smart and sustainable agriculture platform nutrition

Client

Origin Digital, part of the Origin Enterprises Group, is an award-winning UK AgTech company focused on building efficient, profitable, and sustainable agriculture. They provide agribusiness, farmers, and advisors with a suite of applications and services for precision farming, field performance monitoring, and data-driven planning.

Origin Digital combines unique insights from thousands of farms, rich satellite, soil, and local weather data with agronomic science and decades of experience in the field to create powerful tools for sustainable and profitable farming.

These tools help farmers gain real-time insight into soil health and nutrition, predict and prevent crop disease, and integrate sustainable agriculture practices while staying compliant and profitable.

Our role

Digiteum has supported Origin Digital’s mission since 2020. By adding competent senior engineers, we helped them scale their development teams for several projects. So they could meet delivery targets without stretching resources.

Speed, flexibility, and a profound understanding of the Client’s needs were important from day one. Our goal was to not only find top-tier engineers but also quickly adapt to changing requirements, product iterations, and evolving projects.

From the start until today, our engineers have been integrated into Origin Digital teams working closely with product owners and engineering leadership. They contribute to the development, modernization, and support of the Client’s flagship Contour platform and data-driven applications for:

field performance monitoring and planning (Contour Grass)
compliance monitoring and reporting (Contour Grass)
crop disease forecasting and risk assessment (Disease Risk)
nutrient analysis and recommendations (Contour Nutrient Planner and Lime Planner)
client onboarding and account management (GROW)

One thing that stands out to us is the level of expertise that Digiteum’s engineers bring to our projects. They have been able to adapt to our various projects and are able to quickly integrate with our organisation and hit the ground running, helping us to deliver results that exceed our User’s expectations.

David Stephenson, Head of Engineering

Engineering, modernization, and scale-up

As part of Origin Digital teams, Digiteum engineers contribute to system integration, backend development, and migration from legacy systems across the platform’s major services and applications. The scope includes:

Development and support of critical applications for nutrient planning, disease forecasting, and field monitoring.
Development of custom features tailored to the unique needs of Origin Digital’s customers.
Integration of data from various sources to deliver real-time agronomic insights.
Integration of algorithms to automate complex planning, recommendation, and compliance.
Migration from legacy desktop tools to modern web applications, improving scalability, efficiency, and user experience.
Set up and support for DevOps and CI/CD for fast and reliable deployments and effective development.

A platform for compliant and profitable agriculture

Contour platform combines a suite of tools that support farmers throughout the entire operational cycle from field planning and soil health monitoring to yield forecasting.

Planning. Powerful planning tools create precise seed, nutrient, and fertilizer plans automatically based on rich data, advanced algorithms, and compliance requirements.
Monitoring. A combination of satellite, sensor, and environmental data gives instant visibility into field performance, soil health, and organic fertilizer for informed decision-making.
Automation. Automated generation of reports, plans, and recommendations saves farmers time and resources, improves measurability, and simplifies reporting.
Forecasting. Predictive analytics tools use location and weather data to assess crop disease risks, helping farmers take preventive actions in time and secure yields.
Cost optimization. A combination of planning, monitoring, and forecasting tools provides farmers with unique insights to increase precision, productivity, and profitability.
Compliance. Real-time monitoring, planning, and reporting tools help farmers cut fertilizer use, effectively integrate sustainability practices, and simplify compliance.
Management. Intuitive admin tools allow to create farmer accounts, map fields, and set up profiles in just a few clicks. Then manage entire farm portfolios in one place.

Highlights

Fast and flexible engineering team scale-up with a focus on senior tech expertise, cultural fit, and value for cost.
Development, modernization, and support of key modules and applications on the Client’s flagship platform.
Integration of multiple data sources (satellite imagery, soil, maps, yield, weather, etc.) to deliver insights for timely and accurate decisions.
Development of unique tools for disease prevention and control, field performance analysis, and compliant nutrient management for sustainable and profitable farming.
Well-documented process and data practices that support scalability and high productivity.
High standards of engineering practices and a modern tech stack: Java, Kotlin, Python, AWS, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, Docker, Azure DevOps, etc.

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Software Engineering for Origin Digital

Client

Our role

Engineering, modernization, and scale-up

A platform for compliant and profitable agriculture

Highlights