About FarmD
We're building the decision infrastructure for distributed farming — the execution layer that turns field reality into the next right action, at cluster scale.
Our Story
FarmD started with a simple observation: the people who feed the planet have less access to decisioning technology than a single offshore platform control room. Agriculture generates more signal than any other sector on earth — and throws most of it away.
Existing agritech gives the farmer a dashboard. We don't think that's the right unit. The right unit is a decision — one clear action, delivered in the farmer's language, on whatever phone they happen to own, tied back to an outcome that makes the next decision better.
And it has to scale the way smallholder agriculture actually aggregates — through FPOs, exporters, contract programs, and grower networks. Cluster by cluster, not farm by farm. That's the layer FarmD is built to be.
Operating Principles
Four decisions about how we build — held consistently across product, engineering, and go-to-market.
Voice-first, always
If it doesn't work on a basic phone call in the farmer's language, it doesn't work. Smartphones and literacy are not prerequisites for good decisions.
Decisions over dashboards
The point is not to show data. The point is to produce the next right action and measure what happened. Everything else is noise.
Cluster before scale
We earn the right to scale by making one cluster work end-to-end. Distribution compounds from there — not from marketing spend.
Accurate, not aspirational
Pilots are pilots. Plans are plans. We say what's shipped and what's designed. The trust we need from farmers is the trust we owe everyone.
The Founder
Saurabh Singhvi
Founder
An IIT Bombay engineer who spent 17 years designing oil refineries and gas processing plants across Norway, the UAE, and India — and somehow ended up building AI for farmers. Life is strange like that.
After nearly a decade of solving billion-dollar problems for the world's largest energy companies, Saurabh noticed something uncomfortable: the people who actually feed the planet have less access to smart technology than a single offshore platform control room. A farmer in Karnataka shouldn't need a smartphone, an English vocabulary, or a data science degree to make better decisions about their own land.
So he built FarmD — an AI-powered platform that speaks multiple languages, works without a smartphone, and puts precision agriculture in the hands of the people who need it most. From a single-acre family plot to a thousand-farm enterprise, FarmD adapts. Because smart farming shouldn't be a luxury.
Saurabh also runs Ignis Engineering and its flagship product Katalysis AI, an AI platform transforming industrial engineering. Turns out the instinct is always the same — find the people doing critical work with outdated tools, and give them something better.
Engineer by training. Farmer's ally by choice. Builder of things that actually work.
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Whether you're a farmer looking for solutions or an investor interested in our vision, we'd love to connect with you.
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