Sourcing intelligence for agricultural raw materials
Early accessBring your company’s knowledge into FinchesKnow what every risk at the source means for your business.
For companies that buy agricultural raw materials, Finches puts what’s happening in the world, from droughts and disease to labor shortages and trade conflicts, in the context of your raw materials, your origins and your suppliers. Every alert tells you what the signal means for you and what to do next.
Live with enterprise food manufacturers.
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
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
A customer running Finches expects to take five to ten percent off an annual analysis budget.
“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.
Cover the raw materials nobody has time to watch.
Your buyers track the big ones by phone. Finches watches all the others, and every origin they come from.
See which products a crop problem will hit.
Add your recipes once. Every alert then shows 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.
See what your fields are telling you.
Tell us about your supply base. We’ll show you what Finches sees.
