Zoos answer the same forty questions forever — rain, parking, strollers, feeding times, what membership includes. Docent answers them at 9pm from a phone.
Built to know things like
- If it rains Saturday, is anything indoors?
- Three-year-old and a wheelchair — what is the easiest loop?
School groups are the backbone of a zoo's spring, and teachers book them at 9pm. Real availability, chaperone ratios and bus drop-off, confirmed with a code.
Built to know things like
- One adult per eight students, 14 days notice.
- Where does a bus actually drop 60 fourth-graders?
The best moment at a zoo is catching a keeper at the rail. That happens twice a day, to whoever is standing there. June is that conversation at every habitat, all day.
Ask her the hard ones
- What do you feed her, and how do you know how much?
- Is it cruel to keep a polar bear in Minnesota?
A child draws a character. One photo later it is alive, and it walks them habitat to habitat setting challenges and reacting to what they actually find.
Two zoo quests are live
- Keeper for a Day — five habitats at Como.
- Built for the Job — adaptations, at any zoo.
The drawing becomes a shirt they will actually wear. Their animal, one of one, no inventory risk.
Why a gift shop cares
- No minimum order and nothing to stock.
- The one souvenir a parent cannot say no to.
Funder report, board packet, newsletter, appeal — the same four documents forever, assembled by hand from spreadsheets in four places. Tally keeps the dozen numbers and writes them.
What makes it different
- Drop a CSV or type it in. No integration, no procurement.
- It says out loud what a grant cannot yet evidence.