Plant Health Care Software

Not a CRM with a keyword bolted on.

Most "PHC" software is a landing page and a line item on the invoice. ArbKeep is the clinical record itself — soil, tissue, pest, disease, treatment — with an AI that's actually read the tree's history before it says a word.

Soil Tissue Pest Disease Treatment

An AI that works the case, not a chatbot with opinions.

ArbKeep's AI is scoped to one property, across thousands of data points that tree already owns: the soil chemistry, the pathology, every prior visit, every photo on its chart. It reasons from the tree's actual record — not a generic model — and drafts a diagnosis and treatment plan. Then it hands it to you. You confirm before anything reaches the client.

ArbKeep AI · working a case

"Why is this Freeman maple thinning — three seasons running?"

Considered
Emerald ash borer — wrong host, no D-shaped exits. Lilac/ash borer. Acute drought stress — irrigation was on the log.
Cross-referenced
Four canopy photos across three seasons · three prior visits · the property's soil panel — all pulled from the tree's own chart, not guessed.
Landed on
Chronic vascular restriction at the graft union — a predisposing decline years in the making. Every diagnosis made on a single visit had been treating a symptom of it.
✓ Arborist-confirmed · written to the tree's chart a second opinion, not a verdict

The reasoning is the headline. The outputs — a lab read, a field diagnosis — drop straight into the chart:

Soil Lab
Front maples
composite · 0–8 in
S26‑27232
Penn State
Lime test: Fizzes — free lime (calcareous). Sulfur won't lower pH here; reach for chelated iron (EDDHA).
Properties
pH7.8high
CECmeq/100g14.2on target
Micronutrients (ppm)
Fe38low avail.
Runs alkaline. Iron is present but locked up by the high pH — that's the chlorosis, not an absence.
What the lab hands back
Health · Diagnosis
Interveinal chlorosis
Nutrient · iron, pH-induced
Cosmetic
Monitor
Treat
Urgent
Young leaves yellowing between green veins — consistent with the pH 7.8 and locked-up iron on this property's soil panel.
Action: EDDHA chelated iron, root-zone, early spring. Sulfur would rebound on calcareous soil — skip it.
cross-referenced · soil + 3 prior visitsISA · ANSI A300
What the field gets back

The lab network

The best labs in the country. Not one wants your client.

University extension labs and plant-pathology clinics are open to any working arborist — Penn State soil fertility, Ohio State plant pathology, your state's land-grant clinic. About $20 a sample, no conflict of interest. Results land in ArbKeep normalized onto the tree's chart, beside the field notes, the photos, the treatment plan. The AI reads it all before you walk up to the tree.

One chart per tree, for its entire life.

Every finding, every lab result, every photo, every treatment — one thread that follows the property, not the person. It's a record the arborist can stand on, the homeowner can finally see, and the next owner inherits along with the parcel. That's the health-record software layer underneath everything — the part no PHC tool before ArbKeep ever built.

Read where this fits the industry's own shift toward Diagnostic PHC, see what the homeowner side looks like, or read why plant health care was always the real job.

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