---
title: "Verdant Canon — Product Strategy"
product_id: "caomu"
document_type: "product-strategy"
language: "en"
public_source: true
last_updated: "2026-08-23"
---

# 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.