Ohio field pilot

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the right to charge.

RelicPlot is free while we test whether access-first research actually helps Ohio detectorists choose better, safer places to investigate. We are recruiting a small group of experienced users for a 30-day pilot.

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Experienced Ohio detectorists

We are looking for people who already understand permissions, local rules, recovery etiquette, and responsible reporting.

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30 days of honest use

Pilot participants use the same Ohio beta catalog, record field outcomes, and tell us when a lead or access note is wrong.

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Private by default

We collect outcome measures—not public hunt locations, private addresses, or landowner identities. Participants can withdraw or request deletion.

What we measure

Field proof, not marketing proof.

Each session records a roster-bound pseudonymous participant and locked assignment, an allowed site cohort, attempted lead IDs, research minutes, hours hunted, viable-lead outcomes, an explicit permission-misrepresentation count, permissions requested and granted, targets and target quality, false positives, travel and wasted trips, access corrections, repeat-use response, detector/coil/settings, target ID and depth, terrain/soil/weather, the exact lead and source version, and whether the site was actually accessible.

A coordinator signs assignments before the first analyzed session, and a separate externally rooted timestamp service anchors them. An owner-only audited importer binds the authenticated accounts; the app cannot create or edit participant, workflow, or cohort-plan metadata. Every accepted session receives a server-signed receipt bound to its complete canonical outcome, assignment, protocol, authenticated account, receipt-chain predecessor, and server time. Every site cohort must be represented in both RelicPlot-assisted and free-research workflows, and uplift uses a predeclared equal-weight stratified calculation. Missing permission, false-positive, wasted-trip, access, or safety outcomes never become zero.

The paid gate requires at least 20 experienced detectorists, 60 sessions, 150 hours, 75 attempted leads, 100% reporting and zero permission misrepresentation, at least 20% improvement in viable leads per research hour over free research, and at least 70% repeat-use intent from at least 20 coordinator-confirmed completers with 95% response. The machine report verifies the externally rooted trust policy, signed roster and completion register, authenticated session receipts, externally checkpointed receipt and import-audit chains, and the signed production export root. An anonymized report must be published before charging.

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PILOT PARTICIPANT PROMISEWe will never turn a map listing into permission.

The current beta remains free, scores remain unvalidated, and every participant can report a source or access correction.

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