Caplifi · Ground Truth
Field measurement you can defend.
Ground Truth converts operational field data into actionable intelligence and independent verification for growers, drainage districts, and regional water stakeholders.
A Caplifi field venture — not another closed ag dashboard. Sensors on your land, a gateway you control, and records that hold up when someone asks how you knew.
Reference deployments in Madison County, Indiana — instrumented plots and regional grower pilots.
What Ground Truth is
The farm produces crops. It also produces evidence.
Moisture, rainfall, irrigation, inputs, equipment activity, and yield context — most operations already generate this telemetry. Ground Truth makes it legible, permissioned, and verifiable instead of trapped in vendor silos.
The operating model pairs a working farm with a data layer: a living reference site that produces both food and credentialed measurement. That dual output is what makes the venture legible to growers, conservation programs, and institutional buyers who need numbers they can audit.
Edge probes and a local gateway — measurement stays on your side of the headgate.
How it works
Same spine as the rest of Caplifi.
Gate before action. Append-only record. Owner-held keys — applied to field infrastructure.
Edge telemetry
Probes and field instruments log moisture, weather, and operational events at the plot boundary.
Local aggregation
A gateway on your land time-stamps readings and applies permission rules before anything leaves the farm.
Defensible record
Season reports, subscription feeds, and attested exports — aligned with Headgate Verify measurement methodology.
Services
What growers and districts can buy.
Field moisture subscription
Per-field monitoring with probe install, local gateway, and a grower-owned dashboard. Priced monthly per field.
Season verification report
Reconcile rainfall, irrigation logs, and telemetry into an end-of-season record for buyers, insurers, or drainage districts.
Pilot & demo plots
Instrumented reference beds for extension, FFA, grant-funded research, and neighbor grower workshops.
Caplifi stack
Moisture DON field probes · Headgate Verify measurement lineage · ALMI attestation patterns for audit-ready exports. Public-facing verification consulting may appear under Headgate Verify while the Ground Truth trademark is resolved.
Investor & partner deck
Jan 2026 pitch — market context
The slide deck frames the commercial opportunity behind the field venture. The site above describes what we are building; the deck describes why the market is moving.
Open deck preview · exported from Keynote Jan 8, 2026
What the deck adds
Farmer-owned data economics, permissioned sharing, and the gap between vendor-captured telemetry and grower value.
- Ag IoT market projected ~10.5% CAGR through 2030 — demand for connected field systems is already here.
- Blockchain-in-ag traceability ~41% CAGR — buyers want verified provenance, not spreadsheet claims.
- Most field data today is lost or owned by equipment vendors; Ground Truth keeps custody with the operator.
- Revenue model: permissioned data access and verification services — not blind resale of farmer telemetry.
Start with one instrumented field.
Pilots begin with a small probe install and a season of verified moisture — enough to prove the measurement stack before scaling subscriptions or district engagements.