Accepting pilot partners for 2026–27 seasons
Put your best agronomist in every farmer’s pocket, in their own language.
Sowwise answers farmers’ questions on WhatsApp and SMS using only your approved guidance, cites the source, and shows you what farmers need next.
- WhatsApp & SMSNo app to install
- Cited answersFrom your documents
- Human backupFor sensitive advice
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Grounded in your guidance
Answers come only from documents you approve, with the page cited.
On channels farmers use
WhatsApp for photos and voice-ready chat, SMS for basic phones.
In the farmer’s language
Questions and answers in local languages, reviewed by native speakers.
Signals for your team
See pest outbreaks, top questions and content gaps by region.
The advisory gap
Farmers need answers this week. Extension can’t be everywhere.
Agricultural organizations hold the right advice. The problem is getting it to each farmer quickly, in their language, without losing control of what is said.
How Sowwise closes it
Your documents become a cited, multilingual advisor on WhatsApp and SMS. Officers handle only what needs a human, and your team sees every question as data.
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Too few officers, too many farmers
One extension officer may cover several wards and thousands of households. A farmer who spots armyworm on Monday may not see an officer until the damage is done.
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Good guidance stuck in English PDFs
Manuals, factsheets and seasonal advisories are written for staff, often in English, and rarely reach farmers in a form they can act on.
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Generic chatbots invent answers
Public AI tools give confident advice with no source, including pesticide doses, which puts farmers and your brand at risk.
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No view of what farmers need
Questions arrive by phone calls and field visits, so outbreaks and content gaps are noticed weeks late, if at all.
Capabilities
Everything between a farmer’s question and your team’s next decision
Cited answers from your documents
Upload manuals, factsheets and advisories. Sowwise retrieves the relevant passage and writes a short, plain answer with the page reference, so farmers and officers can check it.
FAW Field Guide · p. 12
Inspect 20 plants at each of five points…
If more than 20% of young plants show fresh damage, contact your extension officer…
Feeds the review queue and analytics
Photo questions
Farmers send a photo of a leaf or pest. Sowwise describes what it sees and answers from your guidance, asking for a better photo when unsure.
Photos stored per organization
Local-language replies
Farmers write in their language; replies come back in the same language with simple wording.
EN Check 20 plants at five spots.
SW Kagua mimea 20 katika sehemu tano.
Language mix shown in analytics
Guardrails and escalation
Dosage, chemical mixing and other restricted topics never get an AI answer. They go to an officer’s review queue with a suggested holding reply.
Dosage request · Uasin Gishu
Chemical treatment · Bungoma
Officers approve, edit or reassign
Content gap tracking
When no document supports an answer, Sowwise declines and logs the question, so you know exactly which guidance to write next.
Gaps appear as insights
Question analytics and pest signals
Track what farmers ask by topic, county and week. Rising pest questions show up as signals your team can act on with targeted SMS alerts.
Exportable for donor and programme reports
Officer workspace
A shared dashboard for programme staff and extension officers, with roles, masked phone numbers and a full history of each conversation.
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Sample data
How it works
From your documents to a farmer’s phone in four steps
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Upload your guidance
Add manuals, factsheets and seasonal advisories. Scanned PDFs are read and indexed with page references.
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Farmers ask on WhatsApp or SMS
Farmers message your number in their language, with text or a photo. No app or training needed.
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Answer or escalate
Sowwise replies from your documents with a citation, or routes restricted questions to an officer.
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See what farmers need
Your dashboard shows top questions, pest signals and content gaps by region and week.
Platform preview
The workspace your team uses every morning
Click through a sample cooperative’s workspace: filter conversations, open a record, clear the review queue and preview indexed documents.
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Questions by topic
Sowwise insights
Fall armyworm is spreading west
Questions mentioning armyworm rose for five straight weeks, concentrated in Trans Nzoia and Uasin Gishu. 61 farmers sent photos this week.
→ Draft an SMS alert for affected wards
Market questions have no source
35 questions this week asked about buying dates and prices. No approved document covers them, so Sowwise declined to answer.
→ Add a market-calendar document
Storage questions are falling
Post-harvest storage questions dropped 27% since August as harvest ends.
→ Review storage content before next harvest
Armyworm share by county
- Trans Nzoia46%
- Uasin Gishu38%
- Bungoma21%
- Kakamega17%
- Nakuru12%
Activity
Farmer view
What the farmer sees
Step through a sample conversation in English or Kiswahili: a photo question, a cited answer, a dosage question stopped by a guardrail, and an officer stepping in.
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Who it’s for
Built for organizations responsible for farmers’ outcomes
NGOs and development programmes
- The challenge
- Thousands of farmers, a handful of field staff and donor reporting deadlines.
- How they use Sowwise
- Load programme training content and run the advisory line for project participants.
- The benefit
- More farmers reached per officer, and question data that feeds programme reports.
Agribusiness and input suppliers
- The challenge
- Outgrowers and customers misuse products or get advice from unreliable sources.
- How they use Sowwise
- Answer agronomy and product-use questions from approved labels and guides, with dosage questions routed to agronomists.
- The benefit
- Safer product use, fewer complaints, and a consistent brand voice.
Cooperatives and farmer organizations
- The challenge
- Members call lead farmers and staff with the same questions every season.
- How they use Sowwise
- Give members one number for crop, storage and cooperative questions, answered from your own materials.
- The benefit
- Staff time goes to field visits, not repeated phone calls.
Government extension services
- The challenge
- Large regions, varied crops and languages, and limited officer numbers.
- How they use Sowwise
- Publish official advisories through WhatsApp and SMS, and monitor pest questions across districts.
- The benefit
- Earlier outbreak signals and wider reach for official guidance.
Safety and accuracy
Built so the AI can’t make up farm advice
No AI system is right every time, so Sowwise is designed to limit what it says, show where it came from, and hand over to people when it matters.
Answers only from your documents
The assistant searches your approved knowledge base, not the open internet.
Declines when there is no source
If no approved passage supports an answer, Sowwise says it cannot answer and logs the gap.
Guardrails on chemicals and dosage
Restricted topics are detected and routed to people, with a safe holding reply.
A human path for every farmer
Officers can take over any conversation from the review queue.
Technology
How We Use Amazon Web Services
Sowwise’s architecture is designed on AWS around one rule: every answer must trace back to an organization’s own documents. Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases handle retrieval and citations, Bedrock Guardrails enforce what the assistant may not say, and serverless services connect farmers’ WhatsApp and SMS messages to that pipeline while keeping each organization’s data separate.
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Message intake
AWS End User Messaging · API Gateway
Receives WhatsApp and SMS messages
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Secure storage
Amazon S3 · DynamoDB · KMS
Keeps documents, photos and conversations per organization
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Processing
AWS Lambda · Amazon Textract
Extracts documents and orchestrates each reply
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AI intelligence
Amazon Bedrock · Knowledge Bases · Guardrails
Retrieves, answers with citations, blocks unsafe advice
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Application
Amazon Cognito · SES · CloudWatch
Officer dashboard, alerts and monitoring
- Amazon Bedrock: Runs the foundation models that read a farmer’s question (text or photo) and write a short answer in the farmer’s language.
- Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock: Retrieves the relevant passages from each organization’s approved documents and returns page-level citations with every answer.
- Amazon Bedrock Guardrails: Blocks chemical-dosage and other restricted advice, filters personal data, and routes those questions to a human officer.
- Amazon S3: Stores uploaded guidance documents and farmer photos, separated by organization and encrypted at rest.
- Amazon Textract: Extracts text and tables from scanned manuals and leaflets so they can be indexed.
- Amazon OpenSearch Serverless: Holds the vector index that the knowledge base searches for each organization.
- AWS End User Messaging: Connects the WhatsApp and SMS channels that farmers use to send and receive messages.
- Amazon API Gateway: Receives messaging webhooks and website form submissions with throttling.
- AWS Lambda: Handles each incoming message: language detection, retrieval, guardrail checks, reply and logging.
- Amazon DynamoDB: Stores conversation records, the officer review queue and question analytics.
- Amazon Cognito: Manages sign-in and roles for organization staff using the dashboard.
- Amazon SES: Sends escalation alerts to officers and confirmation emails for pilot requests.
- AWS KMS: Manages the encryption keys for stored documents and conversation data.
- Amazon CloudWatch: Monitors response times, errors and guardrail interventions.
For technical teams
- • Each organization has its own knowledge base and storage prefix; retrieval never crosses organizations.
- • Data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest with AWS KMS keys.
- • Farmer phone numbers are masked in the dashboard and access is role-based through Amazon Cognito.
- • Model choice is configurable in Amazon Bedrock, so models can be updated without changing customer documents.
- • We do not currently hold SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification. Security questionnaires are welcome: contact us.
Pricing
Priced by the farmers you reach
Every plan starts with a scoped pilot. We share pricing after a short call about farmer numbers, channels and languages.
Starter
For a single programme or cooperative testing farmer advisory.
Pricing on request
- WhatsApp or SMS channel
- Up to 2 languages
- Knowledge base for your documents
- Review queue for officers
- Core question analytics
Growth
Most requestedFor organizations running advisory across several regions.
Pricing on request
- WhatsApp and SMS
- Additional languages
- Photo questions
- Pest signals and content-gap insights
- Report exports for programmes and donors
Enterprise
For national programmes, large agribusinesses and multi-partner networks.
Pricing on request
- Multiple organizations and workspaces
- Custom guardrail policies
- Data handling agreements
- Dashboard and data integrations
- Dedicated onboarding
Team
The Team Behind Sowwise
Sowwise is an early-stage company founded in 2026, building with agricultural organizations rather than for them. Pilot partners help shape the product.
Fatiu Babalola
Founder
Founded Sowwise in 2026 to give agricultural organizations a practical way to reach every farmer with their own approved guidance, in the farmer’s language.
Umar Kunle
Head of Engineering
Leading the development of Sowwise to help agricultural organizations reach every farmer with their own approved guidance, in the farmer’s language.
FAQ
Questions buyers ask us
Which languages are supported?
English and Kiswahili are shown in the demo. Other languages, such as Hausa, Yorùbá and Amharic, are scoped per pilot, and we review answer quality with native speakers before farmers use them.
How are our documents used?
Your documents are indexed into a knowledge base that only your organization’s assistant can search. Answers are written from those passages and cite the page they came from. Your documents are not shared with other customers.
What happens when the AI doesn’t know?
If no approved document supports an answer, Sowwise tells the farmer it can’t answer and logs the question as a content gap. Questions about chemical doses and other restricted topics go to a human officer instead.
How do farmers reach the service?
Through WhatsApp or SMS on the phone they already have. There is no app to install. Your organization promotes the number to its farmers.
How is data handled?
Phone numbers are masked in the dashboard, data is encrypted, and each organization’s data is kept separate. We agree data handling and retention with each partner before a pilot starts.
How is pricing calculated?
Pricing depends on the number of farmers, channels and languages. We share a quote after a short scoping call.
How long does a pilot take?
Pilots are scoped with each partner around a crop season and a defined group of farmers. We agree the timeline and success measures together before starting.
Early access
Run a pilot with your farmers
Sowwise is in its pilot phase. We are looking for a small number of partners to launch with, and we will be specific about what is and isn’t ready.
- 1Scoping call: crops, regions, languages and farmer group
- 2You share approved documents; we index and test answers with your staff
- 3Launch to a defined farmer group on WhatsApp or SMS
- 4Review results together and decide on rollout
Contact
Talk to Sowwise
Questions about partnerships, data handling or anything else. Write to us directly or use the form.