{
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "last_updated": "2026-09-03",
  "product": "TerrainLogic",
  "developer": "ContourStack",
  "release_status": "active beta",
  "geographic_scope": "United States",
  "architecture": "Local-first Windows desktop application",
  "current_capabilities": [
    { "id": "site_characterization", "name": "Automated site characterization", "summary": "Resolves location, county, soils, climate context, elevation, slope, and terrain/flow context from a selected field boundary and authoritative public datasets where available." },
    { "id": "erosion", "name": "RUSLE2-aligned erosion modeling", "summary": "Daily sheet-and-rill erosion simulation with annual soil loss, T, R, K, LS, C, P, soil moisture, SCI context, and retained daily evidence." },
    { "id": "management_comparison", "name": "Management scenarios and comparison", "summary": "Authors and compares supported operations, vegetation, residue, tillage, grazing, manure, and timing scenarios." },
    { "id": "nutrients", "name": "Planning-level nutrient accounting", "summary": "Tracks supported nitrogen and phosphorus additions, uptake, harvest export, biomass and root returns, fixation, transformations, environmental pathways, and carried state." },
    { "id": "gully_screening", "name": "Gully hotspot screening", "summary": "Maps terrain-derived concentrated-flow corridors with contributing area, slope, reach length, severity, and DEM context." },
    { "id": "waterways", "name": "Preliminary grassed-waterway workflow", "summary": "Supports editable design inputs, parabolic geometry, Manning capacity, velocity, boundary stress, freeboard, survey tables, dig profiles, as-built comparison, inspection history, and reporting." },
    { "id": "terraces", "name": "Preliminary terrace workflow", "summary": "Supports DEM-assisted candidate alignments, graded and level calculations, section sizing, capacity/storage checks, construction-survey stationing, and reporting." },
    { "id": "field_history", "name": "Stateful managed-field history", "summary": "Carries ending residue, biomass, water, soil-condition, and nutrient context into later authored management cycles." },
    { "id": "portfolio", "name": "Local managed-field portfolio", "summary": "Provides field filtering, custom fields, saved analyses, practice records, and report access without requiring a cloud account." },
    { "id": "reports", "name": "Auditable reports", "summary": "Generates PDF records for erosion, nutrients, comparisons, lifecycle, daily state, gully screening, waterways, terraces, inspections, and related planning workflows." },
    { "id": "touch_and_cache", "name": "Touch input and cached site use", "summary": "Supports touch-enabled field selection and reuse of previously retrieved site data." }
  ],
  "planned_capabilities": [
    { "id": "huc12_dashboard", "name": "Privacy-protected HUC12 watershed dashboard", "status": "planned; not included in current beta" }
  ],
  "claim_boundaries": [
    "Planning and evaluation software, not a substitute for professional judgment or required approval.",
    "Nutrient outputs are not fertilizer recommendations, certified nutrient-management plans, compliance determinations, or regulatory validations.",
    "Gully outputs identify potential terrain-driven flow corridors, not confirmed erosion features.",
    "Engineering workflows are preliminary and require applicable criteria, field survey, hydrologic documentation, outlet review, and professional approval."
  ],
  "canonical_human_reference": "https://contourstack.com/technical-reference.html#capabilities"
}