AgroTOP - How we Helped an AgriTech Startup go to the market in four-month reusing the components from the root project

title=AgroTOP – How we Helped an AgriTech Startup go to the market in four-month reusing the components from the root project

Who is the client?

AgroTop is a new generation of farm management systems for remote control of production processes in agribusiness.

The client chose to work with us because of our previous work and current support of another AgriTech project and outstanding expertise in this domain.

Client site: Agrotop

Team Composition

ReactJS TechLead and two developers

Symfony/NodeJS/Python Team Lead and two developers

Project Manager/Functional Analyst

UIX Designer

Manual QA Engineer

Technologies

TypeScript

NodeJS

ReactJS

Symfony

ReactNative

AWS

PostgreSQL

Docker

Redis

Python

What business tasks did the client want to solve?

The client had a huge list of his current AgriTech startup customers and needs to add new services to his clients

Lack of instruments for analyzing the efficiency of work together with the database of crops and field management tool

Create a SaaS solution that can analyze all the agriculture operations and provide the results in real-time

What pitfalls did the client face?

It’s the necessity to finish the product and go to the market in a four-month period;

High expenses due to lack of analytics and ineffective fertilizer use;

High management costs due to the need to use different platforms without synchronization for the agro operations management.

What should an ideal solution look like?

Scalable SaaS application with Web and Mobile versions (iOS and Android), user-friendly interface, and high performance and all needed integrations available.

Home

Crops, Field works

Home

Crops

Home

Field works

Home

Weather today

Map

Crop rotations

Map

Satellite images of the fields

What we suggested

Business analysis

Current product and Architecture Tech Analysis

Team Set-Up and Development

Support

Step 1.

Business analysis

Initial idea description and presentation;

A detailed business analysis including WireFrames and Work BreakDown structure development;

Detailed product estimation and roadmap creation.

Step 3.

Development

Scale a team to 6 engineers: 3 backends and 3 frontends;

Set up work and compatibility with Satelite, Weather, and Soil Analysing APIs;

Create a unique mobile version for the scouting operations;

Created the first working version in 6 months.

Step 2.

Current product and Architecture Tech Analysis

As the client had and stable version of the software which provides the field and documents management features, our task was to build a new solution using the current architecture.

Backend and microservices analysis;

Frontend and components structure analysis;

Detailed product estimation and roadmap creation.

Step 4.

Support

Supporting new integrations and creation of new analytics dashboards;

Adapt the platform for the 60 large clients of the current product;

Solution support and clients feature request processing.

Fields

Soil analysis

Fields

Crop rotations

Fields

Crop rotations

Fields

Crop rotations

Fields

Crop rotations

Main page

Fields

Fields works

Scouting reports

Map

Results

Received the UNICEF grant from among 1,000 applicants

The initial version of the product was finished and implemented for the first client in 4 months

Today product helps hundreds of clients effectively manage millions of hectares of agricultural land

The product becomes profitable in 8 months

Client’s feedback

quotes

Internal stakeholders anticipate the solution to enhance the accessibility of human resource management. Softblues produces high-quality work, complimented by their combination of business and technical expertise. They have a clear, responsive communication style.

Svetlana Ostrovskaya, Chief Client Officer, AgroTop

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