Farmers seeking to make data-driven irrigation decisions often find that information is spread across disparate systems, making it harder to gather meaningful insights. Agtech newcomer Agro-AI is helping farmers address this problem with a platform that connects disparate systems, helping growers track and monitor water usage.
Launched in 2025, Agro-AI is an “API-first irrigation intelligence” platform, which pulls information from various data platforms into a centralized platform, Lamine Dabo, founder and CEO of the agtech start-up, told AgTechNavigator.
The platform provides farmers with baseline and recommended water usage and calculates how water usage might change during a heat wave. Additionally, users can download a PDF to share insights from the platform.
Many farmers have some smart irrigation technology, but they often miss the link between the different systems and equipment, Dabo explained. The lack of a centralised data set can make it harder to adopt precision agriculture technology, which is seen as a solution to labour challenges, Dabo explained.
“All the data — the water data, the sensors, the telemetry, the controllers, dashboards, spreadsheets — we take all that, and we put it in our technology, and the API will return recommendations,” Dabo elaborated.
He added, “Our customers right now, they really want to go deep into automation, given the labour shortage and the water constraints that are rising. So, in the future, we see Agro-AI being really involved in physical AI,” he added.
The agtech start-up is working with farmers to develop pilot projects, which will help the company raise capital, Dabo explained. Agro-AI will be one of many start-ups sharing its capabilities at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in San Francisco, March 17-18.
“We are in late-stage discussions with land managers to start the pilots, so that will show credibility within the industry and help us raise the seed plant by the end of Q1,” he elaborated.
