FOP-PITCH-2025-Q4 · v2.0
CONFIDENTIAL · DRAFT

FOREST·OP

OPERATIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR LAND.
PRESENTED BY
J. Caudill · founder · forester KY-CF-2847
ERLANGER, KY · 38.0406°N · 84.5037°W
02 / 12 · PROBLEM

— THE LAND HAS NO OPERATING SYSTEM.

Paper, spreadsheets,
and tribal knowledge.

FORESTER
"My cruise data lives in three notebooks, two laptops, and one truck. I retype it every winter."
FIRE CREW
"Our maps are 2019. The road that gets us to the line was logged out last summer."
STEWARD
"We measured this stand in October. The intern left in December. Now nobody knows what's in the file."
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03 / 12 · SOLUTION

— ONE PIPELINE. FIVE LAYERS.

FOREST·OP is the stack
the woods deserves.

L5
BRAIN
reason · ingest → spatial → polygon → prescribe → output
L4
FIELD
operate · offline outpost · sync · deploy · return
L3
WATCH
see · fire · encroachment · sensor · satellite
L2
CHIMS
measure · plots · trees · doyle · log rules
L1
ATLAS
place · parcels · stands · polygons · basemaps
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04 / 12 · MARKET

— THE GROUND IS LARGER THAN IT LOOKS.

Three numbers,
then we go to work.

765M
ACRES
US working forest under management — public, private, tribal, conservation.
USFS · 2024
38K
PRACTITIONERS
Foresters, stewards, fire managers, biologists — buyers of operational tooling.
SAF + state agencies
$6B
ANNUAL · INVENTORY
Spend on cruise, plotting, and assessment work — most still on paper or single-vendor stacks.
est · TAM lower bound
BEACHHEAD · EASTERN HARDWOOD BELT
KY · TN · WV · OH · 2,400 consulting foresters · 87M ac private working forest · WHO/RED dominant · highest-value timber market in the eastern US.
04 / 12
05 / 12 · WEDGE

— START WITH CRUISE.

CHIMS is the wedge.
The rest follows.

Every tract gets measured. Every measurement creates a parcel. Every parcel earns a polygon, then a watch alert, then a brain proposal. Cruise is the moment of trust — once we own that, the stack pulls in behind us.

YEAR 1 · ENTRY
CHIMS
cruise tablet replaces paper. one forester at a time.
→
YEAR 2 · EXPAND
+ ATLAS · FIELD
the firm runs on the platform. truck deploys, sync, polygons.
→
YEAR 3+ · DEEPEN
+ WATCH · BRAIN
alerts, sensors, AI proposals. the firm's competitive edge.
05 / 12
06 / 12 · DOCTRINE

— DOCTRINE, NOT FEATURES.

Six rules.
Pinned to the wall.

01
Ground truth or it didn't happen.
Synthetic data is labeled synthetic. Always.
02
Provenance on every datum.
Source · time · GPS · observer. No exceptions.
03
VRI on every claim.
Verified · Refuted · Ambiguous · Proposed · Noise.
04
The brain proposes. The operator approves.
Two-person concurrence on irreversible action.
05
Field-first. Cloud-second.
If it fails at -10°F in gloves, it doesn't ship.
06
We owe the land.
The system serves the forest. Not the other way around.
06 / 12
07 / 12 · PRODUCT · ATLAS

— THE PLACE LAYER.

Every map operational.
Every polygon dated.

04 06 11
CURSOR
38.0406°N
84.5037°W
SCALE 1:5000 · WGS84
TRACT
HARTSHORN
247.3 ac · 3 stands · 142 plots
LIVE LAYERS
▸ stand polygons · q3
▸ chims plots · 142
▸ sentinel-2 · 10·12
▸ NHD streams
▸ watch · 1 active
07 / 12
08 / 12 · PRODUCT · FIELD

— THE OPERATE LAYER.

Works without signal.
Works in gloves.

-10
to 95°F
OPERATING RANGE
64
PIXELS · MIN
TAP TARGET · GLOVES
7.4
HOURS
BATTERY · OUTPOST
0
BARS · OK
SYNC ON RETURN
FIELD CONTROLS · GLOVE-TESTED · ONE-HANDED
TALLY
NEXT TREE
PHOTO
GEOTAG · 1 TAP
NOTE
VOICE · LONG
PIN
DROP HERE
08 / 12
09 / 12 · PRODUCT · BRAIN

— THE REASON LAYER.

Brain proposes.
Operator approves.

P · PROPOSED IRREVERSIBLE
PROP-2025-1022-014
SINGLE-TREE SELECTION · STAND 04
Mark 23 trees · avg 287 bf doyle · maintain B-line stocking · advance WHO regen.
INPUT LINEAGE · 4 sources cited
V  cruise-2025q3 · 142 plots
V  growth-model-v2.1 · site-idx 78
V  stocking-eval-v1.4 · B-line
V  regen-survey-2025-09 · 2,400/ac
CONCURRENCE · TWO-PERSON · IRREVERSIBLE
JC · 09:18 · ✓
awaiting 2nd · 18m
audit log retained 7yr · all approvals signed by KY-CF cert · auto-archive at 24h after final concurrence
09 / 12
10 / 12 · CUSTOMERS

— WHO CARRIES THIS.

Six audiences.
One starting line.

PRIMARY · YEAR 1
Consulting forester
Solo or small firm. Cruises, plans, manages 50-500 tracts.
PRIMARY · YEAR 1
Family forest owner
10-2,000 ac. Hires foresters. Wants the report on a phone.
YEAR 2
State forestry agency
Regulatory + steward. Pilot through KDF.
YEAR 2-3
Wildland fire
Watch + Atlas. Pre-incident planning, real-time alert.
YEAR 3
Tribal land
Sovereign data. On-prem option.
YEAR 3+
Land trust
Conservation easement monitoring. Watch + brief.
10 / 12
11 / 12 · TRACTION

— WHERE WE STAND.

v2 shipped.
Pilots live.

v2.0
PLATFORM
SHIPPED · 2025-Q4
3
TRACTS
UNDER ACTIVE CRUISE
2
FORESTERS
USING OUTPOST DAILY
1
FIRE DISTRICT
TRIALING WATCH
BUILD STATUS · per layer
ATLAS
v1.4
CHIMS
v1.2
WATCH
v0.6 · beta
FIELD
v1.0
BRAIN
v0.3 · alpha
11 / 12
12 / 12 · ASK

— WHAT WE NEED.

FIELD.
CLOUD.
GROUND TRUTH.

PARTNERS
Bring a tract.
We bring the stack.
Pilot foresters · KY/TN/WV/OH · 50+ ac · 6-month engagement.
BUILDERS
Worked geospatial,
or carried tape.
Founding eng. Postgis · TS · iOS · sensor work. Tape preferred.
CAPITAL
5-year cycle,
not 5-quarter.
Patient capital · mission-aligned · land + climate thesis.
CONTACT
jc@forest-op.land · +1 859 ███ ████
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