Know what's moving
through the valley.
One official wildlife channel for the Bow Valley, built to keep people safe, keep wildlife alive, and put real tools in a warden's hand.
Three things a phone line can't do, and lives depend on all three.
Wildlife lives
Habituation and human contact are documented drivers of bear deaths. Corridor attacks the causes, no crowd-summoning sightings, attractants routed fast, closures reaching phones at the trailhead.
Human safety
The family that gets the closure alert before the trailhead. The tourist who reaches the right dispatch in two taps instead of googling. Fewer surprise encounters at the moments that matter.
Rangers empowered
A triage queue, one-tap advisories, follow-ups and a live dashboard. Corridor decongests the phone line so wardens spend their hours on the field, not the call log.
You already wrote this problem statement.
Elk cause the greatest number of human–wildlife occurrences in Banff, and increasingly occupy Canmore's golf courses, playing fields and school yards.
DocumentedBear removals recorded in the valley across the reporting period, road and rail mortality, translocations, destructions.
DocumentedFive black bears and one wolf killed on the Trans-Canada in a single year.
Documentedlink
Grizzly mortality correlates directly with the rate of human contact.
DocumentedSources: Bow Valley Human–Wildlife Coexistence Report · Coexistence Status Report 2019.
Two phone numbers and a Friday blog post.
Sightings go to Kananaskis Dispatch and Banff Dispatch by voice call. No map. No memory.
Public safety info arrives as a weekly written bear report and periodic advisories, not at the moment of relevance.
Which office to call depends on where you're standing. Tourists, the majority of encounters, know none of them.
Reports vanish into call logs. Reporters never hear back. The next family on the trail knows nothing.
The phone line for the 5% that's urgent. Corridor for the 95% that isn't.
For everyone in the valley
- Advisory map, areas, never pins
- Guided, structured reporting
- Species-tiered alerts
- What-to-do education, in the moment
For the people who protect it
- Triage queue
- One-tap advisories
- Follow-ups that close the loop
- Live coexistence dashboard
Never a bypass
- Dispatch-first triage
- Report A Poacher routing
- Data exports you own
An aggressive bear in a schoolyard produces one thing: a full-screen button that dials your dispatch.
Six things no competitor, or status quo, can match.
Dispatch-first by architecture
Emergencies reach your line in two taps, correct number auto-selected. A layer over your system, never a bypass.
Built against the attract paradox
Areas not pins, species-tiered delays, no photos-with-locations, no browsable feed. The app that can't create a bear jam.
The closed loop
Every reporter gets a status trail and a follow-up. Trust compounds; repeat calls stop.
You hold the keys
Advisory authority, sensitivity-matrix sign-off, data ownership and a community-layer kill switch, yours, in writing, day one.
Structured coexistence data
Every report feeds the maps and annual reports you already produce by hand.
Priced like a utility
The entire hosting stack costs less than a coffee a month. The next slide proves it.
Wildlife lives, measured. Human safety, reduced where it matters.
Wildlife, where the bodies are counted
A fed bear is a dead bear. Corridor removes the crowd-summoning sighting, routes attractant reports fast, and delivers closures to phones at the trailhead instead of a week later.
People, stated honestly
Serious attacks are rare, so we won't claim a body count. What Corridor changes is exposure at the tail: fewer surprise encounters, the right dispatch in two taps, the schoolyard elk reported in 40 seconds instead of never.
This isn't a conversation for today. The financials have been addressed, and we're confident this is a low-cost commitment that pays for itself many times over in the impact and ROI it creates.
Annual infrastructure: ~$40.
Not a typo.BC built the first one. It proved the demand, then it died. Corridor is designed around why.
subscribers
delivered
to the COS line
The appetite didn't die, the operating model did. Corridor is the corrected experiment, and the Bow Valley can host the only living system of its kind in Western Canada.
This isn't a conversation for today. The financials have been addressed, and we're confident this is a low-cost commitment that pays for itself many times over in the impact and ROI it creates.
Six months, Canmore-anchored, ~$25K all-in, split four ways.
A Cochrane resident with a decade of government-grade software.
- Senior product designer for healthcare practice software.
- UK Government Digital Service alumnus, work projected to save £300M.
- Designer-engineer: the prototype in your hands is his build, supported by a named second engineer.
- Lives in the corridor this app serves, with a kid and a dog who hike it.
One event moves through both apps as a single closed loop.
A deliberately boring stack — which is why it costs ~$40 a year.
One report. Two surfaces. A closed loop.
Not a mockup, the live prototype you can open from the next slide.
The question isn't whether this can exist.
It's whether it exists with your name on it.
The prototype you just used is live today. Scan to open it, the deck's only job was to get the phone out of your pocket.
