Pilot · Davao, 2026
From a banana farm outside Davao.
Our first deployment is small, intentional, and entirely real. Twelve hectares. Fourteen member-farmers. One coop manager with an old habit of walking every plot by foot before lunch — now with a phone in his pocket that already knows what he's about to find.
The plot we couldn't see.
Bananas are a forgiving crop, until they aren't. Stress that builds quietly over a few weeks — a dry pocket of soil here, a fungal pressure there — turns up at harvest as smaller bunches or fruit that won't grade. By then the cause is three weeks behind you and the answer is "next time."
The coop we work with had been running this way for fifteen years. Good farmers, good land, a manager who knew every plot by name. What they did not have was a way to look at a plot remotely on a Tuesday afternoon and know that something was off before the eye could see it.
Eight sensors went in across the coop's twelve hectares over a single morning in early 2026. Soil moisture, ambient temperature, humidity, and a canopy-stress reading from a leaf-temperature differential. Solar-powered units, transmitting over cellular every fifteen minutes. By lunch the data was already streaming.
"Before, we walked the plots once a week and hoped. Now I check my phone before breakfast and already know which farm to visit first."
Coop manager · Davao banana pilot
What changed in the first month.
Two things, neither dramatic on the surface, both real. One plot was over-irrigating on the manager's old schedule — the data showed soil moisture sitting above optimal for days at a time. Cutting irrigation by a third on that plot saved water and, more importantly, freed up labor to focus on a plot that was tracking drier than expected.
The second was earlier. A canopy-temperature signature on a different plot started drifting upward over four days — the kind of pattern that often precedes stress visible to the eye. The agronomist flagged it on the Monday advisory. The manager walked that plot Tuesday morning and found early signs of nutrient deficiency, addressed before the harvest window closed.
Neither of these were heroics. Both would have been caught eventually. The point of Agripulse is to compress "eventually" into "this week."
What we're tracking next.
The first season's data becomes the baseline for season two. Plot-by-plot yield reconciliation against in-season signals tells us which leading indicators actually predict outcomes for this coop on this land. By the third season, the coop has its own private model of how its farms behave — knowledge no outside competitor can replicate without spending three years on the ground.
Could your coop be next?
We're taking on two to three additional pilot cooperatives this year. Banana, coffee, rice, vegetables — the system is crop-agnostic; the agronomy is crop-specific.