Labcore
Problem: All Ag Service Providers share common needs
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A Customer Data & Business Management System
Clients / Farms / Fields / Products / Orders / Reports / Invoices
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Upload, visualize and analyze geospatial data
Shapefiles, remote-sensed imagery, weather data
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Capture client- and field-specific management data
Activity dates, durations. as-applied rates for inputs, store images and documents
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A mobile interface to capture in-season data
Geolocated crop and field scouting pictures, Soil sampling locations
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Assurances for data privacy, continuity and multi-tiered access
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Flexibility to grow as the business environment changes
The Solution: LabCore
LabCore is a multi-user, geospatially-aware information management system with:
- Visualize and analyze GIS data
- Capture rich data directly on a production asset
- GLP-capable laboratory information storage
- Mobile app SDK
- Scalable and flexible
Producers benefit from centralized, yet private data organization
- Keep any kind of data organized by Farm / Field / Barn
- Benefit from structured data capture - a novel and industry-leading way to simplify data capture
- Collaborate with trusted consultants who can provide management and tech support for data capture and reporting
- Work within a framework to capture data usable for carbon credit or environmental services registration
LabCore Clients manage > 1M acres
LabCore’s clients provide a wide range of agricultural and environmental services to their producer clients, such as:
- Soil and environmental sampling and analytical testing services
- Fertilizer recommendation and precision agriculture agronomy services
- Risk analysis support for agri-finance and crop insurance rating development
- Regenerative and conservation agriculture practices
- Field trial and R&D support for microbials and other products
LabCore improves the efficiency of processing work orders for agriculture and environmental service providers
LabCore features a full-featured Work Order system which provides
- Setup of Products and Services along with setting up Packages
- Establish pricing for products and packages, with discounts for dealers
- A Shopping Cart-like interface to create Work Orders
- Work Order Status modeling tool that illuminates the state of every work order in the system
- Generation of PDF documents such as Work Order forms or invoices
- Integration with Stripe e-commerce platform to process payments
Simplified User Onboarding
LabCore provides a lot of value without required a lot of data from the user, but it can scale to 10 million fields also
Field locations and boundaries can be added by simply drawing them in, or by bulk uploading them from shapefiles, KMLs, GeoJSONs or other formats
Draw in Field Boundaries, or upload shapefiles
Capture Field-specific notes
- Customize calendar events and capture data with a simple drag-and-drop
- Attach photographs and capture geolocations
- Notify users of pending information requests
- Benefit from highly structured datasets
Customized mobile app using our APIs
Customized mobile app using our APIs
Mobile SDK provides development guidelines for offline-capable field scouting and soil sampling
Custom mobile apps have been deployed in USA and Brazil that serve as branded assets directly connected with the LabCore backend
LabCore enables Portfolio-scale risk and value analysis on millions of acres
Analyze fields for resilience, responsiveness to management, and make decisions on input optimization:
Which varieties for which field?
How much fertilizer?
Which fields require less management time?
| Feature Comparison with MNC competitor | Granular | LabCore | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Use existing data | yes | yes | Shapefiles / GeoJSON / KML / GeoTiff |
| GIS capabilities | Via AgStudio | minimal | Shapefile exports obviate need, but basic drawing capabilities supported |
| See profit by acre | yes | not built in | Plugin developed for TopSoil.ag. |
| Visualize what impacts yields | yes | Yes (R-score) | Field risk score based on soils, topology and variability rather than yield |
| Share geolocated photos and notes | yes | yes | Including support for voice memos and video links |
| Variable Rate seeding | yes | yes | Via powerful, multi-tenant, agronomist-generated formula |
| Fertility prescriptions | yes | yes | Via powerful, multi-tenant, agronomist-generated formula |
| In-season adjustments | yes | Add on | Possible with weather plugin + alerts system |
| Nitrogen management | Add on | Add on | Via GMSLab or TopSoil.ag |
| Centralized recordkeeping | yes | yes | Dedicated private installation for primary user |
| Inventory management | yes | yes | Farm assets and consumables tracking |
| Task management and Scheduling | isolated | standard | System-wide, highly customizable, provides field-specific logging |
| Livestock module | No | optional | Built in association with University of Illinois |
| Automatic management zone creation | Not mentioned | standard | Defensible for pre-sampling stratification analysis for SOC |
| Soils, Topology, Crop rotation history | Not mentioned | standard | Factors for soil loss and erosion potential included |
| Shapefile output for machinery control | Via AgStudio | standard | Works with most controllers |
| E-commerce integration | Not mentioned | standard | Invoice generation and integration with Stripe is standard |
| Work order management and fulfilment | Not mentioned | standard | Customizable Order Status labels to model extant workflows |
| Soil sampling planning tools | Via AgStudio | standard | Includes zone-based, and grid-based placement |
| Product / Package / Price / Discount modeling | No | standard | Necessary for our multi-tenant system |
| Pricing Model | By the acre ($3-6) and login + support | By the instance | Annual contracts range from $18k to $250k, depending on custom development, support. Unlimited acres and logins |
| Acquisition cost | $300M | ??? | LabCore has zero dilutive funding |
| Compliance and regulation | Not mentioned | supported | Pathway for GDPR, internationalization, ADA and OWASP |
Scalable architecture that grows with you
LabCore Values and Ethical Guidelines
- Decentralization - Every installation in separate and data is physically isolated. Every Client is assured that their proprietary information is safe even if SoilDx no longer continues to exist
- Extensibility - LabCore is spun up into a ‘daughter project’ that allows infinite extensibility, code security, and pathway to Client-specific compliance
- Collaborative - SoilDx encourages Clients to contribute code and features to LabCore where it can benefit all other LabCore clients seamlessly
- Domain expertise - we are not just software developers, but have years of experience in building agricultural and environmental technologies and serving agricultural and environmental businesses
- Relationships - We engage with customers who prefer long-term strategic relationships with SoilDx and who can recognize the merit in these values
