Capability layer 3 of 3

AI for vertical farm and greenhouse decisions, shown working

Your growing history, harvest forecasts, lighting costs and customer demand, weighed before the crop plan changes. Nothing in this layer controls equipment.

Overview

How it fits your operation

This layer turns your records into decisions: the conditions behind your stronger cycles, harvest forecasts that show their method and confidence, and lighting costs priced against your tariff. It informs the next crop plan. It never sends a command to equipment.

A lettuce batch in vegetative growth, 48% through its recipe, with an ML harvest prediction of 17 days remaining at medium (60%) confidence, one day ahead of the recipe, above its growth stages, expected growth and ideal against current environment.
Harvest-date prediction with its confidence, beside the recipe stages · product interface, sample data
Tariff rate history in BeeGrow AI: seven days of electricity prices in pence per kilowatt hour, comparing a fixed time-of-use tariff with a cheap overnight window against an agile tariff whose rate swings from below zero to about 44 pence.
Tariff rate history · historical supplier data on a development instance, not a current quote
Why it matters

What changes on site

The conditions behind your best yields

Where cycles have finished with a recorded yield, the platform summarises the air temperature, humidity, pH and EC that the higher-yielding records ran at, as conditions worth trying in the next recipe rather than proof of cause.

Price the light schedule

Target DLI and canopy PPFD set the hours the crop needs. The platform tries each price period on the tariff as a start time and finds the lowest-cost window that still meets the target.

Assessment that reaches the model

Health scores, defects and stage quality recorded against the batch feed the daily features and trends that the prediction service reads.

Forecasts that say how they were made

Harvest-date forecasts use a trained model when data quality supports it and fall back to a cold-start estimate when it does not. Growth-stage estimates are currently rule-based. Both return confidence; harvest results identify cold-start estimates, while growth-stage results identify their method.

Orders beside capacity

Customer orders and available stock sit beside zone occupancy, so the team can see what is sold, what is growing and where capacity remains.

Cost before commitment

Capex, opex, energy and wastage modelling put a commercial figure beside an agronomic option before anyone signs it off.

AI-trained recipes

Recipes that learn from every harvest

The trained harvest-date forecasting model reads daily records of air and water temperature, humidity, CO₂, VPD, light (PPFD, DLI and photoperiod), pH and EC, together with how closely each zone held its recipe targets, nutrient and irrigation records and growth observations. The same records train the recipe targets: from your highest-yielding completed cycles of each crop, the platform learns target air temperature, humidity, pH and EC and shows them against every batch in progress. Every recipe still runs inside the same fixed safety limits.

What the models decide, and what they do not. Yield comparisons summarise historical records; they do not establish cause and effect or guarantee a better recipe. Harvest forecasting can use a trained model, while growth-stage estimates use rules and observations. Tariff comparisons calculate costs from the supplied rates and lighting assumptions. A person reviews these outputs before changing a recipe or schedule.

Next step

Test the forecasts against your own data

A 30-minute walkthrough against your zones, crops and sensors. No slides unless you ask for them.

  • Walkthrough led by someone who has built the system
  • We map your zones, crops and sensors before the call
  • Straight answers on what fits and what does not