Agriculture is the foundation of human civilisation — the primary food source for 8 billion people and the backbone of the global economy. ACI brings AI-powered modelling to crop grafting, so researchers can simulate outcomes before a single seed is planted.
Why this matters
8B
People fed by agriculture globally
70%
Of freshwater used for farming
$5T
Global food system market size
30%
Of crops lost annually to poor conditions
The challenge
Grafting — joining two plants into one — can transform a scion variety's drought tolerance, disease resistance, and yield potential. A tomato that wilts in arid soil grafted onto the right rootstock can thrive where it otherwise couldn't survive.
But identifying the right combination for a specific soil, climate, and care protocol has always meant committing to multi-season field trials — expensive, slow, and geographically limited.
Years of field trials
Traditional grafting research requires 2–5 seasons before actionable data emerges
High capital risk
Soil preparation, irrigation, and labour costs before a single outcome is known
Climate uncertainty
Shifting weather patterns make historical crop data increasingly unreliable
Knowledge gaps
Agronomic expertise is concentrated in few institutions, limiting innovation at scale
The ACI approach
ACI pairs a curated agronomic database with Claude AI to model any grafting scenario — delivering predictions that would otherwise take years of trials to generate.
Select a scion variety, choose a rootstock, pick your soil environment, and set your fertilisation and irrigation protocol.
Claude evaluates plant tolerances, soil chemistry, graft compatibility, and care protocols against real agronomic data.
Get predicted yield, survival probability, week-by-week growth timeline, NPK recommendations, and detailed risk factors.
Built on four principles
Compress multi-season field research into a single simulation run.
Give agronomists, researchers, and investors the data to act with confidence.
Identify risks and optimise protocols before capital is deployed in the field.
From scion selection to full AI report — in one guided, intuitive workflow.
Food tech & investment context
Global food demand will increase by 50% by 2050. Climate volatility is shrinking arable land. Governments and food-tech funds are actively seeking technologies that can close the gap between supply and demand — at scale, and with data to back it.
ACI sits at the intersection of precision agriculture, AI research, and investment due diligence — giving stakeholders the modelling infrastructure to evaluate crop strategies before committing capital to real-world trials.
$22B
AgTech investment in 2023
50%
Increase in food demand by 2050
1.5°C
Climate threshold threatening crop yields
820M
People currently facing food insecurity
Research database
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Plant Varieties
Scions, rootstocks & dual-purpose
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Soil Profiles
From arid desert to tropical volcanic
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Graft Combinations
With compatibility & modifier scores
Start the backend to see live counts.
Select a plant, choose a rootstock, configure your soil and care protocol — and receive a complete AI agronomic analysis in seconds.
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