Questions, Answered.

Yes. Basecamp is free forever, no credit card. You get one full strategy run, a 3-year roadmap, and your year-one costs. Upgrade only when you want unlimited runs and the longer horizon.

A proprietary engine, not a chatbot guessing. For every unit, it runs thousands of simulated draws against that unit's real application history, adjusting the odds year by year for point creep, the slow rise in points needed to draw. It treats your odds of drawing a tag and your odds of harvesting once you have it as two separate calculations, because they are. It knows each state runs a different system, preference, bonus, bonus-squared, or pure random, and applies the right math to each instead of averaging them together. The result is a plan with a number behind every line and a reason behind every number.

You can, and it will answer with confidence. The catch is that a general chatbot predicts text; it doesn't compute anything. It has no live agency data, so it invents units, misses tag restrictions, and produces draw odds that were never real. Tag Planner is a purpose-built engine running fixed formulas on data pulled from state wildlife agencies. When it doesn't have verified data for a state, it won't recommend it. When it has no real draw history for a unit, it shows nothing rather than a fabricated percentage. Different tool, different job.

No, and we won't pretend it does. The engine owns the strategy layer: which states fit you, what the odds and costs really are, and when to build points, apply, or draw across years. It does not replace scouting a unit or a guide's on-the-ground knowledge. Use Tag Planner to decide where and when with real math behind the call. Use local intel and the official regulations to lock in the specifics.

Fifteen western states and eighteen big-game species: elk, mule deer, pronghorn, moose, sheep, goat, bear and more. Your plan only includes states where you can realistically apply and build points.

The engine knows each state's system (preference, bonus, hybrid, or pure random) and applies the right math to each. Fee and deadline data is sourced from the official state Fish & Game agencies and refreshed regularly.

Fees, deadlines, draw rules, and historical results come from official state wildlife agency sources, and the full dataset runs through a monthly accuracy audit. The engine is built not to fabricate: estimates and forecasts are labeled as estimates, and anything we can't verify isn't shown. What we can't promise is that an agency won't change a rule the week after our last refresh. Treat Tag Planner as the tool that gets you most of the way there and is honest about the rest.

Official state fish and wildlife agencies. We pull fees, deadlines, draw systems, season dates, and historical draw results directly from agency sources for the fifteen states currently live in the app, then run everything through a monthly accuracy audit. We don't surface a state until its data is verified, and the public draw-odds pages only render a number when there's real history behind it.

Three honest ones. Regulations change, sometimes mid-season, and an agency update can land before our next refresh. Some figures are forecasts, like point-creep projections and future deadline dates, and those are labeled as estimates, not guarantees. And the engine models strategy across states and years; it does not yet capture every tag-specific restriction, like an antler-point or weapon limit on a given unit. That doesn't make the plan wrong. It makes the plan your starting point, not your final paperwork.

Always, and we'd say so even when it makes us look less magic. The official state regulations are the final authority. Tag Planner gets you to the right state, the right unit, and the right timing with real numbers behind it; you confirm the specific tag's rules, restrictions, and deadline on the agency's own listing before you spend a dollar. A tool earns trust by telling you where to verify, not by asking you to take its word for everything.

No. A short consultation builds your profile from your goals and budget. Express mode gets you a solid starting plan in under two minutes, and every recommendation shows its reasoning so you learn as you go.

It's your strategy on call. Grounded in your actual plan and the same real data the engine runs on, it explains why a state scored the way it did, what a deadline means for you, and what to move next, in plain language. It reasons from your numbers, not generic hunting tips, and it won't invent anything the data can't back up.

On Scout and Outfitter, yes. Enter your current points in each state and the dashboard tracks them, projects when builds pay off, and reminds you before every deadline.

Basecamp is one strategy run to explore. Scout unlocks unlimited runs, the full 25-year roadmap, and deadline reminders. Outfitter adds unit-level scoring, draw-odds analysis, point-creep trends, and group planning.

Anytime, monthly or yearly, no lock-in. Founding-member pricing stays locked for as long as your subscription stays active.