Farmer1st First-mile infrastructure

The first-mile infrastructure built around farmers.

Offline-first in the field · AI added to support farmers and users

Traceability, compliance and direct farmer engagement — on one farmer-controlled network. Need something we don't have yet? We prototype it with you in days.

01 — The problem

The first mile still runs on paper and trust.

Regulation now asks for proof at the level of the plot. The people who grow the crop are the ones the data systems know least about.

Smallholders worldwide
500 millionsmallholders.

Almost no reliable data about them. Who farms which plot, what was planted, how it was grown, where it went — mostly unrecorded, or recorded by hand and re-keyed along the chain.

Today

Paper, spreadsheets and trust.

Declarations are passed from hand to hand. Every buyer collects the same facts again, from the same farmers.

  • paper forms
  • re-keyed lists
  • unverified plots
Now required

Plot-level proof.

EUDR and CSDDD expect geolocated, verifiable, audit-ready evidence from the very first mile.

  • EUDR
  • CSDDD
  • plot-level risk signals
Agricultural work among cocoa trees
02 — The platform

One network. The farmer at the centre.

Five layers wrap around the farmer, and every actor in the chain plugs into the same data backbone — each seeing only what the farmer has consented to share.

  • Brands
  • Traders
  • Cooperatives
FARMERFieldDataGeoIntelligenceNetwork

Farmer owns the data

  • NGOs
  • Governments
  • Banks
01

Offline-first apps for field agents and farmers — collection where the work happens.

02

A verified farmer and plot registry: one record, consented and traceable.

03

Audit-ready geolocation: polygons checked and deforestation assessed up to today.

04

Plot-level risk signals, and AI added to support farmers and users.

05

Connects to the field tools, ERPs and compliance platforms you already use.

03 — What you can do

Switch on the modules you need.

Each service is a module on the same farmer-controlled network. Start with one, add the next — no need to rebuild the road each time.

Plus fraud detection, human rights due diligence, data integration, traceability and certifications.All services →
04 — The Nursery

Your specific need, live in days, refined with you.

Not a frozen SaaS: modular services you switch on, and whatever is missing we build.

  1. 01

    Explore

    We map your supply chain, your obligations and the gap between them — in your words.

  2. 02

    Prototype

    We assemble existing modules and build the missing piece. You use it, we adjust.

  3. 03

    Deploy

    It runs on the same network as everything else — and keeps being refined with you.

We don't make you rebuild the road. We build the last stretch you need, with you.
Start in the Nursery
05 — Pre-competitive network

Private by default. Pre-competitive by choice.

Everything a buyer brings stays theirs. When buyers decide something shouldn't be paid for twice, the network lets them share it, on terms they set together. Never imposed.

Note: buyers are hypothetical. Nothing is shared without the buyers' agreement and the farmers' consent.
Private · by default

Yours alone

Nobody sees them unless you decide.

  • P.01Farmer registry
  • P.02Plot polygons
  • P.03Prices & volumes
  • P.04Supplier relationships
Shared · only if you choose

Pre-competitive

What buyers agree to pool, on terms they set together.

  • S.01Fraud detection
  • S.02Agronomic knowledge
  • S.03Farmer access for surveys
  • S.04Common farmer records
Your callNothing is shared unless you and the other buyers decide.
Shared costWhat you pool is paid for once, not by each buyer separately.
Fraud caught across buyersWithout exposing one buyer's data to another.
Farmers asked onceWhen buyers pool their surveys, not again and again.
06 — Trust

Farmers control their data. That's the point.

For you, it is risk reduction: a legal basis through consent, clear provenance, better quality — and no vendor lock-in.

Farmer consent

Farmers decide what is shared, with whom and for what. Consent is recorded, not assumed.

In-country hosting

Data can be hosted in the country it comes from — national systems are integrated, not competed with.

Encrypted end to end

From the field device to the report, data is encrypted in transit and at rest.

AIOffline-first in the field, with AI added to support farmers and the teams who work with them.

07 — Commodities

Every first mile, one backbone.

The same modules adapt to the specifics of each supply chain — its risks, its rules and its farmers.

09 — Start here

Tell us about your supply chain in 10 minutes.

We come back with a first sketch of your service. A short conversation with our scoping assistant — no form, no obligation.

Describe your need, get a prototype

Prefer a classic form? Contact us

Example conversation

Scoping assistant
Farmer1stHi — which commodities and origin countries are we talking about?
YouCoffee and cocoa, sourced from smallholder cooperatives in two origins.
Farmer1stUnderstood. What's driving this now — EUDR, a customer request, or your own commitments?
YouEUDR. Our plot polygons keep failing validation.
EUDRGeo & polygonsField agents
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