HOW IT WORKS
From your crop to your formula, field by field
Your crop goes through a complete file, not a one-screen calculator. Every field you fill in has a reason.
8
walkthrough steps
21
scientific engines
102
real modules
79
ingredients

Your crop goes through a complete case file, not a single-screen calculator. Every field you fill in exists because some engine will read it later on — there are no decorative questions. This page explains, with the same level of detail our own engines use, exactly what each part of the journey does: from the first form to your formula's recalibration months later.

Step 1 · The case: every data point you enter, explained

Truly mandatory: specialty, path, plant, stage, and region. If any of these five is missing, the case isn't even created. The specialty decides which module catalog you can use — the filter compares each module's exclusive species against the five known specialties (rose, tulip, orchid, gourmet, resin & trichomes); any other crop falls under "generic agronomy". For Laboratory, if your specialty is Resin & Trichomes, Roses, Tulips, or Orchids, the plant name is set automatically; only in Gourmet do you type in the crop.

Path: rescue / goal / builder

It's your case's “entry gate” and directly changes how many of your goals get activated right away — the “builder” route (advanced architecture) is more conservative than “goal,” precisely because it involves deeper structural changes.

Objectives and risk flags (Laboratory only)

Your objectives are filtered against your specialty's allowed list; if you didn't mark any valid one, the system takes the first one from the default catalog. The risk flags — compromised roots, active disease, active pest, severe water stress, unstable health, rare specimen, declared high value, recent import, heat stress, uneven watering — are exactly what determine whether your case is "critical" or "high risk" in Step 2.

Identity confidence

How sure you are of your plant's genetic or varietal identity. If it's low or unknown, your case is automatically flagged as critical risk — Yolia prefers to be conservative in the face of uncertainty rather than risk a formula on a doubtful identity.

Recent chemical fertilizer

If you applied chemical fertilizer in the last 2 weeks, your risk automatically rises to “high” and two specific bio-hack modules get blocked further along, so as not to overload a substrate that's already saturated with synthetic nutrients.

Root capacity and genetic clues (Resin & Trichomes)

Additional clues about your root system and, only in Resin & Trichomes, your plant's probable morphology and chemotype — these feed mainly into Resin & Trichomes' internal specialized engine (which, by design, never authorizes formula delivery on its own: it's a review lock, not a power generator).

Climate and substrate data

Altitude, pressure, temperatures, humidity, wind, radiation, water pH and conductivity, soil pH and organic matter — these aren't decorative: they are exactly the values evaluated by the 25-rule matrix. A water pH outside 4–9, for example, is a hard failure; humidity above 90% generates a warning; not having 10 years of climate history generates an incomplete-data warning.

Plants, sectors, area, irrigation

This data lets the scaling engine convert your "prototype" formula into actual quantities: how many complete reference batches are needed, the density per m², and whether the final dilution can already be calculated or remains withheld. Actual hard limits: area greater than zero and up to 100,000,000 m², sectors between 1 and 1,000, and in Resin & Trichomes a cap of 10 plants by business decision — to stay at personal-cultivation scale for payment processors.

Hours available per week (1–168)

The time filter: any module whose fermentation time exceeds your available hours is excluded before you even see the module list.

Exact location

Mandatory, and it must be confirmed on the map — without valid coordinates, the case can't be created. It feeds the agro-climate system, which can later hold back field application in the face of an active alert.

Step 2 · The diagnosis: the risk framework before touching modules

Only in Laboratory: before a single module is shown, a dedicated engine decides the risk level and the phase framework everything else will operate within — it doesn't touch ingredients, it sets the rules of the game.

Risk level

Starts at standard. Upgrade to critical if your identity confidence is low/unknown, or if you flagged 2 or more critical signals. It moves up to high if there is any critical or high signal, if your intensity is "maximum", if your specialty is high-value (Resin & Trichomes or Orchids), if your path is "rescue" with no flag marked at all (so as not to let an "I have a problem" pass without evidence), or if you applied chemical fertilizer recently.

Mode of operation

It derives directly from risk: protection if it is critical (formula generation is not allowed — the case must be stabilized first), conservative if it is high (potentiation is forced to "balanced," never "maximum" or "dracula"), standard in any other case.

Phases of your goals

The limit of objectives that get in "now" starts at 4 (balanced intensity) or 3 (more ambitious); it drops to 2 if your path is "builder"; it drops to 3 if the mode is conservative; and it is 0 if the mode is protection. Each objective gets a label: accepted now, scheduled later, retained as evidence, or retained for safety.

Program duration and control plants

The duration comes from your contracted plan, +7 days if the risk is high. The target number of witness plants: 1 if you only have 1 plant, up to 4 if you have 4 or fewer, 3 if you have 20 or fewer, 5 if you have 500 or fewer, 10 if you have more — and if there's more than one sector with more than 20 plants, it adjusts to double the number of sectors (cap of 10).

Honest warnings

Unverified identity, maximum intensity ("maximum goals will be split into phases"), a batch of more than 5,000 plants ("requires a special project by sectors"), "rescue" path with no flags, "builder" path (more control phases), or recent chemical fertilizer (dose adjustment).

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Diagnosis first, then the modules

The system measures your case's risk before proposing a single formula.

Step 3 · The program: milestones and schedule

The diagnosis turns into a persistent, idempotent program — if a program already exists for your case, it is returned as is, never duplicated. A real timeline is seeded: intake (day 0, completed immediately), evidence (day 3), scientific design (day 5, with a dynamic title depending on whether your plan includes formula), first response review (between day 7 and 14 depending on duration), recalibration (if your plan includes it, marked as optional), and case closure. If you signed up for "diagnosis only," the scientific-design milestone is marked complete immediately with the diagnosis's own evidence — because that plan does not include a full formula.

Step 4 · Choosing modules: filters, combos, and two prior gates

Before showing you anything, the real catalog was already filtered by available time (only modules that fit within your hours) and species (if your specialty is not empty, another species' exclusive modules are excluded) — so a tomato case never sees Resin & Trichomes exclusive modules.

You can choose manual (you check boxes module by module) or automatic with 3 quick combos: Essential (6 modules), Balanced (10, the recommended one), Maximum potential (16) — all three use exactly the same automatic production engine, with the same safety validations; it's not a simplified path. The default boosting mode is "maximum", but it's forced to "balanced" if your program is in conservative mode.

Gate 1 — environmental completeness

It checks that the critical data exists (crop, stage, exact location, environment, root zone, light source, watering method, water source, soil type, and depending on the case: pot volume, ventilation, photoperiod). If something critical is missing, it blocks everything ("First complete the essential environmental data"). If only precision data is missing, it lets you proceed but forces balanced mode.

Gate 2 — agro-climate

It checks the active agro-climate alerts for the last 30 days at your location. If there's a critical alert, it withholds field application; if it's high, it requires a balanced review — in both cases it forces balanced mode.

Bio-hack safeguards

If you applied chemical fertilizer recently, the mineral-precursor nutrition and nitrogenation modules get blocked; if your stage is already flowering/fruiting/ripening, nitrogenation is also blocked so as not to ruin flavor or delay trichomes.

Step 5 · The engine builds your formula: 21 engines in strict order

By pressing "generate", the system calculates an idempotency key (so a double click never generates two formulas or charges twice) and triggers the real chain: case context → botany → 25-rule matrix → module combination (beam search, 96 states) → mother architecture → maximum boosting (8 scheduled phases) → plant resource dynamics → compatibility → validation → self-ingredient safeguard → biochemistry → assembly → scaling to your actual batch → preparation planning → chemistry → scientific audit → structural audit (24 checks) → reports → persistence → delivery verification → output approval. Each engine can approve, warn, or completely block — if something does not add up, the flow stops right there and nothing is saved. The full detail, engine by engine with what each one audits, is in Formulas with real science.

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21 engines, one strict order

Each engine reads what the previous one left and can approve, warn or block.

Steps 6 and 7 · Your final formula: what it contains and what you see

After persistence, your formula contains: the modules exactly as they ended up (phase, capabilities, marginal score, why each was chosen), the consolidated ingredients (total amount, unit, which modules it comes from, its NPK composition), a full summary (preparation plan, scaling, structured report, scientific package) and the record of audit that approved it.

If you've already paid, you see: quick stats (structural potential, modules, phases, functional coverage); the quantitative scale panel (plants, ml of concentrate, scaled modules vs. “Withheld,” density per m², with the warning in red "Do not spread this formula across more plants than declared"); the program phase by phase with each expandable module, its exact ingredient table, and the full step-by-step preparation (numbered instruction, duration in hours, temperature range, target pH, how to store); a collapsible technical panel; and the final scientific status, honestly reminding that it is still "a prototype — still on its way to full experimental validation". If you have not paid, you only see the module and phase count, with the option to unlock the rest.

Log and control plants: the evidence that makes adjusting possible

You log notes and photos week by week — up to 5 photos per week on the Pilot plan (unlimited on Premium, with a 5 MB limit per photo in JPG/PNG/WEBP) — and you set up a network of witness plants: a representative subset you observe closely. For Yolia 40, 5 witness plants are recommended for uniform batches and 10 for large batches or ones spread across more than 5 sectors or more than 5,000 m²; for Laboratory, if you have a single plant, that same plant is your tracking unit; with 2 to 4 plants all are observed; with more, a sample of 3, 5, or 10 is recommended depending on size. Each case also has access to a contextualized AI Assistant, with its own message history saved as case events.

Step 8 · Recalibration: your formula does not stay frozen

Manual recalibration — you go through the module selection again with the updated file; the same 21 engines run again, in full, with the new logbook evidence already incorporated. The previous version is never deleted. Each Laboratory plan includes a limited number (0 in Diagnosis, 1 in Targeted formula, 3 in Advanced laboratory); an additional recalibration requires a new quote.
Automatic recalibration notice — runs every time you upload a logbook note. It never triggers anything on its own or charges you: it only decides whether to recommend that you enter the manual flow, requiring at least 14 days since the last adjustment and avoiding repeating the same notice if one is already active.
Real automatic recalibration (Resin & Trichomes Laboratory only) — it activates only with a hash-verified photograph, and only if there is no critical risk, it is not completed or under protection, there is room left, 14+ days have passed, the reported vigor is 3/5 or higher, and your note contains no alarm words (yellowing, wilting, spots, pest, fungus, burn...). The engine is honest about its limit: it does not analyze the photo's pixels — it only confirms that it exists, was verified by hash, and cross-checks it with the structured evidence you yourself reported.

In all three cases, the previous formula is kept intact and the new version is linked to the same program, with its own complete pass through the 21 engines, its own audit, and its own integrity verification — it is never a simple patch on the old formula. When the system recalibrates, a visible event remains that you can always check: total transparency, never a silent change.

Upon reaching the final week of Yolia 40 (calculated between 4 and 104 weeks depending on your crop), the cycle's final consolidated formula is generated. In Laboratory, the case closes with a declared result and a complete summary of the accumulated evidence.

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Try it yourself, no sign-up

The Sandbox runs exactly this same journey with temporary data that is never saved. You can also run hundreds of random cases against the real engine, or watch the Resin & Trichomes Biological Eustress simulation with its complete scientific explanation.