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Company and product
What is Crop Urbanis?
Crop Urbanis is a French product-led agritech startup building project-intelligence software for vertical farms and hydroponic greenhouses. The Platform connects project evidence, requirements, supplier information, deterministic scenarios, expert reviews and delivery outputs in one controlled workflow.
Is Crop Urbanis a consultancy?
Crop Urbanis is not positioned as a general consultancy. The Crop Urbanis Platform is the company’s scalable product. Agronomic, project-development and implementation support remain available as onboarding, validation and customer-success capabilities around the software.
Does the Crop Urbanis Platform exist today?
Yes. The core Platform workflow operates as an internal MVP. It supports structured project records, requirements and constraints, supplier-document processing, deterministic scenarios, expert-review records and controlled outputs.
Can organisations access the Platform?
Selected organisations may request private-beta consideration. Access is reviewed individually and governed through a separate scope covering users, data, confidentiality, responsibilities, support and evaluation. Public self-service access is not offered.
Is the private beta open to everyone?
No. It is selective rather than public. Crop Urbanis prioritises organisations whose project or evaluation scope matches the current modules and whose data, review responsibilities and confidentiality requirements can be managed appropriately.
Do you offer a public demo?
The website does not provide a public product environment. Organisations interested in the product should use the private-beta contact route. Crop Urbanis decides the appropriate discussion, documentation and access process for each qualified enquiry.
Platform workflow and AI
What problem does the Platform solve?
CEA projects rely on information spread across briefs, drawings, supplier documents, spreadsheets, assumptions, emails and individual experts. The Platform creates one traceable record connecting sources, requirements, alternatives, calculations, reviews, decisions and delivery outputs.
Who is the Platform for?
The primary users are vertical-farm and hydroponic-greenhouse developers, project sponsors, investors, operating organisations and project teams. Suppliers, integrators, engineering partners and research organisations may also use defined workflows.
How does Crop Urbanis use AI?
AI is foundational to the Platform’s handling of unstructured information. It supports document extraction, terminology normalisation, evidence retrieval, comparison, missing-information detection, contradiction detection and controlled drafting.
Does AI design or operate farms autonomously?
No. Deterministic services handle physical, production, compatibility and financial calculations. Qualified professionals remain responsible for agronomy, engineering, safety, regulation, supplier confirmation, commercial decisions and commissioning acceptance.
Why does Crop Urbanis need cloud infrastructure?
The internal MVP validates the product workflow. Selected organisational beta requires secure application compute, databases, object storage, document-processing workers, model inference, retrieval, queues, authentication, tenant separation, monitoring, logs, backups and EU-region deployment.
What will cloud credits fund?
Cloud credits will support selected beta environments, compute, databases, object storage, document processing, AI inference, retrieval, orchestration, monitoring, backups and product hardening.
Commercial model and growth
What is the business model?
The business model is built around recurring Platform access, private organisational deployments and fixed-scope onboarding and implementation packages. During private beta, terms are defined individually. Optional agronomic and project-delivery support is available around the software.
Is standard pricing public?
Not during the current selective private-beta stage. Scope, access, support and commercial terms are defined individually. Standardised plans will follow validation of the initial organisational workflows.
Is Crop Urbanis already venture-backed?
Crop Urbanis is currently early stage and is preparing the Platform for venture-scale growth. The company plans to seek external startup financing to expand product engineering, AI/data, CEA validation and commercial deployment.
How will the team grow?
Crop Urbanis has a five-person multidisciplinary core team across company direction, legal and administrative support, agricultural work and software development. Capacity is expanding across product and AI engineering, agronomy and research validation, project delivery, customer operations and institutional partnerships.
What does private-beta access involve?
A private-beta scope may include a configured organisation or project workspace, defined data categories, selected modules, named review roles, controlled outputs, support and evaluation criteria. Exact conditions are agreed separately.
What stage is the product at?
Operational internal MVP; selective organisational private beta; cloud deployment and production hardening in progress.
Data, responsibility and contact
Can we send confidential project data through the website?
No. Public forms should contain high-level context only. Confidential or regulated material is exchanged only after a controlled data route and appropriate terms are agreed.
Where will data be hosted?
Hosting region and infrastructure depend on the agreed beta or commercial scope. Crop Urbanis’s deployment strategy prioritises European cloud regions and explicit data, access, retention and deletion conditions.
Does Crop Urbanis guarantee project performance?
No. The Platform supports evidence management, comparison, scenarios and decision workflows. Project outcomes depend on data quality, assumptions, design, implementation, operation and responsible professionals.
Does the Platform replace engineers, agronomists or suppliers?
No. It improves the information and decision record around their work. Qualified parties retain responsibility within their contracted or professional scope.
Can suppliers or research organisations participate?
Yes. Suitable organisations may contact Crop Urbanis about private beta, technical integration, supplier-document workflows, applied research or validation.
How can we contact Crop Urbanis?
Use the Private Beta route for product access consideration, the Project route for farm-development work, and the Partners route for cloud, AI, supplier or research collaboration.
The most-asked question
Can organisations access the Platform?
Selected organisations may request private-beta consideration. Access is reviewed individually and governed through a separate scope covering users, data, confidentiality, responsibilities, support and evaluation. Public self-service access is not offered.
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