Western Canada · Farms to processors
Agriculture transformation through AI.
We're the practical AI partner for ag operations: grain and livestock producers, processors, ag retail and suppliers. We find the repetitive work, the disconnected information and the slow decisions that quietly cost you time, whatever yours turn out to be. Then we build small tools around those first. No strategy deck.
1.8%
of Canadian agricultural businesses were using AI as of Q2 2025, against 12.2% across other industries (FCC & Deloitte)
9th of 12
where agriculture ranks among Canadian sectors on advanced technology adoption (FCC & Deloitte)
52%
of producers surveyed say they see no meaningful benefit from AI yet (Purdue / CME barometer)
81% vs 36%
large operations using digital tools, compared with smaller farms (Toronto Metropolitan University)
The bottleneck is rarely the technology. It's the hour nobody has.
The adoption gap
Ag isn't behind on AI because it's stubborn.
The barriers are structural, not technological: fragmented data spread across accounting software, agronomy apps, scale tickets and spreadsheets; rural connectivity; no one on staff who owns it; and no obvious place to start that doesn't feel like a gamble (FCC & Deloitte, 2026).
Meanwhile the capital is arriving. FCC has committed $2 billion to ag-tech, and a coalition of more than 20 organizations has pledged $5 billion into agriculture and food innovation by 2030 (FCC). Trust is the other half of the story. Roughly three-quarters of farmers are already touching AI tools, but they don't yet trust what comes out (MorganMyers, 2026).
- Nobody owns it. AI sits between the office, the agronomist and the shop, so it stays a someday project.
- Vendor fatigue is real. Every supplier now claims AI. Very few will sit at your desk and prove a result.
- The wins are unglamorous. Quoting, dispatch, records, compliance, customer follow-up. That's where the hours are.
What we look for
First we find what's costing you time.
Not a fixed checklist. Every operation has its own list, and part of the Sprint is writing yours. These are the patterns that show up most often. We put hours and dollars against whatever we find, then build the smallest tool that removes the most expensive one. Not a platform. Not a transformation program. One tool, one problem, in weeks.
Repetitive work
The same keystrokes, every single week.
Scale tickets retyped into accounting. The same quote rebuilt from scratch. Treatment records copied from a notebook to a spreadsheet to a buyer's form. Month-end compliance assembled by hand from four sources.
What we build: a tool that does the typing, with a person who checks it, and an honest count of the hours it gives back.
Disconnected information
The answer exists, in four different places.
Agronomy app, accounting software, a shared drive, a text thread, and the filing cabinet in the shop. Nobody can say what a field, a pen, a load or a customer actually cost without spending an afternoon on it.
What we build: one place to ask the question and get an answer back with the source attached, so it can be trusted and checked.
Slow decisions
The call that waits three days for a number.
A quote sits while someone pulls pricing. A ration, marketing or input decision waits on a report nobody has time to build. A maintenance call gets made after the breakdown instead of before it.
What we build: the number in front of the person who decides, on the morning they need it, without anyone assembling it by hand.
Knowledge in one head
One person knows how it's actually done.
How a customer likes their loads split. Which supplier to call when the usual one is out. The workaround for the machine that's been temperamental since 2019. None of it is written down, and it all leaves when they do.
What we build: that knowledge captured and made searchable, so a new hire or the person covering a shift can find the answer without a phone call.
Follow-up that falls through
The work you already won, quietly lost.
Quotes nobody circled back on. A customer who hasn't ordered in eight months and nobody noticed. Warranty claims, renewals and rebates that expire because they lived in somebody's inbox.
What we build: a system that notices and prompts, so revenue you already earned doesn't depend on someone remembering.
And whatever yours is
Every operation has one we didn't list.
Compliance paperwork that eats a Friday. A report nobody trusts, so two people rebuild it separately. A bottleneck at one desk that stalls everyone downstream. Something that only makes sense once we've walked the yard and the office.
What we do: ask, count the hours, and rank it honestly against everything else, including the option that it isn't worth automating at all.
Small on purpose: the first build removes one problem, is used by one team, and saves hours you can count on a timesheet. If a tool needs an operation-wide rollout before it's worth anything, we haven't scoped it properly.
The measurement
Your Ag Quotient: a score, not an opinion.
Every engagement starts with the same thing: a scored, repeatable readiness assessment across the five dimensions that decide whether AI actually sticks in an ag operation. You get a number out of 100, the reasoning behind each band, and the shortest path to raising it.
The dimensions are simply how we measure what we found: Process covers the repetitive work, Data and Tooling cover where information is stranded, and People and Governance decide how fast a decision can actually be made and trusted.
We re-score at 90 days. That's how you prove progress to a lender, a board, a family, or a funding program, instead of taking our word for it.
- Data. What you record, where it lives, and whether it can be joined together.
- Tooling. The software you already pay for, and how much of it goes unused.
- Process. The repeatable work that eats hours every week.
- People. Who could run a tool tomorrow, and who needs training first.
- Governance. Who checks the output before it reaches a customer or a regulator.
Ag Quotient · sample
Mixed grain & cattle operation
Illustrative scorecard for demonstration. Your Ag Quotient is produced from interviews, a tooling inventory and a data walkthrough during the Solve Sprint, not from a web form.
How we engage
Three steps. You can stop after any of them.
Most operations start with the Sprint, build two or three automations, and only then decide whether they want us running the whole layer. No annual commitment to find out if this works.
Step 01
Solve Sprint
$6,000 CAD · 2–3 weeks
A fixed-fee diagnostic that ends with a scored Ag Quotient and a 90-day plan you could hand to someone else to execute.
- Ag Quotient scorecard
- Quick-win shortlist, ranked by hours saved
- Data & tooling assessment
- 90-day action plan
- STEP-ready invoice and documentation
Step 02
Build & Ship
Per build, or a light monthly retainer
We build from the top of your shortlist and put it in your team's hands, one small tool at a time, each aimed at a single problem. Working software, documented, with your people trained on it.
- One tool per problem, shipped in weeks
- Automations for quoting, records, dispatch, follow-up
- Integrations with the tools you already pay for
- Assistants trained on your own documents
- Hands-on training, not a manual
- Re-score at 90 days
Step 03
AI Operating System
Monthly retainer
For operations that want one place where every automation, agent and data connection lives: monitored, improved and reported on.
- Central dashboard across your automations
- Ongoing build queue
- Quarterly Ag Quotient review
- Model and vendor changes handled for you
- Named contact who knows your operation
The offer
The Solve Sprint
Two to three weeks, fixed fee, on-site where it matters. We don't advise. We solve. The Sprint exists so that by the end of it you know exactly what to build first and what it's worth.
Week 01
Discover
Interviews with the people doing the work. Walkthrough of the yard, the office and the shop. Inventory of every system, spreadsheet and subscription in use.
Week 02
Assess & prioritize
We score your Ag Quotient, put hours against the repetitive work, trace where information is stranded, and time how long a routine decision actually takes today. Candidates get ranked by payback, not by novelty.
Week 03
Roadmap & handoff
A 90-day plan with owners, sequencing and costs, presented to your team, then handed over. Yours to execute with us or without us.
Investment
STEP reimburses eligible consulting fees at 50%, up to $5,000 per year. Program rules and budgets change. You must apply and be approved before the engagement begins. We can't backdate it, and we never promise approval. Program details: Saskatchewan digital grant summary.
What you walk away with
- Ag Quotient scorecard with the reasoning for every band
- Quick-win shortlist with estimated hours saved per week
- Data & tooling assessment, including what to stop paying for
- 90-day action plan with named owners
- Documentation formatted for a funding claim
Who we work with
The whole value chain, not just the field.
AI adoption in agriculture isn't a farm-gate story. The operations with the most repeatable paperwork often have the most to gain.
Crop producers
Agronomy records, input quoting, grain contracts, equipment and maintenance logs.
Livestock & feedlots
Health and treatment records, feed and ration tracking, traceability paperwork, buyer reporting.
Processors & handlers
Grading and quality documentation, load scheduling, food-safety records, customer specs.
Ag retail & suppliers
Quote-to-order turnaround, product knowledge assistants, agronomy support, inbound follow-up.
Equipment & service
Work orders, parts lookup, warranty claims, technician notes turned into searchable knowledge.
Associations & boards
Member communications, program administration, grant reporting, research summarization.
Processing, handling and retail carry the most repeatable paperwork, and the fastest payback.
How we work
Operators, not advisors.
We separate the thinking from the building on purpose. The Sprint is planning you can act on with anyone. The build is ours to ship. You are never in a position where the only way to get value from the plan is to keep paying us.
- Small tools first. The first build removes one problem for one team. Value shows up long before any rollout does.
- Fixed scope, fixed price. No open-ended discovery, no hourly surprises.
- Plain language. If a recommendation needs a glossary, we haven't finished thinking about it.
- Your data stays yours. We document where it goes, what the model sees, and who reviews the output.
- A human checks the work. Anything customer-facing or regulated gets a named reviewer before it ships.
- Built to be handed over. Every automation comes documented so your team can run it.
Paying for it
There is public money for this work.
Two programs matter most to Prairie ag operations. We'll tell you honestly which one fits, and we will not start work that depends on a claim you haven't filed yet.
50%
Saskatchewan STEP
Reimburses half of eligible consulting fees, which typically brings a $6,000 Solve Sprint to roughly $3,000 net. Applications must be approved before the engagement begins, and approval is never guaranteed.
Read the program summary$250K–$5M
PrairiesCan Regional AI Initiative
For larger builds: up to 50% of eligible project costs for businesses (up to 90% for non-profits) through the federal Regional Artificial Intelligence Initiative. Relevant once you're past the pilot and into infrastructure.
See RAII detailsStraight answers
Questions we get asked first.
Do I need to be "ready" before we start?
No. The Sprint is how you find out where you stand. Operations that still run on paper tickets and a shared spreadsheet score lower on data foundation, but they often have the largest quick wins because nothing has been automated yet.
Is this only for large operations?
No. The gap is widest for smaller ones. There's a $4,000 Starter Sprint for micro-operations that compresses the same work into a tighter scope. If your operation is small enough that a Sprint doesn't make sense, we'll say so on the call.
What does a "small tool" actually look like?
Concretely: a photographed scale ticket that becomes an accounting entry without retyping. An assistant trained on your own product sheets and specs that answers rep and customer questions in seconds. A Monday-morning email with the three numbers someone would otherwise spend an hour assembling. Each of those is days to weeks of work, removes one specific problem, and pays back in hours you can count, not a platform migration.
Will you sell me software?
We don't resell platforms and we take no vendor commissions. Most of what we recommend uses tools you already pay for. When something new is needed, you buy it directly and own the account.
What happens to our data?
It stays yours. Before any build, we document which systems are touched, what a model can see, where it's stored, and who reviews output before it leaves the operation. Anything involving customer, member or regulatory data gets a named human reviewer.
Can you guarantee the STEP reimbursement?
No, and be cautious of anyone who does. We provide invoices and documentation in the format the program expects, and we time the engagement around your application. Eligibility and approval are the program's decision, and the application has to come first.
Do we have to keep working with you after the Sprint?
No. The 90-day plan is written so your own team, or another firm, could execute it. Roughly speaking, that's the test of whether the Sprint was worth the money.
Where do you work?
We're based in Moose Jaw and work across Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba, with on-site time built into every Sprint. Remote-only engagements are possible but we'd rather walk the yard.
Start here
Twenty minutes, and you'll know if there's anything here for you.
Tell us what your operation is and where the hours go. If AI isn't the answer, we'll tell you that on the call. It's a short conversation either way.
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan · Serving Western Canada