Zero-Infrastructure
Livestock Traceability
for LatAm
Digitizing the pulse of the pampas.
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The Problem: The Infrastructure Trap
Extensive Ranching Has No Connectivity Solution
Mercosur holds 250M+ cattle across vast, rugged terrain. Solutions built for intensive EU dairy farms fail here.
The Cellular Myth
Cellular coverage will never be universal across the South American pampas. The economics of building cell towers for cows simply do not work. Fixed local gateways fail when herds move to leased pastures.
The Satellite Illusion
Putting a direct-to-satellite radio on every single cow is nonsense. It is prohibitively expensive (high CapEx) and extremely power-hungry, requiring massive, heavy batteries that animals cannot bear.
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The Catalyst: Why Now?
A Perfect Storm of Regulation and ROI
The market is being forced into immediate technological adoption by massive external pressures.
Government Mandates
SNIG (Uruguay): Strict national traceability mandates require constant digital monitoring. Governments are heavily subsidizing AgTech adoption.
2026 EU Deforestation (EUDR)
By 2026, every kilogram of beef entering the EU must have plot-level geo-coordinates. No data = permanently locked out of the highest-margin market.
Rancher ROI
Ranchers desperately need real-time mortality, health, and estrus monitoring. Herd performance optimization is the only way to combat shrinking margins.
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The Solution: The Two-Tier Network
Infrastructure-Free Mesh Architecture
We eliminate fixed land infrastructure entirely. We use a Leader-Member hybrid mesh where the herd is the network.
How it Works:
- The Members (97%): Almost the entire herd wears an ultra-low-cost, power efficient Sub-GHz ear tag.
- The Leaders (3%): A fraction of the herd wears a "Gateway Collar" equipped with Edge AI and a Satellite/Cellular uplink.
- The Mesh: Ear tags route their data locally to the nearest Leader cow. The Leader processes the herd data and beams it to the cloud via Satellite.
By pooling the expensive satellite radio across 33 cows, we deliver global connectivity at terrestrial prices.
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The Moat
Our Defensible Competitive Advantage
Hardware is easily commoditized. Integrated regulatory infrastructure is not.
Zero Terrestrial CapEx
Competitors rely on building physical towers (LoRa) or extremely expensive direct-to-sat collars. Our Two-Tier network requires zero land installation, scaling instantly across leased pastures.
Proprietary Low-Power Routing
Our firmware handles complex asynchronous routing in environments with massive biomass obstruction. This allows the 97% member tags to last for the entire 3-year life of the cow on a tiny battery.
Deep Regulatory Integration
We integrate directly with mandatory government traceability systems (like Uruguay's SNIG) and EUDR compliance ledgers. We aren't just selling a tracker; we are selling the passport for export.
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Market Size & Massive Scale Economics
Why Cheap Hardware is the Only Path to the $3B TAM
The math of the extensive beef industry is unforgiving. A cow is worth ~$1,000 and generates only ~$100 in total profit over its entire lifecycle for the rancher.
The Competitor Failure
If a direct-to-satellite collar costs $150-$250, outfitting a 5,000-head herd costs over $1,000,000 in CapEx. The rancher's math breaks.
To achieve massive scale, the amortized hardware cost must be radically cheap over the 3-year life of the cow. Our Two-Tier architecture drops CapEx by 90%, making 100% herd coverage viable.
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The Business Model
Hardware as an Enabler, Data as the Product
We do not want to be a hardware company. Hardware is the Trojan Horse to capture the data stream.
Annual / In-Advance SaaS
- Ranchers don't pay monthly: Cash flow in agriculture is seasonal. We charge annual, in-advance subscriptions for the platform and data insights.
- Subsidized Hardware: We sell the tags at or near cost, subsidizing or financing the ultra-low CapEx to lower the barrier to entry.
- High-Margin Recurring: By Year 2, the hardware is paid for, and the annual subscription drops straight to the bottom line.
Revenue Streams
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Traction & Go-To-Market
Execution-Cold Partnerships and Immediate Pilot Access
Phase 0: Bootstrapped Pilot
- Local Buy-In: We have secured local Uruguayan ranchers who are ready to co-invest and deploy our first units on active dairy/beef farms.
- Immediate Validation: We are launching a terrestrial-first pilot utilizing existing 4G/BLE networks to validate cloud ingestion, dashboard UI, and mechanical ear-tag durability on live animals.
Strategic Partnerships
- Tier-1 Asian Manufacturing: We have secured confidential NDAs and active engineering evaluations with multi-billion dollar ODM giants. They are competing to manufacture our tags at massive scale and bottom-dollar BOM costs.
- Global R&D: We are actively partnered with top-tier international IoT engineering firms to finalize the architecture, design, and custom Satellite/Sub-GHz Leader Node firmware.
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The Ask
Seed Round: $450,000
We are raising $450K to execute our Phase 1 milestone: delivering a fully validated, terrestrial-first "Infrastructure-Free" network.
Use of Funds
- Phase 1 NRE: Finalizing the engineering blueprints for the Tags and the Gateway Cowbell.
- 500-Unit Field Pilot: Manufacturing and deploying the first commercial-grade units in Mercosur.
- Certifications: FCC / CE approvals.
- Cloud Audit: Validating the link budget, data ingestion, and SaaS platform scaling.
Hardware De-Risked.
for Mass Inventory & Scale.
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The Team
Bridging High-Tech Cloud Infrastructure with the Reality of the Pampas
Andrés Antoniuk
CEO & Founder
Mission-critical IoT and cloud payment infrastructure expert. Bridging the gap between scalable software architecture and extensive agriculture.
Hermann Quiring
Co-Founder
Veterinarian with extensive investment and business scaling experience. Ensuring the technology is biologically sound and economically viable for massive livestock operations.
Strategic Advisors
Backed by deeply experienced advisors bringing decades of expertise in veterinary science and meat regulatory affairs (INAC), global satellite and telecommunications infrastructure (GSMA), and large-scale livestock operations and ownership.