Farming robots · Vertical AI · Ops support

Where atoms
meet intelligence.

We build autonomous robots that work the field row by row, AI software for the industries that feed and move the world, and an ops team that keeps it all running while you sleep.

People going to sleep hungry right now  →  733,000,000
$48B
Precision ag by 2035
155K
Farm labor shortage
+117%
Herbicide cost since '07
733M
People hungry today

Something ancient is about to get an update.
The field doesn't know what's coming.
Neither does hunger.

Why now.

Three forces converging that make this inevitable, not optional.

02 / Timing
155K
Labor crisis

U.S. farm labor shortage hit a 20-year high in 2025. 60% of large-scale producers can't find workers. Crops are rotting in fields. The workforce isn't coming back — the average farmworker is aging out, and enforcement is accelerating.

USDA · American Farm Bureau 2025
2026
Glyphosate reckoning

EPA's final glyphosate registration review lands October 2026. State-level bans are already fragmenting the market. Herbicide-dependent farming is a liability. Mechanical and precision alternatives aren't optional anymore — they're the compliance path.

EPA · Genetic Literacy Project 2026
$744M
Capital is flooding in

Ag robotics funding hit $744M in 2024. Autonomous weeding drew more precision ag venture capital than any other category in 2025. Ecorobotix closed $105M. Carbon Robotics raised $70M. The market has decided this is real.

AgFunder · iGrow Intelligence 2025

Where we are.

Honest numbers. This is the build phase, not the pitch deck version.

03 / Status
Stage
Prototype
First robot in soil — targeting Q3 2026.
Pilot target
240ac
Across 3 partner farms in Texas.
Robot BOM
$1.2k
v1 prototype. Off-the-shelf parts.
Models in dev
7
Vision, routing, forecasting.

One stack. Three surfaces.

The robot, the model, and the operator share the same brain.

04 / Architecture
— The loop

Hardware that learns.
Software that moves.

Most companies sell you a robot or a dashboard. We sell the loop: robots in the field generate per-plant data, our models turn it into decisions, and our ops team makes sure both keep running. The same perception stack that guides the robot prices your harvest.

  • Per-plant detections feed the same forecasting models that plan your season.
  • Logistics routing reuses the same vision stack that navigates the rows.
  • Ops agents triage exceptions — humans see only what matters.
stack.live
edge / robot fleet14 online
vision model — yolov894.2% mAP
forecast model — yieldrunning
routing — fleet/4WDrunning
ops queue3 reviewing
incidents (24h)0
pipeline freshness42s ago
last deploy12m ago — main
Built for industries like these
RaceTrac Pilot Love's Samsara John Deere

“Racetrack-style forecourts are the highest-velocity retail in the country. 800+ stores running on instinct instead of data. Per-SKU, per-hour demand forecasting is the unlock nobody's shipped yet.”

The problem we're solving — Forecourt retail

“Mid-market carriers run 40-truck fleets with Excel and phone calls. They can't afford an OR team. A drop-in dispatcher that re-solves routing every 30 seconds against live HOS and weather — that's the gap.”

The problem we're solving — Fleet logistics

Who's building this.

One person with a thesis, the right background, and an unreasonable timeline.

05 / Team
K

Karthik Chowdary Tsaliki

Founder & Builder

Staff ML Engineer who's shipped production AI at scale — fraud detection systems that saved millions in chargebacks, payments security infrastructure at global scale, and AI-driven threat prevention using LLMs to build proactive security agents.

Now pointing that same stack at the field, the fleet, and the forecourt. Practices Vipassana. Believes the best technology disappears into the work it does. Based in Austin, TX.

Working on something at the edge
of farm, fleet, or store?

We're talking to design partners and early investors across all three lines. If you have soil, trucks, or a forecourt — and a problem that doesn't have a vendor yet — let's talk.