GrainFlow

Grainflow
📊 Optimizing qs at elevators & fert sheds
⏱️ Shorter wait times | More throughput
🤝 Built for farmers, carriers, & elevators

[GrainFlow @getGrainFlow]

The most useful thing we can give a grower is a saved trip.

See the line before you leave. Pick a better window. Dump and go.

No app tour required. That is the point.

https://t.co/FuzZpIEHe5

[GrainFlow @getGrainFlow]

15 minutes off the average truck dwell time, across one harvest, across a 5M bushel facility:

→ ~700 producer-hours back to farmers
→ Less fuel idling in line
→ One more truck-load per shift, every shift

The math gets ugly in the other direction too.

[GrainFlow @getGrainFlow]

Mid-size SK independents are deciding faster than the majors this season.

Not because they have more risk appetite. Because the dispatcher, the GM, and the CEO often sit in the same room.

#AgTech #GrainLogistics

[GrainFlow @getGrainFlow]

Spent the morning writing the data-policy language for a grain elevator pilot.

The line that took longest: "In Phase 1, no data leaves the edge device except anonymized truck counts and queue/dwell times."

Obvious. Hard.

[GrainFlow @getGrainFlow]

Camera sees the truck pull into the lot.

Dashboard updates. Wait estimate moves. Scale gets a heads-up.

Nobody walked outside.

#AgTech

[GrainFlow @getGrainFlow]

Farmer at Prairieland Park, talking about wait times:

"It's a real pain in the ass."

That's the whole product spec.

[GrainFlow @getGrainFlow]

Average dwell time drops 15 minutes per truck.

Facility runs 200 trucks a day through peak. Three weeks of harvest.

That's 1,050 hours of capacity recovered.

Not a feature. A second shift.

[GrainFlow @getGrainFlow]

Stats Canada says canola up, wheat down for 2026. Lentils down 5.5%. Peas down 12.3%.

Every shift changes the delivery pattern at the elevator. The B-train of canola takes longer than the straight truck of wheat.

Most facilities won't know until trucks start showing up. #grainlogistics

[GrainFlow @getGrainFlow]

The most important number on the operator dashboard is the biggest one on the screen: how many trucks are in the yard right now.

Everything else flows from that.

Built it that way because the operator using it is doing six things at once.

https://t.co/FuzZpIEHe5

[GrainFlow @getGrainFlow]

12 weeks until harvest at most prairie elevators.

That's the window where the phone-and-whiteboard scheduling either gets replaced with something better or you live with the same lineup chaos for the fourth year running.

Software shopping doesn't get easier in August.

#agtech

[GrainFlow @getGrainFlow]

Walked the yard at one of our pilot sites yesterday. Operator pointed to a corner and said "this is where it backs up first."

Sketched the camera angle on the back of a notebook.

That's what 12 weeks before harvest looks like.

#buildinpublic #agtech

[GrainFlow @getGrainFlow]

Two weeks since Cultivator Cohort 5 kick-off and the program is paying off.

A mentor connected me to the President of a major grain handler this week. On top of strong sessions and a tight cohort.

Conexus put the work in. It shows.

https://t.co/S8VKmqvehy

[GrainFlow @getGrainFlow]

Math on a bad harvest day at a grain elevator:

40 trucks × 90 min wait × diesel idle
+ second loads not made
+ field hours lost
+ trucker overtime

= more than the appointment system costs for a year.

https://t.co/aLWZgVSLt4

[GrainFlow @getGrainFlow]

Farmer at Prairieland Park, asked about waiting in line at the elevator:

"It's a real pain in the ass."

That is the entire problem statement. The rest of what we do is engineering.

https://t.co/S8VKmqvehy

[AgVision HD Cameras @Agvisioncameras]

Our goal was to provide farmers with the very best product available. We’re looking forward to building on our successes, helping our dealers grow, and continue to improve our products as we grow.

[GrainFlow @getGrainFlow]

Talked to a trucker who hauls for three farms.

He keeps a spreadsheet of average wait times at every elevator within 200 km.

Farmers already track this. Just not digitally. Not where anyone else can see it.

https://t.co/aLWZgVSLt4

[GrainFlow @getGrainFlow]

Appointment scheduling works in every other industry.

Restaurants: OpenTable
Doctors: ZocDoc
Haircuts: Booksy
Oil changes: Valvoline Instant Oil Change

Grain elevators: "Just show up and wait"

This is the problem we're solving.

[GrainFlow @getGrainFlow]

Week 1 at Cultivator. Six months from Facebook post to agtech accelerator.

The elevator wait time problem resonated faster than expected.

Next: building the solution that farmers actually want.

[GrainFlow @getGrainFlow]

Week 1 at Cultivator. Six months from Facebook post to agtech accelerator.

The elevator wait time problem resonated faster than expected.

Next: building the solution that farmers actually want.

[GrainFlow @getGrainFlow]

Appointment scheduling works in every other industry.

Restaurants: OpenTable
Doctors: ZocDoc
Haircuts: Booksy
Oil changes: Valvoline Instant Oil Change

Grain elevators: "Just show up and wait"

This is the problem we're solving.