SilviCultural Has Merged With The Timberland Investor
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We’ve Made Some Changes…
Since beginning this website in 2021, I’ve done what I can to meet the needs of a great diversity of landowners across the country and world, and that has resulted in much experimentation. In 2024, I started SilviCultural, which was designed to be a central hub for landowners to connect. It included both social media functions and a basic mapping program, and because of the technical complexity and demands of both of those programs, I placed it on a different website under a different brand.
However, it became clear early on that 80% of users were coming only for the mapping program and had little interest in the community. By Spring 2025, to be perfectly frank, advancements in AI (specifically in its ability to answer questions about the niche and opaque forest industry) had mostly eliminated any potential informational value in putting in additional work, time, and investment into building a community platform. This is especially true when you consider the technical complexity and frequent bugs of the community software. So I made the decision to remove those features last October in order to focus on expanding the capabilities of the mapping.
The mapping program has improved greatly since its original release. While it first only included RGB imagery, polygon delineation, and a sometimes-buggy KML upload (I appreciate the patience of users), it has since expanded to include CIR imagery, LiDAR data layers, forest canopy height data, and a timber inventory and growth modeling system that gives the average landowner abilities that simply did not exist in a consumer-friendly fashion. I am proud of how far it has come, and I am happy that so many have gotten value from it.
Unfortunately, what became clear as it was being developed was that I was building a product for a market that was incredibly small. In short, it was becoming too technical for most users, but far too simplistic for professional users. Every new feature added was counter-intuitively moving farther away from product-market fit. While I have a long list of unfinished features and integrations I want to add, these are contingent on the flywheel of the tool gaining more and more users, not less and less. I was never quite able to reach MVP escape velocity.
While I am not abandoning or giving up on the project, I am consolidating and re-focusing. It no longer serves any purpose to keep SilviCultural as a separate brand, as the separation needlessly splinters my resources and attention and confuses users. I am also releasing the mapping application as free to use. I believe this is paradoxically necessary to ensure its continued development. If you had a recurring subscription, it has been canceled. I apologize for any disappointment, as this wasn’t my intention, but it was necessary. Premium status will continue to be honored in new features as I pivot revenue models. More on that to come.
What’s Disappearing:
That said, there are a few features that I am removing simply because they have become effectively obsolete.
The first is the FIA inventory viewer. That was intended as a quick shorthand for (very) roughly estimating inventory before I had a formal inventory system in the program. It is now integrated with mapping, so the FIA viewer is little more than a curiosity.
Likewise, Forester AI is no longer available. I will likely be revamping and re-releasing AI products in the future, but Forester AI was developed when every model on the market was completely inadequate in answering forestry queries, especially free models. That is no longer the case. Newer models, namely Claude Sonnet 3.5 and higher, do a remarkable job answering questions accurately with a knowledge base larger than Forester AI is equipped with.
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