Farms and wineries, an hour from Barcelona
Less than an hour from Barcelona, the Penedès lives off vines and wine, and the rest of Catalonia off fruit, olives, market gardens and cereals. Farms are small or medium-sized, labour is scarce and the paperwork keeps growing: treatment records, the digital logbook, CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) payments, and traceability for the winery and for the designation of origin. The digital tools that reach the countryside usually expect you to type on a phone with gloves on, and they rarely speak Catalan.
Our own case: a farm in the Penedès
We did not dream this up in an office. Our founder’s family has a farm in the Penedès, with Merlot vines, a vegetable garden and fruit trees, and they run it with an AI agent on Discord.
Whoever comes back from spraying leaves a voice note in Catalan and the agent turns it into a field logbook entry, with product, dose, row and author. The agent checks the farm’s weather station, with more than 700,000 historical readings, and every night calculates indicators such as vineyard infection risk or stress in the vegetable garden. If someone sees an insect on the leaves, they send a photo: two vision models propose hypotheses with their confidence level, and the agent asks for more photos when it is unsure. It also keeps track of the expenses shared between the families who work the farm. The models run on our own hardware, split between a server on the farm and our Barcelona lab; Discord is only the messaging channel.
It is used every day by people who are not technical, in their own language. That is the test that matters to us.
How we deploy it
- Assessment on the farm. We look at how you work, what you record today and where, what sensors or weather station you have and who is going to use the agent.
- Pilot of 2 to 4 weeks. Voice field logbook and local weather, with the people who go out into the fields. We tune the vocabulary to your plots, your products and the way you speak.
- Production. Pest identification from photos, expenses, winery or wine tourism, depending on what you need, and maintenance. The season does not wait: if something fails in the middle of the grape harvest, we fix it fast.
Why local and in Catalan
Your farm data (treatments, yields, costs, customers) belongs to you, and there is no reason for it to end up on a platform’s server: it is processed and stored on your own hardware, and you can use a messaging app or a private website as the channel. And in the Catalan countryside, people speak Catalan: the agent understands voice notes just as they come out, with each household’s own vocabulary. In our lab we have specifically worked on the models’ Catalan vocabulary so that Catalan is no slower than Spanish.
When you don’t need it
If you already use a digital logbook that works for you and you don’t need voice input or your own weather data, you don’t need an agent: we will tell you what can be improved with what you already have.