SoilSynth - Climate Intelligence
Soil Intelligence for Smarter Agricultural Decisions
For labs: a digital sample and reporting system. For finance: soil and farm data-driven risk scoring for smallholder farmers.
The Invisible Layer
Agriculture Runs on What You Can't See
Soil is the foundation of every agricultural decision - yet it remains one of the least understood variables in lending, program design, and policy. Trillions in capital are allocated annually based on what is above ground, while the variables below it go unmeasured.
The Gap
A System Built on Incomplete Information
Farmers
Excluded from finance
Smallholders lack standardized data needed to access agricultural credit - not because their land is not productive, but because productivity is unmeasured.
Institutions
Facing deep uncertainty
Banks, insurers, and program managers make multi-million dollar decisions on land they cannot see. Risk models rely on proxies, not ground truth.
The System
A widening gap
The agricultural financing gap exceeds $170bn annually in emerging markets. Poor soil data sits at the center of this market failure.
Solutions
Two products. One soil intelligence layer.
SoilSynth captures soil chemistry in the laboratory and turns it into a risk signal lenders can use — without asking a loan officer to read a lab report.
For labs
Digital sample and reporting system
A laboratory information management system that takes a soil, foliar, water, or organic sample from intake through result entry to a branded report — standardised enough to be used beyond the bench.
See how it worksFor finance
Soil and farm data-driven risk scoring
A lender dashboard that turns lab soil indicators and farm context into a Low / Medium / High soil risk score — so a loan officer can make a smallholder credit decision in under two minutes.
See how it worksHow it works
Soil data + farm data → processing → risk score
Soil data
pH, organic matter, nutrient balance, and texture — captured in the lab and normalised to a 0–100 scale.
Farm data
Farmer, district, crop, and visit date — the context a lender needs to place the score in a real portfolio.
Processing
A weighted scoring engine (pH 30%, organic matter 25%, nutrients 25%, texture 20%) produces a composite.
Risk score
LOW, MEDIUM, or HIGH — plus a plain-language credit recommendation the officer can act on immediately.
Outcomes
What This Unlocks
More informed agricultural lending
Give credit institutions the soil risk signals they need to price agricultural exposure with confidence.
Better-aligned risk models
Replace proxy assumptions with standardized soil indicators, enabling actuarial models to reflect ground-level reality.
Increased confidence in rural markets
Reduce perceived uncertainty in smallholder agriculture, unlocking capital that currently sits on the sideline.
Smarter allocation of capital
Direct subsidies, inputs, and extension programs to where they generate the highest measurable impact.
Who It's For
Designed for Institutions Operating in Agriculture
SoilSynth is built for the organizations that shape agricultural outcomes at scale - banks, insurers, NGOs, and governments - who need a common language for soil risk to make better decisions.
Soil Laboratories
Digital sample and reporting system
Every number SoilSynth works with starts on a laboratory bench. Lab Tool is the digital sample and reporting system that gets it there — intake, result entry, manager review, and a branded report in the client's hands. Analysts spend their time on chemistry instead of paperwork, and the data comes out standardised enough to score agricultural risk, not just print a PDF.
Intake in seconds
Register soil, foliar, water, and organic samples as they arrive at reception. Every sample gets a sequential code scoped to your laboratory and year.
Handwritten sheets, read for you
Photograph a completed bench sheet and the values are read straight into the result form, ready for a technician to confirm before anything is saved.
Result entry per matrix
Purpose-built forms for each sample type, driven by your own analysis catalogue - so technicians only ever see the fields that apply to the work in front of them.
Retests that keep the history
Every result set is snapshotted before it changes. Raise a retest and the original stays on the record, so nothing is quietly overwritten.
Reports under your name
Generate branded PDF reports carrying your laboratory's logo, colours, and details - ready to send to the client the moment results are approved.
Roles, 2FA, and an audit trail
Managers, technicians, and clerks each see only what their work requires. Two-factor authentication and a full audit log come as standard.
Run a soil laboratory? Take it for a drive.
Tell us about your lab and we will set you up with a demo account loaded with sample data, so you can walk the full workflow - intake to report - before you commit to anything.
Finance
Soil and farm data-driven risk scoring for smallholder farmers
Agricultural lenders decide on land they cannot see. SoilSynth gives a loan officer a Low / Medium / High soil risk score — built from laboratory measurements and farm context — so credit can move with ground truth instead of proxies.
Portfolio at a glance
See every farm in a lending book with a colour-coded soil risk score — Low, Medium, or High — without reading a lab report.
The four indicators that matter
Open any farm and the score unpacks into pH, organic matter, nutrient balance, and soil texture, each on a 0–100 bar.
Credit language, not chemistry
Each score ships with a plain-language recommendation — approve, review with input support, or withhold pending remediation.
Built on lab ground truth
The same soil results produced by Lab Tool become the inputs. Lenders see a score. The chemistry stays in the laboratory.
Pilot Program
Early Access
We are working with a small group of partners to shape the next generation of agricultural intelligence. Apply to join the pilot.