FieldNote for tour agencies · a two-week pilot

Your guides already have the stories

A three-minute voice note becomes a publish-ready post.

After a tour, your guide answers one WhatsApp message the way they'd tell a friend what happened. FieldNote asks a couple of follow-up questions, drafts the post, and puts it in your review queue. You approve it. It goes live on your website and your Google Business Profile.

Fifteen minutes on a call, or one page by email first. No pressure either way.

The problem

The specifics die between the tour and the keyboard.

Every tour produces a moment worth writing up: a guest reaction, a close call, a detail only someone standing there would know. None of it gets written down. By the time anyone sits at a keyboard, the specifics are gone and what is left is generic. So your website and Google Business Profile stay quiet between bookings, not because you lack material, but because nobody has time to turn a day in the field into a paragraph.

How it works

One voice note in. One approved post out.

01

The tour ends. One WhatsApp message goes out.

Your guide gets a single message asking how it went. They answer with a voice note, the same way they already talk to friends and family. Three minutes. No app. No login. Nothing to install.

Guide's part: done
02

FieldNote asks the follow-up questions.

A couple of short questions pull out the specific details that make a story worth reading: what the guests said, what made this day different. Then it drafts the post. Every line traces back to something the guide actually said. Nothing is invented, nothing is padded.

Our part
03

The draft lands in your review queue.

Your team reads it and approves it, or edits first. Nothing publishes without your sign-off. You are always the last check before anything goes live.

Your part: five minutes
04

Live on your website and Google Business Profile.

Approved posts publish to your site and your GBP, so the places people actually find you stay fresh between bookings. Handed over ready to paste, or published directly, whichever fits your setup.

Automatic

The proof

This is not a concept. It has been running for months.

FieldNote was built for Mike Brown Tours, an owner-run tour business out of Cape Town - wine routes, Table Mountain, the Garden Route, with the occasional Kruger safari. Mike is a real guide, over sixty and not a tech guy at all. He talks after a tour. The blog writes itself.

Field specimen · published postsource: a spoken story
A guide's voice note about two lions resting beside the safari vehicle in Kruger became a full published post. The guide talked. The story wrote itself.

Read it live: mikebrowntours.com/blog/mating-lions-kruger-safari

And it is not just big-five drama. An ordinary Table Mountain and penguins day tour became "The Day a Swiss Guest Couldn't Stop Talking About Shark Spotters" - the story was one guest's fascination, and the pipeline caught it. Your most ordinary tour day already contains a story.

~14
posts published
0
typed by anyone
3 min
of talking per post

Browse the whole thing: mikebrowntours.com/blog. Every post sourced from a guide speaking, not writing.

The rules we run by

Built to survive your scepticism.

Nothing invented

Every line in a draft traces to something a guide said. Think of it as a very good interviewer plus a very fast typist, not a content generator. Thin story? We hold it rather than pad it.

Nothing unapproved

Your team reviews every draft before it publishes. You are the last check, always. If a draft is not worth publishing, it does not publish.

Nothing for guides to learn

WhatsApp voice notes, the app they already use every day. If a sixty-something tour guide can do it, and he has been for months, your guides can.

The pilot

Two weeks. Two or three guides. A clear answer.

What we do

  • Run the WhatsApp conversations with your guides, end to end
  • Interview, draft, and deliver posts to your review queue
  • Publish approved posts to your site and Google Business Profile

What you do

  • Pick two or three guides and tell them to expect a message
  • Spend a few minutes reviewing drafts before they go live
  • At the end of two weeks, decide with real posts in hand
Pricing: a flat pilot rate, agreed with you before we start, based on the number of guides and how often you want posts. No long contract. If the drafts are not worth publishing, it costs you nothing but the trial.

The ask

Give us two guides for two weeks.

If it works, you keep a website and a Google Business Profile that update themselves from what your guides are already doing. If it does not, you will know within a fortnight, with real drafts to judge, not a demo.

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