Plant Health Care Software

Run the whole practice on it.

Diagnose from a photo, standard cited. Quote the year. Invoice the visit — tax figured for your state and your town. Keep the application records the law requires. One chart per tree, for life. Built by a working arborist who runs an entire book on it.

Diagnose Quote Treat Record Invoice

The whole job

A season, start to finish.

You walk the property. What you see goes on the chart — the yellowing crown, the photo, the diagnosis with its standard cited. The client asks what a whole year would look like. The plan assembles out of your visit — your calls, your prices, grouped by season so it reads like four decisions instead of one number. You review it, you send it.

The work gets done; the application record keeps itself. The invoice goes out with the tax already figured. The client reads all of it in their portal. You made every call. The app did the paperwork.

Set it up once — your tax rules, your reporting requirements — and every quote, invoice, and application record comes out right for where you work.

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

ArbKeep's AI is scoped to one property and one chart: the soil chemistry, the pathology, every prior visit, every photo that tree already owns. 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 pin oak yellowing between the veins — worse every year?"

Considered
Leaf-spot pathogen — no lesions. Nitrogen deficiency — that yellows the oldest leaves first, uniformly. Manganese lockout — the close cousin on this soil, but the youngest leaves say iron.
Cross-referenced
This property's soil panel — pH 7.8, free lime, iron present but locked — plus 3 prior visits and 4 leaf photos, pulled from the tree's own chart.
Landed on
pH-induced iron chlorosis. Skip the sulfur — it rebounds on calcareous ground. EDDHA chelated iron at the root zone, early spring — a line on next year's plan.
✓ Arborist-confirmed · written to the tree's chart a second opinion, not a verdict

The same case, on paper. The lab read and the field diagnosis drop straight onto 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.

Going independent

Starting out? Good.

You know the work — injections, soil, sprays. What you don't have is a back office, a senior arborist to check the call, or paperwork that reads like a firm.

That's the app. The diagnosis cited to the standard. The quote and the invoice drafted. The record kept. Three properties free — the size of a side gig. It grows when you do.

We're opening ArbKeep to a small founding cohort.

Working arborists who run it in the field while we harden it. Free for your first 90 days, then $39 a month, locked as your founder rate — no card now, no contract ever, and we never touch your money. We onboard a few at a time, deliberately.

Questions

Plant health care software, plainly.

What is plant health care software?

Plant health care software keeps the clinical side of tree care: soil chemistry, tissue and pathology results, pest and disease diagnoses, treatments, and the application records the law requires. Most tree care software runs the office — leads, crews, estimates. PHC software runs the medicine. You'll also hear the category called arbor care software or tree health software; same discipline. ArbKeep is the clinical record itself — one chart per tree, for its entire life, with an AI that has read the tree's history before it says a word.

How is ArbKeep different from a tree care CRM?

A CRM starts from the sale and works backward. ArbKeep starts from the tree's chart, and the business paperwork falls out of the visit — the diagnosis with its standard cited, the year's plan, the invoice with tax figured for your state and town, the application record. You still run the whole practice on it; it just begins with the medicine instead of the pipeline.

Does the AI make the diagnosis?

No. The AI reads the tree's own record — the soil panel, prior visits, photos — and drafts a differential with its reasoning shown. The arborist confirms before anything reaches the client. A second opinion, not a verdict.

Can my clients see the record?

Yes. Every property gets a homeowner portal: the trees, the findings, the photos, the plan — in plain language. Client-visible by default, because a record the homeowner can read is half the value.

What does it cost to start?

Three properties are free — the size of a side gig. The founding cohort runs free for 90 days, then $39 a month, locked as your founder rate. No card to start, no contract, and we never touch your money.