Ukraine, Kyiv city
Market: Appliances, Public catering, Farming, Electronics, Artificial Intelligence
Project stage: Prototype or product is ready
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Idea or High Level Concept
During quarantine and afterwards more and more people think about most vital things for them while sitting in isolation - food. AI Fresh Station automatically grows greenery and allows get enough vegetable food for family' or person' consumption whole year around.
Territory of the product or service implementation
Europe, North America
Traction and Current Status
Prototype demonstrated on several conferences and welcomed by jury
Problem or Opportunity
Visit public places like stores during epidemic can cost life. Even while going to shops you might not buy what you need as panic leads to shortage of food supply.
Solution
The AI Fresh Station is an automated scalable kitchen gardening system based on AI that is capable of growing vegetable leafy food full of vitamins in quantities sufficient for monthly and annual consumption by individual or family. AI Fresh Station is the perfect gardening system for a limited space. It can deliver up to 32 different plants in max 960 pots from just 1 sq.m.
Customer Segments and Market
- people who care about their own health and buy greenery in stores - millennials who already started their own indoor gardens - vegetarians - indoor gardening fans - restaurants that serve fresh and tasty dishes (after quarantine finish) - shops that want to start greenery production schools and colleges that want educate seeds propagation
Revenue Streams and Cost Structure
Two financial models: 1) Sale of equipment set. 10-pots Starter Kit is $299 and Extension module is $250. 20-pots Starter Kit is $399 and Extension module is $350. 30-pots Starter Kit is $499 and Extension module is $450. Annual connection to AI growth cloud $50. First year is included.
2) Subscription: Annual subscription for seeds $30/months and access to AI Growth Cloud 10-pots Starter Kit is $99 and Extension module is $50. 20-pots Starter Kit is $199 and Extension module is $150. 30-pots Starter Kit is $299 and Extension module is $250.
Business Model, Chanells, Metrics
Business model: Selling hardware and selling seeds. After gaining sufficient amount of users - selling services through online platform
- Highest density of plants per sq.m. - up to 960 pots of 32 different plants per one setup - Modular construction - grow as you have free space at your kitchen - individual schedule for each plant - no wasted food. All other competitors can't propagate plants according to a schedule. - AI to track health status of growing plants and give best growing methods developed by AI.
Incubation/Acceleration programs accomplishment
Y combinator courses
Won the competition and other awards
We won in Kyiv startup battle https://battle.startup.network/events/406620/
Money will be spent on
R&D Hardware improvement Software improvement Rolling out industrial scale production process
Marketing of AI Fresh Station as kitchen appliance Marketing indoor gardening as safe food production alternative to visiting shops Setting up sales channels