Agriculture and food.
One residue failure and the buyer stops ordering.
Where we would start: Quality and residue file. Every lot's test reports against each market's limits, with lots close to a limit flagged before they ship.
A spice exporter keeps each lot's residue tests against the limits of the market it ships to, and holds a lot that comes close.
Safe to say yes, in writing.
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“I'll pay and nothing will work.”It has to pass on your old work before it touches today's.20 of your past jobs, then live18 of 20 approved without changesFive working days of approved live workYour sponsor's written yes
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“The price will creep.”One fixed price, in writing, before any work.Your proposalThe plan: one priceEach build: one priceThe run: a monthly fee
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“I'll be locked in.”Stop any month and keep everything.JanFebMarAprstopMayJunThe month you stop, you keepEvery account, in your company's nameEvery line of codePlain files and a runbook
Your week, as it runs today.
Farms, processors, exporters and distributors earn thin margins on volume, so profit depends on buying inputs well, losing less produce, meeting buyers' quality rules and getting paid. India loses about Rs 1.53 lakh crore of food a year after harvest, including about 15% of guavas and 11.6% of tomatoes (NABCONS study for the food processing ministry, 2022). The work is procurement, grading, storage, processing, certificates, export papers, distributors and price swings, much of it on calls and paper.
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Three price lists arrive for the same input, each in a different format.
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A cold room alarm went off overnight, and nobody saw the message.
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An EU buyer asks for residue test reports for six lots.
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The export papers for one container don't match the invoice.
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Distributors phone in orders all day, and the dispatch list is rewritten twice.
What it costs.
A study, 2024One residue failure and the buyer stops ordering.
And the rest of the week
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A study, 2022
Produce goes bad before it sells.
India loses about Rs 1.53 lakh crore of food a year after harvest, about 2.35% of GDP, including about 15% of guavas, 11.6% of tomatoes and 8.8% of marine fish (NABCONS for the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, 2022).
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Our own sum
We buy inputs from whoever called last.
Buying Rs 1 crore of inputs a month at 2% above the best quote is Rs 24 lakh a year.
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No number yet
The bank rejects our export papers over one mismatched field.
No figure we can stand behind yet, so we print none.
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Our own sum
Distributors phone in orders, and someone types every one in.
150 phone orders a day typed in at two minutes each is five hours a day, more than half of one person's day.
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A study, 2018
Only one person knows each buyer's specs and our grades.
Workers say 42% of the knowledge their role needs is unique to them, and they lose 5.3 hours a week waiting for a colleague's knowledge or recreating it (Panopto, 2018, 1,000 US workers).
Ten systems for agriculture and food, under the six offers.
We plan the whole company, then build the first three. The usual first build here is marked, and the window beside the cards shows the one you are reading.
Get the work doneEverything comes to you. Most of it shouldn't.
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The usual first buildTrust
Quality and residue file
Every lot's test reports against each market's limits, with lots close to a limit flagged before they ship.
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Documents
Export papers check
Checks the invoice, packing list, certificates and letter of credit terms against each other before the papers go to the bank.
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Intelligence
Grading by camera
Grades and sorts produce from camera images by size, colour and defects, with the grade recorded per lot.
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Operations
Cold room and truck watch
Temperature sensors in cold rooms and trucks, with alerts that keep calling until someone acts.
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Voice
Farmer and supplier calls
Calls farmers and suppliers in their language about collection times, quality and payments, and records what they say.
Win customersLeads wait until Monday. The buyer doesn't.
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Conversations
Orders on WhatsApp
Distributors and buyers order on WhatsApp, and the order lands in your system with stock and credit checked.
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Growth
Export buyer finder
Finds importers in new markets from shipping records and trade data, and drafts the first message for your export manager.
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Brand
A catalogue buyers trust
A product catalogue and site with real photos, specs and certificates, in the buyer's language.
Get paidYou did the work. The money shouldn't take 90 days.
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Agents
Input price compare
Reads price lists and quotes in any format, compares them with past prices and quality records, and drafts the order for your buyer's yes.
Know your companyOnly one person knows how pricing works.
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Knowledge
Specs and certificates library
Buyer specs, certificates, recipes and procedures searchable in plain words, with the latest version marked.
The same week, with them running.
The five moments from the top of this page, once the first systems do their part. Flip back to see how it runs today.
An example week. It shows how the work changes, never a measured result from a client.
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Price lists are read and compared side by side, and the buyer picks with the history in front of them.
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Temperature alerts keep calling until someone acknowledges them.
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Test reports and certificates go out in minutes, and lots close to a limit are flagged before shipping.
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Export papers are checked against the order and the buyer's rules before the bank sees them.
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Orders on WhatsApp go straight into the system, and dispatch plans itself.
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Three price lists arrive for the same input, each in a different format.
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A cold room alarm went off overnight, and nobody saw the message.
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An EU buyer asks for residue test reports for six lots.
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The export papers for one container don't match the invoice.
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Distributors phone in orders all day, and the dispatch list is rewritten twice.
The nearest work we have built.
Each piece names the kind of company it was built for. None of them is in your trade yet, and we say so. Ask to see it running.
- Relocation and global mobility · Agents An AI agent in the team chat An AI agent sits in the team's group chat, answers from the company's own knowledge and takes on requests. Built for a relocation company with teams across India. Built
- Relocation and global mobility · Operating systems Relocation operating system Built so a relocation company can run on one system, with every case, vendor, payment, visa and home in it. Built for a relocation company with teams across India. Live behind a sign in
- Events and conferences · Apps and portals Conference apps in two languages Delegates carry the whole day on their phone, in Japanese or English at a tap: every session, live captions, and a written recap of every session the same day. Built for an industry body in Asia Pacific, for its leadership meetings. Live
Signs it is time.
- Price lists and quotes are compared by hand.
- They've had an export rejection or a buyer complaint in the last year.
- Quality and lot records are kept on paper.
- They're planning new export markets.
- Orders are taken by phone and WhatsApp.
Who decides.
The owner or managing director of the processing or export company, with the head of procurement or exports.
Why this time is different.
AI that was bought and changed nothing.
A tool was bought and nobody owned the job. We take the whole job, test it on your past work, and stay to run it.
What producers ask first.
Does it make customs or food safety decisions?
No. It prepares and checks. Customs classification, certification and anything about food safety stay with your qualified people and your customs agent. The agent shows every mismatch first, so their check starts there.
Our suppliers send prices on WhatsApp voice notes.
It reads text, photos and voice notes, in the language they use, and puts the price in the sheet with the original beside it. Anything unclear is marked for a person.
Our plant has poor connectivity.
The agents can run on a machine in your office and work from what arrives when it arrives. Paper logs can be photographed at the end of a shift.
Who says yes before anything goes out?
The person who owns that job at your company today. You name them when we write the rules with you. Inside those rules the agent acts at once. Anything outside them waits for one tap from the person named, on their phone, ready to approve or to change.
Do we have to change the software we use?
No. We build around the systems you already run, in accounts in your company's name, and we confirm each one before we start.
What does it cost?
There is no price on this page, because it depends on the work. After the session you get a written proposal with the scope, the test it has to pass, who works on it and one fixed price, before any work.
Everything comes to you. Most of it shouldn't.
Routine decisions follow your rules. What still needs you arrives on your phone as one tap, with the facts attached.
What changes. Nothing is typed twice, nobody asks where a job is, and routine decisions follow your rules.
What we measure, before and after. Orders typed by hand in a day, decisions reaching the owner in a week and hours spent chasing.
The old way keeps running until the new one has passed on your own work.
What costs your food business most? Bring us that.
45 minutes on a video call with our founder and the people who live with the problem. Nothing to sign. You leave knowing what we would build first, and why.
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