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AI & Intelligence
Your digital beekeeping advisor
A context-aware AI assistant that knows every hive in your operation, plus GPS Yard AR that identifies hives the moment you walk up — no tapping, no scanning, just answers.
AI assistant
Your personal hive consultant
The AI knows your full inspection history, treatments, queen status, and Varroa counts for every hive. Ask a question in plain language — it responds with advice grounded in your data, not generic tips.
- Chat interface with full per-hive context — no copy-pasting data
- Multi-provider AI cascade: Anthropic Claude (vision + reasoning), Google Gemini (verification pass), Roboflow (specialist computer vision), Groq (low-latency LLM), OpenAI Whisper (transcription), and platform-managed xAI Grok (text-reasoning resilience layer) — automatic failover keeps you working when any single provider has an outage
- Data-sufficiency gating — the AI refuses to make a recommendation when the underlying inspection, weather, NDVI, or community signal is missing or stale, instead of inventing a confident-sounding guess
- Inline source citations — every figure (NDVI, weather, GDD, USDA / APHIS, community averages) is labeled with its subprocessor and whether the value is measured or estimated
- Morning Briefing — AI-generated daily overview card on the dashboard covering weather, tasks, and hive priorities across all your apiaries
- On-demand AI hive summary — generate a narrative overview from your activity log
- Voice input — dictate field notes in the yard; AI structures the inspection record
- Paste & parse — drop in handwritten notes; AI fills the form for you
- AI-suggested floral source — at batch creation, AI cross-references forage, bloom, and local pollen data to suggest honey type
- Quick inspection — rapid-entry mode with large gloved-hand targets for queen, mites, stores, brood, and notes in one screen
- Upload your insurance policy PDF — AI extracts your coverage details so you know exactly what’s protected
- Forage intelligence — daily Planet Labs Basemaps satellite mosaics (estimated vegetation-signal proxy), measured NASA / ORNL DAAC MODIS NDVI, GDD bloom tracking, and AI outlook per apiary — every figure labeled by data quality and freshness
- Bring your own OpenAI or xAI (Grok) key to use your preferred model and your own account’s usage limits — or the built-in platform AI (including platform-managed xAI Grok as a text-reasoning resilience layer) handles everything with no setup required
Hive AI
Hive #3 · Italian · 12 inspections
Just found 4 queen cells on the bottom bars in Hive #3. Is this swarm prep or supersedure?
Cells on the bottom bars are classic swarm prep. Your queen is 14 months old and this colony hit 8 frames of brood on your Apr 2 inspection — strong population plus the black locust flow starting in your area makes swarming very likely within 7–10 days.
I don’t want to lose the foragers before the flow. Split or Demaree?
With black locust blooming in 5 days at your location, a Demaree keeps your forager force intact for the flow. Move the queen down to a single brood box with a queen excluder above, then place frames with queen cells in the upper box.
What about mites? Should I treat before I set this up?
Your last alcohol wash on Mar 28 came back at 1.8% — below the 3% spring threshold, so you’re okay to proceed now. But once those queen cells in the upper box hatch and you get a brief broodless window, that’s an ideal time for an OA vaporization. I’ll flag a reminder when the cells are due to emerge based on your graft date.
Perfect. Can you add a Demaree task to my yard visit for Saturday?
Done — I’ve added a “Demaree setup — Hive #3” task to your North Yard visit on Saturday, Apr 12. Weather looks good: 68°F, partly cloudy, 6 mph wind. I also added an equipment reminder for an extra queen excluder and deep box.
Morning Briefing
AI-generated · refreshes daily
Every morning, the AI scans weather, overdue inspections, PHI timers, bloom forecasts, and hive priorities across all your apiaries — then delivers a single actionable overview card on your dashboard.
Available for operations with 2+ apiaries
North Field — warm and dry today (72 °F), ideal for inspections. Hive #7 Varroa check is 5 days overdue. Prioritize it first.
South Yard — Formic Pro PHI ends tomorrow on Hive #12. Schedule a honey super check.
Orchard Grove — rain forecast Thursday. Complete any pending inspections today or Wednesday.
Riverside — black locust bloom peak expected Saturday. Consider adding supers to Hives #20 and #22.
Frame photo analysis
One photo. Full frame breakdown.
Snap a photo of any frame during an inspection and AI breaks down exactly what it sees — capping percentages, brood health, moisture levels, queen detection, and potential disease signs. When you're satisfied with the results, tap “Apply findings to form” and the data flows directly into your inspection record.
- Frame breakdown — capped brood, honey, nectar, pollen, and empty cell percentages
- Brood health assessment — pattern quality (solid, spotty, patchy) with specific concerns
- Moisture and harvest readiness — estimated moisture % with safe, borderline, and do-not-harvest bands
- Queen detection — visible/not visible, confidence %, marked color, and location on frame
- Varroa — visible mite count and estimated infestation percentage
- Disease signs — suspected and possible findings flagged with appropriate caution
- One-tap "Apply findings to form" maps AI output back to your inspection fields
PremiumAuto-analyze available
Photo Analysis
Hive #7 — Frame 4
Frame breakdown
Capped brood
42%
Honey
28%
Nectar
12%
Pollen
11%
Empty
7%
Brood pattern
Solid
Healthy — no concerns
Queen
Detected
92% confidence · Blue mark
Moisture
16.8%
Safe
Varroa
2 visible
~1.4% estimated
No disease signs detected
Two layers, one workflow
Plus a specialist computer-vision pass
The frame summary above is the LLM's reading of the photo. Underneath, a dedicated computer-vision model draws bounding boxes around the things that matter most — varroa, queen, queen cells, small hive beetle, wax moth, brood, drones, honey, nectar, pollen, deformed-wing virus — and feeds those counts back to the LLM as ground truth before it writes the findings.
The AI used these counts as ground truth when generating the findings above.
Varroa × 387%Queen × 194%Queen cell × 278%Capped brood × 41292%Drone × 1881%
Varroa 87%
Queen 94%
Queen cell 78%
Capped brood 92%
Boxes drawn from a specialist computer-vision model. Class palette derived from the canonical detection classes used in the app.
Voice inspection
Hands-free inspections — just talk
Walk the yard with both hands on your frames. The app prompts each inspection step through your speaker, listens for your spoken answer, and AI parses natural language into structured data. Review and edit before saving — nothing is committed until you confirm.
- TTS prompts walk you through every field — queen seen, brood pattern, varroa count, stores, notes
- STT captures your spoken response and AI converts it to structured inspection data
- Follow-up questions when AI needs clarification, with up to 2 retries per step
- Full review screen before save — edit any field the AI parsed
- Works on-device — core flow requires no internet connection
- Web and mobile — Chrome, Safari, iOS, Android
PremiumWorks offlineWeb + Mobile
9:41
Voice Inspection · Hive #3
ListeningStep 2 of 5 — Brood & Queen
AI asked:
“How many frames of brood did you see?”
You said:
“About seven frames, good pattern, eggs and larvae present.”
AI parsed
Frames of brood7
Brood patternGood
Eggs seenYes
Larvae seenYes
Tap to answer · or just start talking
Sound inspection
Listen to your hives — AI hears the rest
Hold your phone near the hive entrance for 30 seconds. A 3-layer AI pipeline analyzes the audio — DSP feature extraction, rule-based bee acoustic signatures, and deep-learning AI spectrogram analysis — then returns queen status, colony mood, varroa risk, swarming risk, and a full narrative summary.
- 30-second recording at the hive entrance — no special equipment needed
- Layer 1: DSP feature extraction — FFT, spectral centroid, dominant frequency, harmonic-to-noise ratio
- Layer 2: Rule-based acoustic signatures — matches known bee sound patterns
- Layer 3: Deep-learning AI — analyzes generated spectrograms for deeper patterns
- Multimodal merge — sound results are cross-referenced with your last frame photo analysis, current weather, and the apiary’s NDVI/Planet Labs vegetation signal so the verdict accounts for environmental context, not just the recording alone
- Results: overall assessment, queen status, colony mood, varroa risk, swarming risk, detected issues with confidence scores
- AI narrative summary — plain-language explanation of what the hive sounds tell you
- Persisted to hive history — track acoustic health over time
- User feedback loop — confirm or correct results to improve future accuracy
PremiumRequires internetWeb + Mobile
9:41
Sound Analysis · Hive #7
Healthy
Overall assessment
87%
Confidence
Queen status
Likely present
Colony mood
Calm
Varroa risk
Low
Swarming risk
None detected
Full spectrum (0–4 kHz)Zoomed bee band (0–1 kHz)
DSP Analysis
312 Hz
Normal worker hum
AI Narrative
Colony sounds indicate a healthy, queen-right hive with normal worker activity. No signs of distress or queenlessness detected.
No issues detected
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Yard AR
Your yard. Already identified.
Walk up → GPS auto-identifies → Instant live health overlays & one-tap actions. No tags, no scanning.
How it works
1
Approach the yard
Open the app and walk toward your hives — camera open, no overlay yet.
2
GPS locks onto nearest hive
Coordinates auto-identify the hive. No barcodes, no NFC, no searching.
3
Health overlay appears
Score, last inspection, and AI warnings render in your camera view.
AI pulls per-hive data: history, Varroa trends, treatments
4
One-tap actions
Inspect, note, photo, or view — every visit GPS-timestamped automatically.
9:41
North Yard · GPS lock confirmed
19°C · Good foraging
1
2
Hive #7 · Italian · 0 m
82
Good
Inspected 8 days ago
Varroa check due
Hive #3 · Carniolan · 74 · 4 mHealthy
Hive #12 · BuckfastQueenless?
Inspect
Note
Photo
View Hive
6 hives · by proximity
82
Hive #7
Italian
82
Hive #3
Carniolan
54
Hive #12
Buckfast · Queenless?
Training Mode
Training ModeON
Outer Cover
Honey Super
Brood Box
Bottom Board
Stand
Perfect for new beekeepers – labeled hive parts in real time.
GPS Yard Mode
Walk into any yard — the nearest hive is auto-identified by GPS coordinates. No tapping, no scanning, no searching.
Live Health Overlay
Health score, last inspection date, and warning badges rendered directly in your camera view.
Quick Action Bar
Inspect, Note, Photo, View Hive — one-tap actions anchored to the screen so you never lose your place.
Training Mode
Toggle labeled overlays that identify each hive component — honey super, brood box, screened bottom board — great for new beekeepers.
Built for the Field
High-contrast dark UI, torch toggle, live weather chip, haptic feedback, and foraging conditions — designed for gloved hands in bright sun.
Predictive insights
The AI analyzes your operation's historical data — inspection frequency, Varroa trends, weight curves, treatment patterns — and surfaces predictive alerts like “Hive #12 is trending toward a swarm event based on weight gain and brood pattern,” giving you time to act before problems develop.
Premium feature
Yard AR is available on the Premium plan. Free-tier users can still use the hive list and manual search — AR overlay and GPS auto-identification require Premium.
Auto-logged AR visits
Every time you open a hive through Yard AR, the visit is logged with a GPS timestamp. Your inspection timeline stays complete even when you don't fill out a full report.
Regional Intelligence
See what's happening across your region
Regional Intelligence aggregates anonymized community health data, USDA / APHIS institutional metrics, measured NDVI from NASA / ORNL DAAC MODIS, daily Planet Labs Basemaps satellite mosaics (estimated vegetation-signal proxy), and CropScape land-use analysis for the region around each of your apiaries — labeled inline so you can see whether each figure is measured or estimated and which subprocessor produced it.
- Community health snapshots: avg Varroa/100, mortality %, trend (improving / stable / worsening) from contributing beekeepers in your region
- USDA/APHIS institutional data: state-level colony counts, honey production, Varroa prevalence, nosema, virus, and pesticide exposure from official sources
- Nearby crop & forage analysis: CropScape land-cover data, dominant crops, quality score, and bloom calendar for your area
- Personalized alerts: region-specific notifications with unread badge and configurable quiet hours
- Community contributions: opt-in anonymized data sharing to strengthen regional insights for everyone
Premium tier · Predictive insights included
Regional Intelligence
Central Texas
Regional Snapshot
Improving32
Contributors
2.1
Avg Varroa/100
8%
Mortality
Nearby Crops
GoodHay/PastureCornCottonSoybeans
CDL 2025 · 5 mi radius
USDA/APHIS · Texas
NASS Colony Count
252,0002025 Q1
APHIS Varroa
46.2%2024 Annual
Varroa pressure rising in your region — consider starting fall treatments earlier this year.
Community contributions
Predictive insights
Act before problems develop
On every hive detail screen, Regional Intelligence powers four predictive cards that blend your hive data with regional trends, weather forecasts, and scientific models.
Colony Risk
Moderate68
6-factor weighted model
Treatment Timing
~18 daysto 3/100 threshold
Current: 1.8/100 · Growth: ~2.4%/day
Suggested: Formic acid (efficacy 92%) or Oxalic acid vapor
Winter Survival
87%
projected survival
Zone 7bAug mite: 1.2/100
Based on USDA hardiness zone + August Varroa load
Nectar Flow
Peak in 12 daysActive
White CloverWildflowerBasswood
GDD-based bloom model with regional species data
AI that knows when it doesn't know
Every prediction is backed by a data-sufficiency check. A hive with zero inspections won't show alarming risk scores — instead, you'll see a clear “limited data” label with conservative estimates. With fewer than 3 inspections, all risk fields stay capped at low confidence. No guessing, no false alarms — just honest, evidence-based guidance that builds trust the more you use it.
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