Our Future

A vertical AI platform, validated where it counts: in the field.

Watermelon is a gamble for everyone — growers guess, retailers dump, consumers walk away. In Australia alone, roughly 40,000 tonnes (about $100M) of watermelon is wasted every year. SMART Melon replaces the guesswork with objective, non-destructive measurement, from breeding to consumer.

The problem is real, and it’s working.

Our patented SMART tap sensor assesses melon maturity at 90% accuracy in farm trials* — without cutting fruit. It feeds a GPS mapping platform whose dashboards already guide harvest decisions on commercial blocks, and it anchors a five-product platform covering growing, harvest vision, automation and branded fruit.

*Royal Armada variety farm trials, 2026.

Maturity heatmap of a commercial melon block
Enterprise-scale maturity data, block by block.

De-risked

Four proof points ahead of scale.

MVP

Proven field MVP

SMART tap sensor and companion app operational in real melon blocks — validated over 10 farm trials.

Pilots

Commercial grower pilots

Live deployments with commercial growers generating maturity and yield data at enterprise scale.

Analytics

Working dashboards & maps

Heatmaps, maturity maps and harvest dashboards delivering actionable insight to growers today.

Demand

Strong industry interest

Inbound signal from growers, breeders, exporters and retailers exploring platform integration.

The model

Four revenue pillars anchor the platform.

1 Near-term core

Device + SaaS analytics

Hardware sensing with recurring subscriptions for maturity mapping, defect detection and analytics dashboards.

2 Near-term core

Data insights

Anonymised field, maturity and harvest data licensed to breeders, agchem and supply-chain buyers.

3 Scale

Enterprise partnerships

Co-development and validation contracts with breeding, crop protection and retail leaders.

4 Long-term upside

Multi-crop expansion

The platform architecture scales beyond watermelon to other high-value crops — rockmelon, pineapple, durian.

Get your juicy slice of this success.

We share detailed materials — traction data, the roadmap and the numbers — in conversation. If the platform thesis resonates, let’s talk.

Enquiries

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