Sound familiar?
Archaeological fieldwork generates mountains of data that traditional tools can't handle.
Paper notebooks, digital world
Excavation diaries filled by hand in the field. Transcribing them later takes weeks and introduces errors. Context is lost between the trench and the desk.
Finds disconnected from locations
Photos, sketches, and measurements exist in separate files. Reconnecting a specific find to its exact location months later is a puzzle.
Remote digs, no connectivity
Excavation sites are often far from infrastructure. Software that needs internet is useless on a hilltop in the middle of nowhere.
Report assembly takes weeks
At the end of a campaign, assembling the final report means hunting through notebooks, photo folders, and GPS files. It takes weeks of tedious work.
Built for archaeological fieldwork
From excavation grid setup to publication-ready data — designed for the unique demands of archaeological research.
Georeferenced Excavation Grid
Set up your site grid on the map. Each trench and sector is a folder with its own records, photos, and find logs.
Digital Excavation Diary
Structured daily logs filled on the phone: layers, finds, observations, photos. Searchable and permanently linked to location.
Find Documentation
Log each find with depth, stratigraphy, condition, and geotagged photos. The exact provenance is never lost.
Offline-First for Remote Sites
Works on hilltops, deserts, and forests without signal. All data saved locally and synced when connectivity returns.
Custom Fields & Templates
Define your own recording forms: pottery types, soil descriptions, stratigraphic units — whatever your methodology requires.
Publication-Ready Export
Complete site record organized and georeferenced. Generate reports for publication or regulatory submission in hours, not weeks.
Running an excavation campaign
Every trench, every find, every layer — documented in place, with precise location, from the first day to the final report.
Excavation grid mapped in Geodocs
The site director sets up the excavation grid as folders on the map — each trench, each sector. Team members are assigned, excavation protocols defined.
Find documented in exact location
An artifact or feature is discovered. The archaeologist logs the find with depth, stratigraphy, condition, and takes geotagged photos — all offline if needed.
Daily excavation diary filled on the phone
Each team fills their daily log: layers excavated, finds recorded, soil observations, photos. The digital excavation diary — structured, searchable, permanently linked to that location.
Full context available from the office
Researchers back at the lab can pull up any trench, any find, with full field notes and photos — without waiting for physical notebooks to be transcribed.
Everything ready for publication
The complete site record — every find, every layer, every photo, georeferenced and organized. Generating the final report becomes a matter of hours, not weeks.
See it in action
This is what Geodocs looks like for your team every day.
Suggested: Excavation site map with trench grid overlaid, showing find density markers per sector, photos pinned to exact locations, and a detail panel for a specific artifact find with stratigraphy notes.
Design recording forms for your methodology
Every excavation has its own recording system. Geodocs lets you build custom forms for finds, stratigraphic units, soil descriptions, and daily logs — so your digital records match your methodology exactly.
Suggested: Report builder showing a digital excavation diary template with fields for layer descriptions, find catalog entries, soil observations, stratigraphy sketches, and geotagged photo attachments.
Works where other tools don't
Built offline-first. Your team collects data without signal — photos, GPS, forms, reports. Everything syncs the moment connectivity returns. No data lost. Ever.