Shotlst: “Track changes” for the physical world
Shotlst is one of six inaugural UTEST companies; next UTEST application round to begin shortly
![UTEST-Shotlst co-founders Matt Ratto (left) and Mike Borg UTEST-Shotlst co-founders Matt Ratto (left) and Mike Borg](https://tiap.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/UTEST-Shotlst-300x200.jpg)
What if you could turn on Microsoft Word’s “track changes” tool and apply it at will to the world around you?
Sound like science fiction?
Meet Matt Ratto, a professor in the University of T’s Faculty of Information, and Mike Borg, a recent graduate of the faculty. They’ve formed Shotlst, a new software company being incubated by the University of Toronto Early Stage Technology (UTEST) program.
The central metaphor of Shotlst is the “shot list,” a list of scenes a film director plans to get each day on a movie set. It serves to organize the cast and crew’s time and activity for the day.
With Shotlst, a user decides at the outset on “shots” that will be consistent throughout the life of a project.
For example, an architect might take pictures of a cardboard model of a building, 3-D renderings and, later, the actual construction site. These shots would serve as raw material that colleagues could use to annotate and collaborate using the software.