Architecture

MissionPeak architecture notes

A starter technical essay for explaining the product architecture, AI layer, and trade-offs behind MissionPeak.

The question

MissionPeak is not just a trail app or a blog. It needs to help people plan, decide, remember, and share outdoor experiences with enough trust to be useful in the real world.

The system story

The architecture page should eventually explain the mobile app, API, content model, maps, recommendations, AI workflows, media handling, notifications, and background jobs.

Decisions to document

• Why the first MVP focuses on a narrow set of outdoor workflows.
• Where AI helps and where deterministic product logic should stay in control.
• How user content, public content, and curated knowledge should remain separate.
• What trade-offs you made for speed, quality, cost, and maintainability.

What readers should learn

The goal is not to impress people with a stack diagram. The goal is to show technical judgment: how you reason from user need to system shape.