One research agenda, five named programs.
Each program below carries its real status. We won’t call something proven until it has been.
Plant Health
Built, validated, and in use.
Point a basic smartphone at a leaf and get back what's wrong with it — by name — and what to do about it today. The software side is the CropCare AI app and the outbreak maps it feeds; the hardware side, further out, is field cameras and spray drones for the same diagnosis-and-response loop at a larger scale. The outbreak-alert layer doesn't wait for your own scan — it watches disease reports across a region and warns people nearby before it reaches them. This is the lab's first program, and the one furthest along: built and validated, now moving toward wider availability.
- Diagnosis accuracy: figures pending
- Outbreak-alert results: figures pending
Water & Soil
Scoped and sequenced. Research and prototyping ahead.
Where Plant Health reads a leaf, Water & Soil reads the ground and the water applied to it: irrigation guidance and weather-aware scheduling on the software side, low-cost soil probes and smart irrigation controllers on the hardware side. Built for the same conditions as everything else here — patchy connectivity, mixed cropping, low-cost sensing rather than enterprise-grade instrumentation.
- Status: scoping and early prototyping
- Figures pending
Smart Mechanization
Scoped and sequenced. Research and prototyping ahead.
A farm dashboard and drone mission planning on the software side; drones and autonomous or retrofit machinery on the hardware side. The bet is that mechanization doesn't have to mean large, expensive, imported equipment built for a different kind of farm — it can be built for the one most of the world actually has.
- Status: scoping and early prototyping
- Figures pending
Yield & Markets
Scoped and sequenced. Research and prototyping ahead.
Plant Health tells a farmer what's wrong now. Yield & Markets is about what's ahead: yield and quality reports from field-level data and grading cameras, built to help input, labor, and timing decisions get made with foresight instead of guesswork.
- Status: scoping and early prototyping
- Figures pending
Controlled Growing
Early-stage. We're still testing whether this is the right problem to commit to.
The earliest-stage program here: climate and nutrient control software, hydroponic towers and greenhouse sensors as hardware. Controlled growing is a different problem shape from an open field — faster cycles, tighter margins for error — and we're still establishing whether it belongs in this research agenda the same way the others do.
- Status: early exploration
- Figures pending
Open by design
Not fixed by design. The next program earns this slot when the evidence points to it.
We're not filling this slot with a roadmap placeholder for its own sake. Agriculture's interlocking problems are one research agenda, not a portfolio of separate apps — so the next program isn't decided ahead of time. When farmers, partners, or our own research surface a problem worth solving, it earns a name and a number here. Have one in mind? Bring it to the lab.
- Status: intentionally undefined