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Product and scope

What is the Crop Urbanis Platform?

A CEA project decision-support system that connects requirements, source-linked supplier evidence, assumptions, design cases, reviews and decisions.

What decision is the current workflow designed to support?

The first workflow supports project definition, configuration comparison, supplier selection and review of material changes before commitment.

Who is the primary intended user?

CEA project developers, sponsors and owner’s representatives preparing or reviewing a material project decision.

What is currently implemented?

The canonical Product Status page lists observable behaviour, implementation status, research status, availability, limitations and next validation for each of four capability groups.

Does the Platform control greenhouse equipment?

No. The current core supports project evidence and decisions, not live climate, irrigation or equipment control.

Does Crop Urbanis also provide professional services?

Yes. Selected professional services are separately scoped and do not automatically include Platform access.

Evidence and calculations

What is a source claim?

A statement or value retained with the document, wording, location, version and applicable operating conditions from which it came.

What is an evidence status?

It identifies whether a value is measured, client-provided, supplier-declared, literature-derived, calculated, expert-estimated, assumed or unknown.

What is a design case?

A conditional comparison produced from explicit assumptions, ranges, model versions and validity conditions.

Why is a reproducible calculation not a forecast?

Reproducibility means the same approved inputs and model version produce the same result; biological, commercial and operating inputs can remain uncertain.

How are uncertain or missing values represented?

As explicit assumptions, ranges, disputed inputs, unknowns, validity limits and review conditions rather than silently completed facts.

What happens when a material project input changes?

Implemented dependency records and the current development track identify comparisons, design cases, decisions and downstream requirements that may need renewed review.

AI, review and research

What does AI assist with?

Bounded tasks such as document classification, candidate extraction, terminology mapping, retrieval and draft comparison or clarification text.

What does AI not decide?

AI does not own source authority, supplier warranties, agronomic or engineering approval, commercial selection, project acceptance or live greenhouse control.

Who reviews consequential outputs?

The organisation designates the agronomic, engineering, supplier, commercial and project authorities responsible within their own scope.

How does product implementation differ from research validation?

Implementation reports what exists and can be used. Research status reports whether a question, protocol, baseline, internal evaluation, external evaluation or published result exists.

Are any external Platform-validation results published?

No public external Platform-validation result is currently published unless a separately dated record states otherwise.

How does Crop Urbanis evaluate the workflow?

The Research and Technology pages define comparators, evaluation material, metrics, review conditions, versions and limitations. Published results must identify their scope.

Access and data

Is public self-service available?

No. The public website does not create a Platform account.

What does a private-beta scope require?

A defined organisation, decision objective, permitted data, authorised users, responsible reviewers, success criteria, support, retention, export and deletion conditions.

What information can be submitted publicly?

High-level organisational, project, decision or collaboration context only. Do not submit confidential files, credentials, detailed financial models or regulated data.

Can a supplier or engineering organisation participate?

Yes, through a defined supplier, engineering or integration collaboration route on the Partners page.

Can a university or research group collaborate?

Yes, where a research question, hypothesis, comparator, metrics, review roles and publication boundary can be defined.

Where are security, privacy and product-status details published?

On the Security & Data, Privacy and Product Status pages, which own those records.

Need an answer for a defined decision or collaboration? Use the route that matches the objective and submit high-level context only.

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