Searching for Optical Counterparts to Gravitational Wave Events using SAGUARO

On 17 August 2017, the era of multi-messenger, gravitational-wave astronomy began with the discovery of the optical counterpart to the gravitational-wave event GW170817. Now that the third LIGO/Virgo observing run (O3) has commenced and the gravitational wave alerts are publicly available, more groups and telescopes are searching for optical counterparts than before. I present Searches After Gravitational-waves Using ARizona Observatories (SAGUARO), a comprehensive effort dedicated to the discovery and characterization of optical counterparts to gravitational-wave events. In this talk I will provide an overview of SAGUARO's telescopic resources, its pipeline for transient detection, and its database for candidate visualization.