Sourcing intelligence for agricultural raw materials
Early accessBring your company’s knowledge into FinchesSee risks at the source before they hit 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.
The ocean off Ecuador ran 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 covers every origin you buy from, whether you buy straight from the farm or through traders and processors.
Procurement
Decide when to buy while there’s still a market to buy from.
- Spot a short harvest while you can still adjust contracted volumes
- Weeks of lead time before the rest of the market reacts
- Every alert comes with the evidence behind it
One purchasing director buys on the spot market before anyone else knows a crop is tight. He puts the saving at about 25 percent.
Agronomy
Act while sowing dates, harvest timing and the packing schedule can still change.
- Disease and weather risk per region, with the research behind it
- Your own alert rules, built from what went 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
Test where the risk is, 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 testing budget goes to the lots that carry the risk.
“Supply shortages don’t start in the warehouses. They start in the fields.”
The First Mile Webcast
Our interview series on sourcing certainty, with the people who make the calls on raw materials.
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Combine what your team knows
with what’s happening
where your crops grow.
Risk alerts for every region and farm you source from
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 for every farm visit
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, down to the last one.
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 specifications, recipes and product data once, and every alert will show which products it affects 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.
Capture what your experts know before 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.
Where you buy, to what spec and at what price is competitive information. 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 a separate environment that runs 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’s happening at your sources.
Tell us about your supply base. We’ll show you what Finches sees.
