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What if you had a personal assistant, trained in forestry, GIS and business intelligence reporting?

Meet Sappy, the AI assistant built directly into Silvacom FMS

Put Sappy to work for you by asking questions about your data, performing complex geospatial workflows, and more, with no GIS experience required.

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What is an AI assistant for forest management software?

An AI assistant for forest management software lets foresters ask questions about their operational data in plain language, rather than navigating menus, writing queries, or exporting data to separate GIS tools. It answers from the organization's actual forestry data: blocks, silviculture records, roads, and spatial layers. 

Meet the Silvacom FMS AI Assistant: Sappy

Sappy is the AI assistant built into Silvacom FMS and is the first purpose-built for forestry data, with built-in spatial query operations. Ask a question the way you'd ask a colleague, and Sappy pulls the answer from your own FMS data. 

Natural language search across your forestry data

Ask a question the way you would ask a colleague, and get an answer pulled from your own FMS data.

Spatial queries with no GIS skills required

Run natural language spatial queries on layers connected to FMS. No writing queries, no opening a separate GIS tool.

Document upload and workflow automation

Upload regulatory documentation, your organization's standard operating procedures, research, and more. Sappy can help automate your workflows!

Analytical support

Generate tabular and graphical components that would otherwise require 3rd party reporting software.

Private AI chat inside your own environment

Private, secure chat with leading AI models, kept inside your Silvacom FMS environment. Nothing you type leaves it.

What can you ask an AI forestry assistant?

Real questions you can ask Sappy:

"Show me all of the blocks we harvested in 2025, including the associated silviculture records, and summarize the total planned cost for each activity to give me an estimate of outstanding liability."

"Overlay all of the 2026 planned blocks with the Stakeholder Concerns layer, Species at Risk, and Wildfire, and return all of the blocks that intersect each of those three layers."

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Can't I just use ChatGPT for my forestry data?

General AI tools can, in theory, answer forestry questions. But they can't see your FMS data, your layers, or your environment. Sappy answers using your actual data, on your actual layers, inside your own environment.

Sappy is also designed to be trained on forestry legislation, regulations, forest management documentation, and your organization's best practices, and to continually evolve to serve you better.

Why foresters are using AI in forest management

 

Less time hunting for data

Sappy cuts the time spent navigating FMS to find the data you need.

 

Spatial analysis for everyone

Sappy brings spatial query capabilities to users who don't work with GIS software day-to-day.

 

One tool, not multiple

Everything stays inside FMS, so you're in one place for both your data and your analysis.

 Is AI in forest management software secure?

 It should be, and with Sappy it is. Sappy runs on a secure AI framework, and Silvacom FMS holds ISO 27001 and ISO 27017 certifications, the internationally recognized standards for information security management and cloud-specific security controls.

Your data is never used to train AI models

We don't use your data to train Sappy, and we never share it with external AI models for training.

Everything stays in your environment

Sappy is built so your information stays inside your own Silvacom FMS environment and isn't exposed externally. Nothing you type leaves.

Encrypted at rest and in transit

Your FMS data is protected by the same encryption standards whether Sappy is reading it or not.

You control access

Sappy access is administered through the FMS permission control module, so you decide exactly who in your organization can use it.

Some of our Customers

Silvacom FMS is used by small and large forestry companies, including:

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about Silvacom FMS AI

Who can use Sappy?

Sappy is available to all Silvacom FMS customers upon request. Pricing is determined on a contract-by-contract basis. 

How do I get access?

Contact your Silvacom FMS Customer Success team to enable Sappy for your organization. Once enabled, it appears right inside the FMS interface. There's no separate login or install. Access is administered through the FMS permission control module, so you decide who in your organization can use it. 

Is my data private when using Sappy?

Yes. Your data is yours. Sappy is built so your information stays inside your own environment and isn't exposed externally. We don't use your data to train Sappy, and we never share it with external AI models for training. See the security section above for the full picture.

Does Sappy send my data to external AI companies?

No. Your data stays inside your own Silvacom FMS environment. We never share your data with external AI models for training, and nothing you type in Sappy leaves your environment. 

Will Sappy replace foresters or GIS specialists?

No. Sappy finds and analyzes your data faster, but foresters make the decisions. It's built to take the data-hunting off your plate so you can spend more time on the judgment calls that need your expertise.

How accurate are Sappy answers about my forestry data?

 Sappy answers from your actual FMS data rather than generating responses from general knowledge, which is what makes it more reliable than a general-purpose chatbot for operational questions. 

Do I need GIS skills to use Sappy?

No. Sappy is built so that anyone in your organization can run spatial queries in plain language. If you can describe what you want to see, Sappy can run the overlay or analysis for you.

Can I use ChatGPT to analyze my forestry data?

You can use general AI tools for general forestry questions, but they can't access your FMS data, your spatial layers, or your environment. Sappy answers using your actual operational data, inside your own secure environment.

Ready to talk to your forest data?

 See Sappy in action, talk through what it could do for your team, or if you're a customer, join the early adopter program.

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