How AQBRS cuts response times with Tryve’s Location Toolkit for monday.com

About AQBRS

The Association Québécoise Bénévole de Recherche et de Sauvetage (AQBRS) is Quebec’s leading volunteer search and rescue organization. With more than 700 trained members across 23 teams, their mission is to support police and emergency services in locating missing persons and coordinating rescues in some of the province’s most challenging and remote areas. The organization continues to explore ways to grow and strengthen its volunteer network to better serve communities across Quebec.

Scaling resource management with monday.com

To manage such a large and dispersed volunteer network, AQBRS turned to monday.com less than a year ago. Dany Chaput, President of the Board of Directors for Recherche Sauvetage Estrie and a certified Level 2 Searcher, plays a key role in overseeing the organization’s coordination efforts. With monday.com, the team now tracks volunteer skills, training, and availability in one central platform, streamlining mission planning and communication.

“We’re here to save lives. If it takes forever to gather information, and you’re not even sure you have the right people, that makes a huge difference. Being able to use software and know the information you have is accurate is really helpful.”

Dany Chaput

President of the Board of Directors for Recherche Sauvetage Esterie

From Excel spreadsheets to smarter resource management

Before monday.com, AQBRS relied on shared Excel spreadsheets to manage volunteer data. This often led to errors and delays. “Anybody could swap things around, and it wasn’t rare that the data wasn’t fully updated,” Dany recalls.

The result was slow, manual coordination at times when speed could mean saving a life. “If you’re saving lives, you don’t have time to do things manually,” says Dany. “We’re here to save lives, and if it takes forever to gather information, and you’re not even sure you have the right people, that makes a huge difference. Being able to use software and know the information you have is accurate is really helpful.”

Filling a critical gap with Tryve’s Location Toolkit

While monday.com became a reliable hub for resource management, there was still one missing piece: calculating distances. Before, Dany had to check maps manually, trying to figure out which volunteers were closest to an incident site. “It used to be a really long process,” he says. “Most of my time went to checking which region the volunteers were in, figuring out if it was close to the rescue site on the map, and then manually eliminating people. It was hard and not efficient.”

Looking for a better way, Dany searched the monday.com marketplace for a solution and found Tryve’s Location Toolkit app. He immediately appreciated how easy it was to use. “It’s very intuitive and straightforward,” he says. “I’d definitely recommend it.”

Now, AQBRS can see exact travel distances between volunteers and a rescue site in seconds and filter results by skills and availability. This means faster decisions, quicker deployment, and ultimately, a better chance of saving lives.

Reliable support when it matters most

On top of the app’s features, Dany highlights the support from Tryve as another big win. Whenever questions come up, the team gets quick, helpful responses. This ensures everything keeps running smoothly, so AQBRS can stay focused on its real mission.

Conclusion

With monday.com and Tryve’s Location Toolkit, AQBRS has replaced a time-consuming manual processes with a fast and reliable system for coordinating volunteers. Instant distance calculations and better visibility into availability mean Dany and his team can make quick, informed decisions during search and rescue missions. “It just makes everything easier,” Dany says. “When you’re trying to save lives, every second counts.”