Familiar machines, made precise
SmartSpread mounts on standard plantation tractors, the kind your team already knows. Nothing new for you to buy, insure, or maintain.
Oil palm · Fertilizing-as-a-Service pilot
The closed beta is over. The pilot is open.
For two years we ran a closed beta with one of the world’s largest sustainable palm oil producers. We built the systems to apply fertilizer precisely and report the data accurately. We are now opening a small number of pilots: regular tractors, drivers we train, our vision, priced per hectare per year.
2 years
Closed beta with a top sustainable palm oil producer
Per tree
Vision-guided dosing, tree by tree
We operate
Regular tractors, run by drivers we train and supply
Per hectare
Priced as a service, per year
What you’re signing up for
You don’t have to buy a robot. You pay for the fertilizing, done right.
We carry the hardware, the software, the trained drivers, and the risk. You pay per hectare per year for the work, done to a standard you can see.
We supply the drivers
We supply drivers trained on the system, so the work gets done without your estate hiring or scheduling for it. The dose moves to a system that sees every palm as the tractor passes.
We carry the risk
Hardware, software, and support sit with us. If it does not perform, you do not scale.
How a pilot runs
A fast, measured result on your own blocks. Three steps.
Step 1
Map your blocks with us
We walk your most important land together and look at your inputs, costs, application windows, labor, and vacant points.
Step 2
Run it beside a control
Over a defined application window, SmartSpread runs on the blocks you choose, beside an untreated control row, with drivers we supply. We log every pass, so the comparison is fair.
Step 3
See exactly what it delivered
You see cost per ton, uniformity, coverage, and audit records on one dashboard. Then you scale what works, on terms that reflect what you measured.
What you get, from the first pass
The fertilizing done, and the proof it was done.
By the end of the day you see what was applied where, tree by tree, on a map your head office can open.
- Coverage maps which rows got the pass, and where the tractor actually went.
- Per-tree dosing records what rate landed at each palm, and when. Vacant points skipped.
- Problems, shown the same day passes that ran short, and doses that do not match the bag count.
- A living palm census count, position, height, and health signals, updated every pass.
- Sustainability exports RSPO, MSPO, ISPO, EUDR, and sustainability-linked finance formats.
Who we’re looking for
We take a handful of pilots at a time.
A good pilot partner has the scale to make results meaningful and a team ready to look at the numbers with us.
Scale that makes it count
Estates large enough that a measured improvement across blocks changes a number you report, rather than a small test plot.
A team that will look at data
An estate manager and finance lead who will act on cost per ton and uniformity.
An application window we can commit to
A defined fertilizing window on named blocks, so we can run against a control.
Straight answers
Common questions.
Do we have to buy the equipment?
No. Fertilizing-as-a-Service is the default: we own and maintain the equipment, and you pay per hectare per year. If you would rather own the equipment and run it in-house, that is possible too. Ask us for prices.
Do we have to provide drivers?
No. Under Fertilizing-as-a-Service we supply drivers trained on the system, so the fertilizing does not compete with your crew’s other work. If you would rather your own drivers ran it, half a day of training is enough for an experienced tractor driver.
How is this different from GPS based variable rate?
GPS based variable rate applies one rate across a whole block and cannot see the palm in front of the tractor. SmartSpread identifies each palm in real time and skips vacant points.
How fast is a pilot on the ground?
For the SmartSpread tractor retrofit, installation takes about a week from a signed scope. That week covers the site visit, the configuration, and the supervised first passes. We ship the first tractor-integrated units in early 2027, so we are scoping pilots now against that production run. SmartSpread runs today on the TerraMax platform. The pilot itself runs over a defined application window on named blocks, beside an untreated control, so you get a measured result on your own land rather than a demonstration. TerraMax deployments take longer.
What does it cost?
Per-hectare-per-year pricing depends on blocks, scale, and season. Apply, and we will quote against your own land.
Apply for a pilot
Name an estate and the blocks that count.
Tell us which blocks are most important to you and the application window you want to run. We reply within two business days with a pilot scope and what we’d measure together.