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What is Ask Propel?

Ask Propel is the question box in PropelMapper’s web and mobile apps, and it answers questions about your team’s places, notes and readings with links to the records behind each answer.

iOS Ask Propel panel for a sample field visit
Example account: Prairie Agronomy. © Mapbox · © OpenStreetMap

Ask about a field, an earlier visit or a reading, and the answer points to the notes it came from. Open that source and read it before you use the answer in a report or a phone call. You can type a question in the browser, or type or dictate one on the phone, and Ask is on automatically.

Ask searches the team records you have access to, and it needs a connection. A visit still saved on a colleague’s phone, waiting for a signal, becomes searchable once it uploads.

A question that names the field and the time finds the right visit faster than a broad question about a client with several farms. When you cover a colleague’s farm, ask what was recorded at that field last week and read their note before you call the grower.

Ask finds and reads the record. It does not diagnose a problem or replace a field visit. You check the source, explain the finding and sign the report yourself. During the 45 free days you have the same Ask Propel as the Individual plan.

Where to find Ask Propel

On the web, Ask sits in the top bar. On the phone, open Ask from a visit and it offers the questions people ask most: summarize this visit, what issues came up and what should I do next.

Answers draw on your places, field notes and readings. The linked source shows the visit date and the advisor who recorded it, so you can tell an observation from a client’s comment or from advice added during review.

Reading an answer well

A single reading tells you what was recorded on one day. A trend needs another dated sample to compare. Compare any number, unit or name in an answer with the source before it goes into a report.

When the detail you expected is missing, the visit has not uploaded yet or the note was never made. Check with the advisor who made the visit, or open that visit, before you conclude nothing was seen.

An earlier photo stays evidence of the earlier visit. In the new report, keep what your colleague found then apart from what you inspected today, so the grower reads the sequence clearly.

Last checked: November 6, 2026

What do you write up after a visit?

Pick one and see the signed report PropelMapper drafts for it.