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NocturnaPath

The only bat survey operations platform built by someone who has actually watched consultants lose $40,000 in revenue because they missed a May 15th survey window.

NocturnaPath manages the full operational lifecycle of commercial bat colony surveys — from USFWS incidental take permit acquisition through species-specific acoustic monitoring data chain of custody. It knows your consultants' credentials, your state permit expirations, and every regulatory deadline on the calendar so your firm stops hemorrhaging revenue on missed windows that were buried in a shared Google Drive nobody audited. This is the software wildlife biology consulting firms have been building in Excel for fifteen years, and building wrong.

Features

  • Full USFWS incidental take permit acquisition tracking with jurisdiction-aware deadline calendars
  • Acoustic monitoring chain of custody across 47 distinct bat species profiles with automated survey window validation
  • Consultant credential and certification expiration tracking synced to state wildlife agency renewal portals
  • Survey window scheduling engine that accounts for species, season, temperature floor, and lunar phase — automatically
  • Regulatory reporting packet generation with pre-filled USFWS Form 3-200-56 field mapping

Supported Integrations

USFWS Electronic Permits System, eSalesforce, ArcGIS Online, Wildlife Acoustics Kaleidoscope Pro, BatBase API, DocuSign, NatureServe Explorer, FieldStack, Esri Living Atlas, TerraSync Pro, AWS S3, Stripe

Architecture

NocturnaPath runs as a set of loosely coupled microservices behind a single API gateway, with each domain — permitting, scheduling, chain of custody, credential tracking — living in its own service boundary so one regulatory change doesn't detonate the whole system. Acoustic metadata and permit documents are stored in MongoDB, which handles the flexible document schemas that wildlife data demands and never apologizes for it. The survey window calculation engine is a standalone service because that logic is complex enough to deserve its own blast radius. Redis holds the long-term permit state and credential records where durability is non-negotiable.

Status

🟢 Production. Actively maintained.

License

Proprietary. All rights reserved.