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Agriculture and food production. Cost: feed and weight lost to disease in the flock.

Grip reads flock and herd records, feed use and retailer returns, farm by farm, and names the feed, birds and margin lost, in AED.

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GBP 10.4 billionLost by the world's chicken producers to one gut disease, at 2016 prices, mostly in weight gain and feed.
Backed by research

Source: Veterinary Research, Blake, Knox, Dehaeck, Huntington et al., "Re-calculating the cost of coccidiosis in chickens", vol. 51 (2020). Coccidiosis cost the world's chicken producers about GBP 10.4 billion at 2016 prices, about GBP 0.16 per chicken produced, mostly through lost weight gain and feed conversion rather than treatment.

3 workflows

Where we start.

9 of 22 changes other agriculture and food production companies made. Open one to see the company.

01

Price and margin

Retailer rebates, allowances and expired returns priced against each retailer's margin.

ReadsCustomer contracts with rebate scalesMonthly sales by customerReturns and credit notes by customer and productDelivery notes with production date, price lists
Recalculate each customer's year-end volume rebate every month, so the credit note is known and booked before it arrives.
Proven at Almarai Company

Source: Almarai Company, Integrated Annual Report 2025.

Weigh the expired product each customer sends back, by store and product, and price it at what it sold for.
Proven at Almarai Company

Source: Almarai Company, Integrated Annual Report 2025.

Add up every listing, display and promotion fee each retailer charges, and set it against what you earn there.
Proven at Agthia Group

Source: Agthia Group PJSC, Consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2025.

02

Operations

Feed per kilo, milk per cow and depot orders ranked house by house.

ReadsDepot orders and dispatch by dayVan sales or invoice data by outletParlour milk weights per cow per milkingSomatic cell count tests, treatment records
Compare what each depot ordered, sold and got back expired, by product and day, and fix the worst lines first.
Proven at Almarai Company

Source: Almarai Company, Integrated Annual Report 2025.

Read cell counts and milk weights per cow, and price the litres lost to udder infection and missed milkings.
Backed by research

Source: Frontiers in Veterinary Science, Romero, Benavides, Meza et al., "Assessing Financial Impacts of Subclinical Mastitis on Colombian Dairy Farms", vol. 5 (2018).

Track feed used against weight produced for every flock, and rank each house's result.
Backed by research

Source: US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Final rule: Poultry Grower Payment Systems and Capital Improvement Systems (Federal Register document 2025-00508, 16 January 2025).

03

Risk and compliance

Feed supply, disease outbreaks and a stopped plant priced before they happen.

ReadsFeed and fodder purchase ledger by supplier and originSilo and store stock countsFlock and herd register by siteSite maps and distances
List every feed input and supplier, and count the days your farms can run on what sits in the silo.
Proven at Almarai Company

Source: Almarai Company, Integrated Annual Report 2025.

Price one outbreak on your largest farm, and spread flocks and herds so no single site can stop the business.
Proven at Cal-Maine Foods

Source: Cal-Maine Foods, Inc., Form 10-K for fiscal year ended 30 May 2026.

Count the sales lost if your only packing plant stops, and price a back-up line or co-packer against it.
Proven at Vital Farms

Source: Vital Farms, Inc., Form 10-K for fiscal year ended 28 December 2025.

The money at stake.

Public figures, each with its company and year. An estimate is marked.

USD 409.9 million

A US food equipment maker's food processing order backlog at the start of January 2026.

Proven at The Middleby

Source: The Middleby Corporation, Form 10-K for fiscal year ended 3 January 2026 (2025). Middleby's Food Processing Equipment Group backlog rose to USD 409.9 million at 3 January 2026 from 257.6 million, of which USD 60.3 million came from acquisitions, while the Commercial Foodservice backlog was flat at USD 260.4 million.

USD 301 million

A US crop processor's supplier invoices sold to banks and still outstanding at end 2025.

Proven at Archer-Daniels-Midland Company

Source: Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, Form 10-K for fiscal year ended 31 December 2025. ADM's supplier payables programme lets suppliers sell confirmed invoices, payable within about 90 days, to banks; USD 301 million was outstanding at the end of 2025 (USD 222 million a year earlier).

Grip at work

What your Grip looks like.

A sample company, in AED. Yours is built from your own files.

Each value pocket, the place where money sits, opens its project, its tool and its AI agents. Sample figures.

What we stand on
01Money first

Every project shows the revenue, cost or cash it is worth, in your currency, from your own files, before you agree to it.

02Every project has proof

Every project runs on a client's Grip, was designed on our own Grip, or comes from a play a named company published, with the document we read it in.

03Your systems as they are

We read the systems you already use. Nothing to move, replace or clean up first.

04Value and money found in 2 weeks

A two-week pilot on one department, your first project live and its money delivered by Day 30, then one fixed monthly fee.

Questions

What agriculture and food production companies ask first.

Three answers, each with one public figure, its company and its document.

Question 1How can AI reduce missed supplier rebates in agriculture and food production?

AI reads flock and herd records, feed use and retailer returns, farm by farm, and names the feed, birds and margin lost, in AED. For scale: USD 301 million, A US crop processor's supplier invoices sold to banks and still outstanding at end 2025 (Archer-Daniels-Midland Company).

USD 301 millionA US crop processor's supplier invoices sold to banks and still outstanding at end 2025.
Proven at Archer-Daniels-Midland Company

Source: Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, Form 10-K for fiscal year ended 31 December 2025. ADM's supplier payables programme lets suppliers sell confirmed invoices, payable within about 90 days, to banks; USD 301 million was outstanding at the end of 2025 (USD 222 million a year earlier).

Question 2What does an AI transformation programme in agriculture and food production start with?

It starts with the revenue, cost and cash you are losing today, read from the systems you already use. One workflow goes first, usually price and margin, read from customer contracts with rebate scales and monthly sales by customer.

Question 3How fast do agriculture and food production companies see results from AI?

A two-week pilot on one department finds the value and money in your own data before you commit. Your first project goes live, and its money is delivered, by Day 30.

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Start with one workflow.

Tell us what you want to fix. In a two-week pilot we find the value and money before you commit.

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