I built a farm app. Lost a startup competition yesterday. A judge said I should focus on documentation not AI. Is she right?
Been building Agrum AI since November. It’s a conversational farm assistant. You talk to it, it logs everything from conversation into structured records that you can view, gives you a morning briefing, answers farm questions, identifies disease from photos.
Yesterday I lost a competition. One of the judges said I was pitching it wrong. That I should focus on the documentation angle. That the real value is giving farmers a verified farm record for the first time, not the AI features.
I’ve been so focused on the ‘removing guesswork’ angle that I never stopped to think if documentation was actually the stronger pitch.
What do you think? Is farm record keeping actually a pain point for smallholder farmers? Or do farmers not care about records until they need a loan and get rejected?
Genuinely trying to figure out if I’m solving the right problem the wrong way or just solving the wrong problem entirely