New Read the founder's letter: "For All of Humanity"

We are building the intelligence layer
between biology and planetary systems

Intelligence infrastructure
for food systems

Autonomous agents connecting farms, markets, capital, and knowledge — offline-first, compounding with every harvest.

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Overview Agents Activity Settings
Active farms
2,847
Avg. yield gain
+34%
Agent actions
483K
Trading volume
$2.4M
Avg. response
1.2s
OctNovDecJanFebMar
Agent success rate
96.1%
Farmer satisfaction
4.8
Watoko Brain
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Good morning James! Soil moisture at Plot 7-N dropped to 32%. I've started irrigation.
10:24 AM
Thanks, good call
10:25 AM
Sesame up 4.1% across 3 markets. Best price: XOF 285,000/ton in Bamako. Hold or sell?
10:26 AM
Sell at Bamako price
10:26 AM
Done. Sell order placed. Payment to your mobile wallet when settled.
10:27 AM
2,847 farms managed
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What we are building

Not a tool for agriculture.
The agriculture industry rebuilt as a system.

38 autonomous AI agents across field intelligence, trade orchestration, financial services, and scientific research. One platform. Offline-first. Getting smarter every season.

38 AI Agents
54 African Markets
2,000+ Languages
15+ Currencies
The platform

Four systems. One intelligence.

Brain

Decisions, not dashboards.

12 Agents 15-min data cycles 2,000+ languages

Brain deploys autonomous AI agents across your farms — connected to IoT sensors, cameras, drones, and satellite imagery. When soil moisture drops, Brain adjusts irrigation. When the harvest window opens, Brain coordinates labor. Every decision delivered via WhatsApp, in the language your team speaks. The model compounds — more farms, more seasons, more precision.

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Brain / Plot W-0091
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Monitoring Decisions History
Soil moisture
28%
Temperature
24°C
Canopy score
9.2/10
Rain (7d)
12mm
MonTueWedThuFriToday
Agent confidence
96%
Decision accuracy this season
Actions today
7
Irrigation Started Plot W-0091 · Soil at 28%
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Market

Supply meets demand. Information asymmetry ends.

8 Agents 54 markets Full traceability

Every lot carries a data passport — AI-verified quality, GPS-traced origin, and automated compliance documentation. Real-time price intelligence monitors supply, demand, FX movements, and trade disruptions across 54 markets simultaneously. Domestic buyers find verified local supply. Export buyers get compliance at a button click. Forward contracts lock prices weeks before harvest.

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Market / Price Intelligence
Streaming
Spot prices Forward Compliance
Arabica (Kenya)
KES 48,500/bag
+2.4%
Cocoa (Ghana)
GHS 1,840/bag
+3.2%
Sesame (Ethiopia)
$1,850/ton
+1.8%
OctNovDecJanFebMar
Data passport
Verified origin
Active lots
1,247
Tracked across 3 commodities
Price Alert Sesame +4.1% · Sell signal
2m ago
Ecosystem

Essential services, finally integrated. One system.

10 Agents 15+ currencies Instant settlement

Watoko doesn't just connect partner services — it builds the AI agent layer that makes them possible at smallholder scale. A bank gets a Credit Agent trained on real farm performance. An insurer gets parametric triggers from satellite data. A logistics operator gets cold-chain intelligence. Partners provide capital and licenses. Watoko provides the intelligence and the infrastructure.

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Ecosystem / Agent Mesh
4 active
Services Partners Activity
Payments today
$84K
Insurance coverage
$840K
Credit score avg
720
Payment — Mobile money $420 Completed
Insurance — Parametric Coverage $5,000 Active
Logistics — Cold chain GPS tracked In Transit
Credit Score — AI-scored Approved
Payment Sent $420 · Mobile money instant
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Labs

What science hasn't reached. What the earth already knows.

8 Agents 8 research frontiers 36+ months of field data

The compound intelligence engine. Every observation Brain makes, every transaction Market processes, every service Ecosystem delivers — all of it feeds into Labs. Multi-season field data transformed into agricultural IP: crop resilience research, bioactive compound discovery, and the science connecting what we grow to human health and longevity.

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Labs / Research Engine
Processing
Insights Compounds Models
Seasons analyzed
12
Compounds cataloged
142
Active studies
23
Crop Optimization Season 4 Active
Bioactive Discovery 142 compounds Mapping
Climate Resilience 6 models Training
Soil Microbiome Phase 2 Active
New Insight Published Maize yield +18% · Protocol v4.2
1h ago
The moment

Why now.

01

Intelligence at the edge

AI agents now run offline on edge devices. LoRaWAN reaches 15 km. Voice works over basic phone calls. What was impossible five years ago is deployable at smallholder scale today.

02

The largest free trade area on earth

The African Continental Free Trade Area connects 54 countries and 1.3 billion people into a single market. But trade infrastructure between farms and borders barely exists. The opportunity has never been larger — or more urgent.

03

The cost of discovery just collapsed

Genomic sequencing, compound analysis, and computational biology costs have dropped 99% in a decade. For the first time, the tools to explore Africa's biological diversity at scale — 65,000 plant species, most never characterized — are affordable. Labs exists because the science infrastructure finally caught up with the biodiversity.

Compound intelligence

Every farm that joins makes every other farm smarter.

The most comprehensive agricultural dataset Africa has ever had — built as a natural byproduct of platform operations. Every season sharpens predictions, improves models, and unlocks discoveries no single farm could produce alone.

Every soil reading from every farm

Improves yield predictions for every farm in the same agro-ecological zone. Data radiates outward — one observation strengthens thousands.

Every verified transaction

Strengthens the credit profile of every cooperative in the network. Verified records compound trust across the entire system.

Every season of data

Sharpens the models that power every agent on the platform. Intelligence accumulates — each harvest builds on every harvest before it.

No one feeds humanity alone.

Every participant strengthens the network. Every connection is load-bearing.

Buyers & Exporters

Verified supply, full traceability, and automated compliance — EUDR, GlobalG.A.P., and more. Demand signals shape next season's production.

Financial Institutions

Credit, insurance, and payments for 400 million unbanked farmers. AI-scored risk based on real farm performance, not collateral.

Governments & Multilaterals

Food security intelligence, subsidy allocation, and policy planning at continental scale. Real-time data where census takes years.

Researchers & Scientists

Access the dataset. Bioactive libraries, phytochemical profiles, microbiome maps, and longitudinal crop performance data across climatic zones.

The frontier

From the ground to orbit.

Africa's extreme-environment agriculture — desert margins, highland terraces, flood plains — produces crops under conditions that challenge any farming system on earth. These environments are evolutionary laboratories. The biological adaptation strategies embedded in African agriculture are directly relevant to controlled-environment farming, vertical agriculture, and food production beyond Earth.

The intelligence infrastructure Watoko is building on the ground is the same infrastructure that answers the question: how do you feed humanity anywhere?

Biology

65,000 species. Evolutionary strategies refined over millions of years. The infrastructure to explore them — for the first time.

Intelligence

38 agents, smarter every season. The agricultural operating system for any environment on Earth.

Space

Crop protocols from smallholder farms to vertical farms, desert greenhouses, and space stations. Africa is where this science begins.

From the founder
"Food is not a product. Food is not a market. Food is the invisible architecture of human potential. Feed a person well — with food that carries the biological intelligence of the soil it came from — and you open a door."
Esteban David Maidana Founder and CEO
Read the full letter: For All of Humanity

The intelligence layer between biology and planetary systems.

From a single farm to a continent. From a seed to human longevity. From the ground to orbit.

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"Watoko replaced five different tools we were using. Now everything — field data, trading, payments — lives in one place."
— Agricultural Operations Manager

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