Business

A service-first business model built for growers who need harvest stability, not another risky machine purchase.

AgriPick is designed to enter the market where pain is highest and adoption friction is lowest: growers facing labor volatility, quality pressure, and tight harvest windows. The commercial model starts with service, builds trust through pilots, and scales through cooperative networks before broader hardware ownership becomes the main offer.

Service first, ownership later Built around cooperative distribution and local trust Designed to compete with labor costs, not create a new budget burden
Why Now Labor costs are unstable

Growers need predictable harvest execution more than they need new complexity.

Buying Behavior OpEx beats heavy CapEx

Pay-per-use logic matches the way many growers already think about seasonal machinery.

Market Entry Cooperatives reduce CAC

One trusted local hub can unlock many growers faster than selling farm by farm.

Brand Promise Reliable choice

The commercial identity is built around field trust, not around looking experimental.

Target Segments

The business starts with the growers who feel labor shocks most directly, then expands toward larger strategic partners.

Market entry is strongest when the first offer matches urgent pain. That means starting with family farms that need harvest reliability now, then extending into larger export-oriented operators once field trust and speed are proven.

Launch Segment

Small and medium family farms

5-20 decares / high-tunnel greenhouses

  • Most exposed to no-show labor and sudden wage increases
  • Need harvest continuity more than ownership prestige
  • Best fit for a rental or HaaS-style service offer
  • Strong early market in Anamur and Silifke clusters
Best entry model: seasonal service
Expansion Segment

Large export-focused producers

50+ decares / integrated logistics

  • More capital available but stricter demands on speed and throughput
  • Interested in ownership once field reliability is proven
  • Strategic for fleet sales and regional scale
  • Better fit for Year 2-3 expansion than first launch
Best entry model: fleet purchase or hybrid contracts
Go-To-Market

The fastest route to trust is not direct sales to thousands of farms. It is local distribution through cooperatives.

A cooperative-led rollout solves three problems at once: credibility, logistics, and payment security. That makes it the most efficient path for early adoption in fragmented strawberry regions.

01

Win local proof

Start with pilot partners in visible regional clusters where growers compare notes quickly and trust spreads by observation.

02

Use cooperative trust transfer

Cooperative boards and presidents act as local validators, lowering skepticism for the rest of the membership base.

03

Centralize deployment and charging

Robots, batteries, and spare parts can be staged at cooperative depots instead of being scattered farm by farm.

04

Reduce payment risk

Cooperative-linked contracts create cleaner billing and reduce the financial friction of individual collections.

05

Scale through local networks

Word-of-mouth, muhtars, and cooperative leaders create ripple effects stronger than generic advertising.

06

Support with mobile-first promotion

WhatsApp groups, Facebook communities, raw footage, and pilot testimonials become the trust engine of the brand.

Revenue Model

The core offer is Harvesting-as-a-Service first, with hardware sales as a second-stage path.

The model works because it lets growers move an existing labor expense into a more predictable service expense. Ownership is still available later, but it should not be the first barrier the customer faces.

Offer 01

Harvesting as a service

Charge per kilogram harvested or per decare cleared so the robot competes directly with labor costs, not with future budgets.

Offer 02

Hardware sales for strategic buyers

Large partners can move to ownership once field reliability is proven and a 1.5 to 2 season payback becomes realistic.

Offer 03

Future data services

Yield forecasting, disease signals, and crop analytics create a software layer on top of harvesting operations over time.

Offer 04

Platform expansion

The same robotics and vision base can later be adapted to other delicate crops like peppers or cherry tomatoes.

Pricing And Service

The business becomes believable when pricing, support, and downtime promises are as clear as the robot itself.

A grower does not only buy harvesting capacity. They buy continuity during peak season. That is why service design matters as much as the robot design.

Pricing

Compete with labor, not with capital

Service fees are framed against local wage pressure so adoption feels like a smarter replacement, not a new cost center.

ROI Tool

Show savings farm by farm

An ROI calculator can map labor cost, waste, and output assumptions into a break-even story growers can understand quickly.

Support

4-hour swap guarantee

In active service regions, a failed unit gets replaced fast so the harvest does not stop while repairs happen elsewhere.

Communication

WhatsApp-first operator support

Voice notes, videos, and field photos create a direct line between growers and the engineering team.

<= labor cost Target service pricing logic
>9/10 Pilot NPS target on quality and damage prevention
50 decares Year 2 seasonal service validation goal
Rapid swap Service promise that protects harvest continuity
Commercial Roadmap

The rollout is staged to move from proof, to paid service, to regional scale.

Each phase builds on the last one. Pilots create trust, service contracts validate economics, and regional hubs turn scattered deployments into a scalable operating system.

Year 1

Field validation

Launch 3 to 5 pilot partners in Anamur and Silifke, prove zero-damage handling, and gather strong local testimonials.

Year 2

Paid seasonal service

Convert early proof into recurring service contracts and validate that HaaS can replace labor costs with healthy margins.

Year 3+

Regional scale and new revenue

Open operations in new production hubs, add data services, and extend the platform to more delicate crops.

Where This Leads

The business page should leave one impression: AgriPick is not selling a science project, it is building harvest security as a service.

The commercial logic is simple: start where the pain is urgent, remove the buying barrier, protect fruit quality, and make uptime part of the product promise.