What is TraceReach?

TraceReach locates Drops, not Crew members. The coordinates on a Drop describe where that campaign activity happened; they are a property of the record, not a position report on the person who logged it. TraceReach keeps no movement trail for a crew member, and Studio has no surface that shows where a crew member is right now.

TraceReach Drop reads GPS only while the app is open, with when-in-use permission only; it asks for no background-location permission on iOS or Android. Close the app and it stops reading location.

A crew member opens TraceReach Drop at the place, scans the material's QR code if it carries one, and takes the photo. The location locks at the moment the shutter fires, accurate to within a few meters in good conditions, and the record carries the photo, the coordinates with the device-reported accuracy, the timestamp, and the campaign, material, and Run behind it.

A Drop assigned to a Pin is checked against the pinned coordinates; a geofence flags or rejects one outside the zone, depending on the mode the hub chose. With no signal, the record saves on the phone and syncs when signal returns.

Yes. A Drop logged without a code gets its photo read on the server: printed text, handwriting, chalk. A QR code the camera missed is recovered from the photo and tied back to its campaign. The words become the Drop's message, marked as a machine read until a person confirms or corrects them, and the same message logged at several places groups on the map with a running tally.

A design is read once, at the artwork: what it says and what it is about carry over to each Drop of that design, and one correction on the design reaches them all. The map searches by message and filters by medium and subject.

Yes. A Spot carries its own photo, place, date, and notes, and sits on the map beside Drops and Pins. Spots are how a crew records what else is up in a neighborhood, separate from the material the campaign put there.

TraceReach Studio is the web app campaigners work in: build campaigns and materials, generate QR codes, set short links, place Pins, plan a Run, and read the map, the scans, and the reports. An assistant in the Studio header drafts a campaign from a conversation, landing pages and polls included, shows the plan as a preview, and creates it when you approve.

TraceReach Drop is the mobile app crew members carry, on iOS and Android: log a Drop with its photo, pick up assigned Pins, log Spots, and keep working offline.

Yes. A poster nobody scans still earns a Pin with its design, place, date, and photo, and the map still shows coverage and gaps.

Scan-based answers need a QR code. Which locations run hot, which design earns more response, and when a location goes quiet are all read off scans, so a campaign that prints no code gets the record and the map without those readouts.

The code resolves through TraceReach and sends the person to whatever destination it points at right now: a landing page, a petition, a video, a poll, or any URL you set. You can change that destination after the material prints, and the scan history stays connected to the same campaign.

TraceReach records the scan against the material, design, campaign, Drop, and Pin behind that code, plus what the visitor did on the page after landing. Response is read in aggregate; TraceReach does not identify individual people.

TraceReach generates QR codes, and the codes are one piece of a campaign platform. A generator hands you a code and one scan count for the whole print run; TraceReach ties each scan to the design, the place, the day, and the campaign behind it, and keeps the record even where the material carries no code at all.

A Personal Workspace is free for one person, capped at 1 campaign, 5 design templates, and 20 logged drops.

Paid plans open your team, public campaigns, and the rest of Studio. They are scoped to the campaign you run and quoted on request during the open beta. On a paid plan, seats, campaigns, QR codes, short links, scans, pins, and drops are never metered.