@alfredoeinsteino2024Hi, I’m Toluwanimi, building HarvestIQ: AI for smallholder farmers on basic phones 🌾
I’m Toluwanimi (Alfred), a Mechatronics Engineering student at FUT Minna, Nigeria 🇳🇬
What I’m building: HarvestIQ, with one mission: give smallholder farmers access to AI without needing a smartphone. Through a basic phone and USSD, farmers get commodity prices, AI crop-storage advice, and farmer-to-buyer matching. No internet and no app. It’s 100% AWS serverless.
Also built: RescueHacks, an offline emergency response system, for the Global Innovation Build Challenge V2. Both projects come from the same belief: useful tech has to work where connectivity and smartphones can’t be assumed.
Stage: Working prototype, including a live crowdsourced price tracker for Minna markets (harvestiquser.ai.studio). I’m preparing for pre-seed funding to take it public.
What’s working: Serverless keeps costs low, and USSD reaches farmers where apps can’t.
What I need: Introductions to pre-seed investors who back agritech or emerging markets, and to anyone who has scaled USSD or SMS products in Africa.
I’m also into embedded systems and IoT, so I’d love to meet anyone building at the hardware and AI edge.
