AssetChain watches the farm, sees what's wrong, and sends the right machine to fix it. Surveillance, computer vision, drones, ground robots — one connected system, built for the soil it grows in.
Every other ag-robotics company sells a single robot. AssetChain links surveillance, perception, decision, aerial action, and ground action into one continuous loop — so the farm watches itself, diagnoses itself, and works itself. Each link feeds the next.
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Solar-powered fixed cameras and edge sensors blanket the perimeter and key plots. Every motion, every intrusion, every weather anomaly is logged and routed. The land stops being blind.
We don't reinvent locomotion. We integrate proven hardware and concentrate every dollar on the autonomy stack — computer vision, coordination, and the chain that links it all together. These are the three nodes that make the chain physical.
Walks crop rows without compacting soil. Six legs for stability on uneven terrain. Mounted CV head for inline disease detection and weed spotting. Built from forked open-source robotics platforms.
Commercial agricultural drone integration for mapping, scouting, and precision spray missions. Flight plans generated automatically from CV diagnoses. We don't build the drone — we build the brain that flies it.
The workhorse. Electric drivetrain retrofitted onto a proven motoculteur chassis. Swappable implements: plow, seeder, weeder, sprayer, ridger. The form factor every African farmer already recognizes — now with autonomy.
Raised by Monarch Tractor before shutting down operations in early 2026. The largest ag-robotics fundraise in history. Wrong form factor for the world that needs it most.
Average smallholder farm size in Côte d'Ivoire. A $89,000 autonomous tractor isn't unaffordable here — it's absurd.
Yield lost annually to disease, pests, animal damage, and labor gaps across West African smallholder farms. Not a technology problem. A deployment problem.
A farm doesn't need
one smarter robot.
It needs a chain that never sleeps.
— The AssetChain Thesis
Solar-powered fixed cameras and edge sensors deployed across the farm perimeter and key zones. Real-time alerts for theft, intrusion, animal damage, and fire — solving a problem smallholders feel today, before automation enters the picture.
CV models trained on a proprietary dataset of West African crops — cassava, banana, plantain, cocoa. Disease detection, weed identification, yield estimation. The dataset is the moat. Nobody else has it.
Coordination station running async task orchestration across every node in the chain. Built by an engineer who has spent five years architecting production-grade async systems with strict reliability requirements. This is the layer competitors underestimate.
Commercial drone integration for aerial mapping, scouting flights, and precision spray missions. Flight plans generated automatically from CV diagnoses. We don't build the drone — we build the brain that flies it.
Electric, AI-enabled motoculteur-class machines. Walk-behind form factor scaled up with autonomy. Swappable implements for tilling, seeding, weeding, ridging, spraying. $5K per unit — 17× cheaper than a Western autonomous tractor.
Farmers don't buy hardware. We deploy and operate the chain at $30–60 per hectare per operation — undercutting manual labor while quintupling output. The land becomes the customer, not the buyer.
This is what the chain looks like from the operator's seat. Every plot, every camera, every robot — a single console. Below is a simulated 15-hectare banana plot running live, with alerts routed and machines dispatched automatically.
Every chain we deploy creates a campaign — a tokenized slice of a real harvest. Investors fund the season, the robots work the land, and the yield settles back on-chain when the crop is sold. No custodians. No middlemen. No gas.
This is equity in a real crop, not a yield farm. Holders own fractional shares of a campaign's harvest. Good seasons pay. Bad seasons don't. Every campaign is a bet on soil, weather, and execution — and the robotics chain is the thing that bends those odds in the operator's favor.
Capital, ownership, and settlement live on-chain in gasless smart contracts. Every operation the robots perform is logged, hashed, and tied back to the pool. Nothing about this requires a token ticker or a speculative market — just infrastructure that lets capital move at the speed of trust.
Agricultural equity. Harvest outcomes vary — yields are target ranges, not guarantees. Not an offer or solicitation in any jurisdiction where such would be unlawful. See full terms at campaign launch.
| Campaign size | $100K – $250K |
| Investors per campaign | 40 – 200 |
| Target yield range | 15 – 25% IRR |
| Crop cycle | 6 – 9 months |
| Minimum share | $250 |
| Platform fee | 1 – 2% of pool |
| Settlement | On-chain, gasless |
| Downside | Real. Priced in. |
| Ground robot · cost to build | Motoculteur-class, electric drivetrain, CV head, swappable implements. Assembled in-country. | ~$5,000 / unit |
| Western autonomous tractor | What the incumbents sell — the form factor that has repeatedly failed to find a market outside North America and Europe. | $50K – $150K |
| Chain deployment · per farm | Cameras, sensors, one drone, 1–2 ground robots, brain node. Ready to operate. | $18K – $35K |
| Service pricing · per operation | We don't sell hardware. We operate the chain per hectare. Undercuts manual labor, delivers multiples of the output. | $30 – $60 / ha |
| Gross margin · mature route | After year one, each chain services 50–120 hectares per season. Margin expands with utilization. | 45 – 60% |
| Payback · chain CAPEX | Single deployed chain pays back within two crop cycles on route density we've already modeled from ground truth. | ~14 months |
Surveillance + CV + one drone + one ground robot deployed end-to-end on a banana plot in Côte d'Ivoire. Proprietary West African crop dataset. Live demo.
Chains deployed across pilot farms in the Lagunes and Comoé regions. Operating as a service. First paid hectares — and first on-chain campaigns — under management.
Hundreds of chains. Thousands of hectares. Hardware team, ops lead in Abidjan, in-country assembly partnerships.
Expansion across Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo. Thousands of chains. Co-op partnerships and government programs.
Tens of thousands of chains deployed. A new category of infrastructure for African agriculture, built from Côte d'Ivoire.
Built by people who grew up on this land. Family already operates in agriculture. The first chain runs on a banana plot we can stand on. Every other ag-robotics company starts with market research. We start with rows we plowed ourselves.
Years of architecting and shipping production-grade systems with strict reliability requirements — vault systems, async keeper services, cross-chain coordination layers. The central brain of AssetChain is exactly the kind of system we have shipped before.
We don't build a hexapod from scratch. We don't reinvent locomotion. We retrofit chassis that already exist, fork open-source robotics middleware, integrate commercial drones, and concentrate every dollar on the layer that nobody is building for this market: the chain itself.
Eighteen months of deployment on real CI farms produces a labeled image dataset of West African crops, diseases, weeds, and field conditions that no Western-funded company will ever have. The model is replicable. The data is not.
I grew up near fields like these. My family works the land. When a season goes wrong in Côte d'Ivoire, it's almost never because the farmer lacks effort — it's because no one was there at three in the morning to see what was coming.
For five years I've been writing the kind of software that cannot fail — async systems that route capital across chains, services that have to be correct at 3 a.m. or billions of dollars walk out the door. The brain that AssetChain needs is the system I already know how to build. The rest — cameras, drones, motoculteurs — already exist. Nobody has bothered to tie them together for this market.
I'm not promising a revolution. I'm promising a chain that stays awake, a dataset nobody else can replicate, and unit economics that survive contact with a real West African farm. If that's a bet you understand, I would love to meet you.
AssetChain is a serious technical wager on a market that everyone else has decided is unbuildable. We're building in the open for the operators, farmers, angels, and partners who understand both deep tech and the realities of West African agriculture.