You know AI matters. The season doesn't wait.
Competitors talk about AI, consultants send proposals, and harvest leaves no room for a project. You want to know what would actually help before you spend on it.
Agri-export
AI for fruit, wine and forestry exporters
From the packing house to the port of arrival: export paperwork, cold-chain records and buyer updates prepared by agents and checked by your people. Built for owners and export teams who can't stop for a project in season.
Fruit growers and exporters Packing houses Wineries Import and export traders Forestry and wood products
The problem, by role
Every shipment, three desks
In the exporters we meet, the season's pressure lands in the same three places.
Every shipment is a stack of documents
Phytosanitary certificates, certificates of origin, inspections, shipping documents, buyer instructions. Each one is typed and checked by hand, and one mistake can hold a container at the port.
Buyers want proof, lot by lot
Retailers in Europe and the UK ask for traceability, temperature records and evidence when a claim arrives. The data exists, spread across the packing house, the forwarder and a dozen spreadsheets.
Where agents help
Six processes, each with a human step
Agri-food is among the sectors with the lowest AI uptake in the EU, and most of what exists is in marketing and sales (European Commission JRC, 2026). The operational work is still open ground.
Export documents
- The agent
- Prepares and cross-checks certificates and shipping documents for each lot against the buyer's and the market's requirements.
- Your person
- Reviews and signs before anything is submitted.
Metric Documents rejected or corrected
Shipment status and buyer updates
- The agent
- Follows each shipment with the forwarder and drafts the update to the buyer.
- Your person
- Approves what goes to the buyer and handles the difficult conversations.
Metric Buyer response time
Quality claims on arrival
- The agent
- Gathers the evidence for a claim: temperature logs, inspection photos and the shipping documents.
- Your person
- Decides whether and how to dispute, and leads the negotiation.
Metric Time to file, value recovered
Traceability reports
- The agent
- Builds the per-lot traceability report a buyer or regulator asks for, from the data you already hold.
- Your person
- Checks and sends it.
Metric Hours per report
Season reporting
- The agent
- Pulls packing and dispatch status into one daily view for management.
- Your person
- Uses it to decide, instead of collecting it.
Metric Meeting time
Leadership training
- The agent
- None: this one is people. A hands-on session in the off-season.
- Your person
- Your leadership team leaves with two or three ideas worth testing.
Metric Ideas taken to a proof of concept
“We're building an AI-enabled ERP with Panere: fruit lots tracked from reception to delivery, with traceability, instead of spreadsheets.”
How to start
Start in the off-season. Be ready for the next one.
Most exporters start with training, timed after harvest, and test one process before the next season.
Train AI Workshops & Training Days to weeks A fixed-price session for your leadership team, timed for the off-season, to choose what's worth testing. See the programs Validate AI Proofs of Concept Weeks Two to three weeks on one export process, such as document checks for one market, using your real data. A first one starts at USD 4,000. Plan a proof of concept Build Custom Software & AI Tools Weeks to months A traceability report or a buyer portal in production before the next season, on a stack you own. See how we build Run Managed AI Agent Teams Ongoing A small Operations Agent Team that handles document checks and buyer updates every season, with your team approving what matters. Meet the agent teams
What about the machines?
Machines sort the fruit. Agents handle the paperwork.
Optical sorters, sensors and inspection services are essential. They sell machines and certificates. The work between them, done by your team in spreadsheets and email, is where agents help.
Equipment and inspection providers Flowcraft agent team
Equipment and inspection providers Sell a machine or a certificate
Flowcraft agent team Build the software layer between them and your team
Equipment and inspection providers Cover one step of the chain
Flowcraft agent team Connect packing, documents, forwarders and buyers
Equipment and inspection providers Keep the data in their system and format
Flowcraft agent team Keep the data in your systems; the platform and code are yours
Equipment and inspection providers Run on the same contract all year
Flowcraft agent team Work timed around your season, with a metric you agree
Questions
What exporters ask first
If yours isn't here, bring it to the call.
01 Are we too small for this?
Probably not. We work with companies of 50 to 500 people, many of them family-run. Every engagement starts at a fixed price, so you know the cost before you commit.
02 We can't start anything during the season. When should we?
After harvest. Training and a proof of concept fit in the quieter months, so anything worth keeping is running before the next season starts.
03 Does it work with the systems we and our forwarder already use?
Yes. We build on your ERP, email and spreadsheets, and read the updates your forwarder already sends. For official systems, agents prepare and check the data; a person on your team submits it.
04 Who owns our data and the platform?
You do. Your data stays in your systems, and the platform and code we build are yours. What we keep is our method: the prompts, skills and memory layer behind the agents.
05 Who is accountable when an agent gets it wrong?
Your team. On operations processes, your people are the human in the loop: nothing reaches a buyer, forwarder or authority without their approval. We build and run the agents, review how they perform with you every week and report the agreed metric monthly. Every agent action is logged, so you can see what happened and why.
Get started
Thirty minutes, before the next season.
Tell us where the season hurts most. We'll tell you what's worth testing, what it would cost, or that we're not the right fit. No sales pitch.