Sourcing intelligence for agricultural raw materials
Early accessBring your company’s knowledge into FinchesKnow what every risk at the source means for your business.
Finches connects droughts, disease, labor shortages and trade conflicts to your raw materials, origins and suppliers, and tells you what to do next.
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Nitrate in spinach from field TP-04 is climbing toward 1,800 mg/kg.
Your limit: 2,000 mg/kg nitrate
ILLUSTRATIVE DATA · GRÜNHAGEN TIEFKÜHLKOST
- Weather
- Satellite
- Soil
- Crop science
- Local news
- Trade rules
- Your field visits
- Your lab results
- Your own documents
Resilience starts at the source.
Cut from the EU and UK grain harvest forecast between June and September 2026.
German wheat samples in 2025 below the threshold millers set for bread flour.
German farm managers aged 55 or over in 2023, up from 36% in 2013.
Ocean off Ecuador above normal in September. Warm water helps shrimp grow until the rain comes: in farm trials, shrimp ate far less within 12 to 36 hours of heavy rain.
What a head start
buys you.
Procurement, agronomy and quality each turn that head start into a different decision. Finches works on the origins you buy from, whether you deal with those farms directly or buy through traders and processors.
Procurement
Decide whether to make or buy while there is still a market to buy from.
- Spot a short harvest while you can still steer contracted volume
- Weeks of lead time before the market prices it in
- Every alert comes with the evidence behind it
One purchasing director buys on the spot market before the rest of the market knows a crop is tight. His own estimate of what that saves him: about 25 percent.
Agronomy
Act while the crop is still growing, when sowing, harvest pace and the pack plan can still change.
- Disease and weather risk per region, with the research behind it
- Rules you write yourself, from what has gone wrong before
- Field visits recorded offline, the write-up done on the drive back
Sowing two weeks earlier, agreed with the growers, and three to four hours saved on every farm visit.
Quality
Put your testing where the risk sits, and see lots drift before the lab confirms it.
- Limits watched per crop, origin and spec
- Sampling aimed at the fields carrying the risk
- Your own lab results read alongside public signals
Your analysis budget goes to the lots that carry the risk.
“Supply shortages don’t start in the warehouses—they start in the fields.”
What your team knows,
combined with what is happening
where your crops grow.
Risk alerts matched to your sourcing regions and farms
A frost in week 12 means something different for spinach than for almonds. Our agentic system reads every signal against your crops and varieties, then tells you where to act and what to do.
A mobile app to capture ground truth
Your agronomists record each farm visit by voice, photo and notes, even offline. By the time they are back in the car, the visit is a structured report your whole team can search.
One workspace for your whole supply base
Your field visits sit next to live signals on weather, regulation and news. Browse by supplier, or ask a question in plain language and see where the answer comes from.
What you can do
with Finches.
Watch every raw material, not just the top five.
Your buyers follow the big ones closely. Finches watches all of them, and every origin they come from, so the next problem doesn’t start where nobody is looking.
See which products a crop problem will hit.
We’re building this now: add your recipes once, and every alert will show which products it reaches while there’s still time to reformulate.
Plan production around the harvest that’s actually coming.
Get warned when a crop is set to arrive early, late or off spec, with time to move lines, shifts and orders.
Keep what your experts know when they retire.
Your agronomists capture what they know at every field visit, so whoever comes next can look it up.
Turning fragmented field signals into structured risk alerts. Early enough to act.
Your sourcing data stays yours.
Which origins you buy, at what spec and at what price is a competitive position. We treat your sourcing data as the most sensitive data you have.
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Training
Never used to train anyone else’s model
Your records, contracts and lab results stay in an area operated only for your company, hosted in the EU.
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Access
You decide who sees what
Your team signs in with your own single sign-on, and you assign the roles. Names and contact details are redacted before anyone at Finches sees them.
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Evidence
Every alert shows its sources
Your team can check each alert instead of taking it on trust.
See what your fields are telling you.
Tell us about your supply base. We’ll show you what Finches sees.
