Solutions tailored to your digital maturity
Sub‑Saharan Africa holds 60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land, yet its yields are the lowest on the planet (< 1 t/ha) and its annual food import bill reaches $40 billion. In agri‑processing, process inefficiencies can lead to up to 40% production losses. To reverse this trend, we need scientific, field‑ready and accessible solutions. That is exactly what scale.ag delivers.
Audit & digital strategy
Objective: Assess your digital maturity, identify value pools and prioritise high‑impact actions, whether you are in agricultural production, agri‑food processing or distribution.
- Interviews with teams, mapping of existing data flows (production, stocks, sales, traceability)
- Sector benchmark and opportunity analysis (precision agriculture, industrial management, logistics optimisation)
- Co‑construction of a realistic, step‑by‑step roadmap
- Deliverables: audit report, prioritised roadmap, technical and organisational recommendations
Custom tool development
Objective: Create business applications (simulators, dashboards, mobile/web apps) perfectly adapted to your processes, whether agricultural, industrial or commercial.
- Agronomic simulators (yield, water stress, diseases) or industrial simulators (production flows, cost prices)
- Production management and traceability tools (from field to fork, or from warehouse to point of sale)
- APIs to connect your existing systems (ERP, CRM, sensors, satellite data)
- Technologies: Python, R, Streamlit, React, real‑time data integration, mechanistic or statistical modelling
Data integration & valorisation
Objective: Structure, centralise and exploit your data to monitor performance in real time, whether your indicators are agronomic, logistical or commercial.
- Implementation of collection and cleaning pipelines (ETL) for sensor, production or sales data
- Optimised databases (SQL, NoSQL) and data warehouses
- Interactive dashboards (Power BI, Tableau, Streamlit) for KPI tracking (yields, stocks, turnover, margins)
- Predictive models (harvest forecasting, supply management, sales forecasts, price optimisation)
Training & skills transfer
Objective: Make your teams autonomous in using and interpreting tools and data, whatever their role (farmers, technicians, buyers, management controllers).
- Tailored hands‑on workshops (tool adoption, data analysis, dashboard reading)
- Clear documentation and ongoing support
- Post‑deployment support to ensure sustainable adoption and continuous improvement
Strategic support & innovation
Beyond tools, we help you rethink your processes, integrate innovation (AI, sensors, satellite imagery, IoT) and structure your R&D approach. Backed by our dual Europe‑Africa experience, we also facilitate your international partnerships and access to innovation funding. This approach applies equally to agriculture, agri‑food and other sectors such as retail, logistics or industry, where data is a lever for scaling up.
Our method: from idea to impact
Diagnostic
Flash audit, maturity assessment, quick wins identification.
Prototype
MVP tested in the field with your teams, rapid iterations.
Industrialisation
Production deployment, APIs, automation, security and scaling.
Adoption
Training, support, usage monitoring and continuous improvement.
Why scale.ag?
Scientific expertise
Models validated by research (INRAE, Wageningen, Cambridge, WAVE), which fill the gap in tropical agricultural research, applied to your operational challenges.
Field experience
More than ten years of collaboration with farmers, cooperatives, industrialists and distributors in Africa and Europe, including with the 80% of subsistence farms.
Proven tools
Applications already used in the field (Nemo‑simulator, CVSmart‑Cassava, Grainly) that reduce post‑harvest losses and improve yields.
Pragmatic approach
We design with you, not for you, to ensure adoption and lasting impact, in all sectors where data can make a difference.
« scale.ag supported us in digitalizing our production and sales monitoring. Their approach, both scientific and highly concrete, enabled our teams to quickly adopt the tools. Result: better traceability, reduced losses and a clear vision to steer our growth. » — Production manager, Les Confiotes