Happy Birthday, Agrilyst! Lessons We Learned in Year 4
This week, we’re celebrating our fourth birthday! Over the past few years, I tried to summarize and share the things I learned that year. This year I thought I’d share some lessons learned and also some of my favorite memories [...]
How to Keep Your Customers Happy
How do you keep customers happy? It’s an age-old question, and one that businesses continuously ask themselves, answer and ask again. Today, customers are spoiled for choice; advancing technologies have expanded marketplace offerings and increased brand competition, transforming the consumer [...]
We’re Proud to Announce Our Partnership with Scanit Technologies
Harmful pollutants in the air cause us to get sick. Pollutants impact plants too. And ultimately, when plants are unhealthy, people are affected. So managing healthy plants is key to managing healthy people. On November 28, 2018, 1428 units of [...]
4 Ways to Design Useful and Usable AgTech
Agriculture itself was a product of humankind’s early technological innovation. Our ancestors invented tools and processes to grow food and mass produce it, essential for survival and building thriving civilizations. Now, centuries later, we are innovating methods to grow food [...]
How the Farm Bill Impacts Greenhouse and Indoor Growers
When President Trump signed the Farm Bill last week, it was the first time that indoor farmers have been included in the act’s provisions since its birth in 1933. The Farm Bill, which will allocate $867 billion of federal money [...]
Pouring Fuel on the Fire: Finding Your Product Market Fit
It’s no secret — finding product market fit is TOUGH for startups. You start by identifying a need, gathering feedback, testing, and iterating until you’ve commercialized your product to a point of wide adoption. We recently reached that point of [...]
How We’re Redefining Work Management for Greenhouses
Technology is changing the way employers and employees interact in every industry. Now, this same technology is in the hands of farmers — and it’s changing the way operations are run. Labor is the largest single expenditure for greenhouse operators. [...]
We’re Building a Digital Cooperative for Indoor Agriculture
Agricultural cooperatives exist to help farmers get access to cheaper services and equipment by pooling their resources and needs. Instead of purchasing an expensive piece of equipment to use seasonally, I can work with the three other farms in the [...]
Why I Joined Agrilyst: Building Software to Feed the World
I recently became the longest tenured employee at Agrilyst (besides our indomitable Founder & CEO Allison Kopf!) and it had me thinking about my role at the company — why I originally wanted to work here and what I’ve enjoyed [...]
The Journey to Complete Crop Traceability
The current E.coli outbreak has hospitalized dozens of people and caused one death so far. It is still unknown which farm or processor led to the outbreak. We believe this is unacceptable and solvable, and so today we’re releasing a [...]
Why I Joined Agrilyst: We‘re a Data Company That Believes in People
It was an easy decision for me to join the Agrilyst team earlier this year. I love my job. The product design work is challenging and indoor agriculture is an exciting industry. Just as important, I am happy because Agrilyst [...]
How to Onboard Customers for Long-Term Success
We started this company because we love growers and we want them to succeed. For the farmer who is concerned with managing their compliance paperwork, this means having a simple and secure place to log their data. For the owner [...]
