR visibility rules, reusable modules and calculated fields. Field capture works with no signal: jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio all queue in an idempotent outbox that only clears once the server confirms receipt.
Link it to your sample locations
Enter sample locations once, as a register. Every one of your samples, bores and monitoring rounds then points at a stored row rather than a name somebody typed — and the links survive a disconnected device.
Render your own template
The litter count report renders into the Word template you already use — your letterhead, your section order, your clause library — with conditionals, loops over repeats, composable sub-templates and photo grids.
Drafted against your standards, not a generic model
You upload your own reference library — PDF, Word, Excel, CSV — and it is indexed for retrieval. A {{ai: …}} marker placed inside your Word template runs Claude at render time and drops the drafted prose into that exact spot.
Where two sources conflict, the retrieved passages are labelled with their authority and the model is instructed to follow the higher one and state what it overrode. A document you mark superseded is excluded outright.
What a environmental firm typically loads
- ASC NEPM 1999 (as amended 2013) and its Schedule B guidelines
- State EPA sampling design and assessment guidelines
- AS 4482.1 — investigation of potentially contaminated soil
- Your own in-house QA plan and reporting proforma
- Client-specific and site-auditor-specific reporting conditions
Reviewed before it leaves
You write the review framework: a checklist of what a litter count report must contain, plus the prose standards you would mark a junior against. Link it to a report template and it runs every time that template renders. Each finding comes back graded info, minor or major, quoting the sentence at fault, and a person accepts or dismisses every one.
Because the structured submission behind the report is held too, the review is a comparison rather than a proofread: The report says every bore was sampled to three metres; the form has BH07 refused at 1.2 m.
Checks a environmental framework usually carries
- Every exceedance in the results tables is discussed in the assessment text
- The guideline values cited match the land use actually being assessed
- No sample or bore ID appears in the prose that is absent from the data
- Data gaps, refusals and deviations from the sampling plan are stated as limitations
What this is not
Worth knowing before you book a demo, so neither of us wastes the half hour.
- Not field-service dispatch. No timesheets, no parts, no inventory. Scheduling exists to get an inspector to a site.
- No signature capture. If your deliverable has to carry a signed sign-off on the artefact itself, this is not the tool yet.
- Field capture is what works offline — jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio. Reports, chat, scheduling and the inbox need a connection.
- No client portal. Reports go out as a file or a password-protected link.
Other environmental work we cover
- Surface water samplingWater quality report
- Vibration monitoringVibration compliance report
- Weed mapping programsWeed infestation map report
- Wetland condition assessmentsWetland health report
- Acid sulfate soil inspectionsASS management report
- Air quality monitoring roundsAir monitoring report
- Asbestos in soil surveysACM in soil report
- Asbestos registers and reinspectionsAsbestos register update
Other disciplines
Rebuild your litter count report in SurveyThanks
Bring the Word template you already send clients. If you are coming off another field-forms tool, a filled report can be uploaded, read field by field, and re-rendered into your template.