Caomu Jingwei — 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.