Rastrum Docs
Everything you need to understand and build with Rastrum
Vision & Mission
Mission, problem statement, and why Oaxaca is the right place to start.
Features
What v1.0 ships today: identification cascade, observation logging, social and curation, data export, offline PWA, and privacy.
Roadmap
Six milestones from v0.1 MVP to v2.5 AI assistant over 30 months.
Detailed Tasks
Per-roadmap-item subtask breakdown with status, dependencies, and module references.
Market
Competitive analysis, market sizing, and the specific gap Rastrum fills.
Architecture
How the pieces fit together — system overview, identification cascade, offline-first sync, and the auth + token surface.
Indigenous Sovereignty
CARE principles, FPIC, Local Contexts Labels, and the CARI advisory council.
Funding & Legal
~$400K in credits available now, grant pipeline, legal structure, and revenue model.
Contributing
How to contribute code, data, translations, expert validation, and PITs.
FAQ
Common questions about installing, identification, audio, privacy, offline, and the API.
Privacy
What we collect, where it goes, and your right to delete — in plain language.
Terms of Use
Acceptable use, per-observation licensing, and how we handle account suspensions.
Console
Privileged-actions surface for admin, moderator, and expert roles. Role model, audit log, and per-action runbooks.
AI Sponsorships
Share your Anthropic credential with friends, capped per month and audited.
MCP Server
Connect AI agents — Claude Desktop, Cursor, OpenClaw, and any MCP-compatible client — directly to your Rastrum data using the Model Context Protocol.
Changelog
Version history and significant changes in Rastrum.
Community
Community discovery: find observers, experts, and naturalists near you. Filter by country, taxon, and activity.
Camera Stations
Camera-trap station management with active periods, trap-night computation, and wildlife detection indices.
Sponsor Pools
Multi-provider AI vision and platform sponsor pools. Anthropic, Vertex, and OpenAI with community credit distribution.
Observation Detail
Observation detail page with photo gallery, interactive map, community identifications, and owner management tools.
Triage status
Public triage SLA dashboard: open issues, median time-to-first-comment over the last 30 days, and recent resolution count.
Algorithms
Every ranked surface in Rastrum, with the inputs it consumes, the time window it considers, and the settings that change its behavior.
Field surprises
Transparent variable rewards: 3 fixed surprise kinds, opt-in toggle, capped at 1 per day. The rules and the catalog are public.
Current phase
v0.1 Alpha — Photo ID + Offline PWA + Zapoteco pilot