African agricultural technology · crop and livestock
The proof is a by-product of running the scheme, not a project you run afterwards.
Every movement a scheme already makes — an advance issued, an intake weighed and graded, a delivery netted against credit, a settlement paid — is captured once, with its provenance attached. The receipt, the lot trace and the compliance pack are assembled from those records. Not reconstructed for an auditor at the end of a season.
It is not imagery. It is not another dashboard. It does not certify anything.
01 — Who this is for
You carry the risk in a chain you do not farm.
You might be an aggregator or processor running an outgrower scheme. An exporter answerable to a buyer’s audit. A lender or a fund underwriting the growers inside someone else’s scheme. A programme accountable to a funder for outcomes across thousands of producers it does not employ.
The variable is who you answer to. The pain is the same one: you are accountable for something you cannot prove from the records you already have, so proving it becomes a second job, run to somebody else’s deadline.
Not the smallholder inside somebody else’s scheme. They are who the record is for, and the sponsor buys it: no rule in our shipped fee schedule names a grower as its payer. A farm that runs this for itself is an ordinary customer.
Aggregators and processors
Answerable to Your own balance sheet, and your buyerWhat was advanced, what came back, and what is still owed.
Advance, net, settleExporters and packhouses
Answerable to A certifier and a retail buyer's private standardWhich block a lot came from, and what was applied to it.
What an obligation asks forProgrammes and funds
Answerable to A funderThat the money reached the producers, and that the practice changed.
Whose record it isLenders and guarantors
Answerable to A credit committeeWhich borrower is going wrong, and on what evidence.
How far this is builtA monitoring visit and a photograph answer none of them.
02 — The chain
Nine steps. One record.
The point is not that each step is recorded — most operations record most of them. The point is that they are the same record, so the settlement can name the deliveries it nets and the audit pack can name the applications it rests on, without anyone reconciling two systems by hand.
- 01RegisterA producer identity that persists across seasons and schemes
- 02AdvanceAn obligation, with a stated repayment source
- 03Plan and plantThe block and season a later record can point at
- 04ApplyWho chose the product and the dose, and the interval that follows
- 05Harvest and gradeLots, with the block they came from
- 06Pack and consignCustody, unbroken across the handover
- 07NetThe delivery value set against the advance, on a stated waterfall
- 08SettleA statement the grower can check, and a receipt
- 09EvidenceA pack whose every figure names the record it came from
A grower advanced for six tonnes delivers four. Where is that recorded, and who works out what they are owed?
03 — Products
Two products on one platform, as peers.
Neither hosts the other. Both make their own case, to their own buyers, on their own sites — this page is about the company and the platform underneath.
04 — The practice
What we will not do.
A system of record that also certifies its own output is worth nothing to the party relying on it. These are constraints on the company, published so a counterparty can hold us to them rather than take our word.
- We do not certify or audit
- Certificates come from accredited bodies; market access is granted by importing authorities. We produce evidence and show where it is thin.
- We do not lend, underwrite or hold funds
- The obligation ledger is ours to record. The money is somebody else's to move.
- We take no margin from vendors
- No commission, rebate or referral fee from any technology or input supplier. Advice with an undisclosed interest in the answer is not advice — which is exactly why a funding interest declared on this platform can be relied on. A supplier's own advisor network can carry that disclosure to a certifier or a regulator precisely because we have nothing riding on the answer.
- A grower inside a scheme never pays
- Scheme software is bought by the party running the scheme. A cost passed to the producer is a cost deducted from the producer. A farm that runs this for itself, sponsored by nobody, is an ordinary customer and pays like one.
- A declared number stays declared
- Figures carry how they were established, permanently. Nothing is promoted to “verified” by age, or by being inconvenient to qualify.
- We publish our open gaps before you sign
- In writing — deployed single sign-on and session handling, workspace-wide export and erasure, and where each module's rules are enforced. Ask and you get the current list, not a summary of it.
05 — How this starts
One season, one sponsor, one number agreed before we start.
We will not scope a contract off a demonstration. A pilot without a baseline cannot be judged afterwards, which makes it a cost with no verdict attached — and the party who pays for that is you.