---
title: "Caomu Jingwei — Product Strategy"
product_id: "caomu"
document_type: "product-strategy"
language: "en"
public_source: true
last_updated: "2026-08-11"
---

# Product strategy

Caomu Jingwei presents Chinese botanical classics as a cultural and bibliographic archive. Its value comes from connecting botanical records with classical sources, historical illustrations, editions, provenance, and traceable references.

## Product principles

- Make sources and provenance visible rather than presenting unsupported certainty.
- Keep the core archive available offline without requiring an account or tracking the user; disclose Apple StoreKit and user-selected external destinations separately.
- Treat multilingual access as discovery infrastructure, not as a reason to simplify the underlying sources.
- Keep every description inside the archive's cultural and bibliographic scope and connected to traceable sources.

## Commercial model

The confirmed model is a free download with an optional one-time Complete Archive purchase. Subscription plans, advertising, and additional paid tiers are not confirmed.

## Unknowns

The public record does not yet define target segment priority, acquisition strategy, pricing by storefront, retention metrics, or the scope of a next release.