Grow anything, anywhere.
The future of food will be grown in cities, in deserts, in places no farm has reached. We are building the system that learns how. Be part of it.
GreenThumb
A greenhouse that learns to grow.
Set it up in a room, on a rooftop or in a container. It measures the air, the water and the light around every plant, adjusts them on its own, and grows better with every harvest.
How it works
- Data-firstEvery cycle is recorded for ML training.
- Plug-and-playA new node pulls its configuration from the cloud and starts growing.
- Offline-capableRuns fully offline after the first sync.
- Horizontally scalableEvery node adds to one shared dataset.
- Open hardwareStandard, documented parts anyone can reproduce.
By 2050, farming has to do more with less.
- people by 2050
- 9.7B
- living in cities
- 68%
- food required vs. 2012
- +50%
UN, 2050 projection
More people, less farmland, a harsher climate. Food will have to grow closer to the people who eat it, in places farms were never built.
New places to grow, new people growing.
The same system, from a lab bench to a restaurant kitchen to the edge of the desert.
Experiments anyone can repeat, because every grow is measured the same way.
From a lab bench to the future of food.
Every phase brings growing closer to anyone, anywhere.
Phase 0Completed
Research and proof of concept
University research (PIBITI): a single node logging real sensor data.
Phase 1Next2027
MVP
The first GreenThumb system built to leave the lab.
Horizon
Anyone can grow any plant, anywhere, guided by a system that keeps learning.
Research, in the open.
The architecture, data model and methods behind GreenThumb are documented publicly. The paper follows once it is published.
Read the documentation (opens in a new tab)
Help us build
A handful of honest answers can still change what we build next. This is not a newsletter: it is a direct line into the roadmap.
- 01Who you are
- 02Your biggest roadblock
- 03What you’d pay for