About

Built by people who've stood at the gate at 0600.

Wildlife Connects is the operating system for the outdoor sector, the associations, lodges, agencies, and landowners who steward working land. We're early. We're plainspoken about what's done and what isn't. Here's where we are.

Why we built it

Modern operations, run on spreadsheets, group texts, and trust.

Walk into a wildlife association banquet at 5:45 on a Saturday. Walk the gate of a working ranch on opening morning. Spend a shift at a public hunt check station in October. The work is real, the people are sharp, and the software is, generously, held together with hope.

Patron lists in two spreadsheets. Banquet RSVPs in a group text. Lease agreements as PDFs in three different inboxes. Waivers on paper. Harvest reports on paper. Reports to the state agency, transcribed by hand from those papers.

Wildlife Connects exists because the people stewarding land deserve software as serious as the work. Not a generic CRM with "outdoor industry" in the marketing copy. Not another "platform" that asks staff to learn six tools. One operating system, membership, events, education, data, branded as your organization, configured for how you actually work, deployed by people who know what a scoring event looks like at golden hour.

We're starting with our first launch partner, the Texas Wildlife Association, and we're being honest about that. Customer logos wall? We don't have one yet. What we do have is a product built with operators in the room, and the patience to ship it the way it deserves to be shipped.

What we believe.

Four working principles that show up in every decision, what we build, how we sell it, what we say no to.

01. Operator first

The desk staff is the customer.

We design for the person at the banquet desk on Saturday night, not the person who signed the contract. If a workflow doesn't fit on a single screen for someone working a check station with one bar of signal, we haven't finished it yet.

02. Domain-fluent

Speak the language, not the SaaS.

Patrons, leases, scoring events, public hunts, conservation easements. We don't translate the work into "stakeholders" and "engagement funnels." If you say it at the gate, our software says it on the screen.

03. Branded as your org

Your name on it. Always.

Members, donors, lease holders, hunters, they sign in to your organization. Your logo, your colors, your domain. Wildlife Connects runs underneath, invisibly. We're proud of the work; we don't need top billing on your homepage.

04. Live in 30 days

Stood up in a season, not a quarter.

Migration, configuration, training, white-label launch, 30 days from kickoff to your members signing in. We've done the un-glamorous work of making setup fast so you're not running your season on two systems for six months.

Where we are, May 2026

An honest snapshot.

First launch partner

Texas Wildlife Association, onboarding underway, expected live this season.

Customers live

Zero, today. One soon. The TWA cutover is what we are working toward and not something we are claiming yet.

Product surface

Membership, events, education, and data modules are built. White-label theming, role-based access, and migration tooling are in active development.

Where we're focused

Texas first. Then the four segments, associations, lodges, agencies, landowners, across the working West.

What we're not yet

A customer-logos wall. A "94% renewal rate." A keynote at every conference. That's fine. We'd rather earn it.

The crew

Small team. Long horizon.

We're a working team, not a leadership page. Names and bios go here as the team decides what they want public.

Founder
Product · GTM

Bio placeholder. Background in working with associations, agencies, and landowner groups across the working West.

Co-founder
Engineering

Bio placeholder. Builds the product and the deployment tooling. Spent a decade on operator software before this.

Field
Customer · Onboarding

Bio placeholder. The person who actually shows up at your banquet and your gate during cutover week.

If this sounds like your org,

We'd rather walk your operation than pitch you a deck. Tell us how you work, and we'll come back with Wildlife Connects configured for it.

See it on your org →