Product & platform updates
What's new in the Lake Pulse app, Portal, Toolbox, and Boathouse — and why it matters for your lake.
Company & community news
Dockside
Stories from shoreline neighbors and associations, plus product news and community notes.
What you'll find here
The news desk for lake people.
Dockside is where Lake Pulse shares what's happening behind the scenes and across the community. Think of it as the bulletin board at the boat landing — the place for updates, celebrations, and the lessons learned by people doing the work.
Lake association stories
How neighbors, boards, and volunteers are using shared data to protect the water they love.
Company milestones
Funding, partnerships, research collaborations, and the behind-the-scenes work of building Lake Pulse.
From the dock
Recent notes
September 18, 2026
Send a sample. Get numbers you can defend.
Lab testing turns a suspicion into a fact. Start with the question, receive a sampling kit, and get defensible results in your lake's shared record.
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September 26, 2026
You Toured the House. Now Tour the Water.
A confidential record of the water in front of any lakefront lot, built from public satellite data. Launching October 2026.
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September 14, 2026
A Bloom Appears. Now What?
Four new cyanotoxin and bloom tests in the Toolbox — Rapid Bloom ID, microcystin, saxitoxin, and anatoxin-a — and the order to use them in.
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September 7, 2026
What a Lake Association Actually Does With a Season of Data
A season of lake monitoring, month by month, and what actually changes: not the lake, but the meeting.
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September 7, 2026
Lake Pulse Launches in October 2026
Lake Pulse opens to lake communities in October 2026. What launches, why autumn, and what we are deliberately not building.
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September 1, 2026
One Lake, Many Lakes
Why Lake Pulse refuses to give your lake a score, and why averaging a lake into one number hides exactly what you need to find.
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September 1, 2026
A Note to State Lake Programs: How We Would Like to Work Together
State programs are built to be episodic. Lakes also need a permanent record. Here is why Lake Pulse wants to partner with state agencies, and six ways we could work together.
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August 26, 2026
Why Every Bundle Starts With a Phone Call
Why every Lake Pulse bundle starts with a $50 scoping call instead of a pre-built package, and why the fee is not free.'
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August 19, 2026
The Boathouse: Scientists With Nothing to Sell You
Lake communities usually ask their hardest questions of the people who get paid if the answer is yes. The Boathouse is built to be the other phone number.
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August 14, 2026
The Toolbox, Explained
The seven aisles of the Lake Pulse Toolbox, what question each one answers, and three rules for choosing that will save you money.
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August 6, 2026
Nobody in This Industry Publishes a Price. We Did.
What the Toolbox is, what it replaces, and why a store that sells kits, rentals, services, and advisory work in the same checkout is the right shape for lake communities.
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August 2, 2026
The Flora & Fauna Hub: what's actually living in and around your lake
Most lake communities know their lake through what people catch, see and remember. That knowledge is real, and it is systematically blind to exactly the things that matter earliest. Flora & Fauna is where the other kind of knowledge lives — and why you should ask your lab for the raw FASTQ files.
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July 31, 2026
Stop Managing Lake Data. Manage Lakes.
Why lake professionals, from independents to national operators, have nothing to fear from Lake Pulse, and how Lake Pulse PRO is built for the way they work.
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July 22, 2026
Your Lake's Data Is in a Binder in Someone's Basement
Most lake communities think they have no data. They have decades of it, unreadable, in a box. A free tool to get it out, and why it should be your first move.
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June 28, 2026
We Are Not Trying to Replace Your Limnologist
Is Lake Pulse trying to replace lake consultants and limnologists? No — and here is the specific reason why, including the line we will not cross.
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May 22, 2026
What the Great Lakes Taught Us, and Why We Built for a Different Lake
Why Lake Pulse does not work on the Great Lakes, what we learned from the research done there, and an open invitation to collaborate.
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May 1, 2026
Why Lake Pulse Exists
Most American lakes have no monitoring program, no baseline, and no readable history — and they face the same problems as the famous ones. Why we built a platform for the lakes nobody writes about.
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Lake Whisperer
Lake science translated for the dock: what triggers algae blooms, why clarity swings from cove to cove, how turnover and dissolved oxygen shape a season, and plain-English guides to reading your own numbers.
- Algae & blooms
- Clarity & Secchi depth
- Nutrients & oxygen
- Invasive species
