ORMAN METHODOLOGY NOTE
Report date: Thursday, July 23, 2026

Purpose
This note explains how Orman frames sponsorship, planting, monitoring, and participation metrics on public-facing routes.

Core definitions
- Sponsored: a funded commitment linked to a project's target tree count.
- Planted: a tree recorded as planted by an approved partner or field team.
- Verified alive: a planted tree confirmed alive during a later monitoring cycle.

Funding logic
- Total funding raised currently displayed: $187,705.
- Sponsorship funds are framed against explicit project budget categories rather than a generic donation bucket.
- Public sponsorship totals should only advance to confirmed figures after payment settlement.

Monitoring logic
- Verified-alive counts require later monitoring and may diverge from planted totals.
- Survival and replacement decisions should remain traceable to project-specific updates rather than broad platform claims.

Participation logic
- Public event registrations tracked: 1.
- Checked-in participants tracked: 1.
- Registration intent and attendance evidence are reported separately.

Claim boundary
- Orman should not imply certified offsets when only sponsorship, planting, or monitoring data are available.
- Environmental estimates, if introduced later, should be labeled as methodology outputs rather than guaranteed climate claims.

End of note.