Verdant Canon — Product Strategy

Verdant Canon 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 across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

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, non-renewing Complete Archive purchase. The verified US storefront price is USD 9.99; Apple presents localized prices in other storefronts. No subscription or advertising tier is recorded.

Unknowns

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