What AgriTailor actually does
Running a farm is a full-time job — actually, several. Between the work in the field and the work in the office, the time to keep up with every shifting USDA program, public dataset, and compliance requirement just isn't there. That's where AgriTailor comes in.
Three things we take off your plate
These three workstreams exist on every farm we work with. None of them pay back the time it takes for one operation to do them well alone. We do them at scale, so they get done.
Tracking every USDA program your operation qualifies for
USDA runs dozens of programs — CSP, EQIP, RCPP, ELAP, LFP, and more — each with its own eligibility criteria, application windows, documentation requirements, and cost-share rates. Staying current on all of them is most of a full-time job by itself.
A cattle operation in the North Carolina Piedmont may have $15,000 to $40,000 a year in program value on the table that hasn't been flagged yet — not because of anything the operator did wrong, but because Extension agents are stretched thin and FSA offices are built for enrollment, not proactive audits. We make the proactive audit part of our job, so it doesn't have to be part of yours.
Synthesizing the public data that should inform every decision
The work we do involves pulling Web Soil Survey data, cross-referencing FSA aerial imagery, checking EPA ECHO for regional environmental flags, pulling county GIS parcel data, ordering and interpreting soil and PFAS labs, reviewing NRCS practice standards by soil type, and mapping all of that against program eligibility windows — then repeating the whole exercise annually as programs change.
That's roughly forty hours of specialist work, per farm, per year. For an operator already running a farm, that's forty hours not spent in the field, on the books, or with family. We absorb that work into a four-week engagement, then keep it current through a retainer if you want it ongoing.
Catching compliance and risk issues before they're expensive
PFAS liability. Organic certification gaps. Recordkeeping that won't hold up to a cost-share audit. These risks rarely announce themselves early — by the time they surface, they're usually expensive to address, sometimes ruinous. They sit in the same bucket as program tracking: too important to ignore, too time-intensive to chase down on top of actually running the operation.
Part of every engagement is surfacing these risks while they're still cheap to fix.
Where AI is actually doing the work
“AI-driven” gets used loosely in marketing. Here's exactly what it means in our engagements — what the AI handles, and where the human work happens.
Pulling and normalizing public data at scale
AI and workflow automation pull and normalize data across public sources — Web Soil Survey, NAIP imagery, county GIS, EPA ECHO — in minutes. Done manually, the same work takes hours per farm, every year.
Cross-referencing your farm against the program database
An AI layer takes your farm's characteristics — acreage, soil type, operation type, county, current enrollment — and cross-references them against active USDA program databases to flag every program you're likely eligible for. We sanity-check each match before it ever lands in your roadmap.
Drafting the roadmap, the application pre-fills, the checklists
AI drafts the documents. We review, refine, and finalize every one. You get a polished, defensible deliverable without paying for forty hours of manual writing time.
The retainer that keeps watching after the audit ends
Once you're on a monitoring retainer, AI watches deadline calendars, flags rule changes to programs you're enrolled in, and generates quarterly status reports. We review everything before it reaches you, but the time cost per farm drops as we add clients — which is how we keep ongoing service affordable for working operations.
What we offer isn't just “AI tools” — those are available to anyone. The work is in the system around them: AI trained on agricultural program structure, layered on top of public data pipelines, built by people who've spent months learning the domain so you don't have to. That system is what makes the time savings real.
Curious whether this applies to your operation?
Start with a discovery call. Thirty minutes, no cost, and we’ll tell you on the call whether a Farm Audit makes sense for your farm.