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There is no signal in the field
Capture has to work offline on a cheap phone, outdoors, with one hand and dirty gloves.
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Farm management, traceability and agritech built for intermittent connectivity.
We build agritech software: farm and field management, traceability from input to shelf, sensor and machinery data, and the marketplaces and advisory tools that connect growers to buyers and agronomy.
Agriculture software has to work where there is no signal, on cheap devices, for users who are outdoors and busy, in a business whose cycle is a season rather than a sprint. A feature that misses planting is not late, it is irrelevant for a year.
Traceability is increasingly the commercial driver rather than a compliance chore. Buyers and regulators want to know where produce came from, what was applied to it and when - and that record has to be captured in a field, not reconstructed in an office.
The constraints that shape every build in this sector, and the ones teams usually meet too late.
Capture has to work offline on a cheap phone, outdoors, with one hand and dirty gloves.
Miss planting or harvest and a feature waits a year to be useful. Release timing is an agronomic decision.
Provenance and application records have to be captured where the work happens, not reconstructed later.
Tractors, sensors and irrigation systems use proprietary formats and vary by manufacturer and age.
Sunlight, gloves and interruptions. Interfaces designed indoors fail outdoors.
Agronomic recommendations that ignore local soil, weather and practice are worse than none at all.
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Each one is a system we have built before, not a capability we are willing to try.
Fields, crops, tasks and inputs captured offline and synced when signal returns.
Input-to-shelf records that satisfy a buyer audit and a regulator.
Telemetry from equipment, soil sensors and irrigation into one usable view.
Recommendations grounded in local conditions rather than generic models.
Connecting growers to buyers with the documentation the transaction requires.
Satellite and drone imagery processed into field-level indicators.
Engagements across sectors - the same team, the same standards.
Partnering with Thinkdebug to develop the Forever 52 mobile app has been a game-changer for us. They were always open to feedback, and it was clear they were as invested in our success as we were. What really sets them apart, though, is the amazing support we've received since the app launched. They’ve made sure the app continues to run smoothly and are always ready to fix any issues that come up.DMDhruv MehtaBusiness Head, Forever 52
Chosen for fit and long-term maintainability, never for novelty.
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What we design and document against, from the first commit rather than the week before an audit.
Certification itself belongs to your entity and its assessor. What we provide is software built and documented so the assessment is about evidence rather than remediation.
Most of our work comes from clients we already shipped for. These are the reasons they give.
Everything a grower does in a field works without signal, because in this sector connectivity is the exception.
Delivery is planned around planting and harvest, since missing a window means waiting a year for feedback.
Applications and movements are recorded where they happen, so an audit is an export rather than an investigation.
High contrast, large targets and few taps, tested in sunlight rather than in a meeting room.
Equipment formats are translated into one model, so a mixed fleet does not mean mixed systems.
Recommendations use local soil, weather and practice, because generic agronomy loses trust the first time it is wrong.
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