Cultural heritage report app
Capture indigenous heritage surveys on a device that keeps working with no signal, then produce the cultural heritage report from your own Word template — with the prose drafted against your own standards library.
Built for traditional owners running teams of roughly 3–50 inspectors.
The loop you are running today
Heritage condition work is fabric-by-fabric and comparative — this element, against its state at the last inspection. That is a relational problem dressed up as a document, and it is why heritage reporting is still done in Word with photographs dragged in one at a time.
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 cultural heritage report out the door.
How the cultural heritage report gets built
Capture it once, offline
Your firm builds the indigenous heritage survey 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 fabric elements and spaces
Enter fabric elements and spaces once, as a register. Every one of your condition observations across inspection 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 cultural heritage 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 A document you mark superseded is excluded outright.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 heritage firm typically loads
- The Burra Charter and its practice notes
- State heritage office condition assessment guidelines
- AICCM standards for collection and object condition work
- Conservation management plans for the places you monitor
- Your own condition grading scale and photographic protocol
Reviewed before it leaves
You write the review framework: a checklist of what a cultural heritage 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 narrative says the verandah is stable; the condition record grades it poor and deteriorating.
Checks a heritage framework usually carries
- Every element in the schedule carries a condition grade and a photograph
- Change since the last inspection is stated element by element
- Recommendations are tied back to Burra Charter principles
- The significance assessment is consistent with the conservation management plan
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 heritage work we cover
- Archaeological site monitoringSite monitoring report
- Ghost sign documentationSign documentation report
- Heritage building condition surveysConservation condition report
- Historic cemetery surveysGrave condition survey
- Museum object condition reportsObject condition report
- Rock art condition monitoringRock art condition report
- Shipwreck site inspectionsWreck site report
- Statue and monument auditsMonument condition register
Other disciplines
Rebuild your cultural heritage 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.