The problem: Snakebite envenoming is a major global health issue and neglected humanitarian crisis (https://www.who.int/snakebites/en/). Today, 5 million snake bites occur globally every year causing 125,000 deaths and 400,000 victims of disability/disfigurement. In India, snakebite is responsible for five deaths/hour and 70% bitten are men and “bread winners” of the family (Menon et al, 2017). Snakebite exacerbates poverty in rural, and increasingly urban, communities in developing countries, which host high snake diversity and limited medical expertise (Gutierrez et al., 2017; Longbottom et al., 2018). Snakebite deaths are preventable using correct antivenoms, which are often expensive, scarce and can have side effects. Antivenom choice is critical and depends first on identifying the biting snake (Bawaskar and Bawaskar 2019). However, healthcare providers are not herpetologists (i.e. snake experts) and often struggle to identify the snake carcass brought by victims/bystanders/relatives or to interpret their description of the biting snake.