Crop scouting with custom vision
Hypothetical. Not a client, not a result.
// The problem
An agronomy service scouts many fields every week, and catching disease and weeds early depends on which agronomist walked the field that day.
// What we would build
A scouting app where agronomists and growers photograph leaves and plants, with a custom vision model fine-tuned on your own labelled images of local crops, diseases and weeds suggesting what it sees and how sure it is. A custom model fits because general models do not know your crops or your region; it runs on GPUs you rent, and the photos stay yours.
// What is in it
- Phone photos tagged to the field and block they were taken in
- A model fine-tuned on your labelled images, measured on a held-out set before use
- Suggestions with a confidence level, confirmed or corrected by the agronomist
- Corrections fed into the next round of training
- Maps of findings by field across the season
- Photos queued on the phone until it has a signal
// Stack
- PyTorch
- React Native
- Python
- Next.js
- PostgreSQL with PostGIS
- AWS GPU
// estimate
- Build
- ≈ US$171,000 to US$261,000, delivered within 33 weeksCAD 243,600 to 372,000
- Hosting
- ≈ US$6,710 a monthCAD 9,550 a month
- Support
- ≈ US$2,500 a monthCAD 3,565 a month
Prices in your currency are estimates from today's Bank of Canada rate. All invoicing is in CAD or USD.
- AI route
- Custom LLM
- Model running cost
- ≈ US$6,530 a monthCAD 9,300 a month
Timeline by milestone
- Discovery
- 2.9 to 3.4 weeks
- Data and evaluation plan
- 0.4 weeks
- Design approved
- 3.4 to 5.9 weeks
- Core features
- 1.4 to 2.4 weeks
- Full build
- 0.9 to 1.4 weeks
- First build on devices
- 2.4 to 4.4 weeks
- Training
- 4.9 to 8.4 weeks
- Testing and fixes
- 0.4 weeks
- Store submission
- 0.4 weeks
- Evaluation and red-teaming
- 3.9 to 4.4 weeks
- Launch
- 0.9 to 1.4 weeks
- Production
- 0.9 to 1.4 weeks
Outside our hands, and added to the calendar
- App store review
- 1 week
How it is paid
- Deposit 20%
- CAD 48,480 to 74,160
- Discovery 4%
- CAD 9,696 to 14,832
- Data and evaluation plan 5.6%
- CAD 13,574.40 to 20,764.80
- Design approved 4%
- CAD 9,696 to 14,832
- Core features 3.3%
- CAD 7,999.20 to 12,236.40
- Full build 2.2%
- CAD 5,332.80 to 8,157.60
- First build on devices 8.7%
- CAD 21,088.80 to 32,259.60
- Training 16.9%
- CAD 40,965.60 to 62,665.20
- Testing and fixes 1.1%
- CAD 2,666.40 to 4,078.80
- Store submission 2.9%
- CAD 7,029.60 to 10,753.20
- Evaluation and red-teaming 11.3%
- CAD 27,391.20 to 41,900.40
- Launch 4%
- CAD 9,696 to 14,832
- Production 6%
- CAD 14,544 to 22,248
- Holdback, 30 days after launch (10%)
- CAD 24,240 to 37,080
- GPU time for training and testing, at cost
- CAD 1,200. Billed up front, at cost, outside the milestones