Commercial-scale technology validation · Broiler

Most farm tech is 70% ready. We run the last 30% in a real barn.

Promising demos pile up faster than any producer can test them — and the gap between "works in a pilot" and "works in your houses" is where they stall. We operate a full commercial broiler farm as a proving ground: deploy, measure, and iterate until the tech either earns its place or gets cut.

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Instrumented

Frontier PLF sensing in every barn — the data backbone for every trial

Commercial

Real production conditions and flocks, not a research plot

Iterative

Many trials per barn each year, not one every few years

The gap · why good tech stalls

The bottleneck in broiler innovation isn't ideas. It's the last mile of validation.

Computer-vision health monitoring, in-barn robotics, continuous air sanitation — the science is real and the demos are impressive. But a demo isn't a commercial-ready tool. Models need volumes of real barn data before their recommendations are trustworthy. Hardware needs to survive dust, heat, and a live flock. Claims need to hold up across a full grow-out.

That work is slow, expensive, and unglamorous, and no one is set up to do it. The incentives to take it on aren't there for anyone in today's supply chain, and new technologies can't get commercial access on their own. So the technology sits at 70% — and every half-ready pitch is another draw on a producer's time.

We built the environment that's been missing: a working farm whose job is iteration, run by people who've shipped hard technology before — chasing the gains that make production more efficient while advancing animal welfare, sustainability, and public health.

Why we exist

AI is about to reshape every industry. Animal agriculture is no exception.

Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly — increasingly as physical AI: systems that can see, sense, and act in the real world. As those capabilities move from screens into machines, they reach past the world of bits and into the world of atoms — including inside the barn.

We want to be at the frontier of how that technology shapes husbandry — to understand where it's heading, and to help shape its direction.

The frontier of husbandry is a physical place, and the best seat at it is inside a working barn.

How it works · the loop

Build, test, learn — brought inside a commercial barn.

Every technology that actually works got there the same way: build, test, learn, refine — over and over, in an environment that lets you move fast. That loop is what matures a promising idea into a dependable tool, and animal agriculture has never had a commercial environment built to run it. We are that environment — several trials per barn a year, not one every few million dollars.

Deploy

Install the technology in a live commercial house running standard production practices.

Measure

Frontier PLF — dense sensing and continuous capture in every barn — reads the result against controls, down to the individual bird.

Learn

Read the result honestly. Does it move the numbers that matter, under real conditions?

Refine

Adjust and retest, or cut it. We do the messy middle so producers never have to.

Repeat every cycle

We also look for compounding effects — whether running several technologies together beats any one of them on its own.

The platform · what we do

The barn itself is the instrument.

We operate a full commercial broiler farm, but we run it for iteration, not just production. Every house is wired with frontier precision-livestock-farming technology — the dense sensing and continuous data capture that turns a working barn into a measurement platform, and the backbone every trial is built on. That's what lets us run many experiments a year and trust the results.

Frontier PLF — every house instrumented, every trial measuredIllustrative

First focus areas · examples, not limits

A few of the areas we're starting with. Treat them as illustrations of what the platform makes possible — not the boundary of what it can test.

Precision drug delivery

Individualized & localized treatment

Treating birds individually or by zone instead of dosing the whole flock through the water line. The vision is compelling; working systems aren't here yet. Our instrumented barns are where targeted-delivery approaches get tested against real outcomes rather than bench conditions.

Embodied robotics

In-barn autonomy & labor

Robots that can navigate a live house — detecting and removing mortality, monitoring at the individual-bird level, acting where a person can't be around the clock. Identification is still inconsistent and reliable physical handling is further off; the development cycle moves faster with a commercial barn to iterate in.

Air sanitization

Continuous in-barn biosecurity

222nm Far-UVC — safe for continuous use with birds present, proven in hospitals — and glycol-vapor systems that cut airborne and systemic pathogen burden. We run the trials that turn these into validated, plug-and-play biosecurity with measured impact on flock health.

Who we work with

Whether you raise the birds or build the technology.

For producers & integrators

A shorter list of technology that actually works.

We take on the failed trials and the vendor churn, so you see only the handful of tools that survive a real barn.

→First look at any technology that validates under commercial conditions.
→Real trial data — the actual numbers, controls and all — not vendor claims.
→A partner that's practical and scientific: we cut what doesn't hold up as readily as we back what does.

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For technology companies

Iterate fast — free from short-term ROI pressure.

Backed by Silicon Valley technologists who want to see this future built, we're funded to invest in getting a technology right for the long term — the trials and iterations a commercial P&L rarely allows.

→A live, instrumented commercial barn to test in, with the flexibility to iterate quickly.
→Real barn data your models and hardware can't get in a lab or a pilot pen.
→We handle trial design, controls, and the messy middle; you get results to take to market.

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Join us · we're hiring

Come build it. We're seating the founding team.

Three roles, in place before the first flock. We look for people who are rigorous but fast, commercial rather than academic, and quick to learn a new domain — builders from the world of atoms who want to help define what husbandry becomes, not just write about it.

Backed by Innovate Animal Ag, the nonprofit think tank behind in-ovo sexing's U.S. launch and the founding of Bulwark Biologics.

Owns the science

Research Director

Designs the experimental program, runs the trials, and turns results into evidence the industry can act on.

→Rigorous applied R&D from any world-of-atoms field — biotech, agtech, pharma, devices, materials.
→Designs trials that hold up to scrutiny and analyzes the data yourself.
→Bias to action — six good trials this year beat one flawless trial over three years.

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Owns the tech & data

Chief Technology Officer

Builds the AI-native monitoring and data infrastructure that is the farm's core asset — and the pipeline that matures the tech we test.

→Real systems in the physical world — AI/ML, computer vision, sensors/IoT, robotics, data infrastructure.
→AI-native by instinct; unimpressed by legacy PLF tooling and clear on how to do better.
→Build / buy / partner judgment — a working, trustworthy system, fast.

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Runs the operation

Operations Director

Runs the day-to-day of an experiment-driven farm — keeping the barns to a commercial benchmark so every trial stands on solid ground.

→Deep commercial broiler (or comparable intensive-livestock) operations experience.
→Runs the barns and the daily logistics of experiments — placements, installs, downtime windows — on schedule.
→Partners with research and tech so trials run cleanly without compromising the operation.

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Startup waitlist

Building something for the broiler barn? Get in line to test it.

We're assembling the first cohort of technologies to run through the farm — commercial-scale iteration with the freedom to move quickly and invest in getting it right. Tell us what you're building and we'll reach out as trial slots open.

→Commercial-scale trial site, controls and all — set up and run for you.
→Real barn data your models and hardware can't get anywhere else.
→We run the messy middle; you get validated results to take to market.

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Most farm tech is 70% ready. We run the last 30% in a real barn.

AI is about to reshape every industry. Animal agriculture is no exception.

Build, test, learn — brought inside a commercial barn.

Deploy

Measure

Learn

Refine

The barn itself is the instrument.

Precision drug delivery

Embodied robotics

Air sanitization

Whether you raise the birds or build the technology.

A shorter list of technology that actually works.

Iterate fast — free from short-term ROI pressure.

Come build it. We're seating the founding team.

Research Director

Chief Technology Officer

Operations Director

Building something for the broiler barn? Get in line to test it.

You're on the list.

Come build the next phase of husbandry.