We’re on the road this week in Iowa, documenting the run-up to the Iowa Caucuses on February 1 and how technology and innovation are changing longstanding traditions in American politics.

Math is hard (for some of us, at least). Especially the math that goes into the Iowa Caucus, where Iowans use formulas, scribbled out on scratch paper, to determine how many delegates each Democratic presidential candidate will ultimately receive.

It's a clumsy process, the kind Silicon Valley would never stand for, and this year, it seems, neither are the Democratic campaigns. The Bernie Sanders campaign has already announced its own Iowa Caucus app, and now, Hillary Clinton's team is doing the same with the launch of its new app, called Reporter, for Caucus night.

Reporter essentially does all the math that so-called precinct captains would ordinarily have to do mentally or by hand, from calculating how many votes each candidate must get in order to be considered viable to determining how many delegates each candidate would be awarded, based on how many Caucus-goers support them.

If one of the candidates doesn't meet the viability threshold—meaning they don't have the support of 15 percent of the people in the room—the Caucus-goers must realign. At that point, Reporter gives the precinct captain recommendations to inform their strategy.

If, for instance, Clinton got five delegates during the first round, Bernie Sanders got two and Martin O'Malley got two, the app would calculate how many supporters the Clinton camp needs to lure away from the other candidates in order to secure another delegate.

Now, can you see why an app might be useful?

Once the second alignment is complete, the captain submits the final count, which is automatically sent to the campaign's Des Moines headquarters. In many ways, the tool is similar to an app Microsoft developed for the Caucus chairs, who are different from the precinct captains. Caucus chairs from both parties will use data collected by the Microsoft app to report the results back to the state party headquarters.

And, if any snags should occur throughout the night, the app includes a help section where precinct captains can send a message or call the campaign's Des Moines headquarters directly.

With its sleek, colorful design, the Reporter app was clearly heavily influenced by Clinton's chief technology officer Stephanie Hannon, who was a director of product management at Google before joining the campaign. But though the user interface is dead simple, the campaign has still been spending a substantial amount of time training their precinct captains throughout the state in how to use it.

The goal of Reporter, says Kane Miller, regional organizing director for Polk County, Iowa, is to make what can be a "wild and wooly" process a whole lot simpler. The app, he says, will give precinct captains some much needed time back. "This is a tool to help you do the things you already know how to do faster," he says. So, instead of spending time on calculations, he explains, "you can spend those 2 and a half minutes talking to someone in your corner."

The campaign isn't requiring anyone to use the app. If they want to stick with pencil and paper, so be it. But some Clinton supporters, like Scott Thompson, 54, are eager to see the app in action. "It'll just make life easy."