Evaluate what you actually observed
Capture robot capabilities, performance ratings, strengths, weaknesses, and notes in a focused workflow built for competition environments.
Private scouting for VEX V5RC teams
BotBoard
Scout Teams. Build Alliances.
Turn season-long robot evaluations into a living team picture and an alliance pick list your whole organization can trust.
Private by design
Season-long history
Role-based organization control
Built for alliance selection
One shared scouting picture
Stop rebuilding your scouting knowledge at every event.
Paper notes disappear. Spreadsheets fragment. One-off match records lose the story of how a robot changes through the season. BotBoard gives your organization one private place to evaluate teams, preserve history, and prepare for alliance selection.
From observation to strategy
Build knowledge that gets more useful all season.
Every evaluation adds to the same team record. Events and match numbers provide optional context without splitting your data into separate silos.
See the current robot and its history
Review the latest evaluation, carry forward known information, and understand when and by whom a team was evaluated.
Walk into alliance selection prepared
Rank teams throughout the season and keep your organization’s pick list connected to the evidence behind every decision.
Your program at a glance
Know what needs attention today.
See your current season, tracked teams, recent evaluations, and the next useful action without digging through disconnected files.
- Season and event context in one place
- Clear evaluation activity
- Fast access to the work that matters
One season-long directory
Build a scouting database your whole program can use.
Search every team, see evaluation coverage instantly, and keep your organization’s own teams clearly identified.
- Search by team number or name
- Current evaluation status at a glance
- Shared access for your invited organization
Focused evaluations
Capture useful evidence without fighting the form.
Record only what was actually observed. BotBoard keeps robot design, capabilities, ratings, strategy tags, and notes organized in one guided flow.
- Fast, tap-first controls
- “Not observed” stays distinct from “No”
- Automatic evaluator identity and timestamps
Alliance strategy
Turn scouting evidence into a confident pick list.
Rank teams throughout the season, track availability and selection status, and keep private strategy notes beside every decision.
- Drag-and-drop season rankings
- Selection status for every team
- Saved ranking history
How it works
Set up once. Learn all season.
- Create your private organization.Start a season, add your competition teams, and invite the people who should have access.
- Evaluate teams over time.Students add timestamped observations whenever new information improves the team record.
- Review, compare, and rank.Captains and coaches use the shared picture to prepare strategy and alliance selections.
Built for the whole program
Fast enough for students. Structured enough for leaders.
Students & captains
Spend less time organizing notes and more time understanding robots.
- Tap-first evaluation workflow
- Searchable team directory
- Visible evaluation history
- Season-long alliance rankings
Coaches & program leaders
Give the organization clear ownership without slowing scouts down.
- Invite-only organization access
- Member roles and team rosters
- Evaluator identity and timestamps
- Multi-team program support
Your scouting data stays yours
Private collaboration without a public scouting database.
BotBoard organizations are invite-only. Evaluations, notes, rosters, and pick lists are available only to authorized members of the same organization.
- Private by default
- Organization data is not published to other teams.
- Accountable access
- Owners and admins manage roles, rosters, and membership.
- No advertising
- BotBoard does not sell personal information or use behavioral advertising.
- User controls
- Reporting, account deletion, and organization deletion are built in.
Now available for beta testing
Put BotBoard in your team’s hands.
Install the beta on iPhone, iPad, or Android and start building a shared scouting picture for your organization.
Choose your device
Install the mobile beta or use BotBoard directly in your browser.
Questions
What teams usually ask before joining.
What is BotBoard?
BotBoard is a private robotics scouting app that helps an organization maintain team evaluations, current robot information, rosters, events, and alliance pick lists across a season.
Do we need to create an event before evaluating teams?
No. Teams and evaluations belong to the current season. Events and match numbers are optional context.
Can one organization manage multiple competition teams?
Yes. Program leaders can mark organization teams, manage rosters, and assign captains or editors while tracking other teams in the same season.
Who can see our scouting information?
Only active members of the same invite-only BotBoard organization can access its scouting records.
How do I install the BotBoard beta?
Open the BotBoard download page on your phone or tablet. iPhone and iPad users will be sent to TestFlight, while Android users will be sent to Google Play.
Is BotBoard an official VEX product?
No. BotBoard is an independent scouting tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by VEX Robotics or the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation.