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“I didn't set out to build a software company. I just wanted to know if my farm was making money.”

My name is Marcel. In 2023, I took on managing 40 acres of family land. Land my father cleared with his own hands and built from nothing. There was just one problem: I live thousands of miles away.

We were in the middle of a major transition, moving from sugarcane to coffee while experimenting with other cash crops. Every decision felt like a coin flip. Expenses scribbled on scraps of paper. Harvest numbers that didn't add up. WhatsApp messages at 3am that raised more questions than answers. I once discovered we'd been paying for fertilizer that never arrived. Three months after the fact.

The first breaking point: I ran the numbers by hand and realized we'd been losing money on sugarcane for three straight seasons. The data was there all along, scattered across notebooks, WhatsApp threads, and fading receipts. No one could see it.

Then it happened again. During the transition, we planted an entire section based on a manager's gut feeling. No cost projections. No yield comparisons. Six months later, that bet cost us an entire season's margin. Not because the crop failed, but because no one tracked what it actually cost to grow. We couldn't tell profit from loss until it was too late.

So I built FarmSentry with a small team who spend as much time in the mud as they do in the code. Today, I can tell you exactly what every acre costs and whether each crop is pulling its weight. No farmer should ever have to discover they've been bleeding money in silence.