AI systems for commercial farming.

Building the modern day farmer.

One operating layer for every system you already run.

Where it lives

Plugs into the tools your farm already runs.

WhatsApp on the floor. Email on the desk. Calendar, accounting, storage, the operational tools you already run. The brain doesn't ask your team to learn a new app, it shows up where they already work.

WhatsApp Gmail Xero
Drive Calendar Slack
  • WhatsApp Field comms
  • Gmail Inbox
  • Outlook Inbox
  • Slack Team chat
  • Teams Office comms
  • Calendar Schedule
  • Drive Storage
  • Dropbox Storage
  • Notion Notes & SOPs
  • Xero Accounting
  • Sage Accounting
  • Your stack We wire it in

Pastel, Sage Evolution, banking feeds, IoT sensors, route software, your custom systems. If it runs on your farm, it talks to Acreage.

What we read

Every reading the farm makes, in one place.

Soil probes, weather stations, tanks and pumps, scales, gates and the production line. It all lands in the same system, on the same clock, so the numbers can finally be compared to each other.

Live signal Example feed · illustrative figures
Production yield12 weeks · vs plan
Actual Plan +14% on plan
Soil moisture5 probes · 9 days
P-01P-02P-03P-04P-05
drywet
Growth curvelive weight
Target bandon track
Irrigation cyclelast 24h
Soak Rest Pulse
Weatheron-farm station
23.4°air temp 14mmrain 24h 18wind km/h LOWfrost risk
Incoming readingsall sources, one clock
06:12:04PROBE-04soil moisture38.2 %ok 06:12:07WX-01rainfall 24h14 mmok 06:12:09TANK-02level71 %ok 06:12:13SCALE-07avg live weight96.4 kgok 06:12:16PROBE-02soil moisture21.8 %low 06:12:21PUMP-03flow rate412 L/minok 06:12:24WX-01wind18 km/hok 06:12:28GATE-05head count1 284ok 06:12:04PROBE-04soil moisture38.2 %ok 06:12:07WX-01rainfall 24h14 mmok 06:12:09TANK-02level71 %ok 06:12:13SCALE-07avg live weight96.4 kgok 06:12:16PROBE-02soil moisture21.8 %low 06:12:21PUMP-03flow rate412 L/minok 06:12:24WX-01wind18 km/hok 06:12:28GATE-05head count1 284ok
Every device

Native apps, installed on your devices.

We install the system directly onto your devices. Phone in the shed, tablet on the pack floor, desktop in the office. Same login, same live data, wherever your team is standing.

Mobile · Tablet · Desktop
What we do

End-to-end operating systems for the commercial farm.

Acreage builds the whole layer. We assess the operation, integrate what you already run, install the data collection where it's missing, and connect everything into one central brain that turns raw signal into decisions.

  1. 01

    Assess.

    On-farm audit + blueprint

    Two days on your farm. Every workflow mapped, every system catalogued, every gap identified. The plan before the build.

  2. 02

    Integrate.

    Connect every system you already run

    Pastel, Sage, Xero, banking feeds, operational software, IoT meters, ERP, paper records, WhatsApp threads. Nothing thrown out, nothing rebuilt.

  3. 03

    Install.

    Put data points where they're missing

    Ruggedised tablets for sheds and trucks. Cameras on production lines and yards. Sensors on tanks, scales, gates, and equipment. Only where it's needed, never bolted on for the sake of it.

  4. 04

    Process.

    A central AI brain reads every signal

    Production data, financial data, operational data, market data. All in one model trained to the rhythm of your specific operation. Sharper every week, irreplaceable every year.

  5. 05

    Surface.

    Decisions, not data dumps

    The system shows you what needs attention this week. Forecasts that compound in accuracy. Exceptions flagged in real time. Reports written automatically. The operator stops being the integration layer.

  6. 06

    Iterate.

    The system compounds, never depreciates

    Care retainer keeps the system evolving with the farm. New modules added as the operation grows. Models retrained as patterns shift. Acreage is an appreciating asset, not a one-off install.

The technology layer

Every device on the operation, on one live signal.

The pumps, fans, tanks, gates and sensors you used to check in person, or could not check at all, now stream continuously to one brain.

Every reading is quality-checked on the way in, so a faulty sensor never quietly poisons a decision. The system learns what normal looks like for your operation and is built to flag what is drifting early, with context, before the result lands.

Capture hardware

Drones, cameras, IoT sensors, ruggedised tablets, scales and weighbridges, weather stations, soil probes, and whatever reader or probe you already run.

Connectivity

Satellite internet, LTE and 5G, on-farm mesh, satellite IoT, LoRaWAN, with cellular fallback so a dropped line never blinds the system.

Your operational layer

Your existing herd hardware, parlour and milking systems, tank and feed sensors, climate sensors, RFID and tag readers, gate readers, scales and weighbridges. Whatever you already run, we read the layer you own.

What on your operation do you only find out about once you walk past it?

Hardware

If it doesn’t send data yet, we make it.

Most farms are full of equipment that already knows something and never says it. A pump controller tracking pressure. A weighbridge with a port nobody has ever plugged into. We start with what is on the ground and only add hardware where there is truly nothing to read.

Exploded view of an Acreage soil probe: housing, gaskets, radio module, battery, circuit board and probe pins
Soil probe, field unit
  1. 01

    It already talks

    Pumps, chillers, feed lines and packhouse plant usually run on a PLC that is already measuring what we need. We read it where it sits, on the controller’s own protocol, without changing how the machine runs.

  2. 02

    It talks, but only to itself

    Plenty of equipment logs to a screen on the panel and nowhere else. We put a gateway on it and give that reading somewhere to go, so a number that used to live on a display in the shed lands in the same system as everything else.

  3. 03

    Nothing is listening

    Where there is genuinely no signal to read, we fit the device. Soil probes, tank and flow meters, gate counters, weather stations, climate sensors. Sized for the job and connected on whatever reaches the spot, whether that is LoRa, cellular or satellite.

The audit is two days walking the plant with the people who run it. Knowing which machine actually matters on your farm is the part nobody can sell you off a shelf.

The compounding asset

A brain that grows smarter every year it runs.

Week one, Acreage runs on industry baselines. Month twelve, it's tuned to your operation. Year five, it produces forecasts nobody else in the country can replicate. The longer the system runs on your farm, the more your operation is worth.

  1. 01
    Captured
    Every transaction, decision, and pattern logged. Nothing slips out of the system.
  2. 02
    Sharpened
    Pricing, routing, vet calls, customer quirks. All tuned to your specific farm.
  3. 03
    Compounding
    Week 1: industry baselines. Year 5: forecasts only your farm can make.
  4. 04
    Expanding
    New sites, new operations, new locations. Same brain, more signal absorbed.
What transfers

The brain is an asset. It changes hands with the farm.

Thirty years of judgement usually walks off the farm with the person who built it. Once the operation runs on a system, that judgement is written down, owned, and handed over intact. This is what "built to outlast the farmer" actually means on paper.

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Flagship build · live

Our first full Farm OS runs a working poultry operation.

Master Eggs is our co-founder Warwick's farm. Thirty years in commercial poultry. It is also our flagship build, the whole operating layer running live on the operation that helped shape it. Five layers, one brain, paper records replaced end to end.

01

Sales & orders

A 24/7 AI sales agent takes orders straight off WhatsApp, day and night. Nothing missed, nothing left unanswered, every order logged the moment it lands.

02

Operations

Rugged tablets in the pack shed. Barcode and camera capture on the line. A continuous stock-take that replaces the month-end guess.

03

Logistics

Route planning and digital proof-of-delivery. Every drop tracked from shed to customer, every claim settled with a record.

04

Finance

Xero as the single record of truth. Payments matched automatically. The weekend reconciliation, gone.

05

Command centre

One role-based dashboard for the whole operation, plus a weekly report the system writes itself and the owner actually reads.

→

Same farm, same founder

Built on the operation we run ourselves, which is exactly why it holds up across a real working week, not just a demo.

Not a pitch deck. A farm that now runs on the system, built to outlast the farmer.

Who it's for

Commercial farms ready to operate like systems, not departments.

Acreage builds for the breadth of South African agriculture. The brain underneath is the same. Only the modules, the data, and the surface change.

Vertical 01

Dairy

Yield, SCC, butterfat, parlour throughput, tank, processor reporting.

Vertical 02

Poultry

Layers, broilers, breeders. Cycle, mortality, feed conversion, distribution to retail.

Vertical 03

Grain

Maize, wheat, sorghum. Silo monitoring, moisture and tonnage, buyer reporting, futures-aware costing.

Vertical 04

Livestock

Beef and feedlot. Stock movements, weight gain, feed, abattoir handover, health compliance.

Vertical 05

Sheep & wool

Flock movement, lambing, shearing, wool clip grading, abattoir routing, parasite tracking.

Vertical 06

Citrus

Pack-house yield, pickup scheduling, exporter integration, traceability, market grading.

Vertical 07

Aquaculture

Water quality, feed input, biomass forecasting, harvest scheduling, processor handover.

Vertical 08

Macadamia & nuts

Orchard tracking, harvest yield, crack-out percentage, kernel grading, export documentation.

+Bespoke

Mixed crop & custom

If you run something we haven't listed, we build for it. The brain doesn't care what the commodity is.

Commodity examples show the range the architecture covers, not a claim of live deployments in every sector.

Security

Your data is safe, and it stays yours.

Your farm gets its own database with its own keys, so your numbers never sit in a shared pool with anyone else’s. Who can see what is locked down per person and per job. And if a laptop walks off the farm, nothing walks with it.

Only your people see your numbers.

The shed sees the shed. Drivers see their own drops. The office sees the money. That split is held by the database itself, not by whatever screen someone happens to be looking at, so even a bug in the app cannot hand one person another person’s data.

ROW-LEVEL SECURITY
tables under RLS      150 active policies       455 enforced at           database app-layer bypass      not possible

There is no password to steal.

Nobody on the farm sets a password, so nobody can reuse one from another site, write it on the pack shed wall, or hand it over on a phone call. Office staff get a one-time code. Shared floor devices use a PIN that only opens that one job.

AUTH · PASSWORDLESS
login           one-time code passwords       none stored access          invite only shared devices  PIN kiosk, role-scoped

Nothing gets quietly changed.

Stock is not a number anyone can type over. It is added up from every movement that ever happened, so the history is always there. Delivery proof is a photo, a GPS point, a barcode and a timestamp, written once and never deleted.

WRITE-ONCE RECORDS
stock       SUM(ledger) UPDATE      not permitted delivery    photo + gps + barcode + time retention   write-once, never deleted
Financing

Put the whole system on the farm. No capital outlay.

Most farms don't want to drop the full build cost in one go, and they don't have to. We finance the whole project through GridAsset, so the system goes live now and you pay it off as it runs.

01

Request a site inspection

We walk your operation, map what you already run, and scope the build around it.

02

We build and install

The full operating layer, scoped to your farm. You see it ship in stages, never one big drop at the end.

03

The system goes live

Running on your real data from day one. Financed, not bought up front.

04

You own it

One fixed monthly payment. At the end of the term the platform, the hardware and the data are yours.

Finance partner Zero-deposit project finance for the full build. Finance, not a subscription. You own the system outright at the end of the term.
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Common questions

Questions we get on every first call.

Short answers to the things prospects usually ask before they request a quote. Anything missing, ask the bot in the corner or drop us a line.

  1. Acreage builds bespoke AI operating systems for commercial farms in South Africa. We connect every system you already run, install the data collection where it's missing, and surface decisions instead of data dumps. It's one operating layer for the whole farm, built to outlast the farmer.

  2. An Acreage system ties together your sensors, operational equipment, accounting, banking feeds, weather, staff and logistics into a single operating layer. Instead of ten dashboards, you get one place that tells you what is off, what is costing money, and what to do next. The same brain architecture runs across every commodity; only the modules and the data change.

  3. Every build goes through three phases: audit, build, care. Timelines depend on scope, hardware lead times and how many existing systems we're connecting to, but you'll see working pieces of the system in stages rather than one big-bang delivery at the end. We agree the milestone plan upfront so you know exactly what lands when.

  4. Every build is scoped to your operation, so we put a real number in front of you after a site inspection, not before. The whole project can be financed through GridAsset: no deposit, one fixed monthly payment, and you own the platform, hardware and data at the end of the term. Hardware is quoted separately, line by line, so you see exactly what you're paying for.

  5. We finance the full build through our partner GridAsset. No deposit, no capital outlay up front. The system goes live, you pay it off over a fixed monthly term, and at the end the whole system is yours. Finance, not a subscription. A care retainer keeps it evolving and is separate and optional.

  6. You own it. The build is financed through GridAsset and at the end of the term the platform, the hardware and the data are fully yours. No leaseback, no perpetual rental, no hostage data.

  7. We're built to plug into whatever you already run rather than replace it. Pastel, Sage, Xero, banking feeds, Starlink, LTE/5G, IoT meters, RFID tags, route optimisation and the rest, they all wire into the same brain. If something on your farm doesn't speak to anything yet, we install the collection layer for it.

  8. Every farm has one or two workflows that no off-the-shelf product handles properly. That's exactly what bespoke means here: we scope it in the audit, build it as a module on the same brain, and it ships with the rest of your system. The architecture is built for that.

  9. No. It's finance, not SaaS. You pay the build off over a fixed monthly term through GridAsset, then the system is yours. The care retainer is separate and optional, with no lock-in either way.

  10. We're live and tested on dairy, poultry, grain and livestock. The same brain architecture covers sheep, citrus, aquaculture, macadamia, pork and mixed crop, with bespoke as a full track of its own. The commodity changes the modules and data feeds, not the underlying system.

  11. Integrations are modular by design. If you move from Pastel to Sage, or swap operational software in five years, we rebuild that connector and the rest of the system carries on. That's part of why it's built to outlast the farmer, not the tool list.

  12. The starting point is always an audit. Send us a note at wesley@acreageos.ai, or use the quote request on the site, and we'll scope a call to walk your operation, your existing systems and what's actually broken. From there we put a build plan and a number in front of you.

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