How artificial intelligence powered deer movement prediction saves time and gets you on deer.

From the founder, Bill Thompson:

From an artificial intelligence perspective, what we are doing with the Spartan Forge application is saving people time. Scouting time, time spent on fuel, and time spent away from family. What scouting can show you is basically places not to look, but once you've identified the places to look, it’s time to burn boot leather. You have to get on the ground.

A lot of the work that I had done in the military focused around that same thing. We use taxpayer dollars to do what is called intelligence preparation on the battlefield. In other words, intelligence collection to set up a military operation. One of the best ways that we did that during the global war on terrorism was through artificial intelligence. Obviously, sitting on the side of a mountain in Afghanistan, being a whitetail deer hunter, I thought the same thing.

What is the most consistent and biased free data set that someone could use to actually paint a picture for a hunter? For an end user of when they should leave the wife at home with the kids, or go out and about or, mom or leaving the husband at home when she wants to go out whitetail hunting. For me, that was collared deer data. 

When we collect this data, we're actually trying to not even use data for the three days after capture. We're truly trying to let this animal go back to its patterns and what it was doing before it was collared. We don't make assumptions about the data, and we test the appropriate type of artificial intelligence solution that is going to make the most accurate predictions.

That's what separates Spartan Forge from everyone else. It isn't mine or Levi Morgan, or Drew Carroll or Lee Ellis’ idea about how deer move. It is as empirically and scientifically sound as it can get. Unless you're going to deploy 10,000 drones to go follow deer around for 20 or 30 years, there's not a better way to do it.

This app is not telling you how to hunt. It's not even telling you when to hunt. It's telling you what activity that you can expect out of the animals while you're afield. Depending on the forecast, it will tell you that these deer are going to be holed up more than they normally would or they're going to be in their core areas, so adjust accordingly. It's not something that's telling you when or when you should not hunt. It's just telling you what kind of activity you can expect.