BioSwarm × EpochCore · agriculture-investor brief

Sensor nodes that pay for themselves in prevented loss.

A greenhouse loses a week of work to one flood event. We make that event provable — fast enough to claim, cheap enough to prevent. Confidential · for Mike Beard · 2026-05-15 · post-NDA.

Live demo A 6-sensor zone reporting in real time, every reading tamper-proof.
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Working prototype today Biological-battery sensor detects < 1 cm of standing water and fires an alarm within ~20 minutes. No power line, no PoE, no cellular contract. Target: 5-node Flood Sentinel demo at IBM Tech Exchange · October 2026 · Atlanta.
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The wedgeWhy operators actually buy

Farms and greenhouses don't want raw dashboards — they want reduced loss and fewer truck rolls. Our sensors power themselves from biology, refill every two weeks at typical greenhouse humidity (effectively never in high-moisture regions), and prove what they recorded.

One sentence: every truck roll avoided is margin, every disputed event is a claim.

The insurance angleThe clearest near-term ROI

Every flood, freeze, or humidity event a node records is a timestamped, signed claim record. Greenhouse operators, barn / storage facilities, hydroponic operations, and basement / garage farm equipment all carry property-protection policies. A biological IoT node turns "I had a flood last week" into a verifiable proof bundle the carrier can underwrite against.

Dollars saved per event are quantifiable. Proofs make claims unambiguous. Nothing in this path depends on IBM, Arrow, or carbon-market timing to land.

See the underwriter-facing brief →

Use cases & pilotsEight ready, two prioritized

Eight partner-ready ag pilots are scoped, single-page, and bound at molecule-gen.org/ag. Partners pick one and we run it in 30 days.

The demo5-node Flood Sentinel · IBM Tech Exchange · October · Atlanta (pursuing)

We will prove five nodes detect a flood, agree on it, alert the operator, and produce a court-ready record — in under 30 seconds.

  1. Five physical nodes deployed across a garden plot
  2. One node wets — neighbor wakes automatically
  3. System classifies the event and assigns confidence; neighbor corroboration raises it
  4. Dashboard shows zone risk and per-node state in real time
  5. Tamper-evident proof record created · phone alert sent
  6. Swarm routes around weak / unavailable nodes

Why we winOne platform, two markets

One platform serves two markets — quantum software for IBM, biological sensors for agriculture. Same code, same audit trail, half the cost to operate, twice the surface area to sell into.

Resilient supply chainOff-the-shelf chips, no rare-earth materials, refills every two weeks (or never, in humid climates). ESG-clean by construction.
Audit-as-a-featureInsurers, USDA auditors, and IBM independently verify every reading on their own systems in three commands. Enterprise sales cycles shorten from quarters to weeks.
One operations teamFrom the first reading to the boardroom number takes one automated pass. Operators see incidents, sales sees revenue per partner, the board sees retention — no reporting team in the middle.

Technical detail (hardware, verifier protocol, cryptography envelope, agent architecture) is in the technical appendix for diligence calls. Agent architecture lives on /agents.

RoadmapTen explicit steps · owners assigned · 2026-05-14

#StepOwner
1Send Wi-Fi MCU specs & coding detailsPartner
2Port signal-ingest firmware to Wi-Fi MCU + secure uplinkEpochCore
3Connect MCU to private cloudEpochCore
4Dashboard v0 (live today; per-node detail + alert config added)EpochCore ✓
5Assemble 5-node physical prototypeBoth
6Website with lab + classroom assets · private previewBoth
7Mutual NDA before broader partner / investor sharingBoth ✓
8Education portal: teacher dashboard + digital certificatesEpochCore ✓
9Investor materials (this brief)EpochCore ✓
10Fieldable demo for IBM Tech Exchange · October · AtlantaBoth

The ask

Currently raising for greenhouse + cold-chain pilots through Q3 2026. invest@epochcoreqcs.com

Want the customer-facing view? Operator brief → · Premium / claim impact →