Every packhouse and farm runs on questions. Who's on the clock? Which bins haven't been tipped? Why does this grower's payment show fewer boxes than the packout? Until now, the answer meant opening a report, exporting a spreadsheet or asking the one person who knows where to look.
Today we're introducing Sprout, an AI assistant built for fresh produce operations. You ask in plain English. Sprout reads your live FreshTrack records and answers.
What you can ask
Sprout covers the whole operation, from the block to the grower's payment:
- Picking and harvest: "How many bins did each picker fill yesterday?" or "Which bins were received but haven't been tipped?"
- Time clock and crews: "Who's clocked in right now?" and "Which clock-ins are still open from yesterday?"
- Packing and stock: "How many trays did we pack each day this week?"
- Dispatch and traceability: "Which grower and planting did this pallet come from?"
- Orders and forecasts: "How does this week's packing compare with our commitments?"
- Grower payments: "Why does this RCTI have fewer boxes than the packout?"
- Spray and activity diary: "What was applied to Block 4 last week?"
Type, talk, send a photo or scan a code
Sprout works on the web and in the Sprout phone app, which is on its way to the App Store. At the desk you type. On the packing floor, with your hands full, you talk. You can send a photo of a docket or a label and Sprout reads it and looks up the matching records, drop in a spreadsheet of new employees, or scan a pallet or bin and ask about it.
No change to your records until you confirm
Sprout does more than answer. It can add finished shifts, clock people in and out, correct a missed clock-out and load new employees. Every change is shown to you first, and it is saved only when you confirm it. Your administrators choose who can chat, use voice, send photos and save changes.
It teaches your own AI where to look
Many businesses already use Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot. Connected read-only to your FreshTrack data, those tools can build dashboards and dig through a whole season, but they don't know your operation. Sprout does. Ask it for a prompt and it writes the briefing: where the answer lives in your data, your own rules, the traps to avoid, and a check to run before anything is built.
What's next
Three things are planned and not available yet: quality checks as a conversation, planting observations recorded while you're standing in the block, and spray and activity diary entries that Sprout prepares for you to confirm.
Try it on your own operation
Sprout is in beta with our first customers, and we're adding more. It has its own home at freshtrack.ai, where you can see examples, subscribe to the Sprout AI newsletter and ask us for a walkthrough with your own data.