[Problem]
Farmers running mixed-modality operations — petals, cannabis, wine, land and sea-veg fermentation, shellfish, kelp, full IMTA stacks — were stitching together half a dozen single-purpose tools that none of them spoke to each other, and none of them treated multi-trophic farms as a first-class case.
[Approach]
- 01Designed one schema where harvest, inventory and lots, customer orders, projections, and per-site mapping all live together — ocean leases and upland acreage in the same view.
- 02Modeled real IMTA stacks directly: sugar kelp on the top lines, mussels and oysters below, sablefish in the pens, hydroponic greens onshore sipping the nutrient-rich return water.
- 03Kept the front door quiet — a single login, a single ledger — and pushed the complexity into the data model instead of into the operator's day.
[Outcome]
A working ops platform in private beta covering cannabis cultivation, winemaking, and land and sea-veg fermentation, with integrated multi-trophic operations as a first-class citizen rather than a workaround.
[Background]
Project Brackish is ops software for farmers of every stripe — cannabis cultivators, winemakers, land and sea-veg fermenters, shellfish growers, kelp keepers, and the integrated multi-trophic operations that stack them all together. One login, one ledger, no kelp needed.
It treats real IMTA stacks as first-class citizens: sugar kelp on the top lines, mussels and oysters below, sablefish in the pens, and hydroponic greens onshore sipping the nutrient-rich return water. Harvest tracking, inventory and lot management, customer orders and fulfillment, projections and planning, and per-site mapping all live in the same schema. Ocean leases and upland acreage in the same view; mixed-modality co-ops without workarounds.
