Environmental compliance, from the field to the ministry.
Infrastructure projects in West and Central Africa must produce PGES compliance reports for their supervising ministries. Baobab replaces paper notebooks and WhatsApp threads with an audited, offline-first, bilingual platform.
The problem
On mining, road, and agro-industrial sites, field teams collect daily environmental compliance evidence — vegetation photos, noise measurements, spill reports. Too often this data ends up in WhatsApp chats, scattered Excel files, or lost paper notebooks. The supervisor spends hours consolidating; the ministry receives a poorly formatted PDF weeks later.
Our solution
Baobab structures this flow in three layers. The field operator submits photo evidence from their phone — even without connectivity. The supervisor reviews and approves online. The ministry or executive views a consolidated dashboard and downloads the PGES report as a print-ready PDF or DOCX.
Built for every role
Field operator
Offline mobile app. Geotagged photo evidence submission. Automatic sync when connectivity returns.
Supervisor
Review dashboard. Approve or return submissions. Real-time compliance tracking by site.
Ministry / Auditor
Consolidated PGES reports. Full submission history. PDF/DOCX export to regulatory standards.
Executive
Multi-site overview. Aggregated compliance indicators. Proactive alerts on delays.
Key features
- Native offline mode (PWA) — no app store installation required
- Automatic sync with conflict resolution
- Row-level security (RLS) per role
- PTA import and obligation tracking
- PGES report generation as PDF and DOCX
- Bilingual French / English
- Data hosted in Europe (AWS eu-west-3 Paris)
- AI PTA analysis by Anthropic (enterprise tier)
Why H&B Consulting built Baobab
H&B Consulting has spent years supporting project owners, engineering firms, and administrations on environmental compliance requirements in Cameroon, Senegal, and the region. We repeatedly encountered the gap between regulatory complexity and the tools available in the field. Baobab is our answer: a tool built by practitioners, for practitioners, with the real constraints of the African field in mind — intermittent connectivity, entry-level devices, multilingual procedures.