ABOUT FRUITSCOUT
Industry 4.0 for Agriculture
FruitScout brings industrial process instrumentation to agriculture
By accurately measuring field growth rate, FruitScout enables agave growers to schedule harvests to maximize production.
Built by a team with roots in aerospace, semiconductors, and industrial systems, FruitScout helps agave producers treat their fields like production lines—measurable, manageable, and optimized for performance.
A Timeline of Innovation at Sauza
Agave Field Instrumentation: Turning images Into industrial process instrumentation for agave growers.
Our proprietary machine vision system, the Visual Scale, was built to deliver non-invasive, highly accurate crop weight measurements using just a picture.
2022
Initial experiments begin
2023 Q1-Q2
Small- and large-scale field tests
2023 Q3
Full deployment
Passed first accuracy validation test
Validated for scalability and reliability
At Scale:
Since July 2023, Visual Scale has been collecting and analyzing over 150,000 images per month across nearly all of Sauza’s 1,425 agave fields. The Visual Scale has been measuring 8,000 - 10,000 plants a day, from 1,500 fields every month, since 2023.
With scouters delivering 8,000–10,000 images per day and a 95%+ image success rate, Visual Scale is now producing 99% accurate crop weights; the highest performance among all FruitScout deployments.
2024 Q2
Passed repeat accuracy validation and adopted by Sauza as official data for all fields.
2025
Regular calibration cycles initiated, with the AI improving over time through continuous learning
Agave Earth:
Your AI Control Panel
Agave Earth is the AI powered digital platform that connects field measurements with strategic planning tools, giving producers full operational visibility.
2023 Q1
Initial experiments
2023 Q2
Strategic partnerships with ESRI and Google
2023 Q4
Proof of concept
2024 Q2-Q4
Alpha and Beta release; SAP joins the partnership
2025 Q1 Phase 1 launch
Visual Scale data integrated into optimized harvest planning
What it does:
Agave Earth gives producers tools to prioritize harvest schedules based on actual growth data, modeled field constraints, and real-time operations. In Phase 2, we’re developing an AI auto-planner that builds schedules based on your input and lets you fine-tune them manually; combining AI speed with human oversight. Today, we’re working closely with producers to model logistics, constraints, and goals so the system reflects how you really work in the field.
2025 Q2 - Phase 2
Launch of AI-powered Digital Twin simulations and auto-planning features
2025+
Advanced constraint modeling and human-in-the-loop scheduling refinement
When 1% accuracy makes $1M USD difference, how much accuracy do you want to buy?
Learn how FruitScout can optimize your harvest.
“FruitScout is the dream that the industry has been waiting for.”
