Magpie — the zoo and nature-center lab at Prairie Birdhouse · Six tools, five running today · Twin Cities, MN

What if every habitat could answer back?

Six working AI tools for zoos and nature centers — five for the visit, and one for the desk everyone goes back to afterwards. Five run today. Tap any dot.

Visitors a better day out Staff hours back Both looks like visitor experience; funded by the staff time it saves Hollow dot = being built

Stop 1 — Before the visit

Docent

A front desk that never closes.

Stop 1 of 5

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?
Not built yet

The rest of the drawer

Every idea here connects to something already running, and each one is coloured by who it hands time back to. Tap any of them — the lines show how the next tool grows out of the last. If one of these is your nightmare (or your dream), say so.

Pick an idea.

Tap any of them above to see what it is and what it grows from.