SPRING 2026 · WAKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
47 farms. 12,000 acres. One watershed.
This is the story of a season that changed everything.
Five stakeholders. One watershed. No shared intelligence — yet.
The Farmer
Marcus
320 acres of corn and soybeans. Third-generation farm. Operates on thin margins and institutional memory.
The Agronomist
Elena
NutriGrow Fertilizers. Manages application schedules for 200+ farms across the region. Juggles spreadsheets and weather forecasts.
The Sensor Engineer
James
TerraSense IoT. Builds soil and water monitoring hardware deployed across Wake County. His sensors have the data — but nobody's listening.
The Regulator
Patricia
Wake County Environmental Services. Enforces water quality standards. Dreads compliance season — 12 weeks of manual sampling and delayed lab results.
4 stakeholders. 4 different systems.
Zero coordination. Zero shared intelligence.
Before SustainAI
WEEK 1
NutriGrow applies nitrogen. Standard schedule — no field-level data. ✕
WEEK 3
Heavy rain. Runoff enters the creek. Nobody knows. ✕
WEEK 5
Fish kill downstream. A resident calls the county to complain. ✕
WEEK 7
Patricia's team scrambles. Manual creek sampling. 2 weeks to get lab results back. ✕
WEEK 9
Results confirm contamination. Which farm? Which application? The data doesn't exist. ✕
WEEK 12
Regulatory fines. NutriGrow blamed without proof. Marcus loses a season. James's sensors were there — disconnected, silent. ✕
$420,000
in losses. 12 weeks of chaos. And nobody had the answer.
They didn't need better sensors.
They didn't need better fertilizer.
They didn't need more reports.
They needed an intelligence layer.
One brain connecting every stakeholder. SustainAI sits between data and action — for everyone.
SUMMER 2026 · THE PILOT BEGINS
01 / THE FARM
Marcus
TerraSense deploys 24 soil sensors across Marcus's 320 acres — measuring every variable in real time.
02 / THE HUB
On-Site Intelligence
SustainAI Hub installed on-site. Runs independently with no internet required. Ingests all data streams.
03 / THE NETWORK
County-Wide Grid
12 pilot farms connected. One shared intelligence network. Each hub runs independently — syncs when online.
One screen. Every answer. Every single day.
9:41 AM · SustainAI · Wake County
Good morning, Marcus. ☀️
IRRIGATION · TRACT B
Soil moisture at 24%. Recommend irrigation before noon today.
NITROGEN · TRACT A
Levels optimal. Next application scheduled April 28.
WEATHER ADVISORY
Rain expected Thursday. Deferring planned fertilizer application.
COMPLIANCE STATUS
All filings current. Next county deadline: May 15.
Every morning. One screen. Every answer he needs.
No dashboards. No spreadsheets. No phone calls to the agronomist at 7 AM.
NutriGrow's new platform: 200+ farms, one view, real-time intelligence.
Elena doesn't guess anymore.
NutriGrow went from selling product to selling precision. Their clients went from customers to partners.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2026
4.2 inches in 6 hours. The heaviest rainfall Wake County had seen in a decade.
WITHOUT SUSTAINAI
WITH SUSTAINAI
Wake County Environmental Services, redefined.
⚠ Nitrogen Event Detected — 3 farms, South Creek watershed
Event time: 04:17 AM · Sensors: SC-07, SC-11, SC-14 · Status: Automated containment in progress
CONTAINMENT STATUS
All 3 farms: automated response activated
✓ IN PROGRESSCOMPLIANCE REPORT
Auto-generated with timestamps & sensor readings
✓ AUTO-FILEDROOT CAUSE
Nitrogen application Oct 8 · Field SC-14 N-boundary
✓ IDENTIFIEDMANUAL INTERVENTION
None required. All actions automated and logged.
✓ NOT NEEDEDPatricia used to spend 12 weeks investigating. Now she has a full report before her morning meeting.
When every stakeholder has the same intelligence, regulation becomes collaboration — not confrontation.
TerraSense sensors. Inside the SustainAI platform.
FLEET STATUS
288
sensors across 12 farms
UPTIME
99.4%
highest in company history
AVG LATENCY
18ms
read-to-insight pipeline
DATA QUALITY
97.2%
validated against knowledge graph
James used to sell sensors. Now he sells insight-ready infrastructure.
TerraSense retention rate: 60% → 94% after SustainAI integration. Because the hardware finally has a brain.
ONE SEASON · ONE COUNTY · THE RESULTS
$0
Prevented crop and environmental losses
0%
Reduction in regulatory response time
0%
Reduction in fertilizer over-application
12 → 12
Farms requesting installation by season end
0
Compliance fines for participating farms
--s
Average detection-to-alert time
"I finally feel like I'm farming with a co-pilot."
"We went from reactive to predictive. Our clients love us now."
"Our sensors are 10× more valuable inside this platform."
"First season in 15 years with zero escalated incidents."